Painting the toilet part 1

 

The instructions for this model are fascinating when it comes to paint. Every colour is mixed, and Artitec details how much of each colour should be added to the mix. 

This is nice, but a bit of a faff, especially if you need a second batch of a particular colour and then have to match the colour you used before. So, I went my own way, aiming for 80% of the result, for 20% of the effort. 

I was lucky that the one colour you don't have to mix is for the woodwork - Humbrol Matt Leather (62). There is a pot in my stash, picked up cheaply in a bag of five tinlets from Anoraks Anonymous. A single coat of this produces, to my eye, a nicely worn paint finish. I've never planned this is a perfect building. 

The stucco walls are simply Cream (103) stippled with Light Stone (121) using a sponge. It looks just like the photo on the box, and if I need to touch an area up, the paint is in the pot.