After wiping off the excess paint to color the grout in between the bricks I glued the acetate on the window frames and doors. The reccomendation from most sources is to use some form of white glue to hold it in place, but as I intended to weather the building so that the glass would not really be clear anyways, I used Zap-a-Gap. This allowed me to install the “glass” much faster than using white glue would have done. Here is a picture of the building after all the windows and doors had been installed:
The next step was to airbrush a layer of dirt on the building. Unfortunatly for me I did not thin out the paint far enough so it ended up leaving some rather large splatters. This ended up working out in the long run as I then used chalk to blend everything together. Here is a picture showing the roof with one side showing the airbrush and the other showing the chalk blending it in:
I also used chalk to blend on the rest of the building, using a piece of sandpaper to grind the chalk into a fine powder. I usually use a couple of different colors and use the application brush to blend them. Here is a picture showing work on the walls of the building:
As you can see in the picture, I also used the chalk on the windows which had the effect of making them very hard to see through (just like most industrial buildings that I see in Oakland, CA).




