Tuesday 7 February 2017

Painting up-date,Anglo-Saxon Church.

As I mentioned in the last blog(Vapnartak) I bought an Anglo-Saxon church at the bring and buy sale-when I first saw, and handled the Church,I thought it was resin,although a bit heavy!
However it turned out to be a glazed pottery item,which,because of the glaze, turned out to be a bit of a bugger to undercoat!!!

This is how it looked after I had cleaned off the paint,with soapy water-very shiny,and a sort of dirty brown colour.


Under-coated at last!-two coats wouldn't cover it,so I turned to the old favourite-PVA glue and water-worked a treat!!

Initial dark grey colour on the main building,the roof was always going to be a problem,as the tiles on the facing side weren't very well defined,but in my world,there are no such things as problems-only solutions!!


I plumbed for a light grey roof,with the intention of dry-brushing it white and brown and finishing with a black wash(neither of these two skills are very high on my CV!!!)


I have painted the Gravestones light grey,and the whole area around the Church with a light green-it's now beginning to take shape.


I have "flocked" the grassy areas,to give it a bit of depth,so now onto the hard bit(as far as I am concerned-dry-brushing and washing!!)

I dry-brushed the church with a light brown first,followed by white,and finally touched up where necessary with the original grey...............................


The finished article!-although not 25mm scale,I'm sure it will do for the Vikings,Saxons and Normans to fight over!!


Consecrated by a Bishop-can't be bad!!!
I'm quite pleased with my attempts,but I won't go looking for more buildings to paint in the near future!!!





































7 comments:

  1. A great addition to the wargames table,well done.

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    1. Hi Tradgardmastare,I am very conscious of my limited painting abilities,but must admit I was pleased with the overall result'thanks for kind comment
      johnc(william0

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  2. Good acquisition! I had similar problems with a much smaller building I found in a market in Krakow. I ended up basecoating it with Testor's Dullcote to give the paint something to grip. An expensive way to do it, I suppose, but it was effective. Yours has come up very nicely...

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    1. Cheers Caliban,not bad for a "fiver"-I was,initially, disappointed that I couldn't get it under-coated properly,but we wargamers are never beaten with slight problems like that!!
      Thanks for youe comment,
      johnc(william)

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  3. Good work, John. You don't want the 'footprint' of the building to be too large anyway and there looks to be room to get a few figures defending the churchyard. Good for ECW too
    Cheers
    Chris

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    1. Hi Chris,seems like ages since I talked to you last!!!-I saw,in the reception/entrance to Vapnartak,a 28mm Church by "Sally Forth" and it was HUGE to day the least,and certainly wouldn't fit in with my figures-hadn't thought about ECW,but I will now.
      johnc.

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    2. The word "day" should,of course be "say"
      johnc

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