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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadowlight" data-source="post: 2091554" data-attributes="member: 7084">OK, I finally have some time to post my painting results from Tuesday night!For me the first step in painting is to get into some appropriate attire.  I recommend an old BNL T-Shirt from their Maroon tour:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/bnl_shirt.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Hello City!I'm going with the dirty stone look rather than the gray stone look, so I got some colors that looked similar to <a href="http://www.hirstarts.com/painting/painting.html#earth" target="_blank">the ones that Bruce Hirst has on his website</a>.  I got some of the cheap Delta Ceramcoat acrylics from my local craft store in the colors Burnt Umber, Mocha Brown, and Antique White: <img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/paint_burnt_umber.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/paint_mocha_brown.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/paint_antique_white.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Color Me Cheap!I really recommend reading Bruce Hirst's painting tutorials (linked above) and watching the painting video he has on the same site.  Those are nearly exactly the same techniques I used for Basing and Dry Brushing.I experimented a bit with some of my broken/bubbly pieces and came up with a three coat system that I liked:     - Base: 2.5 parts Burnt Umber,1 part Mocha Brown, 0.5 part water     - Dry Brush 1: Mocha Brown     - Dry Brush 2: 1 part Mocha Brown, 1 part Antique WhiteFor the Base coat, I watered it down just a bit so that it would slop into all the cracks nicely and so that I'd end up with more shades of brown (in areas where it ended up thinner).Here's a corner piece after the base coat:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/painting_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> All my base are belong to... me  :\ Next came the first dry brush:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/painting_02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Dry Brush 1 Followed by the second dry brush.  Here's the final results being shown off by my trusty warforged:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/painting_03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Is that a Warforged on your dungeon or are you just...nevermind.Same piece but pulled back so you can see the walls:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/painting_04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> My 5x5 room never looked so good!And finally, a little Displacer Beast on Monk action:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/painting_05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Fight!Well, all in all, I'm really satisfied with the paint job results.  Once I figured out what I liked, it was really straight forward to do the bulk of the painting.One word of caution: when the pieces get wet from the paint, the Tacky Glue bond gets kind of soft.  Be careful to make sure your pieces don't goo apart while you're painting them!</blockquote>

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