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A quick set of questions, for making urban scenery.

1.  Can someone tell me the name of a good brand of textured paint for urban scenery?  Where can i buy it? and is it possible to get it in a smallish container?

2.  Is there a brand of spray paint that doesn't eat polystyrene? 

Can you not make your own? Dirt, very small stones (bits), or sand mixed in with your paint is a great way to get texture and you get the bonus of only having what you need (no need for special storage).

1.  I believe some home improvement places sell additives like pumice that you can add to paint.

2.  Krylon H2O won't melt polystyrene but dries kinda glossy.  I usually coat with a 50/50 mix of pva (elmers) and water and it seems to work ok.

 

im with Breo, i made my own to make my cityfight board

I've made my own before, but found that the sand doesn't stick to the buildings that well.  I guess I'll try to coat it in Elmers/water. See if that holds the sand on stronger

It seesm like you are asking two questions. Or a question with two parts....

What's a good textured paint for a) buildings and b) bases of terrain pieces.

For buildings....

A little more time intensive (but not very) and very effective is to use dry wall "Joint Compound." It comes in textured as well as plain varieties. If you put it on with out an exacting eye for smoothness you get a great worn and weathered look. It also makes your walls a bit thicker. Don't put it on too thick. It will collapse weak walls if you slather it on. 

For the bases...

As recommended,  a 50/50 mix of white glue and water with sand, pebbles and sprue bits dumped on top makes for great bases.

My 2 cents, ender502 

I get my textured paint in 1 cup pots at Michael's Craft store, dunno the brand off hand.

Debbie trvis makes her own with 1 lb fine play-sand per gallon of paint.



For spray paint, I use Rustoleum Safe for Plastic Primer - though they make more than just primer.

I buy it at Home Depot.

The commercial textured paint I tried was far too coarse. I found ordinary latex or emulsion paint worked well enough with fine play pit sand as long as you kept stirring it up but I prefer to paint on PVA, pour sand it and let it set then paint non-textured paint over this. I think this gives more control over where the texture goes.

I do use such a mix for terrain though it was other secret ingredients ? PVA glue, filler and virtually anything else lying around the workbench at the time of mixing. It works!

I personally used old house paint (primer in my case) + playground sand for textured paint. This also seals polystryene really well for spraying. You don't really need to prime if you got your paint tinted dark grey or black.