track painting

So all the dyed sawdust now complete quite pleased with finished result too,next step was to paint the track grey
had no idea what paint to use so mixed up a bit of emolsion with pva an hope it sticks, if it marks an scratches not too worried just dont want it to peel off or flake an crack, so will just have to wait an see,
so here is few pics of first coat will apply second coat tommorow,

  made some advertising boards to go along left hand side and far back edge they did not come out too bad,

did a little re modelling to my marshall hut, well basicaly cut it in half,

        all ways thought i had made this just bit too wide,was ok on table top layouts but not in loft,just allways looked to big,

      Hmmm not too sure. definatly got it right size now, but think will strip off paper an re paint it,
got a real bargain on e bay with vintage scalextric figures the end time was 10 o clock sunday morning so i was the only bidder got 12 figures for only £1.99 well pleased, painted yellow hi vis jackets on some of my other little figures came out quite well,will put pics on later as  camera battery just run out typical,,,
                                                                                                                                                                                             

grass

Ok so the dyed sawdust seamed to work really well, what i have done to apply it to the areas where i want it is to cover with glue then pour the sawdust over it an then pat it down and left for couple of days,

 so the next step after a couple of days was to just gently brush off and hope fully exspose the areas underneath that were not glued,

    Ok not too bad came out a bit thin in some areas so i just applied some more glue and then another layer
 of the sawdust, as i do want it quite thick so when cars crash if wont knock lumps off of it,
last couple of pics are just a few scenery ideas ,

      just playing about nothing permanent,so next step after a few more days for grass to dry, will be i think the track to paint concrete grey colour, will then clean slot rails as best i can and then the copper tape this will definatley have to be done as the track is now in such bad condition where i have been sitting or kneeling on it an plus it gets wet an dirty that the connections are so bad that cars wont even make a full lap,
but im confident a good clean up and the copper tape will solve this problem,                                                                                                                        

further scenery

A little more paint work done and white highlighting to rocks,

                                        

                                         

                                        

                                          

Also have painted outer barriers grey will see how this paint dries an will do track same if ok
the green paint is just a base layer over the chipboard and obviously not the finished result.

Next is the dyed saw dust, the idea of this was for grass or as hobby shop calls it flock and as its nearly £2 for just a small bag and i would need so much of it,
 my brother came up with the idea of saw dust so i cut up loads of wood and scooped up the dust and dyed it green have just done a small area  for now,

i quite like the effect of this, and if it dries out to the right shade of green it will hopefully be a cheap alternative to the expensive stuff. 

also a little bit more work done to the hairpin end of track.

will probably change a few things around in this area until i'm happy with it.

                                      
                                         
                                                   

painting

hi all, so after finishing all the plaster work and just a few bits of texture here and there it was time to do some
painting,which to be honest i was not very confident about as im not very good at arty type stuff and was worried it would not look very real,
so after looking at hundreds of pics of other peoples layouts had a good idea how i wanted mine to look and just hoped i could get close to it,
first i painted it all black then while it was still wet used some stone coloured over the top an basicaly just very quicly applied it and mixing here and there so we got like different shades of  like black dark grey and light grey, once its all dry i will then aply white whith almost a dry brush so it will only go on raised edges and will hilight the textured surface,
well heres a few pics so you can see what its like, am pretty pleased with result,

                                        

                                          

                                        

                                        

                                          

                                        

                                        

                                        

so next step is to apply the dry brush white hilight and then the grass for which im going to try the dyed sawdust,