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Joshua Qualtieri made this castle using cardboard and textured paint. It is a quick and effective alternative to the modular castle project, and a superb maiden TerraGenesis project from Joshua. |
Materials
Method
I started out intending to build the whole castle out of scraps, but realized I needed balsa. I figured that since I was going to be buying things anyhow that I might as well get textured paint.
I could have got the same effect as textured paint using sand and PVA glue, but hey, I live in the middle of the city, sand is hard to come by.
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I started by making all of the walls and towers and the gatehouse out of heavy cardboard, each wall is two layers of cardboard thick. I then cut up a cereal box into 1cm by 2cm rectangles and glued them randomly onto the walls and towers to simulate bricks(this doesn't come through in the photos) |
I then filled the edges of the cardboard with wood putty, which I smoothed out with some sand paper when dry. After that I covered everything in a heavy layer of textured paint. Sprayed it grey and then drybrushed white.
| If I had had more time than I actually had to work on this, I would have drybrushed in progressively lighter shades of grey, but the single pass of white actually looks decent. |  |
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The timbers on the buildings, ladders and tower tops are just strips of balsa painted in brown ink and a black wash. The wall walks are light brown with a black wash(I ran out of brown ink!). The buildings themselves are made out of thin card and a little foamboard on the inside to strengthen the corners. |
Finally I glued everything to the foamboard base and flocked it Total time in the project from start to finish is only about 12-14 hours, and it came out much better than I had thought it would for having such a short time to work on it.