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Monday 22 August 2022

Speedy Gonzales - NOT

 My enthusiasm for this week's painting wained as the week went on as I've mostly been painting roofs - just the two of them. I'm now up to painting highlighting or putting washes over them for the fifth or sixth time ( I lost track). The original intention was to highlight the darker mustard coloured with, progressively,  two lighter ones.  Unfortunately the yellows I chose turned out to be mostly greys - a Yellow/white problem I have with my eyesight and generally I see these as almost identical shades. I tend to see all colours much  paler than they should be (red/orange is another problem). A wash of another yellow ochre just about fixed the problem, but needed two washes and finally, to give that grim look I washed with a charcoal (black would have been far to harsh imo). 
The finished "Blue House" roof is shown, in situ, above right.
I 've also done some remedial modelling on the "Blue House's" front window,  the "Jail's" front window and roof, and the roof of the "Shack".
Here's the photo's:
The two roofs' progress
Spot the problem...No?...
...How about now ?
Window sorted (and bonus obligatory blurry picture)
"Jail" window now has board across the bottom
Jail roof, with pots acting as an aid to roof removal
The "Shack" with its new roof
I also gave Harry/Brad some shading but that's for another day.

And that's it then for another week, not much I know, but I'm happy that I got anything done !
 
Thanks for taking the time to visit and as always your comments are welcomed and appreciated.

16 comments:

  1. Nice progress Joe, with the colour problems you have you have achieved a lot. Progress of any sort is good progress, and the roofs have a nice aged feel to them now.

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    1. Thanks Dave, I hope I can duplicate the same effects on all the other pantiles on the other buildings.

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  2. That looks fantastic Joe - I like the jars on the roof

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    1. Thanks MJT, the jars are merely a handle for the easy removal of the roof and could just have easily been some other detritus.

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  3. Nice use of the corrugated cardboard for the roofing Joe! I keep stashing boxes made with this for using as corrugated metal sheets, but I can see their usefulness as clay tiles now too!

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    1. Thanks Terry, the corrugation card is a boon, especially as one side is corrugations. I have a crimper too for 'double sided' corrugations.

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  4. Fantastic looking progress sir!

    I don't know if you are a football fan but congratulations on playing Newcastle!
    After all, since the 90s I can watch them again :-)

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    1. Thanks Michal, I am a big NUFC supporter, for many years and we have waited a long time to enjoy watching them play again !

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    2. Great :-) love the Alan Shearer era.

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    3. I totally agree, certainly the best period of fottball in my liftime - so far (I was too young to appreciate the last time we on the FA cup in 1955 when I was three !)

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  5. Great painting on the roofs, Joe, the colours look great and well weathered. I love the little jars, too, it's the small details like those that can really bring a building to life!

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    1. Thanks Matt, as someone once saod th devil's in the detail and although I'm not over-enthusiastic about this project ow some details are worth the effort imo.

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  6. You've done way more than I have Joe. I bought some kit off Dave Stone at the start of the month and then lost all motivation and enthusiasm due to how I am.

    Chap I knew who I used to game with, regularly painted while drunk - came to look at his own work the morning after and had one of those familiar 'what was I thinking?' moments when taking in his beer-goggled colour choices.

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    1. Thanks Roy, it is taking me a lot of effort to get anything done these days, mostly because I have in th back of my mind that I've done it all before.
      A fellow blogger I played games with had a night shift at a gargae where he used to get a lot of painting and modelling done!

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  7. Good looking progress!
    Best Iain

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    1. THanks Iain and sorry for the lateness of my reply

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