How to paint cobblestones
Article by Lorenzo Marchetto and photographs by Maurizio Sardi.
Notice: This article was published on the magazine Tutto Modellismo n. 24/1995 (©Hobby & Work).
Before you begin, remember that you can zoom all the photographs displaying the techniques explained in the article simply by clicking on them.
As far as the colours we used, you'll find the descriptions and the polyurethane-acrylic color codes for ManorHouse Colors, ideal for these works. For your reference, we will also mention the codes of equivalent Vallejo (VJ) and Lifecolor (LC). The china inks are by Pelikan, however you can use different kinds of chinas.
We advise you to clean the brushes thoroughly when switching colour.
1) After thoroughly cleaning the piece, you should brush-apply a layer of Medium Gray (LC 19 - VJ 990) so that the following decoration will have a uniform background. This layer must have covering capacity without being too thick, otherwise the details carved out on the piece will not be visible.
 2) The painting procedure continues by colouring the base colour stones, chosen randomly, as asymmetrically as possible and trying to avoid painting two adjacent stones the same colour. The sequence is similar to the one you read about in the tutorial about how you paint stone, except you change some colours because there are different kinds of stone. Indeed the prevailing colour shades are white (LC 01 - VJ 951) and blue (LC 31 - VJ 963), cold and contrasting colours that liven up the surface more rather than in stone walls.
The basic colouring stage is over, now wait for the colours to dry up before you move to the next step.
 3) Brush-wash using Pelikan sepia colour china. When washing, mix the china with the same amount of water or otherwise keep a 2:3 china-water ratio. Make sure that the china reaches all the gaps between stones and repeat the procedure if any area is not coloured.
 4) Now apply some streaks using the dry-brush technique, as described in the tutorial about stones. The only difference is that you apply an extremely light finishing layer of pure White.
Finished! The final result is what you can see in the photograph opening the article, which we took in the sunlight so as to avoid altering the colours. The walls and floor are particularly noticeable (see also the tutorial on stone walls).
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