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As the morning fog begins to lift...no it's my camera going from air conditioning to 80% humidity outside!
-Steve
Appreciate that Steve and I try and get images outside when possible.
Thanks Alan, it's getting there.
Spoke to Mike E. and we both agree, this is such a great kit and so much fun to work up. I particularly like how there are three distinct building components; Tower, Main Building, and Welding Shop. You get to work each one up rather separately but THEN....you start to assemble the components that tie all three together and that's when you get that eureka moment of "wow, this is going to be an awesome diorama".
Well that's a really nice thing to say, and appreciate it. Working hard to do this special kit of Brett's justice. A kit that is dubbed a tribute to someone such as Kevin, who I unfortunately did not have the pleasure of meeting, commands the utmost respect and I think of that often while I'm working. Brett did a marvelous job choosing this kit to dedicate to his good friend...Kevin O'Neill.
Jim
Here is the roof card for the Welding Shop. You will notice that I'm leaning towards the darker color palate for my build here particularly on the Tower and Shop roofs.
Tower roof looks great as well. Love the tarnish. Spot on.
Ahh, Dustin...you're caving into the peer pressure!...would love to see it. I get up early every day as well, hate sleeping in.
Thanks for your thoughts on the tarnish effect on the finial. Had to mess with it a bit but I'm happy with the effect of tarnished brass...Ken
Alan
You are the master of dull and dry finishes. That roof is beautifully weathered. I have been following your build as I do mine. Any additional tips you can pass along for this look?
Mitch
Love the finial. Pretty much aced the old copper look in my opinion. That roof looks ridiculously good too.
Alan, the panels are weathered by priming with a base color. I wanted a bit darker panel in the end so I primed with brown rather than grey. Then a good weathering with the various chalks. I measured the tar paper then used a nice thin metal straight edge to "tear" the paper rather than cut leaving a slight jagged edge. If there was too much ragged edge I carefully trimmed the excess with a pair of scissors. Of course this leaves a white edge so I used a small detail brush and ran a light coat of AI over the edge letting it soak in more or less depending on the look I want.
Well thanks Mitch...but I'm a little disappointed you didn't add grungy and oily!
I weathered this roof a bit more with the chalks than others as I have been going with a bit more dark colors for my roofs on O'Neills and when I staged this roof it seemed a bit light compared to the Tower and Main Building and I know my Drive Through canopy with be the darker corrugated panels as well. So...I went back to the bench and used some additional browns and grey chalk to darken it up. All the chalk was applied from the top down and in a sweeping motion down creating the slight streaking effect. This was done after all the paper and corrugated was put in place. I then didn't particularly care for the stark edges of the corrugated I was getting so I used the colored Elmers to simulate joint caulking. This quiteted down the bold edges I was seeing. There are still a few but most are on the very bottom side of the pieces where you wouldn't need any caulk. The AI used previously gave some subtile color changes along the edges. I didn't want to add any more details until the roof is in place as I like to access the scene and see what will fit in and look right with the entire diorama.
Sorry for such a lengthy response Mitch.
Thanks Wes I was very happy with how that turned out. Small detail that probably won't get noticed but I know it's there. These wonderful roofs are one of those things I just need to take a deep breath and have at it. I always get something a bit different than I envisioned going into it.
Brett, Won't be happy until oily and grungy are added...I'll work on that...
Image above was a quick indoor shot just to illustrate the color tone similarity but very different textures...Ken
Notice the contact damage to the front left post beam.