How to Make and Paint Faux Concrete Sidewalks For Dioramas From Styrofoam

How to model Concrete for dioramas, model railroad scenery, action figure displays, scale models, wargaming, tabletop terrain, and dollhouses.

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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

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