Painting the Roof and Auxiliary Elements of the Faller Station

Although the roof of the Faller station came out of the box sporting some nice burnt out marks, given the technology used to produce it, it still didn't look quite all right and proper painting had to be done. Along with the roof, 4 other element types had to be painted as well: the rain pipes, benches, trash bins and the window sills being mounted on the roof itself.

For the roof itself, the following formula was used: 

- 0.6 Tamiya Yellow (XF-3)

- 0.4 Tamiya Flat Red (XF-7)

- 1.0 Thinner (acrylic)

3 coats were applied, out of which the first was a light one.
For the rain pipes, benches, trash bins and window sills, it was decided to use gray for all of them - one of the reasons being that the box cover image actually had these gray as well. All were simply placed on a sticky tape side up - fixed itself on 2 perpendicular pieces of sticky tape. The "stickiness" was strong enough to hold the pieces down under the air flow of the airbrush. 3M Vinyl masking tape was used on certain parts of the window sills, since those will be glued on - and paint shouldn't get in the way.
The rain pipes only also had 2 coats of Tamiya Smoke, so they get a touch of metallic look.

Final roof color

Auxiliary elements getting ready
to be airbrushed

Bench before being painted

Bench after 2 coats of Tamiya J.N. Grey

Rain pipe detail after painting
with Tamiya J.N. Grey

Rain pipe detail after painting
with Tamiya J.N. Grey and 1 coat
of Tamiya Smoke

Rain pipe detail after painting
with Tamiya J.N. Grey and 2 coats
of Tamiya Smoke