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Thanks guys, as always - your thoughts are appreciated.
Dry brushing the bricks after doing the mortar is a good idea and one I will have to try out. Of course, I will have to take a look at how to dry brush first, even though it does seem self explanatory.
Last night, I spent about an hour just looking at the structure of the walls and how much detail there was. Yeah, I have a very boring life!
What I did notice, especially when looking at the physical building and photo's together, was the depth and subsequent width of the area needed to mortised. That is a fairly wide, deep area. Take a look at the pictures in post 490 and I think you will see what I mean.
What I think might be happening is the Mortar Wash is covering an area larger than the size of the bricks. If I am right, then it isn't so much that I am doing some thing wrong, or at least that wrong, than the mortar lines being a little too wide and when being filled with the wash, that size overly emphasizes the mortar color.
Does that make sense? Is that possible do you think? If it is, then it wont matter what I do, I wont get the desired effect.
Okay, so moving on. I did a little more to the area at the top left of the layout (above the town).
This shot shows the formation of the road in its infancy. I think it will work well when done:
I'm still FAR from happy with it but I think I 'MAYBE" getting it improved a little. I really need to see it with color on it to see how it will fit in with the existing and now older part of the mountain. My biggest dislike is that the area above the tracks seems to be disproportionate to the rest. It just doesn't seem to fit the way it should, like it's big brother on the right side of the layout fits. Do you know or see what I mean?
Dry brushing the bricks after doing the mortar is a good idea and one I will have to try out. Of course, I will have to take a look at how to dry brush first, even though it does seem self explanatory.
Last night, I spent about an hour just looking at the structure of the walls and how much detail there was. Yeah, I have a very boring life!
What I did notice, especially when looking at the physical building and photo's together, was the depth and subsequent width of the area needed to mortised. That is a fairly wide, deep area. Take a look at the pictures in post 490 and I think you will see what I mean.
What I think might be happening is the Mortar Wash is covering an area larger than the size of the bricks. If I am right, then it isn't so much that I am doing some thing wrong, or at least that wrong, than the mortar lines being a little too wide and when being filled with the wash, that size overly emphasizes the mortar color.
Does that make sense? Is that possible do you think? If it is, then it wont matter what I do, I wont get the desired effect.
Okay, so moving on. I did a little more to the area at the top left of the layout (above the town).
This shot shows the formation of the road in its infancy. I think it will work well when done:
I'm still FAR from happy with it but I think I 'MAYBE" getting it improved a little. I really need to see it with color on it to see how it will fit in with the existing and now older part of the mountain. My biggest dislike is that the area above the tracks seems to be disproportionate to the rest. It just doesn't seem to fit the way it should, like it's big brother on the right side of the layout fits. Do you know or see what I mean?