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From the album: Half-scale RGT Colonial (first house!)
Because I have a tight budget for this rather ambitious project, I looked around the house for a way to color the shingles. I had a bunch of old watercolors that hadn't used the black paint, so I popped out three discs of black watercolor pigment and mixed them with 1 cup of water, and soaked the shingles overnight. The next morning I laboriously spread them into one layer to dry. The results are not perfect but they are close to what I imagined. I am allowing the leftover paint to dry out a little (it's down to half a cup in volume) and might wash over the shingles again, because some of them definitely still look like chips of pine. -
From the album: Half-scale RGT Colonial (first house!)
This use of black watercolor has the potential to be very blotchy but on the plus side, nothing will stain! Anything touched by the paint just gets a quick wash. -
What is the easiest way to atain 1,280 shingles for my dollhouse? Do I stain them individually? (I'm thinking yes is the answer to this question...) Thanks for any tips or shortcuts!
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Hi, I want to paint my shingles "realistic" on a Victorian dollhouse.My plan was to mix an acrylic wash and apply it in a varying number of layers to get some variation. Don't know if this is a good idea. Here in Sweden we dont have many Victorian houses; is dark brown or black good choices?
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From the album: CNC
1/12 scale Left & cw: carved shingles, siding, window - over-cut grills! board & batten. over-cut again - battens too thin!© MP2013
