Hello,

I have ventured out of my spectrum of knowledge on dios. I have made a muddy looking road but I have no idea how to paint the thing. Could someone please help me?

Thanks
Justin

Yes we can. First of all we need more detail. How muddy is the road? how wide is the road? how deep will the ruts/tyre tracks be? is it wet mud or sticky mud?
Are there vehicles in it? Figures?
Maybe you can post some pic's to give an Idea of the layout etc.

Mud usualy with some dark brown shades, topped with a coat of gloss varnish to make it shiny, voor that wet look.

Cheers
Henk

Henk's right-more details would be good. Meanwhile, try mixing baking soda with your paint if you want sloppy, wet mud. The more soda, the thicker the mud. Also, for a wet look, you could overspray the ground cover with polyurethane. I used both methods on this one.

Art



P.S.-The water in the ditch is Lucite (casting resin) with paint added for color.

Hello,

Sorry about being so vague. Here is a pic of what I'm working with.



Hope this helps a little.

Justin

To paint this road I would start with a bit of research. I would try to find out what color the ground is where you want the diorama to be. For example, in Asia there is a lot of red clay based mud, in northern Europe the mud is darker and more brown.

Either way I would get the base color down, I'll use Burnt Umber as a base (ETO). Get that in the road everywhere, then I would add some black to the color and add some extra thinner to create more of a wash. I would apply this into the ruts. This will darken them up and add shadows. I would then add some light brown to the original color and hit the high spots. To tie it all together I would then make a wash of some medium brown color and cover it all in one coat, then vary the color a bit and cover it all after coat 1 is dry, then repeat until there are probably three or four coats.

To get a 'wet' mud look I would add a layer of gloss coat where you want it wet.

When we are on the topic of painting ground work, how do you paint/make snow???

Your better off using actually mud.

This is quite easy,
Get some Elmers glue, Dirt, water , and some color additive. Pastels or paint?
( your choice )
mix the dirt, with water and then some ellmers glue,
mix it together, then some black. Enoguh to make it look like actually wet mud.
after that to make it look fresh, take some Water resin or something glossy, add it to the mixture.
lay it out and let it dry for a while then go back and add some more water resin to make puddles

Hope this helps you

for snow, use baking soda

Tsunamibomb;
The eternal question. My 1 1/2 cents worth: Baking soda over white glue/water mix, but I'm sure other responses will be fortcoming.

Art