The Voyages of the 'Fluffy Bunny'

If any one looks at My Elizabethian Sea Dogs Project,  I already have quite a lot of suitable terrain for the Caribbean,  but  I didnt really have any dockside terrain  so, having seen them at WMMS brought some of Blotz’s wooden Jettys.

Now how to paint them, I figured that with the very voracious tropical worm that loves timbers the wood would have to have been heavily creosotesed they would be dark, but fading grayish with age so I decided to try GW Contrast Cygor Brown, a very almost black brown , but thinned  out as I still wanted the planling to show.. I found that of you haven’t thinned it enough  add more water as your applying it and it begins to lighten ( helped a bit by it soaking into the mdf.

Once that has dried , I dry brushed with a mid coloured grey from MP paints.

Now this would probably be enough for most, but think I’m catching Gerry’s lets make life complicated. Above would probably work for Rivers and Fresh water lakes  Kevin had mentioned Moss, but neither of us were sure it would survive in a salt water environment. So I googled old sea Water wharf which showed one with a coating of dead crustaceans over a lot of the wood nearest the waterline, so I thought,  try some of that sand textured pint I’ve got.

If you may have noticed the newer undamaged pieces I confined the paint to just around the lower support posts. But on the more distressed prices I was a bit more Liberal on the side panels and also put it around the damaged areas.

I then tried Sepia wash  but didn’t like the effect so change to GW Gryph Charger Grey. Once that had dried , dry brushed it with white to get that petrified look they have.