So here we go! Now that the wall is built and assemble how to we paint it! Quite simple in fact, we borrow various techniques from the military modeling field! You know those guys making all those WWII tanks and so on! Well they tend to be very helpfull!

So first we apply a first coat of our various colors with an airbrush. You can do it with a regular brush but instead of doing the whole thing in one night it might take you three...


As you can see on the picture we've been using Maskol in certain areas, mostly on the edges. It's the pink thingy. We will then give a coat of a different color on the planks:


Same thing with another different color:


So now another picture without the masking tape. As you can see we have varied the colors adding a little dark brown here and there:


Now using a regular pencil eraser we will rub it on the platform. This way all the little spot of maskol will be removed revealing the underneath layers giving us a chipped effect. We will also dabble the area with a blister foam dipped in our dark brown to create smalley scratched. Make sure there is barely any paint left on the foam. Finally a few filters with the airbrush will solidify everything:


Now we switch to oil paints! We will be using green, dark blue, white, yellow and a rust color. Small nuts of paints will be placed randomly all around de surface. But on the wall and the platform:


Using a flat brush lightly dipped in turbentine we will bring the paint down in a vertical fashion. Do it again and again and again and again and again to make sure there is no spot of colors too obvious. The goal of this step is to provide a quick weathered look to our scene:


It's now time to pick out details. So light color for the plaster areas, metallic for the pipe and drums and so on:


Using the new citadel washes we will nuance some of the bricks to break the uniform look. We will also alter the color of the plaster and then re-hilight everything by drybrush. It's a brick wall and plaster so the chalky effect of drybrush is perfect in this case!


By using dry pigments we will be able to create our rust effect and give a dusty feeling to other areas. The pigments are fixed with an enamel fixer. The humid areas are created with Tamiya Smoke as well as the oil stains here and there. For the pigments you'll work by constantly adding various colors on top of the other. For rust make sure to go heavy in order to really give the texture of it.


Finally, by using a coffer made of plasticard we poured resin that we tainted green on the base to obtain our murky water effect. I wanted to play with various tone and density for this but lacking time I couldn't. So here is the final:




THE GOLDEN RULE!!!

Do not forget the golden rule! make sure to present your entry in a contest/categorie that will actually take in consideration the scenery otherwise all that work was basically just for you ad you might need quite a few gallons of beer to get over the frustration... ;)

You will be able to find more info on the various weathering techniques in the Fantasy Dimension no.3 and a future video of Miniature Mentor.