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Your HO models are terrific and look like they are 1:48 scale. -- Russ

Fantastic detail in that low-sided gondola!

Thank you !
It's a wagon Roco that I have detailed.

Hi Sami.
I love your module set-up at home, a great project.
All the best Kim

Hi guys,

I continue the work on the third module.

Sami, good to see your progress.

Looking Good
   Barney

Hi guys,

I painted the concrete surface and I realised the wall of the harbour basin.

Most satisfactory. -- Russ

Looks good!

The concrete looks great.
Would love to see some closeups and a little tutorial on how you painted and weathered it.

Quote from: Hauk on June 02, 2025, 01:05:35 AMThe concrete looks great.
Would love to see some closeups and a little tutorial on how you painted and weathered it.

Hauk is right, the concrete surface looks great. Whereas the harbour wall seems to me a bit too clean. Is it already finished?

Quote from: Hauk on June 02, 2025, 01:05:35 AMThe concrete looks great.
Would love to see some closeups and a little tutorial on how you painted and weathered it.

I will take other pictures and post them

Quote from: Peter_T1958 on June 02, 2025, 05:11:49 AM

Quote from: Hauk on June 02, 2025, 01:05:35 AMThe concrete looks great.
Would love to see some closeups and a little tutorial on how you painted and weathered it.

Hauk is right, the concrete surface looks great. Whereas the harbour wall seems to me a bit too clean. Is it already finished?

That's a good reflection !
I will finish the wall when I reproduce the water and I will add some green foam. In reality the walls are not always completely dirty.
I post some examples located in my city.

Here a tutorial for the concrete

• I simply called on the good old method of feather cardboard that I peeled on one side.
• I engraved the expansion joints and cracks with a criterium mine sharpened on a nail file. After measurement on Geoportail I found that the slabs form a square of about 5x5 cm at scale HO.
• I applied a layer of Gesso to waterproof the feather board.
• I've swabbed the surface with a grey Prince August primer (no matter what brand it is, as long as it's in aqueous solution).
• I did the same with a medium gray Prince August, then with a Royal Navy of the same brand. The idea is that the Royal Navy does not completely cover the medium grey. Given the properties of feather cardboard, it is a little natural.
• After complete drying I applied an oil paint juice (mixture of natural shade earth and ultramarine blue). The oil paint is diluted with Ammo's Oderless thinner. Other oil paint thinners (petroleum essence, etc.) are also suitable.

beautiful looking concrete.
With the fine veining it could also be "marble" in another situation.