Gerry Can Show You How To Do Brickwork
April 9, 2020 by avernos
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Good to see @ludicryan still has the sass
Yes! I miss our chats in the car about how much his editing makes us laugh! Also Gerry is cool, but he is no Ryan.
I never saw myself painting brick walls other than by adding a quick primer and slapdash wash but really like the look of the mortar and over all effect after a few easy stages so will be trying that method out. Thanks.
I finally know what to do with white pigment!
thanks Gerry.
I usually use green, brown and orange pigments for mosses most of the time.
I would like to use pigments on my 4ground buildings, do I first apply a matt varnish layer or can I do without it?
because I wouldn’t like to ruin it ?
put a satin varnish down it will clean up easier if needs be.
matt varnish will make it harder to remove. Also only apply it dry or with water then use a fixer like IPA or binder once you are happy.
thanks Gerry i will try it for sure.
but will take a while.
I have to deal with very sad news first.
Loved this one! My buddy has been getting wonderful results from a product that requires a great deal more work than this and looks almost the same after. In fact, I think the pigment, being of a similar earthen material, looks more like mortar.
Randomly placed odd color bricks, so obvious yet it never occurred to me before.
Have you tried vajello Hull Red instead of the mahogany brown or both. Hull Red is a lovely deep red
any will do the job, I just grabbed a handful of colours that would work before I left the house
Lol great work Gerry loved the out take at the end.
Great! Thanks! Gonna wait til alcohol is a bit less valuable until I do this but I’ll be using brown pigments to weathe up my mega city stuff.
scratch built or are you using kits?
This is well timed. I’ve got a load of mdf buildings with brick work bits that I’ve been thinking of painting up at some point. Now I know how – thanks!
Nice tip brother. That shirt is sick AF!!! hahahhahahhaaaa
Thanks for the tips. Will be using this for some post apocalyptic terrain to use with Zona Alpha . I will post it to the project blogs later. Shouldn’t one wipe with more of the alcohol solution?
you can wipe as little or as much as you want. but you have to be careful with acrylics of lifting the paint. One way around it is after you have painted the brick work, varnish the piece and then pigment it. That way the paint is protected and you can remove more if you want.
Love this! Would never have thought about putting the mortar in *after* painting the bricks. Genius!
if corona hadn’t kicked in you would have had this before your contest. such is life I suppose
If I don’t win, I promise I won’t blame you 😉
(I am, however, creating a range of laser-cut cyberpunk buildings for a skirmish game and once I’ve worked out how to get a decent brick pattern on there, I’ll definitely be using this technique!)
I wonderful and very useful video there @avernos and I really enjoyed it.
Ideas for future videos, how to make washes and glazes, what the differences at between them, when best to use them and how actually to use them.
Wet palettes, how to make your own, why to use them and different between home made wet palettes and manufactured wet palettes.
Well , I liked that. I wonder if Mantic is still selling the old Mars Attacks, brick work scenery sprues? I’d like to give it a go (and throw Mantic some money in these difficult times too)
I prety much do same but I am applying white pouder with brush where I want it – home made from charcoal- and then adding alcohol with brush, that way I am doing cleaning up in same time as alcohol moves pigment in to groves between briks so it makes it faster in long run as no 2nd cleaning reqired.