Before I can fit the glazing to all the windows, I need to paint the building exterior.
Being new to scratch building I have found painting with acrylics a challenge, in as much the matching of the paint colour to the images in photographs is always a compromise depending on the photographers use of filters, time of day, decade and of course the weather.

So with that in mind I started with a light grey wash, then I mixed a light grey along with yellow oxide, burnt umber, plus a touch of crimson red and black/white to achieve the basic stone colour.
I then highlighted individual stones in straight yellow oxide with others with a lightened yellow oxide and then left it to dry thoroughly. Finally a very dilute light grey wash was applied to help tone down and lighten the building’s overall appearance.
Other coats maybe applied later, but that depends on my use of lighting for the layouts station and its effect on blending in the background diorama.

Incidentally, the Greater Waikato Railway Modellers have been very busy over the past months with building new diorama for our exhibition layout featuring a canal section to not only delight but to give more operational room for the DC layout we take around to our NZ modelling exhibitions. So I have included a few photos of their work in progress here.