mr lucky
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Well this is pretty damn good! Love seeing all the steps, got me thinking about trying on of these.
Poured a few hundred metres of concrete over the year's and never seen a blue one!!So the next couple of days I'm going to experiment with these products below .
I'm using an acrylic for the slab edges to preclude cracking / delamination issues I will run into while drilling and mounting all the rebar through the edges if I were to cover the edges with gypsum plaster like the upper and lower faces .
Hopefully I can achieve the right texture to mimic the exposed aggregate of the broken cross section .
I'll incorporate the various powders and/or texture the surface with a brush -- we'll see how it goes .
Being this is 1/72 scale , the texture must be minimal but convincing .
I'm wondering if using the different colors of the embossing powders will telegraph thru a translucent application of a color coat and mimic the appearance of aggregate in the concrete .
I bought these AK terrains years ago to check them out . Still unopened . Time to crack the lids .
Years , and years , ago I ordered this " concrete paste " , below , from Hobby Link Japan just to see what it was .
It looked odd and it kinda is .
It's acrylic medium ,plus most likely calcium carbonate filler , pigmented that odd blue . ( from MiG )
Basically blue plastic putty . Nothing special .
Concrete is a huge part of my professional existence and like a not-small portion of the Earth's population I've been surrounded by concrete infrastructure my entire life .
I have never seen concrete " aged " into being this color .
Never seen concrete anywhere close to this color . " aged " concrete is dirty concrete , lol .
White Portland cement , white sand and funky-blue pigment colorant ? sure .
Gonna experiment with it along with the others .
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Think I have found your next build!That was the main reason I ordered , I think .
" what do you mean 'aged blue ' ? " , lol
It's just acrylic plastic putty .
I have no idea who at MiG thought they remember seeing blue concrete somewhere .
If that's the case then I must have built some multicoloured structures in my time. Maybe that's why concrete is grey because all the trucks that have turned up are usually covered in mud and grime!!!!Color of the truck demotes the color of the mix ?
Quite handy !