R279 Mock Georgian House - Part 4. Roof and floors.

 

To my mind, a model building benefits from fitting floors (not flaws, I'll talk about that tomorrow) and walls, so viewers can't look through the windows and see out the other side when they aren't supposed to. Worse, sometimes you can look through the top windows and see through the bottom ones!

A floor is supplied with the kit, but I've bodged the walls out of Daler board card. Black colouring is from a fat permenant marker as I couldn't be bothered to use paint. It all looks the same once the roof is on anyway. 

Painting the roof follows the instructions in St Martyn's book, The Art of Weathering - always a useful resource for ideas and well laid out for dipping in and out of. 

Bacially, a coat of tarmac followed by a small number of tiles picked out in a tarmac/lead mix. Finish up with a dry brush of tramac/pale grey mix. He then goes on to wash with dirt, but for this model I think that's a step too far. If I find it a home on a layout, my mind might change, but it's easier to add the wash than take it away.