JOA Castle Painting - Unfinished Business
Back to Basics
When I packed away the project last year I had already done a fair amount of work on the castle walls, the keep and a few other bits and pieces.
Unfortunately they were not all at the same stage, and without the original paint scheme records, I couldn’t just pick up where I had left off.
The first job was to try and recreate a grey base colour as near to the original and give everything a drybrush to tie it all together.
Once I something that would do the job I just mixed up a big batch. The paints I am using are some Liquitex, Windsor & Newton and Lidls Craft Paints. All were bought cheaply over the years as the opportunity arose.
So this first stage didn’t appear to do much to most of the pieces but it meant the future stages all had pretty well the same base colour.
The next job was to bring the un-started turrent roofs along a bit. I wanted blue shingles but with some underlying colurs and an old established look. Using the art paints again I randomly dabbed Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, yellow, green and a very small amount of black on to them before dry blending the colours together.
I then repeated the process on all the other roofs on the castle sections.
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