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Painting the samurai fishing village set

Wow! What a lot of brown to paint in this set!! The new Samurai Fishing Village has been on the paint desk for the last couple of weeks, so here's a quick guide on how to paint it up nice and fast...



▲ I started with two colours of spray undercoat - a dark grey for the rocks and fish ovens, and a light brown for everything else! The drumtower model has two-colour rock and wood pieces, which I sprayed in 2 stages with some masking tape to cover off the first colour.

▲ All of the grey rock parts were then carefully drybrushed with light grey, using a 2" wide brush.

▲ The models made from bamboo or with large rope sections were roughly painted next, with a sand-coloured yellow brown. They were then given a heavy dark brown/black wash to fill in all the deep recesses, followed by a rough drybrush with the previous sand-coloured yellow brown.

▲ All of the wooden models were given a heavy dark brown/black wash to fill in all the deep recesses.

▲ All of the wooden pieces were given a rough drybrush with a light brown, and then some of the smaller details (ropes, cloth patches, fish etc) were basecoated, washed and highlighted.

At this stage everything was looking pretty finished, but there were 2 more steps I wanted to try...

First was a very light drybrush with a very light grey, over almost everything. This helps age the wooden and bamboo pieces, and gives the effect of sun-bleaching - something you'd find on items left outside in the sun and rain at a fishing village.

▲ The second step was to generously wash the bottom edges of most items with a green wash. The rocks and boats obviously need this, to help them look at home in the water, so I actually roughy dabbed 2 green washes around the bottom and in the crevices, wherever seawater might leave algae and seaweed. 

▲ The jetty pieces also got dabs of green wash around the bottoms of the posts, and on random planks.

▲ This torii gate also benefits from plenty of green washes around the lower rocks, as it would be partially submerged in the seawater at high tides.

The Samurai Fishing Village is now complete, and should be ready for release in a few days. Watch this space!

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