The house painting has started.
I bought a load of 2 for £4 acrylics from Hobby craft to paint the houses with after giving them a grey primer coat. They will still need two coats each to get a solid finish.
Most will be painted in fairly muted colours with a few richer houses painted in brighter colours to add some contrasts.
After these have their walls painted, I will go back over them and paint the windows different colours. Then, I will paint a number of card sheets different colours and cut the shutters out of them.
Finally, I need to cut the beams and spray them black and then they will be attached as well as the door surrounds.
After that it will be onto cutting and assembling the roofs and adding coloured tiles from prepainted card cut into strips of tiles.
That was good value for money!
ReplyDeleteYou usually don't get them that cheap in Norway, but compared to to other 'hobby paints' these craft store acrylics are economical anyway and thats's why I keep using them for a lot of my projects.
I usually paint terrain with either house emulsion paint or craft acrylics depending on the size required.
DeleteThat is a goodly building collection, plenty of presence for a small footprint.
ReplyDeleteStill have 10 more special buildings to design - Wagon Works, Brewery, hotels, Hospital, Convent, Town Hall and some churches...
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