Hi. It’s a bit overcast and dark on what started off as a bright and sunny Tuesday. Today I worked on the beams and stonework adding some color to the black basecoat.
I mixed up some brown acrylic with black and laid down some undertone for the faux beams that give the building some character and help it read “olde world”. I proceeded to add lighter coats to give the beams some depth doing my best to let some of the dark undertones peak through the grains of the “wood beam” stir sticks.
I then proceeded to add color to the stonework. I started with the wall section. At first I just simply dry-brushed a lighter tone gray over the black basecoat. Then I got the brilliant(?) idea to paint as many of the individual drawn stones in its own color. I also started doing the ground stones on the adjacent attached house. I mixed various earth-ish/stone-ish looking tones and went to town. To be honest, I got lost in the tedium that it was almost meditative. Both wall and ground stones turned out OK.
I then looked at the smaller structure and decided the roof was a bit too gloomy (for Mordheim? really?!) and I added a fresh dark coat of turquois blue.
I am letting the structures dry overnight. I just have to glue the remaining doors and I will call this project done-ish. I will revisit it to add some embellishments like obligatory graffiti, posters, blood splatter, and the like.
Enjoy the pics. We are nearing the finish line. What do you think about this build series? What other builds would you like to see? I will continue with the Mordheim/Fantasy related projects and hopefully have enough terrain for an actual game. But first I need to get the minis tabletop ready. Oh boy.
Happy crafting!
A Little Bit of Glue 