Part 30 – The Great Paint…….. (prt1)

I have started to paint the ground and scenic sections now, even though i said i wasnt going to do it for a while…….anyway.

Firstly i cleaned the entire layout up using a large dry paintbrush and the vacumm cleaner then i got out all the paints and laid them out for ease of access…. then i was ready to get started.

first thing was to paint the wall sections and the cobbles with Games Workshop 61-53 Fortress Grey. I do this by painting over the tops of the stones – this starts to create a highlight of colours….

With the walls i then started to paint random bricks with Vallejo flat brown

then i used Games Workshop Graveyard Earth, Snakebite Leather, Codex Grey, RC412 Humbrol acrylic and a terracotta in that order to randomly pick out various stones in each section. This left me with a very coulorful wall…..

When it had dried off completly i mixed a Black wash using 2 x Brush loads of Games Workshop Chaos Black in 2 Tablespoons of water and painted this onto the wall sections allowing plenty to run into the cracks and to stain all the paintwork i had just completed.

Whilst this was drying off I painted the granite setts with RC412, Codex Grey and terracotta again randomly.

I then black washed this as well.

I had also painted the flat ground areas with Dulux Feature Wall Expresson Shot…. This was also blackwashed…..

Once everything had dried out i started with the overlays of colour. The first thing was to fill all the gaps in the walls with ” mortar”. This was done using 61-17 Bleached Bone from Games Workshop. The process i use for it is to paint it one forcing it into the cracks then quickly rubbing it off the stones with a bit of toilet
paper. This tones down the stones top and also fills the cracks simulating mortar. I then darken it all all down again slightly using a blackwash. This wash isnt applied to the entire section, I first clean half the mixture off the brush and then lightly brush it over the top of the stones to just wash the tops. Here is the
finished sections of the tunnel area close up.

I darken down the stones on the dock side one time more to acheive a darker and gloomier finish. at this point the wooden posts have not been finished.

I then started to colour and overlay the granite setts using a watered down Vallejo Middlestone. This allows slight amounts of “Sandy Mortar” to show through
the finish.

This was washed with black twice, left to dry, drybrushed with various browns and greys then washed with a very thin Games Workshop Bleached Bone.

Here you can see the effect the Yellowish brown has throu the overlays…..

I then carefully brushed fine and coarse gravel around the small section of track not encased in granite setts and after spraying it with water with a couple of drops of washing up liquid in it glued it down with a mixture of Evostick PVA glue and water 60/40.

I did this using a pipette and after i had added the glue i dripped a couple of drops of black wash in between each sleeper to darken down the ballast. Here it is once dried and prior to painting.

Nikki

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