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City Grounds

Painting the City grounds

There are a number of ways that you can paint your model. This guide shows you the techniques that we used to paint the City Grounds. These are the items you will need:

  • TEXTURED PAINT: Used to achieve a sandy/rough concrete effect. We used white Dulux Sandswept, however you can also use sand mixed with watered down PVA.

  • DULUX SAMPLE POTS: You can obtain these from most hardware stores. These are the Dulux colors that were used: Ticking, Drive Time, Guild Grey and Simone Well. Throughout these instructions, we will refer to them by their number as shown below.


  • ACRYLIC PAINTS: Although any brand will work, we used Citadel paints. The following Citadel colors were used to paint the City Grounds: Scab red and Blood red.

  • ARTISTS BRUSHES: Small and large.

- INSTRUCTIONS -

Floor tiles
1. Ensure that all parts are glued together before painting.
2. (OPTIONAL): Apply a generous amount of PVA glue to the inside crater rim and a thinner amount near the center. Apply thin streaks of PVA glue outside the crater to simulate blast marks.
3. (OPTIONAL): Add stones to the inside crater rim and finer stones to the center and outer blast marks.
4. Paint the entire model with Dulux 1.
5. Paint the tiles shown with Dulux 2.

6. Paint the tiles shown with Scab Red.
7. Apply a dabbing of Dulux 3 to all grey areas and apply a light dabbing of Blood Red to the red areas.
8. Drybrush the crater with Dulux 3 and then drybrush the crater rim with Dulux 4.
Road tiles
1. Ensure that all parts are glued together before painting.
2. (OPTIONAL): Apply a generous amount of PVA glue to the inside crater rim and a thinner amount near the center. Apply thin streaks of PVA glue outside the crater to simulate blast marks.
3. (OPTIONAL): Add stones to the inside crater rim and finer stones to the center and outer blast marks.
4. Paint the road areas with textured paint.
5. Paint the entire model with Dulux 1.

6. Paint Dulux 2 to the areas shown above.
7. Paint Dulux 4 to the sidewalk as shown above.
8. Apply a thorough drybrush of Dulux 3 to the road.
9. Apply a drybrush of Dulux 4 to the road, concentrated more to the middle.

10. Apply a light dabbing of Dulux 3 to all non-textured areas to create a worn effect.
11. Drybrush the craters with Dulux 3.
12. Drybrush the crater rim with Dulux 4.

 
 
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