World War II Project - Return to the Railroad Station - Pt 4

I have been avoiding the roof, but in an effort to finish the darn thing I needed to stop avoiding it. I had originally covered the mdf with shingle strips cut from cardboard. I should have sealed the cardboard with something first as it started to suck up paint like there was no tomorrow.

I back tracked a bit and re-primed the roof sections in black and then went over it with a light grey with a bit of light blue added to get a more bluish gray look. Its not bad, not perfect but at least the roof is now ready for weathering. In fact the only big piece remaining is the tile (?) floor on the inside of the main passenger section and the platform. Seems pretty fancy for a small station but that's how it was engraved on their laser. Once that has all been painted up I can start weathering, which is really the fun part.

Black Stynylrez Primer from Badger

Light grey plus a bit of light blue, a couple of colors from Reaper I think they are both out of production now.

And looking pretty good, the strong light is washing the colors out a bit,

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.