Painting along

Hi. Making some progress on the smaller structure. Running into some challenges with this one. My rule of dumb – yes dumb – is to just try and paint what looks good to me. This is easier said than done, because I tend to be overly critical of my own work and start comparing it to others.

Take the roof for example. I started with a dark base layer of a nice turquois shade and mixed in black to get a darker tone. I started adding lighter shades by mixing white into the original shade on my wet palette. I added more white to get a gradient of sorts. As the layers started to contrast, I realized I probably should have started with a darker shade. Then again, I will be black washing this after I put all of the colors down. Plus this terrain piece is for Mordheim/Fantasy “grimdark” and it will most likely turn out fine in the end.

Also, I got a chance to finally try out a DIY “dry brush palette” – I know, I spelled it wrong. To be honest, I ended up just using a dry paper towel to reduce my paint volume on my brush. You can see the drybrush palette is simply made by gluing some old sprues to a flat piece of cardboard. I then glued on some texture, like small rocks and sand to provide texture for the paint to rub off of. You use it by brushing away excess paint on the various surfaces.

The DIY wet palette is also doing well, although I have an idea for improving it as my first iteration’s sponge layer is not very flat and causes the paint to prematurely mix on my parchment paper. You could also just buy a wet palette. Check out my Tools and Materials page for my affiliate links.

Enjoy the progress pics. More to follow. I am looking forward to getting to the larger structure for painting.

Happy crafting!