Help - Painting Brick Walls

[Eric the Shed]

Hi Guys

Sure somebody can help me here?

Sometime ago I bought some resin brick walls and I want to get them painted.

I am thinking of giving them a cream basecoat and then dry brushing red brick over the top - the brickwork is very light on the resin so I am not sure if this will work? Am I going about this in the right way?

cheers

[gamer Mac]

Sounds about right. Just take your time with the dry brushing.

[fastolfrus]

I tend to undercoat with red oxide (car primer) then inkwash. Sometimes drybrush.

[Eric the Shed]

cheers guys...will post piccies when done

[Cubs]

I paint the red brick colour, then give it a thin light grey wash, then wipe that off.

[FramFramson]

I paint the red brick colour, then give it a thin light grey wash, then wipe that off.

This is what I've seen done too, with lovely photos of the process. As long as you overdo it on the brightness of the brick, it works great (Caveat: have not tried this myself yet).

[Mr. Peabody]

I've done the red-first-cream-wash-second thing and while I liked the results, I'm very strongly tempted to go for the cream-first-red-drybrush-second. I have a big stack of HO scale brick buildings that I have been putting off doing for years simply because I dread the mess and hassle.

Thunderchicken makes his drybrush approach to Brickwork look very convincing on his builds. It looks like it would be a lot less fuss in the end. And the result is brilliant. Just look at his Victorian Undertakers....

If your detail is very shallow / poor then the wash method is going to let you down. On the other hand, drybrushing will always manage to highlight even faint detail if you are careful and use a good brush.