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MR’s Cody Grivno lends a hand to our Canadian Canyons N scale layout construction effort. Detailing trackwork is Cody’s forte, so in this video he’ll demonstrate the steps for painting and weathering a main line laid on concrete ties. Plus, he also shows you tips and tricks for painting turnouts.
Fantastic!
Great video I love the out takes
Great videos. Were any done for ballast and scenery installation?
Great video Cody. looks like the paint marker made painting the rail a snap. Will have to try that.
Well done Cody. I like the way you work and explain all of your steps. The concrete ties really add a contrast when they’re highlighted. Ready for the next one!
Perfect, since it relates to what I am doing today on my layout… Love the markers for the concrete track since i don’t have to load up constantly with paint. Look great… Thanks
Question: Why paint concrete ties with a concrete paint. I can see the intermixing of Aged Concrete color; but, if the concrete ties look like concrete, why paint them? I’m a Transition era modeler with wood ties only; so, I’m guessing there are things about concrete ties I just don’t understand. Yes, I did paint all my Atlas track with Roof Brown, as I think the Roof Brown looks more realistic than the as supplied Atlas Black Ties.
Wow Cody, that is some intricate work painting N scale track and concrete ties. Just a thought on a final weathering of the concrete ties, diesels have a nasty habit of dripping all kinds of ugly dark liquids onto the ties and that dripping would show up more on the concrete ties than wood ties. Always go for the markers?? Thanks.
If you go lightly, you can easily airbrush the points and heels without masking them. I’ve had no problems with electrical continuity after using Tamiya (XF-52 flat earth/XF64 red brown) for this once the frogs are powered independently.
Cody, your amazing and talented, I got to share one thing with you (probably David’s fault) but this layout has UNH. and with all this fine prep work, paint, and three hours to cover the track mentioned? wow. UNH? it’s dangerous and can call out a fake in new York minute. Ugly Nail Head is curable, I know how hard all the team strive to build layouts (and thank you Eric for that wonderful Ambroid kit you completed and just showed us) but in David’s defense I have seen him use Dap 230 to tack down flex track . just go back and remove the UNH’s and no one is any wiser. I know it may seem odd, but 20 years ago it was mentioned UNH needs to go. Now it’s all that I see when first visiting any layout. Seriously, y’all are great educators of how to stuff. If Model Railroading was easy, everybody would do it! but it’s not so keep up the good work Cody.. and other staffers .. (;
I plan on using some concrete ties in the future, so I appreciate you showing a technique for treating them. For wood tie flex track I use ME weathered rail.
Great job of showing how, Cody! My technique for painting track was to rattle can spray with Floquil Roof Brown and rub off the rail heads with a Bright Boy immediately after painting. I’ve wondered how people are painting track now and it looks to be almost as easy! I am truly enjoying the Canadian Canyons Project Railroad, even though I model in HO and am considering a change to Sn3.
Cody, I like to take a piece of scrap styrene and scrape the tops of the rails before the paint sets. It makes cleaning the railheads later a lot easier.
Cody, Michael Jackson you ain’t. Seems like a lot of extra work. Of course if you are doing close-up photography you want things to look right. On the other hand, if you want to get trains running sooner rather than later; I think I’d skip this step. It’s like adding chromium to cars, more chrome trim doesn’t make the car run any better or faster.