Day: February 3, 2009

After a day of unsuccessful painting, I decided to really “think” and find a way to get the right look. I went out for a walk and found a piece of stone which was in the right color I wanted for my ruins. Besides color, there was also a problem with the edges of the blocks. Those were too sharp for ruins. So, I started with melting the edges with the candle.

Then painted whole model with a light grey spray paint. After it was dry, I drybrushed several layers referring to the real stone I have. First light grey undercoat, second a light burnt sienna then burnt umber with a lot of white, some red, yelow,… Just mixed acrylics to get the right color each time.

I drybrushed very very light almost a white color at the end to get a better contrust. Here is the end result:

Not perfect but this is very closed to what I had in mind. It will also look better when it is placed inside the rocky surface with the right lighting.

Next comes working on the actual clock part.. Tomorrow?? Yes, starting tomorrow...

My first try was not successful. This is what happens when you do not think and just follow what the tutorial says. I was trying to make polystyrene stairs look like ruins; aged stones. I ended up having nice & dark castle blocks. If you want to make a castle, you can try the following painting process:

I first gave the whole a black undercoat (acrylic paint). Carefully done this to not to leave any white spot. After undercoat was dry; I drybrushed the model with dark grey; not covering the black details.

After each color is dry, I drybrushed several times from darker grays to lighter grays hoping that I could get a better lighter look… But nope… I even added a gray blue at the end. Nothing helped… I decided to leave this alone for the day continue the other day starting all over from the beginning to the painting. Here is the tutorial if you like to check out..