Granite wall painting suggestions anyone?
Tom Walko
You've all made life easier for me in the past with your numerous
painting idea and suggestions. Here's another request for your
ideas.....
I've got a mini diorama that consists of granite-looking blocks walls
and floors. I want to accent the crevices between the blocks. I have
primed the mini in grey, so as to start off with a good foundation of
color, but can't quite get a right mixture of black or brown, or any
other color to bring out the mortar between the blocks.
Ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Tom Walko
chrono...@my-deja.com
Are you trying to paint as if it had colored mortar/grout between the
stones? If this is the case, check out some photos of mortared walls for
an idea as to the color - I usually see mortared walls that have mortar
a little lighter in color than the actual stones (since it typically
contains some kind of cement).
But if you're just trying to get the recesses painted to bring out the
individual stone blocks, thinned black paint or ink works fine for me.
You may want to check out my granite painting technique:
http://home.pacbell.net/lnlcoolj/Hot_Lead/advance/texturing_granite.htm
I developed it specifically to add life to stones in dioramas ;^)
Take care,
Laszlo
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DavidR3986
I recently visited a local hardware store, hoping to pick up some cheap spray
primer and gloss coat. They were woefully undersupplied with paint. On the
opposite shelf, however, they had some 'craft-type' painting supplies, which
consisted of two-can sets of paints which could be used to create textured
effects. They offered a 'granite' set, a 'marbled' set, and a set that would
create an effect like cracked mud. I don't recall the name of the brand. You
might be able to find what I'm talking about in a hardware or craft supply
store in your area.
-David
DragonPaint
>I've got a mini diorama that consists of granite-looking blocks walls
>and floors. I want to accent the crevices between the blocks. I have
>primed the mini in grey, so as to start off with a good foundation of
>color, but can't quite get a right mixture of black or brown, or any
>other color to bring out the mortar between the blocks.
Try priming the mini in dark brown or black and drybrush it with two
or three layers from dark grey to white.
Then mix two part of water to one of brown ink and wash the walls near
the floor to darken a bit the last one or two blocks (humidity)
You can add also a bit of dark green flocking in the corners (musk) or
a bit of plaster painted with a couple of washes of brown ink (mud)
About the floor... drybrush the floor stones with a different grey
than the walls (add a bit of green or blue to the paint for the walls
and a bit of brown for the floor) and consider to drybrush the floor
stones with a pattern using a lighter color for some of them (like a
chessboard for example)
Hope this helps.. and that you can understand my bad English.. ;)
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chrono...@my-deja.com
My only caution against these spray paints is that the fake granite
stuff is made for life-size objects ;^), so the large granules of stuff
will probably look way out of scale on a 25-28mm scale object.
However, I have seen some stuff in a craft store that's the brush-on
equivilant, which is a grey acrylic paint mixed with multiple colors of
glitter - it looked good on the examples pieces I saw, and wouldn't look
out of scale on a mini piece - can't remember the name though :^( but a
decent craft store should at least know about it...
Also, one other possibility to give the walls some texture is to paint
them with some thinned-down Liquitex Texture Gels - the sand or pumice
varieties would add a nice stoney texture to the walls, which you can
then wash and drybrush to good effect.
vulcan_c2
decided to paint, blashpheming would be inappropriate.)
Chrono I must say - WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!
I think the shadowing was a fantastic touch!
Absolutely Fabulous!!!
--Peter
chrono...@my-deja.com
vulcan_c2 <vulc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Holy Shi... (hmmm, just realized that given the subject matter you
> decided to paint, blashpheming would be inappropriate.)
>
> Chrono I must say - WE ARE NOT WORTHY!!!
>
> I think the shadowing was a fantastic touch!
>
> Absolutely Fabulous!!!
>
> --Peter
>
Thanks! ;^) Glad you liked it... It was supposed to be an article in
FORGE magazine before FORGE became Chronicles of the Warzone - a Target
Games house organ :^(
Take care,
Laszlo
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Paul & Voirrey
Tom Walko <t...@troll.mv.com> wrote in message
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> I've got a mini diorama that consists of granite-looking blocks walls
> and floors. I want to accent the crevices between the blocks. I have
> primed the mini in grey, so as to start off with a good foundation of
> color, but can't quite get a right mixture of black or brown, or any
> other color to bring out the mortar between the blocks.
>
> Ideas or suggestions?
Have a look at Hot Lead
http://home.pacbell.net/lnlcoolj/Hot_Lead/hotlead.htm for fantastic painting
tips, including granite. I haven't tried his granite technique out yet, but
I've been using his method for doing marble and the results are stunning.
Paul.
Tom Walko
chrono...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>
> Are you trying to paint as if it had colored mortar/grout between the
> stones? If this is the case, check out some photos of mortared walls for
> an idea as to the color - I usually see mortared walls that have mortar
> a little lighter in color than the actual stones (since it typically
> contains some kind of cement).
>
> But if you're just trying to get the recesses painted to bring out the
> individual stone blocks, thinned black paint or ink works fine for me.
> You may want to check out my granite painting technique:
> http://home.pacbell.net/lnlcoolj/Hot_Lead/advance/texturing_granite.htm
> I developed it specifically to add life to stones in dioramas ;^)
>
> Take care,
> Laszlo
If that isn't some of the *best* I have ever seen, then I am blind, dumb,
deaf, impotent....ahhh you get the drift.
Beautiful work.
T.Walko