Gaslight

Quick painting.

The first thing is to undercoat the model.   I use spray paint for this.

My first bit of advice is to use colours that are also available in pots of paint.  This way it is really easy to cover up overspray.  I gave the entire model a spray coat of Army Painter Leather Brown.  I use this colour a lot and it’s my go-to for the base coat of brickwork.

Once that is dry enough to handle the model I then go through and use spray paint to pick out the other areas.  In this case Death Guard Green by Citadel for the roof and steelwork and Mechanicus Adeptus Grey for the areas that will become off-white.  I then go over the grey areas with Wraith Bone Spray, also by citadel.

All the colours used so far are also available in individual paint pots.

It doesn’t take long for the primer coats to dry here, and I like to work on a few buildings at a time.

The second building is going to be a bank or something similar.

Clean up all the overspray using a big cheap brush and the relevant colours.  Leather Brown, Death Guard Green or Wraith Bone.   The brush that I use is a really cheap flat hobby paintbrush that I picked up from the local hardware store.  Doing two buildings at the same time allows the paint enough time to dry before moving on to the next colour.

I decided that the roofs would look better in tarnished copper.  so gave them a quick wet-brush with metallic copper paint.   Any metallic copper will do.   Once that is dry, I gave the roofs and steelwork a coating army painter quickshade.  I used this as it was a cheaper option than using Agrax Earthshade and over here the stuff dries pretty fast.

In hindsight, I could have done this before touching up the overspray on the wraithbone but at the time my initial idea was to do green roofs.  Oh well, sometimes it’s good to just go with things on the fly.

Now just time to let these dry.