Quick & Simple MDF Painting: A Quick Look
Getting started with MDF · A quick introduction
Gary’s Quick & Simple Painting Guide shows how to paint an MDF kit while the parts are still on their sheets, then assemble it ready for the games table.
Gary Faulkner designs and paints our kits, and wrote our guide to making and painting MDF. This free tutorial is a shorter way into the subject, using the Maison Forte as its example.
There’s no separate priming or sealing stage in this method. Gary uses acrylic paint straight onto the MDF, with only a little water on the brush. That describes the method in this guide; the preparation you need for other paints or finishes may differ.
A basic finish first
Paint the parts before assembly, build the kit and touch up the cut edges with the same colours. You can put the building on the table at that point.
The guide also shows how to add shading and weathering with water-based brush pens. You can leave that for another session once the base paint has dried fully.
Read Gary’s full pre-painting tutorial for the photographs, materials and weathering stages.
The real building behind the kit
Our Maison Forte is based on the fortified house at Saint-Menges, known as MF10, near Sedan in France. These houses formed part of the frontier defences associated with the Maginot Line.
The concrete lower floor was a bunker with firing slits. Above it was living space for the defenders, giving the building the appearance of an ordinary house.
MF10 was caught up in the fighting in May 1940 and stands as a memorial to its defenders.
The Maison Forte kit is available in 15mm · 20mm · 28mm.
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