How To Paint Model Railroad Backdrops with Rob Spangler
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- We look at the high art of painting model railroad backdrops with Rob Spangler who has painted many of the backdrops we have seen on the channel. A how to of Rob's technique as he paints a backdrop for the 1/20.3 scale railroad at Garagemahall.
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Rob shows the ins and outs of painting with acrylics, both artists acrylics and acrylic latex house paint. All while coning Rob to paint the backdrop for the switching yard on the Utah and Colorado narrow gauge railroad we are building there.
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This is part one of a series of shows which will next feature a trip to Steve Striebel's On3 - On30 railroad where he will be painting the backdrop for his new Village of Knowhere on the On30 line. Back to Rob to finish up with this backdrop, and a visit by Gil Bennett showing his take on the subject.
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The railroad is mostly the Denver and Rio Grande Western, but also sort of generic western narrow gauge. Garagemahall will also feature a On3 and On30 railroad above the switching yard known as the "accidental railroad".
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A 1/20.3 logging line is also planned, and about 8 feet of track has been laid for that line.
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In this firs part Rob explains the how to of working with acrylic paint, working from dark to light, pulling out details.
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Also how to on working with color changing RGB LED strip lights and which double stick tapes work best for mounting LED strip lights and paper coving.
I love your videos!!! You and your wife make the for the perfect team of narrators for all your adventures! I always look forward to your videos!
Thanks!!! We do have fun!! Been mostly home bound these last weeks because of so real estate issues. GAD! Need to get "back on the road again". SOON!!!!!
A lot of happy little trees!
Loved the guy..
looks good Toyman
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One word, WOW. Can't wait to see the layout. Learned a lot from this video. Great video.
Next week Steve is painting the backdrop for Knowhere on Lake Inferior. Should be fun. Steve works in a totally different way.
Finally another video of your layout coming along. That backdrop sure will look fantastic when it's all said and done.
Need to spend more time working on it!
Great looking backdrop. A lot of work goes into it!
That's for sure. One key is doing it BEFORE building the layout. Almost everyone puts it off and ends up painting hanging from a rope with a 4 foot long brush. Sorta harder that way.
Another great video guys! 👍👌👏
Thanks!!!
I have been waiting all week for this one, and you two did not disappoint. I think I am going to grab some paints and start screwing around right now!
Next week Steve is painting the backdrop for Knowhere on Lake Inferior. AMAZING PLACE!!!
That's really cool how they do that
Can't wait to see the finished product and would like to visit also. OUTSTANDING work as usual. 🚂🇺🇸🚂🇺🇸🚂🇺🇸
Back on it. HAd to take a break when a show in Cedar City popped up. And now Wyoming... BUT SOON ...
Enjoyed this very instructive piece! Keep us posted on layout progress, please. Love your work!
Next week Steve is painting the backdrop for Knowhere on Lake Inferior. Hs reusing the backdrop from the O scale Guys old On2 New England modules, seen on the header on the channel. Taking out the New England buildings and going all west coast.
I love the fact (at 7:14) that your mobile paint chart is able to stand near at hand for backdrop inspiration!!! ;-)
Yup. Oddly we are even following it. Mostly. As I an a seat of the pants guy, I just cant help going off on new ideas. BUT mostly following the Photo Shop.
Thanks for the great lesson. Time to start practicing .
Yup!!
Rob has become a quite accomplished model railroader. I remember him when he was a little kid and his dad bringing him to NMRA meetings.
He was never a kid. Smaller adult. Great guy, but you can tell he's a professional mathematician. BUt a great guy, great artist. Train lover, WP guy!!!
A lot of cool tips.
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
I just discovered your channel and I'm hooked. I love your videos!
Thanks!! More coming
Rob i remember you and mike from your teens.i still have those mags!vern from the rsa
Rob is da BEST!
Great suggestion regarding the double side sticky tape on the shelf brackets! I wasn't going to paint any backdrops at my three staging yards (where the shelf brackets hold up to upper "yard" for the lumber and mining branch); but, now I have the inspiration to "do it right" so that the operator stuck back there has something to look at besides teraplywoodsville. I'm still painting new backdrops at the Monterey & Salinas Valley RR Museum. Rob and I have the same technique! The rest of the "club" love the new look!
Something way stiffer than paper. Ours was very stiff, but masonite is better. WAY BETTER.
Yesterday, I got home from Colorado after riding Durango and Silverton and Cumbres and Toltec. Up at Animas Forks, Colorado, there's just so many trees and old buildings which haven't been touch by trains in years. Robbie's paintings reminded me about Colorado Narrow Gauge Railroads, and now I kinda miss it even though I was at Chama, NM yesterday morning. I'd say you should do something abandoned like Animas Forks just to get the full feeling that even though narrow gauge steam railroading is the best, nothing last for ever. Maybe the abandoned mill at Eureka on the ol' Silverton Northern line would be cool. I've never seen a modeler do something like that. Great video as always!
Isn't that ride from Durango and Silverton... Cumbres and Toltec, just the most beautiful place on earth? Tony Bennett left his heart, in San Francisco... and I left mine in Silverton!
