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Rockwork continues on our Canadian Canyons N scale layout, with David Popp showing how he painted and highlighted the Sculptamold rocks to resemble those found along the Fraser River canyons. Grab your brushes and acrylic paints, and then follow along!
Fantastic rock wash and dry brushing demonstration. I’m about ready to start doing this to my Sculptamold sections on my layout and this was really useful. Thanks!
David. I use hydrolcal rocks and scuptamold to merge them together. But when I use washes i get a lot of lighter color where the scuptamold was used. Am I doing something wrong or what. Any ideas would help. Love the articles. The video plus gang does. Keep up the great work. Thanks Mike
Thanks David as it was an excellent review for me as I’ve followed all of your other rock paintings in previous videos. You are a natural Rembrandt in model railroad scenery. Also enjoyed the explanation about the tree as it stood out during the video. Finally, Drew has that effect on people by ‘gabbing’ about different stuff and losing your train of thought (pun intended)!
Nice tutorial on rock painting David, the highlighting really brings out the hard edges of the rock. I assume that there will be some vertical staining of the concrete wall section and tunnel portals. Thanks.
Timely with the coloring the rocks. I’ve been putting off mine but think its getting about time to move on with the color too.
As always, good video. Any way to extend them?
Thanks David! This video really came at the right time. I’ve been struggling with rock coloring for a long time, never happy with anything I’ve done. But, what you’ve done here really looks great! I’m going for it! Keep it up. Can’t wait to see the rest.
James, there’s a funny story behind that tree. I’d stuck into the wet plaster when I cast the rocks, just to see how it might look. I left it there overnight, and then I couldn’t get it out the next morning once the Sculptamold had hardened.
So, the tree stayed on the layout through the entire project. It sort of became the de-facto mascot for the Yale Tunnels side of the layout.
David
David – Excellent how-to. Your talent for teaching shines through in this video- instilling enough confidence so us mere mortals can go out and successfully build a mountain! I noted three small areas of the total rock face had a wash of burnt sienna was this intentional?
The finished rock looks great. The part I missed was where you used the blue to match the photo at the beginning of the episode.
That is a nice technique, David. I think your use of a flat brush works better than the usual stiff bristle round brush favored by some.
As an off the wall comment; why didn’t you cut a thumb hole in your cardboard palette?
I like the single tree at the top. It’s like the iron worker’s flag marking the finished frame work.