Hobby Lab: Winterdale Watchtower 6, Colouring the Stonework
July 1, 2019 by johnlyons
Turning our attention now to adding some visual interest to the tower, we will start with the stonework part of the tower. Getting the details of a stonewall right will help make the overall finish look more believible and more pleasing to the eye when on the table. So, to that end a simple rule of thumb is to put some thinking into the stonework. This means that we have to try and imagine ourselves having the tower built in reality and considering a few things, for instance, what kind of stone do you want? Dark stones, light? We can refer to stone buildings in the real world and draw inspiration from those. For this tower, we have gone for a darker stone, as the local area where OnTableTop is located has a higher volume of volcanic stone such as bassalt.
To begin the process we give all the areas primed in Uniform Grey a wash of Army Painter Dark Tone. This will help mute the base colour for the other colours to add later.
Remember to do this to the interior and to not go light with the wash, the idea is to force shade and shadow to the stones at this stage.
The finished result here is very dark and muted, poerfect for the next few steps!
To begind we add Army Painter Necromancer Cloak and focus it on the corners, door and windows of the tower, as well as adding it to random stones as we go.
It may look very dark now, but the hope is to build up several tones and shades to bring it all together.
The next colour is Army Painter Filthy Cloak. But this time we only focus on picking out stones in the wall at random.
Using the same process as before, we add the final colour which is Army Painter Ash Grey. This is the lightest colour present on the stonework and leaves it ready for our next stage.
