Barn Done It!

 Well I am pleased to say that the barn is done! A mere two years since assembling the eleven parts of this Wills kit the painting and weathering was done over four days. This is where I started with the kit in its four plastic colours. As always, click on the pictures for a bigger image.

 

Primed in black and then with some thin gray sprayed on the stone work it looked like this.

Then things got interesting with the woodwork sprayed a tan brown. Being old wood this was not the final finish but gave a good base for what was to follow.

Individual stones were picked out in different shades of tan made by having a spot of both tan and white on a pallet and mixing different hues randomly and applying it randomly. Being random is harder than it sounds though!  The wood was given a light spray of gray to tone the tan down and give it that silvery look of old weathered wood. The roof tiles were given an overall coat of an orange which was toned down with white and then individual tiles picked out using various further shades of the orange and white mix. Then I took advantage of the detail that the model has by using a very dilute (about 1part of paint and four of water) mix of black to just flood the detail. Gravity is not your friend for this process if you want the paint to stay in the relief of the mouldings so once painted I left each side facing upwards for an hour to let the paint dry. The photos below probably give a better idea of the whole process.

Having done all that and let the paint fully dry a light dusting of MIG European Dust was applied all over and then a light spray of matt varnish to protect it all and remove any sheen. The final product looks good to me!

What was nice about this project was that as I had other projects on the go I could take the time to leave this one well alone whilst the paint dried - something that I have paid the consequences for not doing in the past! The other bonus was that it was finished over a relatively short period if I ignore that it sat on the shelf for two years! Anyway, another part of the bigger Shelf Queen project that I mentioned in the last post is complete and that has to be good for the sole Barn Done It!