Another quick Season of Scenery 2023 post today – Two years ago, I painted and posted this same kit – Warlord Games’ Stone Bridge.
The original one was picked up in June 2017 and then painted in August 2020 for Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery 2020. I don’t recall when I picked up this second kit, but I can only assume it was after I painted the first one. In any case, the kit’s been sitting around as a set of sprues in a plastic bag (I didn’t get a box, so I presumably purchased it direct from Warlord). Marouda and I were doing some cleaning and sorting a couple of weeks ago and I found the sprues, so I grabbed them out to get rid of (by assembling and painting, obviously).
I didn’t check how I’d painted the first one before starting on this one. After assembly, I added AK Interactive Easycast texture and then left it to dry. When I was adding the texture, I noticed that the ends had separated and not glued in tight, which was annoying, so I added a little more in those corners. Sprayed black, then a couple shades of zenithal grey. Spray Coat of Satin varnish. Drybrushed a couple of layers of grey, let it dry. Washed with a black-brown mix. Drybrushed again in two shades of grey. Washed the underside with a mix of Athonian Camoshade wash mixed with a dollop of VMC Medium Olive. One more light drybrush of light grey.
Wet-brushed shading of thin panzergrau in the inner corners, then added the same with thinned track brown. Spray varnished again. Found it was a bit too shiny once it was dry, so I brought it inside and painted the whole thing with a roughly 3:5 mix of Contrast Medium and AK Ultramatte varnish. Done!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Nicely done! 🙂 After years of searching I’ve finally found a small stone humpback bridge that I liked and have just finished painting that!
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Cheers John – I look forward to seeing it after you Varnish it!
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Since I didn’t have the chance to varnish it while doing trees it still needs to be done, although I have debated whether I really need to! It’s not particularly impressive and might just wait until it’s in a game sometime before it appears! So at the moment it really just needs varnish!
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Excellent work mate, and another useful bridge for you to play over, especially like the algae weathering you’ve done, that area must get some serious flooding ! LOL
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Thanks Dave! I must be inspired(!) by it being midwinter here…
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This came out very well, mate and it sounds like it didn’t take long at all either which is always a plus in my book.
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3 years of mental preparation and a couple of hours of work over a couple of days. Sounds about right!
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The bridge has come out really well.
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Man do I like that grey stone color. So the one thing that stands out, is that you’re washing with a brown-black mix whereas I wash with just black (Nuln Oil). I’ll have to give the brown-black a try and see what I think.
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