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Distraction: Greta's Revenge

Painting the Bricks

First thing in the painting process was giving the bricks that were showing on the places where the plaster has come off. As I was working with foam I couldn’t use the washing method with humbrol-turpentine because the foam starts to melt as soon as it only smells the turpentine so I had to do everything by hand.

The brickwork was done in four colors first I gave all the brick work a coat of khaki drill (fig.12). After that was dried I painted white as good as possible between the bricks (mortar) there was no need to do a really clean job as there were another two colors are going on top of that. Next color was brick red and this was a thick dry brush and tries to cover only the higher levels of the bricks, try to avoid the mortar. To tone down the brick red I gave the fourth color (also a dry brush) in a bit darker version of brick red. Then I took one of the colors Khaki drill and painted a couple of bricks in random order in this color. I repeated this step with the other three colors. So much for the brick (fig.15)

The inside of the building was painted in German grey to simulate also a sort of plaster (fig.16). The Street section was painted after I made the debris but more about that later.

The Plaster

For the plaster I used wall Spackle this is fluid whole filler and it comes in a tube. It’s very cheap (it’s a big tube for a small amount of money) and you can find it in every DIY store. I applied this wall spackle just as normal plaster was applied on the wall and avoided hereby the painted areas where the bricks have to show. Easy as that. Let it dry long enough so you can sand it a little bit (fig.17,18)
Onto the next painting stage.

As the plaster is dry we can go to the next stage. Painting it I mixed desert yellow with some white and a little khaki drill till I was satisfied with it. This was just hand painted on the wall plaster. Simple as that (fig.20).