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Author Topic: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?  (Read 3250 times)

Offline Gunbird

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How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« on: February 12, 2013, 07:59:05 PM »
I've got a fair few now ready for paint, I don't want them too fancy, 1 basecoat with 1, maybe 2 drybrushes should do, but as I haven't painted for a while the colouring part of my brain seems to be on hold..... Might help others in the future wanting to do the same, so why not make a topic on it :)

So to kickstart, I was wondering, how do you do it?
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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2013, 11:08:34 PM »
basecoat with something khaki-ish and then a couple of drybrushes with sand and a sand+white mix.
no real recipes, I've got a bad habit of picking a colour I like and use it (which I should start recording as stuff that gets painted after a period of focusing on other projects is most likely to deviate from the original colour  :?)
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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2013, 09:19:47 PM »
I'll just admit I'm a bit chicken to start painting em. With so little time these days I try and cram everything in a sundayevening for an hour or 2, painting, building, and forums, I'm scared to just grab a colour and go with it, possibly ruining a ton of work if I get the shade wrong and setting me back/wasting an evening.

You sure you never wrote anything down? I could really use a hand, cause untill I get bold enbough to start slapping paint I will just keep on building buildings cause that seems to go just fine.

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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2013, 09:28:03 PM »
I use an earth-tone (GW graveyard earth), heavy drybrush of bleached bone, highlight drybrush bleached bone + white.

I know the colours don't exist anymore  ::) but you get the picture...

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Offline S J Donovan

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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2013, 04:45:48 AM »
I usually start with an undercoat of White; then paint with the whole building Yellow Ochre; Heavy dry brush with a darkish Tan, leaving any exposed brick Yellow Ochre; then dry brush with an off-white, usually Antique White (also hitting the exposed brick to tone down the Ochre);  with a final light dry brush high-light of White.
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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2013, 08:17:03 AM »
Where's the problem?
they are dry mudbrick right?
what could be more simple?

there is a fine tutorial by Wolfgirl somewhere if You want it masterclass
look here or so

http://pulpalley.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9&p=9&sid=e5622e0993a1279745a40ade65219f0c#p9
« Last Edit: February 25, 2013, 08:23:05 AM by bedwyr »

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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2013, 12:01:16 PM »
I start with a yellow, sandy colour, then dry brush with some bone. Then I get some very "wet" white paint and begin to dab it on. This leaves me with the impression that it's been white-washed.

The aforementioned technique from the Wolfgirl thread is pretty cool, too, but I've not tried it.

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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2013, 12:40:44 PM »
From my own experience (being Tunisian after all), there's a great difference in colour between regions. I know that most houses in North Africa are usually white. Unless they're really old, than it's more Khaki.
A funny thing though. Some people bang their buck on the house so much that they can't afford to hire the scaffolding or painters. So they usually leave a new house unpainted for a year or two. I think it has something to do with the plaster getting tempered with the house and other stuff. So you might consider to paint a some civil houses just plain grey (with brownish tints) if you're planning a sub-urb :)

Offline 6milPhil

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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2013, 03:56:40 PM »
Sand coloured base coat, then a lighter dry brush like VJ Iraqi sand, although I do tend to do too many layers of drybrushing, because I like the look.

From my own experience (being Tunisian after all)...

On a tangent know anyone who makes a 28mm sloughi?

Offline War In 15MM

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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2013, 02:23:43 AM »
Check out Wolf Girl's building thread over on Pulp.  She does very nice work.

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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2013, 09:49:24 PM »
Wolf Girls topic read and devoured. Highly motivational. Along with your comments, I think I can plot a course from there.

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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2013, 10:19:58 AM »
I found this, rather okey reference :)


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Re: How do you paint Arab/North AFrican houses?
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2019, 01:58:51 PM »
It was also quite common to whitewash as this had (bizarrely) an insect repellant quality. Flies are attracted to shady areas, so having rooms and thresholds brighter did much to deter them. This is one reason you find door and window surrounds also often whitewashed... This is particularly true also in parts of Saudi and Yemen where it sued to decorative effect.
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