I spent the day painting bits and bobs on Martin Machine. Firstly I primed the plaster castings with Halford’s grey primer, I primed the brick with red paint and then painted the inside of the cover over the turbine exits black.
Whilst all that was drying I painted the walls again. On the left are the walls with two coats and on the right only one:
I then peeled off the rubber cement with masking tape (on the right):
The finished wall is quite peeled. Not sure I would have done that many peeling walls. In O scale I would have left the paint peeling and flaking off but in HO I pulled it off with the masking tape as it is a little over scale.
Here’s the whole batch done up:
After that I got back to the plaster walls. Here’s how the walls turned out:
