Pump station - painting brick wall / progress! Sept. 10

[pocoloco]

I had the great pleasure to purchase jimbibbly's wonderful Pump station kit and I am currently building it, pics will follow later.

Since I haven't really painted any brick buildings (real ones don't count, I guess) I had to do some experimenting first. Happily I had received two smaller brick wall pieces from (and by) yet another talented LAF member, Sangennaru. I had an idea to use those wall pieces as optional additions to pump station, in form of windows that have been walled up.

Here's a pic of the first test piece and I think it looks quite fitting. In case you wonder about the bare part in top, that is for bluetac to hold the piece in place if needed.



C&C welcome. Will post more pics as I progress with this build and paint.

[OSHIROmodels]

Looking forward to seeing what you do with it 

cheers

James

[Suber]

Oh, man! Maybe that's standards for you, but I'm amazed by how realistic it looks .
Please tell your secrets, I wanna learn!

[Thunderchicken]

Looks good to me.    

[Mason]

Looks good to me.    

Antti: Receiving this comment from the man that I consider to be 'The Master of Brickwork', then I think you have it sussed.
 

[pocoloco]

Many thanks for your words gents, I am blushing here

suber: my first try at painting miniature brick wall so I might have just gotten super lucky, glad you like it. The basic brick colour is a 60-40 or 70-30 mixture of Vallejo Cavalry Brown and Vallejo German Cam. Orange Ochre. Then for somewhat browner bricks I added few drops of Vallejo Charred Brown and for the yet more darker bricks I added Vallejo German Grey.

First I painted with the basic brick colour and later picked some individual bricks with the browner and darker colours mentioned above.

Once the paint was dry I took a white chalk and grinded chalk powder (thanks for the tip James!) which was then scrubbed on the wall with finger. After applying the chalk I brushed off lightly any extra powder and then with slighly wet (maybe barely moist would be more accurate description) napkin swiped the surface lightly, leaving the chalk powder in recesses and with the finish seen in the pic. Surprisingly easy... and fun

Here's a pic of all four walled up pieces, unfortunately no paint on the building itself yet. I will keep the four pieces attached just with blue-tac, so I can vary both the number and places of those windows that have been walled up, gives more "tactical choices" and whatnots for different scenarios



I noticed only yesterday that Quantum Gothic is currently out of business or having a longer break, at least. Shame, as I was hoping to purchase their generator model to be used as one of the possible interior pieces for this... anyone know any other similar pieces, please feel free to suggest. And is there any manufacturer who does some kind of small workshop interiors for 28mm?

[Suber]

Absolutely great. Bravo!

[OSHIROmodels]

And is there any manufacturer who does some kind of small workshop interiors for 28mm?

Pardulon will do something suitable and I'm looking into it also 

cheers

Jame

[pocoloco]

Suber: many thanks amigo

James: will check out immediately, many thanks for the tip.

[Thunderchicken]

Antti: Receiving this comment from the man that I consider to be 'The Master of Brickwork', then I think you have it sussed.
 

Now I'm blushing. Too kind sir  .

Looking forward to seeing this painted up Pocoloco.

[pocoloco]

Now I'm blushing. Too kind sir  .

Looking forward to seeing this painted up Pocoloco.

Now the pressure keeps building up but I will advance with small steps. Just sprayed a layer of varnish on the walled up pieces. Tried to be gentle as possible, so kept my distance over than the normal 30cm or so and tried to have a very light coat of varnish... should be easier to build up new layer of varnish from that later on or add more chalk if that's the case later on.

[Constable Bertrand]

Looks great pocoloco! First thunderchicken and bibbly, now you too are a qualified bricky. (tradesman)

I would not believe that was white chalk if you had not said so. Just normal chalk board chalk, or artist pastel?

Does the varnish lock in the chalk, id imagine it could come off quite easy.

Cheers
Matt

[pocoloco]

Hi Matt, thanks for such high praise but more realistically I'm at apprentice level, learning (hopefully) more as I progress with this.

The chalk is indeed normal type, we have a small part of wall painted with chalk board paint so I kind of nicked one chalk for hobby purposes

Varnish seems to hold the chalk in place, at least nothing does seem to come off now but I think couple of very thin layers more should give better protection from my greasy butter-fingers, so to speak

[zizi666]

And is there any manufacturer who does some kind of small workshop interiors for 28mm?

http://www.rustyrail.com/ has lots of cabinets, work benches, boxes and junk piles. Nothing modern however, more pre-WW2 era stuff.
And then there's these guys: http://www.sierrawestscalemodels.com/oscale/machine.html Awesome machinery models but unfortunately so are their prices 
Another one with some machinery and store interiors is http://modeltechstudios.com/ Tried to place an order once. You can read how that turned out here : http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=50658.msg593050#msg593050

[pocoloco]

Many thanks for the links zizi, I will drool over the items later on