I wanted to thank everyone for these excellent suggestions and ideas. Rather than reply with a bunch of posts, I'll address everyone in this one long reply:
- HOT WATER -- As noted in the original post, Polly Scale Old Concrete 30318 was discontinued several years ago and is no longer available, even on the used market. Did the staff at True Value happen to write the color codes on the can they made up for you? If so, I'm sure a number of people reading this thread would like to know it.
- RRDOC -- Your results look great. When you say that you "stippled" the Rustoleum Khaki Camo with black craft paint, what technique did you use to do this? Did you take a fine brush, dip it in the black paint, and then sort of stab the Khaki Camo? Did you spatter it? Some other way? It looks great.
Your suggestion to use Brennan's book is a good one. I own it and I didn't even check. D'oh! - DKDKRD -- You and I are birds of a feather: Cheep, cheep, cheep. : )
- AVANTI and MODEL STRUCTURES -- You guys both proposed the same technique, you are just using different materials. I'm going to give this a try, particularly for the larger concrete areas we'll be creating (e.g., a large promenade outside a Lionel #116 City Station).
For everyone else I didn't mention by name, your stuff looks great. When I get to bridge abutments, particular, I'll give some of them a try (i.e., like GENE MAAG's Rust-oleum stone texture paint idea).
Thanks again. Please everyone, feel free to add more.
Steven J. Serenska
