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               Painting The Train Layout

                                    

 Last week I shared with you which method I used to build our train layout mountain. This week I am sharing my next step and that is how I painted our mountain.

First you have to consider what colour tones and what style of rocks you are wanting to achieve. Like I said last week I was wanting a couple of different styles based on an area not far from us around Tooborac. But there are also different colour’s of slate rocks or even the sand stone look. A lot of the rock faces that I have seen most people in America go for are in a fawn type colour and sand stone look. 

Now was time to start putting on the first stroke of paint, the first coat of paint.

I covered the whole mountain in a dark grey by mixing black and white together. And I used a disposable plastic container to mix this in. I ended up with 2 of these tubs full of paint. Mainly because I put in too much black in to the mix so I had to use a lot of white paint to achieve the colour I wanted. But making this much was what I needed. I ending up using 1 ½ tubs of this paint, and I had plenty for other things I needed to paint in this same colour. The reason for using the disposable plastic container, with a lid, was, so that I could store the unused portion in the fridge, and I still have just under half a tub left.  

Once I had painted the whole mountain in the dark grey and had let it dry overnight, I dry brushed in some Jo Sonja’s Burnt Umber in some of the crevices and on some of the areas on the rocks that I wanted to be a little shaded.

I then dry brushed in some Jo Sonja’s Moss Green, Jo Sonja’s Raw Umber, Red Earth, and Brown Earth, only in very small patches, remembering that this is a HO Scale train layout/diorama.

Then it was time to highlight it all. I dry brushed with Jo Sonja’s Antique White overall the tops of the rocks and some of the sides. Being careful not to go down in the crevices.

Then highlighted with Jo Sonja’s Warm White, and then went back in and highlighted in certain areas with Jo Sonja’s Titanium White. This is a slow process, but really worth it.

I did find in some areas I had gone to large with the patches or I just didn’t think it looked right. So then I would just paint back over the area with the dark grey again and start the process again. It does take a lot of time and patience, but it is worth it. This took me a full 2 weeks to paint this mountain.   

                                              Finished.