The building comes with separate roof and door (both of which I've glued). Unlike my previous workshop, I've been restrained with the accessories, just adding a discrete Fogou A/C unit to the rear.
I started the paint of with the now standard desert yellow basecoat and off-white drybrush. Whereas the other buildings to date have had angular stripes and geometric designs, I wanted to see if I could go with something a little more curvaceous. So I cut out a circle stencil by tracing round a few slottabases, and stippled on the blue circles in a random design (other than up, then down) over the building.
I felt the blue circles alone weren't quite enough, so went back with a piece of paper from a spiral bound notebook, and used the small pre-perforated holes as stencils for the small orange circles.
After a little bit of weathering with some washes and browns, the building was done. And these are really starting to look fantastic when you group them together!
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| The twisting alleys between the adobe houses are perfect for a clandestine meeting to arrange a murky deal! |
(Figures pictured above include Spacelords (EM4/Moonraker), Colony 87 (Crooked Dice) and crates by Ramshackle Games).
Jon these are looking great! So excited for this Kickstarter!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Tom! I've tried out a pretty good selection of resin buildings as well as scratch scratchbuilds. These are my favourites though!
DeleteYour buildings are lovely, Jon! I'm envious of how distinct and modern you've made them look – I kept mine plain so the design would pull focus rather than my painting.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing dome checks around the top of one of mine at the moment, and I was freehanding on the giant squares – hadn't thought of using a paper template. YOU'VE SAVED ME SO MUCH TIME.
I'm also finding yours useful as reference material to work out how to weather back the painted-on designs too.
Thanks Curis! The patterning has been a bit of an escalation, but the more I do, the more I realise that I want them firmly rooted in modernity rather than ancient times.
DeleteThe paper template was an experiment really - I'd only used masking previously on the straight lines. I think it worked out ok though ;)
As for the weathering, I've been trying a range of techniques, from stippling to drybrushing on top. I even did some paint scraping with an old craft knife on this one.
Great addition! The circular design is lovely. How many more are you planning for your settlement?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty fond of the circles myself! I think I've got another 5 or 6 buildings that I want to get painted...and a scenic board to put them on!
DeleteI had never thought of such a design and it's simply perfect. Wow. You dare to go to unexplored seas (well,ehm, unexplored... walls) and no matter what, you manage to make everything work. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteI'm just experimenting really! I haven't even thought about a design for the next one :)
DeleteYour understated weathering and stippling of the patterns really suits these buildings Jon, well done mate :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Shane! It's a really quick and gratifying process.
DeleteLooks great! Also a bit like an exotic disease... hopefully it is just the adobe that is sick, and not the inhabitants!
ReplyDeleteBlue ring ague? Rim pox? Urgh, I don't fancy either of those!
DeleteRim pox! So many potential connotations.
DeleteNice design with a good color combo!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Cant beat white, blue and orange - it's my favourite combination.
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