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As you can see from the photo, I use many types of paint, Rembrandt soft pastels, Reaper acrylic paints, craft acrylic paints from Michaels and what ever other paint I may need.
The first step for me is to prime the castings with a spay paint. For wood items, I spray the castings with a earth tone color. For metal items, I will use a gray colored paint. In this case, I used an air brush.
I always use a piece of glass for my palette because it is so easy to cleanup. I just use a straight razor blade to scrape the glass.
On the left side of the glass are powders made from the soft pastels. In this case I used pastel numbers 408.3, 408.5, 408.7, various shades of raw umber, 231.3 a shade of yellow ochre.
I use alcohol to mix with the powder to paint all the wood surfaces on the castings.
Then I use the acrylic paint to paint all the little details of the castings such as wood and metal barrels, various tools, cans, buckets, parts, etc
I will then use an A/I solution and go over the whole casting and then let the alcohol dry. I will then use various shades burnt sienna and add rust where I want it.
Once the casting is complete, I will then dust it with a light gray or earth tone to dull the colors so that none of them draws your attention.
This is only about a third of the castings. I am then going to add some castings to update the scene to sometime in the early 1950's. The vertical steam engine is going in the scrap heap and the boat will be powered by a diesel engine instead of sails and the steam engine. I am looking for more castings that are more marine oriented. I have a casting of an electric winch to go into the winch house.
Karl.A
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I have modified the front of the hoist house because I am going to install an electrical winch that will be seen through the front opening
Karl.A
Karl.A
One of the reasons the boat is in the repair yard is to get a new paint job.
The body of the boat, I primed it with light sea grey, and then painted white with an acrylic paint. Then I wire brushed the resin body. On the cabin, I spray painted with light sea grey and then dry brushed the walls.