How to Make and Paint Faux Concrete Sidewalks For Dioramas From Styrofoam
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Published 2023-04-28
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I have modeled concrete many times before, but this was my first time trying this technique, and I made it up as I went along. This was my first time trying to emulate a broom concrete finish, and the wire brush did a nice job of creating that texture on the XPS Foam. In the past, I started by painting my concrete in a black basecoat, and then drybrushing my gray tones on top of that. However, I think starting with a light basecoat of deck tan, and then adding multiple washes on top of that as shown in the video achieves a much more realistic result!
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:12 XPS Foam
0:48 Texturing XPS Foam
2:00 Concrete Base Coat
2:19 Weathering with Acrylic Washes
2:58 Speckling Acrylic Paints
3:10 Sanding the Concrete
3:29 Final Result!
3:39 Patreon
4:00 Bloopers
Music:
Song: Full Throttle
Music by: CreatorMix.com
Song: Tracers
Music by: CreatorMix.com
All Comments (21)
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Love it ! Look perfectly realistic 🤩
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Another beautiful, yet easy, technique!
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This was incredibly helpful! I've never tried it but i look forward to giving it a go! Thank you!
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Outstanding technique.
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I don’t do any of this stuff but I love just watching lol
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best concrete so far. Thank you for sharing.
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thank you for sharing! its nice to learn from the expert
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Fanastic result and I love how to-the-point you are. Someone else could have easily dragged this on for 20 minutes.
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The best looking concrete from foam I've seen!
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Awesome job!!!!
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what a great technique!
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Spot on to my eye !!
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Great demo and info!
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Fantastic work. Thanks for share your way to do this.
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brilliant! i'm about to do this on my 1st foam diorama; was going to use joint compound for streets, then paint & weather. then wondered if i could just faux concrete right on the foam. and now i know i can! thanks guy
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That was a great tutorial for making a concrete surface, thanks for sharing, best regards from Australia 👍👍👍
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Fantastic 💪🔝
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cool & easy. thanks ! cheers
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Nice texturing work! Great Technique! 🙂
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Great easy technique!