First attempt at making and painting rocks

[cncproadwarrior]

Here are a few pics of my first attempt making and painting rocks.

I carved out extruded foam and covered it with about 500 coats of paint before I got the "right" finish.

 

[Mike_Arnold]

Well, Bernie that looks pretty darn sharp!

Good job!

 

[Grant F]

looks awesome

 

[GrampysTrains]

Looking good, Bernie. I like the color, very realistic. DJ.

 

[jaytee]

Dang Bernie, thats great. Good job and thanks for sharing.

 

[railBuilderDhd]

I think they are really nice looking, good colors.

Dave

 

[UP2CSX]

Very nice color job on those rocks, Bernie. The only thing I'd point out is that you have a couple of obvious seams where the foam is laminated together. Try filling those with scuptamold or patching plaster to give the cliff a little more monolithic appearance

 

[Cjcrescent]

What kind of paint did you coat them with? A regular paint or a texture paint.

 

[402drvr]

Those look way better than my first try. I had a really hard time with getting the painting right too. Yours look real good.

 

[cncproadwarrior]

Jim, I'm going to remove the dry latex caulk from the seems and leave some as is and fill others in with spackle.

I read a lot about colouring rocks and there are a lot of good techniques. This is what worked for me:

I gave them an initial coat of lightly diluted gray latex. I then made a heavy wash with burnt sienna. I sprayed the wash on sporadically and then blended the wash in with a brush. Lastly I dry brushed the high spots with white latex.