A little warehouse painting

I have managed to get a little further with the warehouse for Pottington Quay. The progress has revolved around painting, and it has been a little bit of a learning curve. First of all I painted the building sides in a bath stone type colour, a light orange/yellow/brown. The local slate and shale is a yellow/orange/grey, so it is a reasonable approximation.


Photo 1: The body of the warehouse was painted in an orange/brown yellow mix and then weathered with washes of acrylic white and black.

After this is ran a diluted acrylic wash of white, then black over the stone work. The result of this is photo 1. The overall effect was a little too dark for me. So I dipped several cotton wool buds into a water based air brush cleaning solution and rubbed the building sides down, paying particular attention to where water would run down the building sides, such as off window lintels, etc. This is shown in photos 2 and 3.


Photo 2: To lighten the overall effect, I washed away some of the black paint with air brush cleaner on a cotton wool bud

The effect is better, but not quite perfect, but then again neither is the building construction!! I still have to paint the window lintels, guttering,doors and window frames, and then attempt to blend these elements in. However, it is getting there and it is a great learning experience. It should get finished this week......

But right now I am about to get distracted by setting up my test track Amberleigh and playing with the class 25/3 DCC sound bachmann locomotive that has been long awaited but has recently arrived....


Photo 3: Note the cleaner area beneath the window lintels to mimic water run off