Un-painting the Renedra ramshackle barn

I had tons of fun tonight painting the Renadra barn to look unpainted.  And I’m really pleased with the way it has turned out.  Quite sharp, as one might say …

The Renedra ramshackle barn is a plastic kit aimed for use with 28mm figures. It only has a very few pieces, and so goes together very easily.

But it is the painting – er, un-painting – that is the most fun.   This is my recipe for painting something to look like it hasn’t seen a lick of paint for some years:

1. Undercoat with a flat black spraypaint.
2. Apply a heavy dry-brush of medium grey student’s acrylic paint all over the whole model.
3. Wash random boards and tiles with a range of different ink/wash colours (I used four inks: sepia, devlan mud, black and even some red ink).
4. Go round all edges of door frames, barge boards, windows etc with devlan mud ink to give an impression of shadows.
5. Wash the entire roof with devlan mud ink to pick out the tiles.
6. Paint in the rusty hinges, hanging ropes and other details. 
7. Cover everything (walls, doors, roof … the lot) with a light white dry brush.
8. Go over the roof tiles again with a light green dry brush.

And that’s it.  Apart from the black spraypaint, which I left to dry for a whole day, the rest took me only about an hour!