Because I had some downtime this weekend, I started tinkering with a card kit from scale scenes that I saw in another members layout. They're a bit fiddly to put them together (something not so easy to do if you have pickle fingers), but the results are pretty awesome. They look superb up close and from a distance. If I can master making these, I'm going to use the kits to make the walls of the viaduct after all the wiring is done and the layout is more or less in that ready state for scenery.

But here they are, they look pretty sharp. In fact I'm starting to think they make my plastic structures look more like toys.

In the section with graffiti, I was testing a minwax stain marker on them to simulate damp spots where water might run down the walls, I think I need to work on my technique a bit.