Scale Model Scenery Cable Trunking - Painting?

[ISW]

I've made up some of the 00-gauge cable trunking from Scale Model Scenery but, being laser cut from card, it has a burnt cardboard 'look'. Are you supposed to paint the trunking before installation on a layout, and if so what colours (I use Vallejo Model colours) are recommended to mimic worn concrete?

 

I watched the Everard Junction video installing the same product and he didn't show any painting, but his cable trunking looked more like concrete as if it had been painted.

 

Ian

[SamThomas]

Personally, I would try to find or mix up a colour representing new concrete and then tone it down with varying amounts of weathering powders.

[Nearholmer]

In extreme pickiness mode, I do wish people would stop calling this stuff ‘trunking’, when it is actually ‘troughing’. For instance https://croomconcrete.co.uk/products/civil-products/precast-concrete-railway-products/precast-concrete-cable-trough-system/

 

The word ‘trunking’ means something different to a cabling engineer.

[ISW]

 

Deja vue .... I posted this reply earlier today, and then it disappeared. Mutter.

 

5 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

In extreme pickiness mode, I do wish people would stop calling this stuff ‘trunking’, when it is actually ‘troughing’.

 

Totally agree. While I was working I designed and drew up quite a few cable troughs and layouts, and they were never called trunking. However, in my defence m'Lord, the packaging provided by ScaleModelScenery does state "Concrete Lineside Cable Trunking"; https://www.scalemodelscenery.co.uk/lx035-oo-laser-cut-concrete-lineside-trunking-oo4mm176-516-p.asp

 

Ian