Wednesday, November 12, 2008

'What shade of green is this supposed to be?'

I've been thinking this morning while painting my modules brown. as well as some standards fro the end plates and electrical connections and so on, should there be standards for the colours of the modules themselves, so that at a get together there are no horribly jarring clashes between scenes. Should there be a specific base paint colour, an approved ground covering etc? What about ballast and track colours. Is it any different from painting loco's and wagons etc in their historical colours. The Woodland scenic range is available virtually anywhere in the world, and is a consistent range of shades, and so could be used as the default 'standard'.
Now there are problems with this. I can think of at least 3 different 'climates ' in New Zealand; lush grassland, sub-tropical rain forest/bush, and dry burnt summer grass (general I know, but it probably covers most areas). The first 2 will sit next to each other reasonably happily, but anyone trying to model one of the drier regions will be using a completely different colour pallet.

Opinions on the back of a postage stamp in large letters please.

1 comment:

Southern Rails said...

Go with a shade of brown for the layouts base coats. If for some reason the scenery doesn't attach to the surface you have a dirt colour underneath. On a few 'S' scale projects I've done, I used an american concoction called 'Ground Goop'. A combination of different things, that you spread down and that drys to look like dirt. Looks great but I'm not sure how it will look in NZ120.