As mentioned in my thread on a street fighting dio, I am going to try to model a cobblestoned street with buildings on both sides, and lots of rubble. I plan to make and paint the street with a method similar to this:

http://hfmodeling.kitmaker.net//features/1268


and I plan on painting my buildings similar to this:


http://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/1533


Obviously I need to paint the street, and I need to paint the buildings and rubble. I would guess that the usual method is to do all the construction first, and then all the painting last. If I have my streets done, my buildings built and in place, and my rubble glued down, in what order should I start painting? Is there a particular method to this? I would tend to think you should go from the top down, but I really don't know. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks,

matthew

Personally painting a base with all the components on it I go from bottom (street) to top. This gives me the ability paint lower sections and not worry about rubbing, bumping, or ruining higher elements. I usually do base coats first, then go back and do secondary coats, then washes, then pastels.

If I can I'll build each element separately, give it a base coat then assemble it. But in your case with a destroyed street it may be easier to assemble first. Do be careful with getting in nooks and cranies and plan ahead.
In this diorama for a review I did I had to use some very thinned paint to get in and color the white material. I assembled 1st and it bacame a challenge. You may want to explore tinting the rubble base 1st before adding smaller brick level material

review with rubble

Why don't you look at this article?

this is the way I usually did it, the big advantage (for me) was that with this method you bring everything together

A Simple Diorama - by: Keith Forsyth

great article.

alright, thanks for the help everyone!!!!!

Thanks for that article Ronny. Just saved that one to an ever growing archieve.

Ok, I'm getting closer to the point where I am going to be constructing my rubble filled street. I plan on having a few rubble piles and then some "loose" debris scattered around. I know I can paint bricks before I glue them down, but I'm not sure about how to paint the rubble piles. Should I just paint them the same color as the street and then pick out the details? Perhaps paint them to look like mounds of dirt pieces of rubble in them. Any help would be grealy appreciated, thanks everyone,

Matthew