duminică, 26 februarie 2012

Painting Blades


The hill on the corner of PT is starting to look ok. The telegraph pole turned out nicely (with minor issues when airbrushing the insulators, but nothing a small brush won't fix). The reason there's two apparently identical photos is because on the top one I've tried something that was long due: touching a few of the grass blades with brown paint, something that's being done in an effort to make everything look more real (even Faller does it on their Klingenberg station box cover). Not sure about the outcome on the front green grass, and even though I've tried touching up the yellow blades too, somehow they look just the same as in the other photo.
More is still to come though: weeds, plants, a couple of flowers, some grass around the telegraph's poles and hiding the infrared detector (you can see it just right of the telegraph pole, on the top of the hill).
Same old Helicon Focus used to stack the individual photos, somehow I don't remember the watermark being so annoying - anyway, it gets the job done so far. Click for the close-up.

sâmbătă, 18 februarie 2012

Telegraph Poles

A couple of telegraph poles are to be installed on the PT segment, since they're definitely going to add some detail to the scene. Faller manufactures a nice set of 20 - item no 130955, complete with wood texture, insulators and even wire for the cables. They aren't painted, but this is even better. I've started with 2 coats of Tamiya Red Brown (XF-64) - first on the left - added some dry brushing with Woodland Scenics Concrete - middle photo - and then used some black Noch weathering powders for some touch-up - 3rd image. The top beams also need to be painted in the same way, and then the insulators are going to be sprayed in 2 coats of Tamiya White (XF-2). Click for a detailed view.