Part 32 – Trying to make new look old……
April 7, 2009
Sorry for not posting much this week at all. Been busy with various things and at the railway getting things ready for easter. Anyway. I have been making a start on getting colour into the buildings…
All the stone work / plaster work / brickwork was first painted with Halfords primer spray ( sprayed into a plastic cup and painted on ) this gives a really good and sealed surface to start work on. The Stone work was then painted grey with Games Workshop Fortress Grey. I then used the same method as used on the walls to add different colours to the stones. The only thing i havent done is to wash and “mortar” the wall mainly because ive run out of paint and havent had the time to go and get some more!
The building with the overhang is the first i will concentrate on. The base stoneblock work was done in the usual manner as was all blockwork in the broken plaster sections. The plaster work was first painted white then overlayed with a very pale pink. This allows there to be white ” plaster” showing through where sections of wall have fallen away. This has still to be mortared, washed and drybrushed.
The top wooden part was first painted white with a thickish coat of Vallejo White. This coat was to be uneven to allow the top colours to cover unevenly. When it had dried it was washed with a mixture of thinners and show polish. When that had dried out i then painted a thin layer of Games workshop black before drybrushing in white brown and grey. There is still much to do before this will be finished.
The largest building in the corner had the same treatment for its wood except i painted it with thin layers of rust brown from the humbrol acrylics range. I did this by cleaning most of the paint off the brush and then lightly painting the wood in an up and down motion following the panels. This allowed a partial covering of the rust brown over the white and thinners / shoe polish mix and made the whole area look old peeling and distressed. The door and window frames were painted black as was the edging and facia boards. They were then drybrushed with the entire building in grey and white.
Some close ups of the wood grain and finish.
Back in situ……
Sorry about the darkness of the pictures our front room lighting isnt very good !!
This building is still waiting for its stone work, roof and detailing to be finished….
The smallest building has had the least done to it ….. As it was all plaster there wasnt much to do except paint it. Its stone work has been picked out ready and the top section painted white then a sky blue ( this will darken down then get much lighter after weathering and finishing is done).
So still much to do on the buildings and of course this becomes time consuming due to having to wait for washes to dry……….. and me buying more paints!
Nikki
