ihmcallister

Needing to re-design and decorate my office I sold my last airport as a whole item (1/400 scale terminal and ramp 5' x 3'). Haven't started on a new one as yet. For the ramp / taxiways I sprayed a piece of mdf with acrylic car repair grey base coat. Next I made all the concrete joints and lines with a soft pencil and ruler, including randomly sketched cracks and stress marks. Then I added taxi lines and stand markings by masking off with rice tape and using - of all things - tipp-ex! Grass areas were painted on, roughly for texture, using acrylic paint in a mixture of greens and browns poured together but mot mixed. Finally, I used some rubber and plastic tyres from dead corgi cars to literally scrub some rubber markings onto the stands, taxiways and especially corners. The final touch was to then take off as much pencil and rubber as possible using a modern plastic eraser. This left everything looking quite made, repaired, and worn down a bit.
The piers were made using some desk wire tidy style plastic architrave from B&Q, the kind with regular holes in for wires to poke through. I painted that in a variety of grey shades, then fixed dark plastic behind the holes to represent windows. Gemini's gate lounges were used, also re-painted. Then I covered the lower half including around the lounges in thin plastic card with block style finish (Railway accessories). Anyway I sold it to the first person who came to see it, so it must have been reasonably OK.
Maybe I should work up McAllisters International mark II and send in some photos!
Cheers,
Ian Mc.