Building goes awry and gets a paint job

Last night I decided this weekends mini-project would be to make the Scottish Big House from the Jacobite paper soldier book. I was hoping to make the house stronger and added card and balsa wood, but it did not work out. So left with a house looking shape and not wanting to waste the effort spent so far I decided to carry on and paint the house.

Scottish Big House

Using the original pictures as a guide I painted the base sand colour and gave the walls a wash of yellow to lighten the stone colour. Once dry darker and lighter shades were mixed and dabbed on to create stone patterns.

I used the windows and door from the book, cut them out and stuck them on the house.

The building as it started to all go awry.

A roof was added

The slate roof was painted dark grey. As with the walls, a lighter grey was mixed and dabbed on with a small brush followed by black.

Dabs of light bluey grey and blank are used to give an impression of a slate roof.

While it was not planned this way, I am quite happy with the end result which fits better with my existing balsa wood houses. The Scottish House will get its first outing not in a Jacobite game, but representing a chateau in the WW2 campaign I am planning.

My existing balsa wood houses