I seem to have lost my list.
Recall Steve had Linen for concrete.
What is the best for a blacktop road? Not new pavement.
What paint do you use under dirt? Use real dirt as dirt?
What do you use under grass?
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I am also interested to see what others are using.
I bought play sand and use that as a base, I cover it with coffee, and all sorts of old, out of date spices from the kitchen that my wife will let me have. It might not look so good, but smells wonderful. I cover it with a little grass and it looks OK.
I want to put in a road in my town, and was thinking of using self-leveling cement. It is what you use on concrete floors to get the dips out before putting down a wood floor.
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Originally Posted by Lima:
What paint do you use under dirt? Use real dirt as dirt?
What do you use under grass?
Probably heretic again, but I don't paint under the dirt, grass or whatever else I'm doing in the way of scenery - directly onto the homasote.
Real dirt for dirt except when it's some of the Woodland Scenics mixed turf type ground cover
Originally Posted by mwb:
Originally Posted by Lima:
What paint do you use under dirt? Use real dirt as dirt?
What do you use under grass?
Probably heretic again, but I don't paint under the dirt, grass or whatever else I'm doing in the way of scenery - directly onto the homasote.
Real dirt for dirt except when it's some of the Woodland Scenics mixed turf type ground cover
Thanks. We have to cover blue and pink foam. Figured if we have to paint it off- white, might as well get a jump start towards the color.
Brown paint mix
Benjamin Moore & Co.
Interior/Latex/Flat N215 Regal Premium Flat.
Base N215-3B Quart
BK 6 1/2 shots
BR 2 3/4 shots
OY 13 shots
Excellent reference from that thread.
A sample of the reference available in the Kalmbach Scenery book
Here are somes choices from the 2nd edition of the How to listed above.
Copied from page 24.
Latex Mud and earth colors.
Earth:
(1.) Tru Value Hardware Tru-Test No. C220 Dusty Sage or No. C216 Antelope.
(2.) Pittsburgh Paints: No. 3491 Franciscan Gold, No. 3610 Poplar, or No. 4489 Tulip Wood
(3.) Sears Easy Living No. 600 Autum Wheat Dark, No. 589 Sage, No 574 Parisiene Beige, (satin finsh only- this is OK because after thinning the paint loses its shine), or No. 068 Sand (a good light earth color).
(4.) California Paints: No. 35C-3D Boca Raton or No. 35B-3D Cameron, (a little on the red side but good for rich farmland).
(5.) (Sherwin Williams Fringed Jacket is an earth color that I haven't tried.) Noted penciled in add in my book was SW1118.
Mud:
(6.) Tru Value Hardware: Tru-Test No. C214 Sugarloaf.
(7.) Pittsburgh Paints: No 4491 Leather Vest, No. 7483 Earthenware, or No. 4606 Yorktown Brown (reddish).
(8.) Sears: Easy Living No. 585 Guernsey Beige
(9.) California Paints: No 35C-4A Oakheart or No. 36C-3D Cassel Brown
