How I Scratch Build A Ruined Building.

[Guest]

To start the main painting process I have given a wash of Lamp Black oil all over the render, window and door surrounds.


Not very exciting but important.(wait for the thinner to evaporate now)


All the best.


Ralph.

[Guest]

Thinner evaporated (with the help of an hairdryer).


I next used 3 colour's Titanium White,Burnt Umber and Yellow Ochre(oils).


These were brushed on as if drybrushing but using the oils wet.


More work will be needed as this is just roughly applied.


All the best.


Ralph.

[Guest]

What I did next was to spray white acrylic(misted)all over the render,door and window surrounds,to blend it all together.


I then sprayed(misted)various shades of brown on the render.


I then gave a light highlight of Titanium White oil all over the render.


Now I know you are saying "what the hell are you doing spraying acrylic over oil"


Well many moons ago when when I was painting a building for my railway with oils I made mistakes and so being lazy I thought I would mist the base colour on(to start again) and found that it actually looked quite good,with the underlying colours.I have only ever done this with buildings and never had a problem.


I then used Tamiya buff and washed this all over the bricks to act as the mortar between the bricks themselves.


That's it for today fellow modeller's.


All the best.


Ralph.

[monica]

this is coming along nicely ,Ralph,give a nice depth to the building with the


black under tones,looking good,

[Guest]

Looking good,keep up the good work can't wait for the next installment.

[monica]

I do have a question for you ,Ralph,as you seem to know your scales,


or others who do know,as I said at the start of this I,just go by eye,no real scale,


if at 1.48 its 7mm = 1ft,


so at a guess in 1.35/32 it would be 9mm or 11mm =1ft,?

[Guest]

this is coming along nicely ,Ralph,give a nice depth to the building with the
black under tones,looking good,

Thanks Monica,nice to hear you like it,I'll probably use some pastel's as well.

Looking good,keep up the good work can't wait for the next installment.

Thank you Kevin glad you like it.Still a bit to go yet.

[Guest]

I do have a question for you ,Ralph,as you seem to know your scales,
or others who do know,as I said at the start of this I,just go by eye,no real scale,


if at 1.48 its 7mm = 1ft,


so at a guess in 1.35/32 it would be 9mm or 11mm =1ft,?

Hi Monica.


7mm to the foot is actually 1/43rd scale


6.2mm to the foot would be correct for 1/48.I only used the larger scale to get a better impact to the building.


8.7 mm to the foot would be correct for 1/35 scale.But to make things easier I would go with 9mm to the foot.


I hope this helps.


Ralph.

[monica]

thank you for the help,Ralph,much appreciated,


so I was right with my first guess lol,


also will be useful for others as well,we all need reminds at times,

[Guest]

thank you for the help,Ralph,much appreciated,
so I was right with my first guess lol,


also will be useful for others as well,we all need reminds at times,

Always glad to help.

[Guest]

Next I painted the bricks,using tera rosa,yellow ochre and burnt umber.(oils)


Firstly I painted all the bricks with tera rosa using a drybrush motion.


I then picke out a few bricks with yellow ochre and burnt umber.


All the best.


Ralph.

[Guest]

Next I put in the window frames.


For this I used strips of wood for ship building.


I first made the basic frame using simple butt joints.(bottom and top window)For the cross section of the frame, I used two pieces of wood, and made an half lap joint, this was then fitted in place(top window).I have one cross section to do.


All the best.


Ralph

[monica]

all looking good,Ralph,


the tera rosa,for the base of the bricks is a very good color,and well done with


the mottling of the other two colors,as a wall is never the same all over,looks great,


nice work with the windows as well,you do need that step in them of the other frame and the inner,

[Guest]

all looking good,Ralph,
the tera rosa,for the base of the bricks is a very good color,and well done with


the mottling of the other two colors,as a wall is never the same all over,looks great,


nice work with the windows as well,you do need that step in them of the other frame and the inner,

Thank you Monica.Your comment's about the brick work please me(I must have painted a few thousand individual bricks on my rail layout)


I reckon I might put a few panes of broken glass in the window frames.

[monica]

yes that will look good,I just use plastic card from packing of things,


its about 1mm or so,