Adding Concrete Lines with Model Railroad Paints

Now we're gonna get into some of the real details of this building and this gets a little bit fussy but it's gonna make the difference between an average building and an outstanding building. And the first thing we're gonna do is paint the concrete lines on the building. If you notice the building has a line of concrete above what I would call the cinder block lines here. There's a line of concrete here and there is of course a concrete sill underneath all of the windows. And what we're gonna do is spend just a little bit of time painting those things.

For that, I've got some concrete paint. This is kind of a putty colored paint and we're going to use a nice small brush. This is a brush that has a nice pointed to tip on it and will really be able to get into those lines. So it's just a question of getting onto those concrete lines, trying to stay as best you can on them. If you happen to slip as you're doing it we can go back and touch up the paint but because these concrete lines are raised off the surface it makes it relatively easy to stay on those concrete lines and not really mast some paint onto other parts of the model.

As I said, this is just a little bit fussy but in the end it will really make the model stand out and look much more realistic. And don't forget some of the walls on the building, the structure that you're building are probably walls where the corners wrap around. And in the case of the wall that I'm doing right now it does so what we wanna make sure we do is get those concrete lines wrapped around the the side. And do both sides. And of course we'll do underneath the window.

Just that concrete sill. Now, if you really wanna get a little bit nutty and get into the detail work, and again that separates the average buildings from the outstanding buildings, you'll wanna tip that wall up a little bit and see if you can get into that sill, into the top of that sill. I'm not gonna do it right here because these cells are very, very shallow and don't really have a lot of top surface to them. So we'll take all of the walls here. Try to be as careful as we can.

If you get a nice drip of paint on that brush, it will just spread very, very nicely onto those sills. So you don't have to worry about scraping your brush along. And if the molding of the building is really good you'll wind up with some nice square looking sills. So what I'm gonna do I do now is finish up the concrete work on these walls. We'll let this dry and then we'll move on to some other details.