George Asling: Painting Roof Tiles and Worn Plaster
When roof tiles were added to the 28mm World War Europe range, George Asling took a kit home to try them. His finish uses drybrushed tiles, stencilled brickwork and cracked plaster.
George; Well, I couldn't help it. The extra detail afforded by the change we've made by including roof tiles in the kits just had to be tested.
The roof and brickwork
These buildings are quick to build and easy to detail (I even added some wall paper to the internal top floor). As I'm not fussed about going inside for games, I glued the roof on then got on to painting the outside.
A quick dark red drybrush provides a nice tile base colour, followed by an additional drybrushed highlight layer to bring out the tile detail nicely.
For the brick detail, I basically spray painted (with a rattle can) the brown beige base layer then used our brick stencil by using a sponge to paint the red brick pattern. I used two tones of red/orange for variation. Once the bricks were dry I masked off some patches with torn masking tape so I could add detail into the plaster work later.
Worn plaster and cracks
I used the rattle can spray of the original base colour to lightly (from a distance) go back over the brickwork, leaving the brick pattern showing faintly through in places. Quick sponging and drybrushing of a darker brown colour gives a more worn mottled effect to the final wall colour. I then peeled off the masking tape revealing the clean brick.
A quick method to make the plaster look old and damaged is to use a black pen to first outline and then add the cracks. I suppose you can also use a very thin black paint if you have good brush control.
All up it took a little over an hour to put the whole finished building together to this level. I plan to add a few more, then I'll look at a centre piece building that I can add a bit more detail into.
More help with MDF
Thanks, George. For more ways to build and paint MDF kits, see the Guide to Making and Painting Laser Cut MDF Model Kits.
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