Painting the buildings

I finally got stuck in and painted the buildings, after all the putting-it-off it went quite quickly, quickly, not necessarily well. I need a lot of practice at this. The problem is, when you try to paint several things at once, you make the same mistakes on all of them.  

Still, living and learning and all that. Here's one of the buildings. It's had a coat of white primer, followed by a coat of Model Air off-white. Then a mix of several brown's and ochres applied to where the plaster has broken off the wall or the interior parts of the wall are otherwise revealed. There's a lot of broken surfaces on a ruined building. I didn't mix the browns really thoroughly, that way I get some variation in tones. 

I hope you like my Sherman, it's from the Airfix Battlefront kit which is yet another from the started-but-not-going-to-be-finished-anytime-soon pile. I'll be using the Sherman for scale a bit. When I remember

Some of these buildings are made in clay, others are made in plaster of paris. The fine details are way better in plaster so one a couple I've tried to paint on the rough brick work. It's too small to photo, it looks awesome though - honest, not at all like it was painted by a monkey sat on a washing machine at full spin.

I've also painted the bases inside the houses. A mix of dheneb stone with a bit of brown variation. It's not called dheneb anymore of course, probably "Golem smeg" or something similar. But it's still early days for these, probably going to keep working on them and building up some very thin washes while I wait for other bit's to dry.

At the same time as I was murdering the buildings with paint, I was also doing a similarly outstanding job of building up the colour of the base. On a whim I'd bought a can of GOLD NC acrylic "sand". I planned to pick out the road and some of the features - to me they look an unpleasant sickly orangey-greenish colour - not very desert like. It took ages to dry as well - must resist World of Tanks.