Karyn Felix-Angell haha! They are both beautiful. And the mine in Silverton? Do you mean the Old Hundred near Howardsville?
Hummm.... I'll check!
Karyn Felix-Angell its the mine tour where you can ride the train in
Packing a bag...
Very nice backdrop. Even the clouds are well better than mine. I should one time redo my small backdrop (but I find always more interesting projects to do before!).
I should do a vid on how I paint clouds. Sept when I do that in front of a camera, bet it all looks like poo. No matter!! On to clouds!!
Hello Dale and Karen; Are you using a stiple effect on your clouds or are you air brushing them or even sponge effect?
They look really nice and blend very nice with the sky GREAT WORK as always with the show!
Thank You for your time,
Steven
I paint the sky light blue at the top, blending to light grey and the horizon. Then globs of dark grey and while that is wet, dries fast so ya gotta move, with a big brush add white and shove it upward adding more white. Then come back with the big brush (mine is 3 inch!) add more white into the dry clouds until some areas are full on white. Then tear that up and start again until you are making clouds. Then onto the backdrop!
Thank You
Will there be a layout tour? Cant wait to see the finished project. I can tell where your Sundays are going to be spent once this exquisite piece is completed! And How much of Garagemahall will be used for your layout?
Indeed!!! The layout is a small part, up the east wall, BIG loco shop roundhouse, across a bridge section, into the "kitchen", through the bathroom!! and out into the yard. Mostly a garden railroad. But with thus stuff inside.
Oh wow, It never got through my thick head about how how huge 20.3 scale is. I was watching Robby painting this backdrop thinking that it was going to end up looking like those amazing western scenes where the mountains seem to stretch up for miles in the background. Nope, it just looks like little glimpses through the trees. Any chance that you could post a picture of the completed backdrop?
I really love the teeny tiny stuff... But the stronger my bifocals get... the more I appreciate the 20th scale! Sort of like the "large print" version of model railroading! ;)
Gee-Whiz, Huck, I'll give you an apple to paint your fence... "Nize" Now we know how and what that paper like stuff was Karyn was cutting last week. It was paper. Oh, this is going to be so fine. Love the scale. Carry on and by all means keep us posted on the progress. Greg and Jeann
HI!!!!! The paper was a problem. Ya need something rigid that yo can sand. AND heat and humidity make it expand. Be a real mess in your area. BUT mostly good. Backdrop is GREAT Check FB for some updated stills.
Back in the day (Don't you just love it when somebody starts with that?) Softened 1/2 drywall was used. Your paper looked like it would feather-out below the wall brackets better than leaving a half inch of wall board ledge. Unless it was continued down to the bench. I think what you and Miss Karyn did worked just fine. Watercolor paper shrinks and buckles after wetting. That normally is cotton based paper. Most others are pulpwood. You two did really well on how you did the background.. I learned something. Thank you,
Gee whiz and wow! This is looking wonderful, and I can hardly wait to see the finished product. I know you guys have a life, but do you have a projected date in mind for completion. of this project? I hope it's in my lifetime. Great video.
These things are never done. Just screw around with it forever. BUT should be running trains soon. Soonish. Or something.
Rob is a tallented painter.
That he is!
That's your layout? Lovely!!! I'll explore your channel more on your layout vidoes, if any.
More coming!! No track as yet. BUT we are working on it and will be putting up video as we go.
I'd wait for it!
Very interesting! That's really great. I'm just considering if I should paint the backdrop for my layout instead of using pictures.
I like painting. Less "real" but I think better looking. Beautiful art.
Toy Man Television I totally agree! I first saw a painted backdrop about 3 years ago, on the layout of a co-worker (www.hdsrr.ch/) and I very much enjoyed it, but seeing how it's made is even far better.
So when do you think you will have track down?
SOON!!!! I put some stills of the fence (yesterday) on Face Book.
Toy Man Television cool!
So I see that the trick to having a great backdrop is to start a UA-cam channel and talk someone into a video lesson on how to do backdrops. See, I do learn from the best ;-)
Yup...
Wow. Check out The Tintic Historical Society Facebook page
Heading there now!
how can i get copy's of the ice plant? it was gone before i moved to Utah. would like a copy of them. thanks.
When I do the sow on the ice plant Ill use them, AND put them on Face Book where you can grab them. I'll see if I can't get the Face Book stuff up before the show. So you can grab them. Wish I had more. In the time you always figure if you need more you can just go back. Then one day.... gone. One of their other building is still standing!! www.google.com/search?biw=1253&bih=438&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=utah+ice+and+storage+salt+lake+city&oq=utah+ice+and+storage+salt+lake+city&gs_l=psy-ab.3...137515.144797.0.145668.25.19.6.0.0.0.70.1221.19.19.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0.AM2lE1w9Rk4#imgrc=75W5CHG710rxbM:
thanks, did not think about google search.
Very cool my talents lie elsewhere
You should have let Robbie do the talking...
Did. Really in usable audio. It’s not all that easy.