How to represent stucco

[craigolio1]

Hey all. I have this two story house that I’m building. I began kit-bashing walls with windows in them from houses made of siding. And now I’ve realized with better photos that the house I’m trying to build is stucco. So far the front and side walls are now siding and I’ve made the remaining walls with flat styrene.

Not wanting to rebuilt the front two walls, and having flat styrene for the rest of the sides, has anyone got any ideas of what I could spread on the walls or use as a technique to represent stucco?

Thanks.

Craig

[Dwight in Toronto]

Hmmmm … how ‘bout trying a little bit of thinned/diluted Tamiya putty?  Spread a thin film, and then try tapping/tacking/spackling it before it sets up, so as to raise a bit of texture? 

I guess you’re looking for a ‘popcorn ceiling’ effect, but yeah - I can see the N scale challenge!  Maybe there’s a very fine powder or grit that you could sprinkle & tamp onto a thin film of dilute white glue or something?  Interested to hear what others suggest.

[SAH]

Why not try paper?  A photo print cut to size perhaps? 

[Simon D.]

Pumice powder?

[jagged ben]

Stucco can have very wide range of textures or patterns.  I would think for a relatively flat stucco one doesn't need anything besides the right paint. For a realy textured look, maybe finding a super fine sand or something like graphite to mix into the paint. 

[peteski]

This subject has been discussed here in the past.  Quick search for "stucco" came  back with lots of good ideas:  Hera are the top choices:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=23603.0
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=26990.0
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=49408.0
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=33348.0

Enjoy!

[craigolio1]

Thanks everyone.

@peteski ill check out those links.

@SAH, paper is an interesting idea. I didn’t think of an overlay. This type of stucco is very fine. I wonder how it would look if I used sandpaper. Maybe a 500 grit?

Pumice powder is a neat idea too.

Craig

[wazzou]

Thanks everyone.

@peteski ill check out those links.

@SAH, paper is an interesting idea. I didn’t think of an overlay. This type of stucco is very fine. I wonder how it would look if I used sandpaper. Maybe a 500 grit?

Pumice powder is a neat idea too.

Craig

Have you thought of just plain old construction paper, like the kind you presumably used in school?
It's easy to come by, it comes in many colors and it has a light texture to it.

[craigolio1]

Have you thought of just plain old construction paper, like the kind you presumably used in school?
It's easy to come by, it comes in many colors and it has a light texture to it.

Hmm that’s worth looking at as well.

@CNR5529 suggested “dry spraying” paint with an airbrush to get texture as well. Not something I’ve ever tried but the pic he shows me looked good.

Lots of great ideas!!

[wcfn100]

This is the missing pic from my post in one of those threads.  It's paint dabbed with a makeup wedge.  While I think it's pretty effective, it was a bit of work and you had to time out the tackiness of the paint.



Jason

[Doug G.]

"You can even get stucco. Oh, how you can get stucco." - Groucho

Doug

[Angus Shops]

Vallejo has a whole series of texture ‘paints’ -  I used one of them (sorry, not close to the layout right now) to represent a tar and gravel roof and was very satisfied with the result. I don’t think stucco was a common material in my area and time, but if it was I’d try the Vallejo stuff again.

[Chris333]

Tamiya putty thinned with cement: around 2:40

[Dwight in Toronto]

Tamiya putty thinned with cement: around 2:40

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Well, I’ll be darned!  This was precisely what I imagined this technique might look like when I suggested that Craig could give it a shot.  I’ve never done it myself, but I remembered getting that tacky spackling effect when the putty/cement mixture was starting to set up after blending it together on a glass work surface.  Looks purdy perfect to me!

[Chris333]

That guy on Youtube uses that same mix on most of his models. Around 3:25

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