My First TimeCast Painted Building
Of my TimeCast models (see Post 16), I had two of the German house with attached barn so I thought I’d make a start painting one of them. It, unfortunately, needed a lot more filling with green stuff than I would have liked. Resin models need a good clean with mild soap to wash away mould release powders and to better prepare them for paint. Mine got a washing-up liquid bath.
The model painted up well after an undercoating with Daler-Rowney System 3
burnt umber (see Post 29). It’s always tricky deciding whether to paint period
windows glazed, open, or shuttered. I chose to paint the windows Foundry’s Slate
Grey shade, a dark blue-grey, a colour that has the advantage of being a good off-
black for an open-windowed dark inside or a dark blue for sky-reflecting (gloss-
varnished) glass.
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