nightshiftmodeller

I wanted to title this post "morning wood" but...

Added 2021-05-05 15:29:08 +0000 UTC

... it's kinda late for that!

Apart from that, my friends, this was actually pretty tough! There's just WAY too much color variation in old weathered wood and you can quickly get lost in all of it. In short, it's all possible shades of grey with some other extra colors mixed in. Unlike bricks, mortar, or even roof, this takes a LOT of time! And it was, at least for me, difficult to know when to stop. But probably when you start going back over things you consider done... then it's probably enough.

The painting process was no less chaotic - spray Deck Tan in a random coat over the black primed base layer and then just wet blend all those different Vallejo paints you see at the end of the gallery on top of that. I started with the lightest tones and progressively worked my way towards the darkest ones, such as burnt umber and pure black. What you might often observe is this brownish-orange, sometimes dark brown "shadow" in areas shielded from the elements, and this is present everywhere, even when a single protruding plank is providing some kind of "shelter" for it - so that's nice, it provides a lot of contrast!

Now it's all ready for finishing touches with oil paints. I even added some lichen on the roof, this was sprayed with a combination of deck tan and khaki drab and then chipped down, however it looks pretty meh, I don't know, the shape of those tiles probably doesn't do it much favors, so I kept it very limited.

Oil paints will be mainly about additional washes, grime and dirt effects, moss, moisture, rust, and other tasty stuff!