From the workbench of Zebraoutrider
Painting the tavern furniture (Phase 1)
Before I can start to paint up some barflies and customers, I really need to paint up some tavern furniture. In my pile of shame I’ve had a load of resin tavern vignettes for at least 10 years, but probably longer. So it’s time to get them painted ready for some Dunkeldorf patrons…
In effect, this is a mini project within this project so perhaps is worthy of a bit of Work In Progress reporting as it will probably take me around three weeks to complete…
Phase 1 is painting up the tavern furniture woodwork.
Phase 2 will be fine detailing the bottles, barrels and bar detritus.
Phase 3 will be painting up the Dunkeldorf seated patrons.
Resin tavern furniture and other scenic items all from Grendel Miniatures. The tavern stuff all come from the original Griffin Inn kit which is not available SKU: F0002 Green Griffon Tavern sculpted by Peter Flannery and Steve Trinket, but other items that you can still get from Scotia Grendel Miniatures are: SKU: 10006 Pub Snug SKU: 10023 Apothecary’s Shop SKU: 10035 Tavern Kitchen SKU: 10038 Treasure Piles SKU: 10067 Tables and Chair SKU: 10106 Barrel Cluster
After washing the resin pieces in warm, soapy water and left to dry, the furniture was undercoated with black spray paint. 
Dry brush with Mornfang Brown followed by a wash of Reikland Fleshshade and a further highlighting of Zandri Dust, wash of Seraphim Sepia and another dry brush highlighting with Wraithbone.
A final wash of Agrax Earthshade to darken the floorboards and snug walls and allowed to dry before I can move on to Phase 2 - fine detailing.Batch painting by using one colour and moving through the items allows for enough drying time before moving onto the next colour. I also want a consistent set of vignettes so that they all appear to come from the same location.
Next up I need to add non-brown colours by detailing the metalwork on the barrels, and vibrancy to the curtains, cushions, food and bottles and goblets…
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