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After a quick trip to the hardware store and the only remaining O'gauge supplier in Louisville, I finally got started on painting Ravine #2, and it's already looking better. Regarding the Train Store... I just found out today that L&N Trains closed its doors two months ago. That leaves Roundhouse Trains as the sole remaining train store catering to the O'gauge market in L'ville. But there's a silver lining. Roundhouse has expanded almost 3X by taking over vacant retail space attached to their space. It's a bit of a labyrinth with many rooms connected by passageways, but it's great all the same.

 

I did buy some more scenery supplies and then ordered 3 EMD HO scale GP40, 48" cooling fans that I will use as the cooling fans for the power transformer in the substation project. These scale out to .55" which are a bit smaller than what I drew on my transformer plan. I'll live with that.

 

Before painting, I reviewed the YouTube offerings on coloring model RR rocks. There seems to be three schools of thought: spray cans, various thin washes, and heavier coloring with dry brushing (Dave Frary's approach). I chose Dave's approach.

 

This involves coating the rocks with a 2:1 water/paint mixture of "Rock Black) which is 1 part black, 2 parts raw umber (brown) and some white. It's like a warmish weathered black. After this is dry, I'll go back and dry brush grays, white, and various browns and yellows to give the look I want.

 

Ravine Painting 02

These are limestone strata mainly and aren't too dark, but they have a lot of creases that need to show up.  The abutment will be colored with weathered concrete, thereafter pastel treatments including muds and rusts coming from the soil above and off the bridge hardware.

 

Ravine Painting 04

After highlighting and weathering, I add vegetation and then turn to the river itself. I bought some W-S Talus in medium gray in two sizes and also have lots of plaster scraps that will be used on the river backs and flanks of the slopes. 

 

It already looks more real, and the sculpting is really showing up with the color on it.

 

As a reminder, here's the coloration that I will be shooting for. There's lots of very light grays, heavy shadows, and some earth tones.

 

KY River Scenic Modeling

Any other limestone cut areas are also going to receive the "rock black" treatment like this little cut ridge running parallel to the tracks. Just wait until I get around to the much more extensive limestone cuts that are on the inter-track ridge.

 Ravine Painting 05

This rock painting goes pretty quickly and progress will appear rapidly. Regarding damming the river to prevent the resin from going overboard: I noted on one of the video that a small ridge of clear paintable caulking is sufficient to prevent the resin from exiting the river bed. I'm going to do that and bought the caulk today also.

 

 

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