Carnevale – City of romance, grandeur and bloody screaming.

I might have gotten a bit carried away with building kits and just pushed on with assembling things.

I decided to warm up with the two smaller boats then went in on the kinda huge guild galleon. I actually found it easier to build than you might think, despite the miss-labeling of some hull pieces! Always dry fit!

At this point everything in the bundle is now assembled, so that is progress!

I might have gotten a bit carried away with building kits and just pushed on with assembling things.

I decided to warm up with the two smaller boats then went in on the kinda huge guild galleon. I actually found it easier to build than you might think, despite the miss-labeling of some hull pieces! Always dry fit!

At this point everything in the bundle is now assembled, so that is progress!

Carnevale includes rules for tightropes and ziplines to create alternative routes and shortcuts around the city.

They also create a modelling challenge! How do you flexibly model them on a changing layout?

I think the answer lies in magnets, so I am inserting bits of magnetic sheet around my buildings as anchor points for things that will hold the lines using magnets.

Design to follow at some point, after I have painted and disguised the connection points!

I had an idea to achieve a rough red brick effect on my Arsenale towers and thought that I could get there using an orange.

It turned out very orange.

I am in the process of trying something else so have darkened it down before highlighting with….. something else? At this point I found my supply of acrylic craft paint lacking so went shopping. The local high street shops failed me so I found a place online and have ordered a box full of various things and I will play with those when they get here.

Thought I should probably get some more buildings assembled, these beasts will add a lot of height and fill out the space quite a bit.

I decided to go with a more traditional white tiling detail on my Venetian streets but not to get too bogged down at this stage. The wood bits are a simple dry brushing for now, I haven’t settled on how far to take it but I think that I want a weathered look.

I think the next step is probably spray varnish then maybe some sort of wash? Also thinking of adding a little slime effect around the waterline.

Might move on to buildings while I think about it and see how they look on what I have so far.

I decided to go with a more traditional white tiling detail on my Venetian streets but not to get too bogged down at this stage. The wood bits are a simple dry brushing for now, I haven’t settled on how far to take it but I think that I want a weathered look.

I think the next step is probably spray varnish then maybe some sort of wash? Also thinking of adding a little slime effect around the waterline.

Might move on to buildings while I think about it and see how they look on what I have so far.

Once I was happy with the colour test I went ahead and did a three stage dry brush across all my street sections to blend in with the first.

Now the detailing begins….