So… Eventually when my moving boxes are all packed out and the big model train room is cleaned up and ready to be worked on, I will have to start with painting the walls and ceiling sky-blue, and of course I want some clouds in there as well. Problem is, I have no idea yet how to paint this, so I decided to start practicing in my little (54x27inch or 137x68cm) closet room model layout.
Final look of the sky with clouds:
First, after cleaning up this little space, I painted the entire closet room back in the same color as it previous was, and matching its bigger sibling closet room, which is now a bookcase and the main layout control center. Black. Yes black. Since the base color for the sky is a light blue, I needed to first paint the background white. After painting two layers of white primer, I then added a regular white color of wall paint I used in my entire home. After this dried I applied two layers of the sky-blue paint so there was a good coverage of blue. At first, I thought it was a great color representing the sky, but eventually It was just a plane constant color of light blue, not really a sky, if I compared it with the outside sky, while I stepped outside of my home and looked up in the sky.
So, I’m going to try painting clouds. If I don’t like the outcome, then all I have to do is add sky-blue over the clouds and start over again. Which I did at some point.
First, I tried to create a haze (gradient) from light to dark, but it still was not to my liking. After watching a few Bob Ross videos on YouTube on how to paint little happy clouds, I attempted to paint on a few clouds with the same white wall paint and mixing two badges, one with a small amount of blue and one with a small amount of black and call it the day. But still… I was not happy with it. These were not clouds, just weird looking spots of different colors.
Then after watching a few more YouTube videos, this time especially focused on clouds on model train backgrounds, I finally found a video explaining this in an easy method. I noticed a few different things, but probably most important was the paint used. I went to the arts and crafts store top purchase the exact same materials as the gentleman in the video. And I am now happy with the outcome, both the sky-blue color with a haze as well as the clouds.
The YouTube video I found very helpful and that I followed to the letter:
Credit goes to: UPRR Geneva Sub in HO Scale
