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Project Entry by hutch

Slapping on colours

October 21, 2024

Tutoring 11

Skill 12

Idea 10

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As mentioned before the basic bulk painting for my painting method is fast and easy. I use a cheap throw-away brush from the local hardware store, normally a 1″ brush and household paint that’s been colour-matched to miniature paint.

Side by side comparison between the two dybrush layers.

After that, I go in with a cheap flat bristled craft paintbrush and pick out individual flagstones with my selections of greys. For some, I leave the dry brushed colours showing.

I do these in bulk so that by the time I get through them, the first ones are well and truly dry. Then I add some wash over them in black and brown, wiping most of the wash back off with a paper towel. Again, I do this in bulk, so I don’t have to stop the production line I set myself.

Finally, I once again use some of the lighter grey colours to roughly highlight a few of the flagstones.

I keep these deliberately rough and quick because I like the colours to merge. After all, this is a backdrop really for the miniatures which will go on the table.

This is a really fast way for me to get these done. I can stick a movie on, or in this case, catch up with some stuff on YouTube and just knock them all out.

The walls, I have already covered in my Gaslight project, so I won’t go into detail here, suffice to say the brickwork consists of 3 colours and 2 of those are undercoats from rattle cans.