Finishing Jane Street Bridge and What to do Next
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So I spent the weekend doing the finishing work on the Jane Street Bridge scene for Leith Central.
The Bridge is all hand painted and although time consuming and turning my eyes square the results have been really rewarding.
Process
First order of business was to paint the main base colours of brickwork and cream on the the bridge. The brickwork painting follows the same method as the platform edging and retaining walls with a desert sand base followed by washes of weathered stone and sleeper grime to varied levels over the top of a dark grey primer to darken down the initial coats.
The next coat applied was the overall cream to the cross pieces of the bridge to give the main base colour to add the details too. This was done in 3 thin coats with some areas left deliberately thin on paint to give a faded worn effect.
Detail Painting:
I started with the Maroon as it was the bulk of the precision painting on the bridge sides. Using a mixture of small new brushes, fine hardened brushes and a cocktail stick for varied degrees of fine or straightness required as detailed in the video. I then followed the same process with the Green.
Once both sets of detailed paint were dry i touched in any over spill of the red and green with cream paint and a cocktail stick.
The final detail coat to go on was the grey parapet stone work taking care to paint the underside and tops of each piece.
The road surface was painted in matt black to mask any potential gaps in the road surface.
Road Surface:
For the road surface i have decided to use the painted sandpaper method on Leith Central after not being pleased with the small scatter test areas i did.
I spray the sand paper with Expo Dark Grey Acrylic primer as i find this gives the right colour I am looking for. Once dried this is cut into strips wide enough to overlap with planned paving areas and glued in place with wood glue.
Paving is then applied using metcalfe self adhesive paving stones.
Platform 1 side ramp:
The ramp was put together as per the retaining walls so i will not repeat the process here. The base for the road surface being 1mm Plastikard. The same road surface and paving was then applied as well as some slabs to represent to wall capping stones.
Detail was added in the form of road markings using coloured pencil although i may replace these with paint of self adhesive ones over time.
Details.
To complete to scene street lights and people etc are needing done and to make a start on this i made a bus stop out of bits from the scrap box.
Rear Corner bedding in:
I added clump foliage, scatter, trees and bushes as per the lower area around the bridge in the previous updates and made sure to hide any joins.
While work on the bridge was drying i managed to get 3 wagon kits that have been on the workbench a while finished off and ready for weather aswell as replacing the scatter area of road surface mentioned earlier.
So Whats Next?
At the end of the video you will see i have quite a stock pile of things to be getting on with so please comment on the video or below to let me know what you would like to see next on Leith Central updates,
The Options are:
1, Start the shunt puzzle and get it to the point of running trains
2, Leith Central Roof Support Walls
3, Scrap Train Wagons, (3 Kits to build and 4 wagons to Weather)
4, MOD Stores train wagons (VEA van to build and a pipe wagon to modify into an ODA)
5, 4 Wagon Kits Parkside vs Dapol (Conflat coal, Ale Wagon, Interfeigo Van and 20T Tanker)
6, Metcalfe Brewery Kits
7, Leith Central Mock Up Station Building.
8, Road Vehicle Diorama mini boards.
9, Kit bashing Peco bus kit.
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