Ranger Crackle Paints

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks for the pic, Gil, I was curious what the green paint looked like.

[Mr Potato Head]

Pretty "exorcist" like!  Or pea soup,color it's really hard to give it a deeper base color, I think I will under coat it with another paint color first and then crackle with "pealing paint" color I will show results
Gil

[darrylhuffman]

Here is a link to some allley photos taken in Wallace.  I loved the trip up into Burke.

http://picasaweb.google.com/darrylhuffman/IdahoIn2004#5125550782353798514

Almost all the photos after the one in the link were taken up the road into Burke.

[Scratchman]

Thanks for the nice set of photos, Darryl.

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

[eTraxx]

Those are some great photos .. I've already shared with a friend

[finescalerr]

Darryl, I saved all of your brick wall photos to my "Brick Stuff" folder. Excellent reference source!

Two things struck me:

First, only one photo shows the wall from a perspective typical of how we would view a model with a low power magnifying glass. The overall texture looks pretty smooth; very few bricks either above or below the "surface". That is consistent with the earlier photos of Burke even though they show the front of the buildings where the mason might have tried to be more careful.

Second, One photo shows what initially seems to be rough brickwork but, upon examination, what we are seeing are courses where some mortar fell out. The angle of the sun casts shadows that make the wall appear to have more brick face surface texture than it actually has.

The point of those observations? Color variation is a primary factor in creating realistic bricks. The texture of a typical plastic or plaster wall should be adequate if we pay careful attention to the mortar depth. Even on those century old walls, I saw few broken bricks. In other words, the key to recreating accurate "typical" brickwork is subtlety. This is something that gradually has been dawning on me after decades of looking more at models than actual buildings.

The attached artwork shows what I originally thought might represent newer brick. It actually would be accurate for century old brick (especially with some good 3-D mortar).

Russ

[Younger]

Tried my local Michaels in SoCal and they'd never heard of Ranger paints. Any other suggestions?
-Younger

[Chuck Doan]

I had the same result. I even had a printed page from thier website showing the paints.

I bought some on Amazon.

[eTraxx]

Tried my local Michaels in SoCal and they'd never heard of Ranger paints. Any other suggestions?
-Younger

I found a whole bunch of the paint at my Michaels. It wasn't with the art stuff .. but over where the scrapbooking, paper area is. The Ranger paint is part of somekinda stamp-pad art .. right in the area of stickers etc.

[Younger]

Thanks, guys. I'll try the scrapbooking side, the clerks I asked had no idea, but then that's usually the case. If not, Chuck, I'll try Amazon.
-Younger

[RoughboyModelworks]

Finally made it to Michael's tonight to pick up a reindeer nose for the car, to go with the antlers (just to irritate Marc...  - pictures after the village Christmas parade tomorrow on Facebook.) and picked up an assortment of the crackle paint in the scrapbook section. I hate going in to Michael's, it's always such a mess, crafty crap and middle-aged craft ladies pushing and shoving everywhere, but usually end up finding what I'm after in the most illogical of places. Definitely a place that's worth taking the trouble to explore, if you can get around the craft ladies. Forget asking the staff, they're all working to capacity just to stay awake. Anyway, probably won't have time to work with it until after the holidays but certainly looking forward to it... results I've seen posted here have been encouraging.

Paul

[Junior]

Paul, you will have a great time with those paints well worth the struggle with those ladies!

Anders

[Mr Potato Head]

Younger~
Say these words when you go back to Michaels! "Tim Holt" scrapbooking supplies! you have to speak the "Craft Store" lingo 
If you still cant find it I will send you some or bring it to you in a few days, what colors do you want ??

Paul! I love it   ( just to irritate Marc... )   
Gil

[Younger]

And thanks to Gil, here's the website:

http://www.timholtz.com/cracklepaint.htm

-Younger

[Younger]

Went back to Michaels yesterday, and sure enough, there they were, in the scrapbook session. Picked up white and green to play with.
-Younger