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Originally Posted by Big_Boy_4005:

You need to take .2" styrene sheet and make strips, then just start stacking. Voila, steps.

That's how I made the stairs below.  Sometimes when you use styrene, there are tiny gaps that stand out when you paint it light colors, as concrete, etc.  Before painting I use an X-Acto point to dag white glue into the crack - capillary action draws it in and it seals the gap.  The "brass" railings are made from gold-metal paperclips.

 

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Thank you guys, will attempt to make a set this weekend if I can get some plastic. Not sure my final product will look like your work Steve.

Great idea on the railings Lee!

 

Now that Testors has abandoned us, what is everyone using for a concrete color paint?

Model or custom Ace/Home Depot/Lowes/Menards/etc. mix?

I always thought it was kind of silly for them to make a color called "concrete" since in the real world untinted concrete is a wide range of grays. Tinted concrete gives you even more options to consider.

 

I'm all in favor of using regular wall paint for scenery and structure applications, reserving model paint for painting actual trains. Some paint stores might even do sample bottles so you don't have to buy a quart. Check around.

I agree that it is hard to go wrong with concrete color. However, I think that the right texture helps a lot to suggest "concreteness". This isn't strictly to scale: I am pretty sure that at 1:48 scale there is little difference between the texture of concrete and that of glass. But a little texture sort of "signals" to the viewer that it is concrete. There are numerous ways to do this. I like to use a light dusting of a textured paint.  My favorite is Rust-Oleum Desert Bisque.

I use these paints for MRR painting and weathering.

 

LINEN #420 is the concrete color of SIRT’s choice!

Applying a skim coat of spackle first then Linen, will get the real concrete look desired.

The decorated steps are really Plastruct plastic, LOL!

 

 Most of my modeled structures are dated to 1933. That was a big time for concrete along the railroads to support heavy steam operation.

The overpass and viaduct still stand and provides daily RR operation even today on S.I.

 

 

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"American Accents" has stone textured paint that seems to work well as a base coat for another color. I used it on the concrete bridge and viaduct, though the "Strawflower" overcoat was bit too yellow for the aged concrete look I was after.

 

I e-mailed Don "Industrial Models" Smith about it and he suggested getting a computer-matched can of exterior latex flat (that's what he used on some of his buildings). I'm going to try that out on the next concrete project.

 

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