Curia Julia

I got some more houses done over the past week. I used the same technique as my previous post. For the eagle-eyed among you I used a lighter mix of paints (mentioned in the previous post) on the larger house and the original mix of paints on the smaller store. The more I look at it I think the original mix has better contrast and will use it going forward. I also think the big house may need some more rougher (sandy) areas  to give it more variation. So in the future I will probably be more liberal with the sand, like I was on the store.

Recently I received a bunch of buildings from Charlie Foxtrot and had some time to work on them. I have a few buildings to fill out the table. Not having done these before I decided start and finish one before having more a production line. I followed Charlie Foxtrot's tutorial which can be found on their blog. The tough part for me was to find some colours that suited as I am in Australia and the tutorial was UK based. Today I chose to start with the relatively small stables. First some easy assembly, so basically PVA to bond the MDF and superglue for the Resin to MDF pieces. All the buildings come with pretty good instructions and only the resin pieces need a bit of persuasion to fit! The roof comes in one piece of solid resin, its really nice! After assembly its on to filler. I used the same 'Spakfilla' from Bunnings I used on my urban boards. Basically a thin coat over most of the model leaving a few areas blank. Once dried, roughly sand down ...