Thursday 19 May 2011

Afghan Houses part 2

Works progresses on the Afghan houses...

The one on the far right with 3 arched doorways will be some sort of meeting house (for far off sci-fi adventures) or mosque (for modern Asian/Middle-Eastern games). It will have a domed roof - once I've added enough layers of papier mache over the plastic ball former that I'm using!


They've been painted with a thick & gloopy mixture of PVA and filler, cheap white poster paint and Windsor & Newton burnt umber acrylic added for colour. It gets painted on thickly, then stippled to give some texture.




A large 3-storey building will be the centre of the settlement.


A few people for scale...


3 comments:

  1. They look great. One tip for this kind of building is external building all Weather paint. You can buy it in test tins at B&Q and it has a very fine texture in it. If you paint it as base coat it gives everything just enough texture to look like concrete.

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  2. Thanks for the tip! My friend Howard has recommended some sort of "suede paint" that he has found too, also very fine texture. I was just too lazy to drive 10 miles to the nearest DIY store!

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