Tips for Painting Backdrops for Model Railroads
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Nothing completes a model railroad quite like a well made backdrop. You can add a remarkable amount of realism to your model railroad layouts by setting the scene for a nice blue sky day with a room-brightening backdrop. To create your own illuminating backdrops for model railroads, all you’ll need are a few basic materials and a single afternoon-no artistic talent required. In this lesson, we teach you the expert tips and techniques you’ll need to paint beautiful backdrops for model railroads that will give your scenes whole new layers of depth and realism.
I remember watching this in the Dream Plan Build video series when I was younger, fills me with so much nostalgia
Definitely going to try that on my layout!
Simple and effective! Well done!
You make it look so easy! Great tutorial, I think I might try that. -Mark
Excellent video!
nice video thx for the tutorial
Great!
Bob Ross would have been proud!. Good stiff pardner.
Very good!
Just like I did my backdrop. When butting 2 panels together, use Liquid Nails for Foam Projects. Place calk in the crack seam and feather out, not very wide. Will stay plyable and your panel crack will become seamless, after you touch it up with your blue paint.
Also when turning an inside corner, often times the 2 panels are not plumb. This will fill in that joint difference seamlessly.
Bob
Keep a spray bottle of clean water on hand, set to a very fine mist. If the paint starts to dry out too quickly, just give it a spritz with the water....very lightly, very fine, not so much that its going to make the paint run, but just enough that it will keep your paint wet for as long as you need it.
Very nice like bob Ross
ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ ΚΑΛΑΝΤΖΑΚΗΣ I was thinking the exact same thing! The Bob Ross of model railroading! :)
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By using paint layers a more realistic sky can be had. Each layer being diluted and more transparent.... hence the hard edges muted. Just like frozen action characters, clouds if too prominent can become distracting. The idea is to infer a sky, but leaving it as a thing not of attraction.
That's how I did my back drops on my Layout
What would paint would you recommend for someone allergic to latex?
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I'm gonna try this but I wont mix the clouds with the sky. I'll use grey and white
Could you give the exact paint color name please?
Sorry, I don’t have a color name for you. For my backdrop I used “quiet rain” as I didn’t want to “perfect” a sky color. Your layout lighting will affect the backdrop color that you choose.
Want to learn how to make realistic clouds . Watch a Bob Ross video. 3 minutes or less and you got it down for life.
Where is Bob Ross when you need him?
Clouds are never just white tones on blue. There are so many more colours in the blue of the skys and in the white of the clouds. Using just two colours for a backdrop sky makes it dull and very unrealistic.
He looks like he's never done this before