Paint or pencil?

Normally I like to colour bricks with pencil crayons, but for this model, I've gone for dry-brushed paint.

I'm not really sure why. It just seemed like the right thing to do.

The work is pretty simple - dry-brush Humbrol 70 everywhere followed by some other random browns that aren't very different shades. Work quickly so the paints blend on the model and hope that not too much finds its way into the mortar lines.

One advantage of paint is it's easier to do the whitemetal chimney pot in a matching colour. I've never had real success with pencils here, but chimneys should be nice and sooty, so no-one ever notices.