"Painting Stonewalls" Topic

I just bought some Stonewalls from Armorcast to use for a Jacobite Rebellion game. In the past, I spray painted my walls grey and washed them with black. I was wondering what others do to get a more realistic look.
Suggestions?

You could pick out individual stones with a light dry brush of browns and greens.

Spray grey, highlight with a lighter grey.
Get a toothbrush and flick a mixture of brown/green weak ink on the walls.
Highlight a final lighter grey.

Quick and easy.
If in a scale greater than 6mm try adding some moss or lichen to the walls.

I painted my samurai castle walls black, dry brushed them with two successive layers of grey paint, the second lighter than the first and a slightly off grey tone as well to get more variation in the color. I then went through and applied a variety of colored inks and "magic wash" colors over certain rocks to give the wall an appearance that it was made from a variety of stones with a variety of colors. The wall looked very good when completed. If you have ever looked closely at rock walls, the rocks themselves are very different in color unless they are all cobbled from the same area in which case they have somewhat a uniform color.

Angelbarracks has a very similar approach to mine. I game the Jacobite period, too, and have painted dozens and dozens of stone wall sections appropriate for fields in the north of Britain.

I start with a spray of black paint, followed by full dry brushing medium grey, then light dry brushing of light grey, very light dry brushing of a stone/sand color (muddy grey-yellow), then a light wash of chocolate brown to add a general weathered dirtiness to the whole.

I start with painting the whole thing black – spray primer. Then I "semi-dry brush" with a medium to dark gray. While this is still drying, you get to go crazy putting a splash of various shades of brown here and there on individual stones.

Let that dry and thin some light gray. Dry brush the thinned grey over the whole thing being careful not to totally cover the underlying darker colors.

Final paint touch is some bright white highlights. These can be dry brushed or just "dashed" on high points on the top of the wall and some superior surfaces of jutting stones.

To that you can add moss and grass tufts if you want to go crazy.

mjc

Great ideas. I'm going to start on them tonight.

Thanks alot!

If you look at old, outside stone-work, its absolutely covered with mold in faded shades of green, yellow and brown.

After you've shaded the wall grey using the usual techniques, dab at it with an old splayed brush in successive layers the above colours (like dry-brushing but dabbing instead). The overall "greyness" still shows though but is subtly dappled with mold.

I've used this method with great success on numerous occasions.

Manor House Workshop has a nice tutorial on painting stonework…looks wild at first and not exactly intuitive, but if the techniques are applied as listed, the end result is very authentic looking. You can find Manor House in the Manufacturers list.

OH, OK, here's the link:

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