Painting Exterior Walls
I started by painting the interior of the walls with a flat black ("Steam Engine Black"). This is necessary to keep the interior lights from shining through the walls later on. Next, I covered the exterior of the walls with Polly Scale "Sand". The purpose of that is to fill in the "mortar lines".



The next step is to paint the individual bricks. It is a technique I learned from Monroe Stewart in Allen Keller's video of Monroe's layout. The idea is to take a flat, stiff-bristle paint brush and dip it in the paint of choice. Then wipe most of the paint off of the brush and touch the flat side of the brush against the tops of the bricks. The next photo show the first pass using this method. Several passes are necessary, preferably with several different variants on the dominant color, in this case, red. As you can see, after the first pass the structure was still too light for my taste.



This last photo shows the final paint scheme. Several passes of coloring the brick surfaces were applied. I also painted the concrete base, the door and window frames, and the brick above the doors and windows. Several applications of India ink mixture (mixed with isopropyl alcohol) and some weathering were applied to darken the walls. Finally, Testors Dullcoate was sprayed on to help protect the surface and to dull any remaining shininess.