Two steps backwards

New wall

Big sigh this week.  After looking at my wall from last week (after many hours of putting together, sanding, gluing, etc) I realised that the brick line wasn’t level.  When sanding I had sanded the blocks of bricks at an angle.  All together resulted in the top two sections being at an angle.  Not much, but enough to make it look wrong.  So that went in the bin and I got to do the work all over again.  Ie from the casting of the brick sections, sanding (with more care) and gluing and putty work to fill in the gaps.  So I’m back to where I was last week.

Wooden backing core for the resin wall pieces

Fence and railing

I finished off the fence section.  I used VGC Tinny Tin and VMC Dark Sea Blue as the base coat for the metal railing.  I find the dark sea blue very good at removing the excessive glitter from metallic paints but still leaving the metallic colour.  This was highlighted up with brass and silver and shaded down with more dark sea blue and black.  For the sandstone section I used some Coat d’arms Russian green as a glaze around the bottom to add some wet slime look.  I also used some VMC Hull Red and Charred Brown to make the rust stains around where the metal joins the sandstone.  This was highlighted up with some orange.

Rust railings

Although I liked the last box I did, it was too big.  So I made another box and painted it up.  Getting a bit over painting wooden boxes I must admit.

Another box

So the wall is almost ready for undercoating.  Before I do that I will find out where the fountain will go as all those bricks will obviously be hidden by the fountain.  I also have to work out what I’m going to do with the cobblestones in front of the brick wall.

I think I might have a break from this project as all the boxes and walls are giving me white line fever.  Might need to paint an actual person figure (like one of my WW2 Germans) for a bit to rediscover some of the joy of painting instead of the diorama grind.