Painting Tips

We’ve teamed up with Stephen Fay to bring you these painting tips to get the best out of painting our Intentio kits. Steve has commissioned and built a number of our kits for his own layout and on commission for his customers including his fantastic Severn Tunnel East Main Line micro and Pete Watermans Brinklow layout among others.

• Paint the building with grey primer. We use Halfords Auto Grey Primer. The MDF will soak this up and it will dry quite quickly.
• Once dry, cover it in several thin coats of white gloss. This will provide a waterproof surface for the next layers to adhere too. We use Pound Shop Gloss White spray paint.
• Spray on a base brick colour. We use Halfords red oxide primer but others such as Railmatch BR freight Bauxite 2235 can be used.
• Pick out individual brick colours using a mix of Matt and Gloss Browns and Oranges. We use colours from the Humbrol Enamel range matt 60, 82, 100 and gloss 18.
• Working on small areas at a time, work a water based cream colour to represent the mortar into the brick courses. We use Humbrol matt Cream Acrylic 103. Wipe away quickly the surface paint with a damp cloth.
• An optional dry brush of Humbrol matt Black 33 and Phoenix Engineers Blue Brick P954 is sparingly applied to age the brickwork.

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To represent blue engineering bricks we use Phoenix Engineers Blue Brick P954 and  Precision Paints Concrete Weathered P958 for concrete features.