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World War II Project - Return of the Railroad Station - Part 3

After that kind of weird first paint color went on, I followed it up with kind of darker tan and did a heavy dry brush of a greyish white. Everything seems to blending together pretty well at this point.

There are two different layers of base color on this side and I think I did a pretty good job of blending everything together and you can't really tell. I fell like I made a bad choice with the brick color and should have gone with the other shade which has quite a bit more red/orange to it.

Its hard to see but there is a gap between the top of the platform and that first layer of brick. A significant gap. This is because I made not one but two mistakes in the assembly. The first was not dry fitting first and making sure everything was actually going where it was supposed to. Second I didn't clamp the top of the platform down and apparently didn't make sure that all the tabs had engaged and it was flat against the top of the brick wall. My thought is to just glue a couple of courses of brick paper strips along this and hiding it.

World War II Project - Return of the Railroad Station - part 2

All the interior walls were painted with an airbrush before I assembled the building, that made life much easier. In fact there are a lot of areas at this point that I would have preferred to have finished with everything flat on the work bench. Just a lesson to be carried forward.

I started the exterior walls of with a burnt sienna and then decided that was just a  bit to much red so I painted back over it with a "light" umber. Things would always be easier if I would remember to write down what color I started with. This resulted in a much redder look to all the other walls that I needed to finish. That's as far as I got over the weekend.

World War II Project - Return of the Railroad Station

This has been one of those "forever" projects, but I am determined to finish it this time. I have had some extra long meetings over the last couple of weeks so I pulled this out and re-started the tedious process of adding the bumpy brick paper over the arches of the windows and doors. We won't even talk about the decorative brick work at the top of the building.

In order to keep myself moving forward I went ahead and started working on the texture for the out side wall. I'm using some textured gel with "natural sand", I'll take a pic of the container in the next installment, I think its from Liquitex. I used a brush and stippled it on. Then I applied a dark brown first, followed by a light grey and the pure white. This little exercise is what has kept me going this week and moving forward to finishing this structure off.

Hard to see but I have applied the sand texture to the ground floor walls. It dries really clear, if you see white its not ready,

At this point I had applied the texture to the whole structure. I also used periscope blue from Vallejo Tanker series for the trim on the windows and doors.

And here we go three layers of paint and I think I like how its going to look.

The "beauty" shot, such as it is. I feel like I'm finally seeing the end of the tunnel on this one.

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