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My little village slowly grows and matures.  I have had fun learning the techniques and art of modeling small town USA.  Still a lot more to learn and to do but it is coming into shape.  Would you share some of your village vignettes?

 

I hope you will forgive me if I learn from you and steal some of your ideas and techniques.

 

 

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Thanks Don and Ken.  I forgot to ask some questions. 

 

Do you paint your own people figures?  What paint do you use.  I ordered a bag of MTH 1:48 unpainted figures and I tried lacquer modeling paints but they didn't dry on the figures.  What paint do you use? 

 

How do you stand your figures.  I have used small slips of clear plastic and glued them onto the plastic then let them stand on their own.  I have also glued them directly to the road or sidewalk surface but sometimes that leaves a noticeable puddle.  

 

I am using 1:48 and 1:43 scale autos but I think the 1:43 is too big.  My trucks are 1:50 and I kind of like that.

 

My roads are spray painted Rustoleum Flat Black but they look too new.  How do you age the roads? I also use 1/8" pin striping and it looks like it was just painted.  I would love to dull things down a little.

 

   

Thanks for your comment Spence.  I have been on the lookout for one of those Dunkin Donuts stores.  I have the Dunkin Donuts truck now I just need the store.  Captain John has one and it looks awesome.  I like how you did the Benny's Store front, it looks very typical of our local brand.  Your Streets look awesome.  After all of the comments about Streets, I am resigned to not having enough room to fit that on my layout.  In some regards I don't really mind because I would rather use the room I have for running trains and trolleys.

 

Thank you for posting those pics.

 

 

Lee, Of all of your structures, Dino's Lodge always catches my eye.  It is so representative of the motels my family would stop at on US Rt 17 & 1 when traveling on the east coast back in the 50's and 60's. 

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If I remember right you prefer cars that are 1:43 scale.  Is that correct?  For me they appear a little large.  Is that because you convert them to Streets vehicles?

 

I also like the heavy population of figures.  Between populating automobiles, passenger cars, sidewalks, store fronts and other vignettes I am estimating needing 100+ figures.  People bring life to the scenes.  It is's also lots of fun.  Once I start placing figures I start chuckling because I am thinking of what these people are doing and what I might be thinking were I in their place.  I know that's a little sick, but it cool to build some relationship to the location.  You once wrote about painting your own figures.  Did you use modeling lacquer paints?

 

Thank you for posting.

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Don - Just how did you pull off this wet look?????

Wood, I took a wide soft paint brush and dipped it in a bucket...are your ready for this...Water. These shots were set up for an article I did for OGR. They are all very long exposures. A minute to a minute and a half. I "painted" many of the lights like the head lights hitting the street with small moving flash lights. Lots of these shots took endless exposures tell I got it right. Kind of fun though. Don

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