Painting Lazer Cut Buildings ?

[DD-Chris]

Recently i have seen some wonderfully painted lazer cut buildings from either gamecraft or sarissa or one of the others. how do  you do it ? i have seen everything from weathered paints, to what looks like watered down paints allowing the wood to still show through.
can someone please give me a quick 'how to' on this ? i just purchased $120 worth of buildings and am a bit gun shy to just slather paint on them.
did you prime the buildings or just paint over bare wood?
did you stain the wood ?

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

Hi

i spray painted my Sarissa Buildings with Army Painter Spraycans (Pic 1),Modelmates Weathering Sprays (Pic2)and Black Wash/Ink (Pic3)








nothing fancy,but pretty easy to do 

[Belgian]

Looks great which weathering sprays did you use if I may ask.

[Yankeepedlar01]

I washed the fronts, and all the walls of the Sheriff's Office & Jail, of my Battle Flag buildings with some of the 'old' GW inks I have. It took about four coats to get the finish {See New Paddock City thread}. I used brown and chesnut inks for the window and door frames. I imagine any good artists' drawing inks would do the job.
David

[gnomehome]

Currently I'm working on the Rorke's Drift buildings.

I prime the wooden parts with regular primer and do the details with Vallejo/Citadel and other model paints/inks/washes/pigments.

For the thatched roof I use craft paints (after applying watered down PVA glue) and regular interior paints.

[Michi]

Quick tutorial:
No primer is necessary.
Choose a base colour and apply it with rough strokes of a flat brush. That will leave some wood (MDF) shining through.
Repeat that with increasingly lighter shades of that colour (three or four layers).
Wash the entire building with a very watery black wash.
Apply another wash of a dust colour of your choice. This wash should be rich with pigments. You can take away too thick areas with fresh water while the wash is still wet or with alcohol when it has already dried.
Finally apply a rather light drybrush of sand or light grey colour.

These are from Sarissa:

[uti long smile]

Michi - those are amazing!

[DD-Chris]

 
GREAT STUFF !
 thanks for the fast replys, my buildings should arrive Friday or Saturday, and i will give them a quick go and post some pictures of my results.

[Damas]

I agree with Uti.

Michi, those are amazing.  I don't think you could improve on them.

[axabrax]

@Michi,

What is your preferred wash, brand and color?

Thx!

[A_Train]

Great looking stuff in here, so much better than my own.

[Michi]

@Michi,

What is your preferred wash, brand and color?

Thx!

I don´t buy washes. I simply thin paints with water. It´s Vallejo black 72051 and beasty brown 72043.

Thanks for the nice comments. It´s rather easy to obtain those results if you follow the tutorial...

[supervike]

No fair! You can't photograph REAL buildings and pretend they are mini!

 

Amazing stuff there.  Looks so damn real!

[sepoy1857]

VERY nice - Well done. As supervike and other have said very realistic looking. What did you use for glass in the windows? I don't like the empty window or blue painted window look. Thanks!

[Oldben1]

I use the plastic from 4 litre milk containers.  They already have a frosty look and are easy to cut.  You can even use a flickering tea light inside for ambiance.


Innsmouth by oldben1, on Flickr

That sounds a little romantic now that I've typed it out . . .