Hello to all,
I have been doing a lot of school work lately and at the end of the day I just haven't had that enthusiasm to work on my Diorama's. One reason is because I need some help on my 2nd Diorama. It is supposed to be France during 1944, I haven't found quit the right color for my walls, I posted about a week ago about ground work. But now im in no mans land with the wall painting, can any of you send me some pictures or help me out a little bit with the painting. This forum has helped me out with a lot of Diorama work, learning building etc. I appreciate it so much.
David
P.S. if it helps I will also post some pictures of the walls.

Gday David
A short answer to your immediate problem would be to post some photos. It gives everyone the chance to appreciate it's setting in order to help you with colour selection, whether there is damage involved, is it concrete or brick rendered, etc.
Cheers
Brad

David don't get hung up on the colour of the walls. If they are natural stone they could be either limestone or sandstone, if they are brick then yellow or brick red. The colour of stone depends on the many factors such as the way it was quarried, it's exposure to air, light and weather etc.
As Brad says posting a picture of the Dio in progress will help us to help you.

Thanks again everyone, I have found the right color for the walls. But the question now is, do I use my airbrush or paint it with windsor and newton paints?
David

Hi David, Generally the best technique for painting walls is as follows:

First do a base coat, (this will usually be the colour of the mortar holding the brick/stone together) you can do this with the airbrush to save time and to ensure you don't get any build up of paint where you don't want it.

Secondly drybrush on the actuall wall colour, this will mean it only goes on the raised surfaces and not in the cracks where the mortar is. For this i'd personally use enamels.

Then drybrush on a lightened version of the colour used in step 2. be more sparing this time as this is just to add highlights to the wall and give it some depth. again i'd use enamels here.

Then add some washes of a dark colour using your windsor and newton oil paints. Burnt umber would probably work well.

Finally you are free to dirty them up with pigments or paint to the desired effect.

Hope that is of some help mate.

Have fun and get some pic up so the guys can see where you're coming from!

Cheers,

James