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Fen End Pit

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Today, being a bit milder, I was able to take a bit more time in the garage with an aerosol before having to get back in the house to warm up. The result was that I could get a much better coat of primer on the building and apply it in several thin coats and let it harden off before going any further.

 

The resulting luminous building showed the joints weren't going to be too bad. I made a bit of a mess when gluing it together last night, I tried to stick the inner walls to the outer walls before I put the four walls together. Of course I didn't get them exactly in the middle so the joints were not quite in line. Next time I'll stick the outer walls together, get the joints perfect and then fit the inner walls into the resulting shell.

 

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After 6 hours to dry off I tried to get the mortar on with acrylic and then lift it off the brick surfaces with IPA. Lots of cotton buds and multi-surface wipes later and I'm back to a worn brick colour. I suspect that I should possible have thinned the acrylic wash a little bit more but I feel I am getting there with the technique. I'm just not sure I have the ability to dry brush a brick colour on top of a mortar colour primer or the patience for individual brick painting. The pictures show the mortar lines around the windows and door particularly well and I don't think the corners look too bad. The interlocking bricks look reasonable natural and don't stick out like a sore thumb to my eyes.

 

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Next up, working out how to do windows, doors and roofs.

 

An addition....

 

I wasn't quite happy with the brickwork so decided to try something different. I've never really got on with dry brushing but thought it might be worth a try to 'pad' the paint on with something relatively hard. I attached a bit of exactoscale foam onto the end of a bit of wood to make myself a little paint par and 15mm x 30mm. I then put some Humbrol enamel paint onto a piece of scrap plasticard and used the pad to 'print' the paint onto the brick surfaces only. By only padding the tools a few times before I went for the model I get the same sort of effect as a dry brush with the paint only taking on the brick surface and not sinking into the mortar joints. The technique may need some refining and I probably need to do somethings to get the brick colour a little more varied but I'm mush happier with the result.

 

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I know the brick colour is a bit off, I was just deliberately trying a colour that was different to what was underneath so I could see how it worked. I'll probably try again with a better colour later.

 

David

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Mikkel
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Very interesting to follow your experiments here, and some really nice results. I think the interlocking bricks work really well. You probably notice them more than we do because you know they are there.

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devondynosoar118

Looking very smart, the interlocking bricks look very good. Dry brushing something that size will take less than 5 mins, I guarantee the time spent will be repaid in improved finish. The work on the building design deserves that bit more effort on paint IMO.

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nigelb

David to be honest small buildings like this more often then not have very patch  mortar courses in IMHO  hyour brick work looks pretty good 

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