Fun With By Rob Spangler
Talus
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Ti n t i n g R e a l R o c k s t o Match Painted Plaster
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long ago became an enthusiastic user of natural scenery material – real dirt and rock – I started using them as model railroad ground cover. The benefit of such material is readily apparent – a texture unmatched by anything synthetic such as crushed plaster bits. All of my scenery modeling has focused on areas of the western United States where convincing talus slopes are a necessity – there’s not enough vegetation to hide the ground. My biggest problem with natural rock is its color. It is difficult to match real rock to the paint and stain colors on the rest of a layout’s scenery, and usually it’s impractical to integrate large rocks into the modeled landscape to represent cliffs and big features. Also,
Figure 2: Some talus that has just been glued around a finished plaster cliff. The discrepancy between the plaster and real rock (much darker) is readily apparent.
Figure 1: Rob Spangler shares a quick and easy method for coloring the real rocks he uses in talus slopes to match plaster rocks already in the scene. Page 69 • Issue 11 • January 2011 • Fun with Talus - Adding Rock Debris, page 1
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