Living Underground Metro2033 Zona Alfa etc

So carrying on from my last update.I completed the tunnel entrance in two ways…

– I used my old strong tone quick shade varnish a brush all over the tunnel entrance. Mainly to give strength and protection to the foam. Plus it grimed up the stone/concrete a bit.

– Second I used my Russian Cyrillic Mold (originally for Icing), I tried first to use plaster but soon realised the mold was lacking depth for the plaster to have any decent structure, so I went back to the drawing board.

– I ended up using some of the UV Curing resin I bought from the OTT Store and it worked Great! I glued them to a green base from a front line base from historical anglo saxons painted it off white and painted the resin letter yellow and then bright gold

The station signs state the starting station in Metro 2033:
“Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (Russian: Выставка достижений народного хозяйства, Vystavka dostizheniy narodnogo khozyaystva, abbreviated as VDNKh or VDNH, Russian: ВДНХ”

then I glued the sign to the top of the tunnel. Next I had painted some monorail carriages ages ago in the light blue / dark blue which seemed prevalent for trains in the USSR (and still seem to be in some countries now!)

I bought some paint pens in gold and silver to go over the details (mainly doors windows and lines on the side, I also highlighted the top sign which said “CENTRAL METRO” I painted in METRO to read METPO (russian metro) and then crudely painted “MOCKBA” over the first bit. It looked terrible but my next plan was to use:
– game effects dry rust and AMMO Shader – starship filth (these NEW AMMO shaders are brilliant, but a tad expensive for 10ml)

I painted over the lovely bright carriages to grime them up which you can see below (at a later date i used rough iron by the army warpaints with the two shaders for the inside):

the above shows the change of grimeyness for the trains and also the grimeyness of the tunnel from adding the quickshade varnish..

You may also spot platforms, these are from that station set I talked about last time. And used my knowledge of painting marble floors from the bunker I have done to create my best Marble yet. I basically used makeup brushes to add from darkest to lightest and then a touch up at the end (I finally took a picture of what I used which you can see below paint wise)

having not the space to use a air spray, and also when i did try not getting great results, I am glad I have found a great method with using brushes…