Freelance 2014-2

[faraway]

Reinhard, you're going to become THE reference in painting realistic brick walls. Very inspiring!

Matt

Thanks for the kind words but it is not really me. Let me explain.

You may have witnessed how I tried to get well aged and weathered brick walls in a lot of variations on my styrene structures over the last years. None of those attempts was really satisfying. The best I could achieve were some decent walls.
I saw a lot of Downtown Deco samples on photos. Mostly their advertising stuff in FB. It was very obvious that the plain white walls you buy are very different from what they show you. Anyhow I gave it a try and followed the instructions quite carefully.

1. semi seal the plaster with 2-3 layers dull white primer from the rattle can
2. apply paint as thin as coffee with a wide brush.

The model explodes visually when you apply the very first stroke of "coffee" brown to the white plaster. Thousands of details pop up. The entire wall becomes extremem 3-dimensional. Each brick and each joint comes to live. It is really like magic when you compare it to all the good and bad techniques you try on styrene walls.
White plaster walls and highly diluted paint do miracles.

Left is unpainted, center is my last used paint and right is real coffee from the kitchen. You can "play" with ten or more layers due to the high diluted paint. You can add some other colors to get another tone. I control the intensity of the color by the number of layers but not by less dilution. The paint will never distribute absolute even. The wall will always get some shades and lighter areas. In general become grooves darker and little hills stay lighter.


I have four more kits waiting to be assembled

ps. No, I am not on the payroll of DTD