The Saltney Railway

Looks much better than the ET!

Terrific! How did you get the stone colour to look 'just right'? Is there a wash of white applied after the initial dark colours?

Superb!!

Terrific! How did you get the stone colour to look 'just right'? Is there a wash of white applied after the initial dark colours?

 

 

Hi Pete,

I paint the whole lot with Railmatch "concrete" colour or similar, allow to dry for a day, then mix up a brew of matt black/leather/brown and scrub it across the raised stone in a diagonal direction both up and down, and in both axis. This way it catches the raised areas but not the mortar courses. If it still looks too bright, dry brush it with the same browny mix over the bright bits. After it has dried you can go back over with a dry brush of matt black or even matt dark green in places. Try it on a bit of scrap stone card until you're happy with it. The whole paint job took about 10 mins for the cream and 20 mins for the dark colour.

I'll have to do the rest of the retaining wall to match now!.

If you look at the Saltney gallery pics of Astley Bridge station area you can see I've had a bit of practise...

JF

Looks much better than the ET!

S'funny, a few people, well a lot....well everyone has said that !

JF

Superb!!

 

 

Cheers John! Feel free to come and wave a lens at it when it's finished!!

JF