My friend kindly printed off a sample cave entrance for me from the humble bundle 3D models I purchased.

So what follows is my notes of the steps I took. Basically so that I can recreate what I did for other pieces when I get them printed.

So Saturday night I primed it ready for painting with a light grey primer. It was the only grey I had. Mind you I like the light grey generally any way.

Then Sunday I gave it a coating of Black Grey paint. Which as I write this part of the post is drying.

I followed that base coat up late afternoon with a coating of grey paint. But I used a not dry brush technique! By that I mean the brush was more wet than it would be for dry brushing. Not much wetter, I didn’t want the paint getting into all the gaps.

I then applied a dark tone wash, which the following photo shows having just been applied. I’ve not used any washing up liquid with the wash either.

This is the completely dry model. The wash has dulled down the grey nicely. I’m not sure I need to do any dry brush highlights.

So here we have the finished tile. It’s not going to win any model painting competition but I’m happy with the final look. But I’m gobsmacked how cool to me it looks. A lot better than I thought it would. At the beginning I was very apprehensive and expecting it too turn out a total train wreck. But somehow I avoided that.

I’ve applied some varnish to finish it off and protect it. And that’s all he wrote!