Terrainfest 2024: A True Roman Bakery for True Romans

I’m off to a very late start for Terrainfest this year, so my project isn’t going to be very ambitious. This Roman Bakery MDF kit should round out my collection of Gangs of Rome scenery nicely, giving me enough pieces so that I don’t have to use all the same buildings every time I set up the table.

Having tried it both ways, I have found that it’s a lot easier to do at least the majority of the painting before doing any building. Naturally, the one time I would prefer for all the parts to stay on the sprue, they fall out without any prompting, but I’ve been able to get most of the flats painted. I’m using cheap craft paints for this first pass, but honestly they are more trouble than they’re worth — I have to do two or three coats to get any coverage, so what I’m making up for in price I’m losing in the time it’s taking. Once I get the basics done I’ll switch to proper model paints.

I’m using an off-white as the main base coat for the walls. The image on Sarissa’s website has a blue stripe around the outer base of the building. I think that looks fine so I don’t see any reason not to do it that way. I’ve just about exhausted my (very old) bottle of Reaper Turquoise Blue though, so hopefully I won’t need to do to much retouching.

The red I’m using for the bricks is a little too bright — when viewed with the blue and off-white these walls look a little too patriotic for my liking. I’ll dull down the red and blue with a little drybrushing after I’m done with all the base coating. Next I’ll need to start dry-fitting the pieces so I can see which walls will need to be painted on both sides.