08-23-2012, 11:31 PM
Well Kev, that all looks very promising!
I don't think you need to do anything drastic to make your layout look even better, and as you've said , it's not finished and loads more to do,
so a here's a few things I think you could do with relative ease to make the layout look even better:
- weather the roads giving them a used and worn look.
- weather and/or paint (some of) the structures so you loose the plastic shine.
- blend in a few more colour and texture variations in the ballast/grasses etc, and use an airbrush or similar to give a bit of a general weathering to the whole area, blending things a bit further, by carefully over spraying with a dilluted weathering color.
I think those 3 steps will help you making it all look more realistic, and blend in. (remember that the colors you use to weather structures, should also be used on terrain, after all, a structure or similar, will be affected by the surroundings it is placed in).
Koos
I don't think you need to do anything drastic to make your layout look even better, and as you've said , it's not finished and loads more to do,
so a here's a few things I think you could do with relative ease to make the layout look even better:
- weather the roads giving them a used and worn look.
- weather and/or paint (some of) the structures so you loose the plastic shine.
- blend in a few more colour and texture variations in the ballast/grasses etc, and use an airbrush or similar to give a bit of a general weathering to the whole area, blending things a bit further, by carefully over spraying with a dilluted weathering color.
I think those 3 steps will help you making it all look more realistic, and blend in. (remember that the colors you use to weather structures, should also be used on terrain, after all, a structure or similar, will be affected by the surroundings it is placed in).
Koos
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