Applying a camber to a tight curve of track on your model railway layout can help improve the realism and operation...
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Valid to UK only - excludes oversized items
Applying a camber to a tight curve of track on your model railway layout can help improve the realism and operation...
A well-designed model railway is more than just a collection of tracks and trains: it’s a miniature world that...
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Applying a camber to a tight curve of track on your model railway layout can help improve the realism and operation...
A well-designed model railway is more than just a collection of tracks and trains: it’s a miniature world that...
Mainline Railways was a British model railway brand that operated between 1976 and 1983, introduced by Palitoy, the...
A Wickham Trolley is a small railway maintenance vehicle once widely used across Britain's railways. Built by D...
Crackle medium is a weathering agent in a bottle, it has the appearance of a varnish.
When you have primed your model and added the base coat of colour, simply paint on the crackle medium and leave to dry. You will see that the paint now has a crackled effect exposing the colour beneath the base coat, almost like a crazy paving effect. You can then add a coat of a contrasting colour over the top to enhance the cracked paint effect.
This really does create a great finish when trying to replicate anything from old fences to the sides of buildings.
If you want a specific colour to come through the cracks, then you need to add an extra layer of paint before applying the crackle medium.
For example: I have just painted and exhaust shield on a vehicle and I wanted to show the aluminium in the cracks, so I first primed the piece with a grey primer then added a coat of aluminium. When dried, I added what I would call the base coat and then added the medium, this in turn gave me the effect I was looking for, of a cracked paint with aluminium showing through the cracks due to excessive temperatures from the exhaust
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