Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Painting the grocery warehouse

For me, a structure project really starts to come together when it gets painted.  I have learned through experience that a primer coat is a must when using the Vallejo paints so I ordered a large bottle of it.  This is one of the largest structures I have built and would it not fit into the spray booth. So I brought in a folding table and placed it in front of the spray booth for this job.
















The finish coat on this building is Vallejo stone gray.  One tile was masked off and painted white so it could be the background for some decals I made to create a sign.  The numbers above the truck doors are from a Microscale decal set. 
















Out of the many smaller pieces in the kit I selected 32 for use on this structure.  They were stuck to a sheet of cardboard with small amounts of canopy glue and sprayed with gray primer.  After that had dried overnight, the parts were brush painted in various colors.















For concrete pad at the truck loading dock,  I found that the primer gray was as good concrete color so used it for the sheet of styrene that I had already scribed the expansion joints into.  Then weathered it with some weathering wash and dabbed with a paper towel before the wash dried.  I really like the effect this gave and plan to use this again in the future on other projects.



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