Thanks to all!!
AS far as weathering goes…I was looking for an older hospital/clinic in a small town, so they are white stone with a bunch of black weathering, made the white look great. White is one hard color to weather. I am no expert, but I liked how it turned out. Anyways, all I did was take black weathering dust and rubbed it all over with a brush. Then I took a wet towel and rubbed most of it off. I could have rubbed more off if I would have used more cleaner rags after wards. The interior was cleaner, I did not weather any of it. I thought about it, but I just wanted it clean. I almost put blood in it, but could not do it. I left the roof unglued so I could go back if I decided to add some dead zombies and corpses in the future. I am just moving on to the next building. The buildings are all old 1950's era buildings so I naturally weather the hell out of them.
The signs I just print out off a word document to scale, then I glue them on a piece of thick card stock, my wife has tons of it laying around, since she paints and uses it to frame paintings.
As far as the signs, I google them, like "hospital signs", or stop signs, etc. I then just copy them in to a word document and once there I can size them the scale I want, which is all down by eyeball. I print them out at work or home on a colored copier. Most of the interior is just an illusion, hardly any 3-d stuff. Sometimes I build things if necessary. The hospital was small so I only had so much space. Its more like a clinic, but I just put a hospital sign I found on a google search on it. Pretty simple and free.
Again on the weathering…I read some forums on the toy train railroad sites and learned a lot there. But most of it is trail and error.
For instance on brick, I spray the brick or paint it, ruddy brown. Then I take a few terracotta colors and dark red weathering dust to it. Spray it with dull coat, let it dry. You have to do this step before you place white weathering dust on it, or it will just turn a burnt orange color. I use the white weathering dust to get into the mortar lines by rubbing it on with my fingers. Then I put some water on my fingers and rub it again, which makes it stick better. Once I have the mortar lines to my satisfaction, I spray it with dull coat again. Pretty easy, and it turns out great, to my surprise. Cheaper too than inking or washing it.
I also look at old buildings in pictures and study the way they weather. Like underneath window seals, a little dark black run off, such as when it rains, etc.
The bathroom signs came off the internet google search as well. The tile floors came from Ebay, but you can find them on the internet too. On ebay I found them by searching Plasticville O scale detail, they are made of card stock. AS far as finding images of tiled floors on the internet, just copy and past them in a word document right next to each other, and then past it on some stock board. My wife paints so I have a large pile of stock cardboard to pull from to make things with.
Thanks again!!!
Now I am working on a jail house and fire department…the old plasticville ones. But these will be very simple. Most outside detail.
My town is model after old towns in Georgia…aka the Walking Dead no doubt. If you look at the painting on the walls they are mostly paintings related to Georgia.
I have only been doing this since December, so it is all new, I am just flying off the seat of my pants learning as I go. Thanks to all for the kind words, it motivates me…I have so many buildings to work on, but once done, it will be all worth it. I also have a lot of RailKing pre-painted buildings that I have to weather, at the very end. Those will be a breeze, except removing all the windows. I may have to brush dull coat on, instead of spraying it on. The dull coat will fog up your windows. It looks good if you spray them from the inside out. Spraying the windows with dull coat on the outside, makes them look crappy.
Tom
now paints and bases the model.
