i am doing a diorama that requires a resin cobblestone street set in 1945 Berlin. Can anyone offer suggestions on how to paint and finish a cobblestone street. What color should it be primed in ?
Thanks for your input,
Leddy
I’ll soon be doing my first cobbelstone base. I am thinking of black primer with various shades of dark grey on the cobbles. But i would be interested to see if anyone else has any ideas.
I have recently built two dioramas with cobblestones - although they are both French cobble roads rather than German. Typical French/Belgian cobbles are very sandy but still hold their dark grey granite color. The first one I built I found that the Tamiya glue I used to stick the individual plaster bricks to the base actually gave me almost exactly the color I wanted and dried quite dark. I used brown and flesh colored acrylics to brush paint tire tracks and areas of accumlated sand on the stones.
The second one I built is meant to be muddy so I brush painted those with liberal dark brown acrylics. It took a long time to drop paint between all the cracks - again I laid this road brick by brick to get the messy, old, used road effect. I’m experimenting with mache and future to try and fill some low areas with water and mud puddles.
Long story short - I found brush painting directly on top of the cobbles gave a great effect - as opposed to an airbrush. I damaged them using a sharp knife blade to make cracks, grooves and chips in individual stones. Paint applied easily to the plaster - resin you might need a dark base to make it stick better…
Hope that helps.
^That looks like a good method. I may be trying that soon.