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Offline Bravo Six

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Plaster Walls on Japanese Buildings
« on: 08 April 2021, 03:27:15 PM »
Gents, I’m just about to start work on the John Jenkins Design Japanese Temple building (it’s been sitting in the queue waaay too long) and I was looking to achieve something similar to the plaster walls seen on this medieval building, but I’m drawing a real blank trying to figure out what colors have been used here. It’s quite a dramatic effect and something I think would suit the overall aesthetic of my Fantasy Japan stuff.

I was hoping some of you talented blokes could lend me some insights, or share any experience in doing something similar.
 




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Re: Plaster Walls on Japanese Buildings
« Reply #1 on: 09 April 2021, 12:43:14 PM »
Someone from the company who makes the above building, sent me this in relation to the coloring. I figured I'd share it in this thread for posterity's sake.

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To make the plaster areas the person did the following steps:
- start with a black undercoat
- use an ochre brown similar to bubonic brown as a basecoat
- drybrush bleached bone and then white before using thin washes of athonian cammo shade and some browns around the edges to create stained streaks and the effect of mold

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Re: Plaster Walls on Japanese Buildings
« Reply #2 on: 10 April 2021, 12:02:40 AM »
Bravo 6,
That is very similar to how I do my Chinese buildings, though I have opted for a slightly brighter finish (slightly heavier second and final coats.
Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.

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Re: Plaster Walls on Japanese Buildings
« Reply #3 on: 10 April 2021, 02:05:49 AM »
Oh that looks great Andy! I think I'll have to PM you about that. Thanks for the input.

 

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