Hey everyone.....i'm really bad at matching paints to items in real life so would anyone have any idea what paints i should use to replicate this? i will be using cheap craft store paints but what GW should they be similar to?


also the roofing will be reddish colored shingles (Italian style) any idea how to do those? Thanks

I'd go with a priming layer of snakebite leather, maybe add a little grey to that. Then use desert yellow and to finish them, a mix of desert yellow and bleached bone.

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I don't use GW paints.
Yellow Ochre ,ochre, Ivory. and medium gray and or a raw umber wash over light gray spray primer. Any of the Palid brands of craft paint or artist acrylics will work fine for 1/10th the price of GW paints.

If you are going to paint over plaster skip the primer and thin the paint with Future floor wax and stain light to dark. Over primer paint dark to light.

Roof tiles. Prime with black. Then over spray red oxide primer. Paint dark to light with antique brick then terracotta.
Americana heritage brick and Craft Smart Red brick are also good base colors for the roof.



The dock building is pre-painted MBA. The building on the left was painted over black primmer the building one the right over red oxide primmer. I painted these so long ago I don't think I used a black under coat on the roofs. I would now.



I used Country tan, Desert sand, and bleached sand on the wall.

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Thanks for the tips

IMO, and I am not an expert. But I have painted a few bricks. I used yellow, like a light yellow, and then take dark brown shoe polish, rub the polish on, and then immediately rub off the shoe polish, quickly...leaving it on for no more than 30 seconds. This turns the yellow into a sandy tone. Then you can dry brush with a khaki color and then dry brush with a light grey...to tone it back down. Dry brushing with grey at the end will turn it close to that, IMO. I would test it out first, before I went all out. I would also probably dry brush a little white as well in various places.

Tom