Paint Table Saturday 11 September

 As you can see, there has been a lot of progress on the jungle buildings since Wednesday. On Thursday, after some quick size checks, I decided to spray the buildings indoors rather than wait for a sunny day and clear garden. Not my preferred option, but needs must.

The spray paints I've used are Halfords Camo Dark Brown, followed by a dusting of Halfords Camo Khaki from a high angle to add a first highlight.

I also carried on with the water tank. I got it nicely rusted up on Thursday, then yesterday I textured and painted the base:

Yesterday also saw me adding drybrush highlights to the wood on all of the buildings. I also dry-brushed the thatch:

I started out today intending just to work on the buildings with wriggly-tin and the tool shed which I've given tar strip roofing. The metal was base-coated with thinned down VMA Tank Brown; the tar strips with thinned VMC Black:

Using some foam ripped from a figure tray insert, I splodged VMA Light Rust onto the metal:

I then drybrushed with VMC Oily Steel; the tar strips were drybrushed with VMC Grey Green and VMC London Grey:

The metal was then washed with heavily thinned VMA light rust:

The metal was finished off with more splodging of VMA Light Rust, a light splodging of VMA Orange Rust and a final light drybrush of VMC Oily Steel:

As that was all done much earlier than I'd expected, I mixed up a batch of ink wash to stain the woodwork, then applied it to all of the buildings. Unfortunately I forgot to take a comparison photo of stained and unstained.

Tomorrow I'll be texturing the bases:

I'll have to do that in two batches as there isn't enough room on the bench to work on them all at the same time. I probably won't get around to painting the texture tomorrow, so that will be a fairly quick job for Monday. The final job will be to add static grass - if I'm lucky, that will get done on Monday, but I suspect that it will be a Tuesday morning job.

Update: Naff all on the telly, so I decided to add the basing texture - only took about an hour including all the cleaning up!