Stein's Minneapolis Warehouse district 1957 (HO)

[steinjr]

Your reefer looks good. Just to be certain - by dry brushing you mean putting just a little paint on your brush, and then wiping off most of that immediately, before you apply the brush to your model ? Or do you mean something else in this context ?

Stein

Thanks! Yes, I mean the regular/traditional method of dry brushing. Nearly no paint on the brush, and lots of quick, light strokes to apply what paint is there... This avoids drips, streaks, brushmarks, and obscuring details. I guess the one difference would be if you happen to get too much paint on one stroke it really doesn't matter too much. You just keep working it until all the paint is spread out.

Good luck! Hope that helps.

Andrew

I see. Here is a closeup shots that shows details from my second attempt above a little better:



I feel like the thing I struggled most with for my second attempt wasn't really with obscured details, although there aboviously still is room for plenty of improvement in those respects, too.

The thing I really struggled with while brush painting was getting a sharp enough line between the two colors in my white stripe on red engine pattern.

I'll take another shot tomorrow at those stripes using a brush with very little paint, better burnishing of masking tape like Wayne described above, and trying to run the brush away from the masked side, so there is less chance of anything getting under the tape.

Btw - the engine shell I am painting is a throwaway thing - an old shell I am using to practice on - I won't start on my actual engines until I feel I can do a job that will look somewhat passable at 12-15" distance. I suspect there is quite a few more test runs before I am anywhere even in viewing distance of that point


After looking at some more prototype pics (and based on advice from foulrift) I have also taken apart the top of my coal barge to redo the steel plates around the hatch - to move them in on the sides (creating move deck space outside the hatch), make them lower, and to create some triangular "gussets" along the hatch edge for "reinforcement".

Prototype pics:
http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresour...geid=76889
http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresour...geid=77011

I think I also will repaint it flat black (I got a spray can of flat black). I guess my original attempt with battleship grey is not a sensible color for a barge that will be filled with coal - even with an attempt to add a little "coal dust" (using weathering powders).



Oh well, you try, and then you try again, and then you try again and so on and so forth - eventually there will be a keeper.

Grin,
Stein