Being resin, the buildings were subjected to a vigorous cleaning to eliminate an mold release chemicals that would make it difficult to get paint to stick. As it turned out, there were little blue bits of the mold wedged in the thatched roof. These were easily picked out with the tip of an X-acto knife.
Black basecoat, browns overpainted, increasingly light browns dry-brushed. The result still looked a bit flat to me, lacking any depth. I re-primered, starting with a darker brown and going lighter with highlights. Still not the result I was looking for.
The next step was breaking out the Army Painter Quickshade. While I know some people really like it, I've only one time liked the result, and that was with a Wargames Factory zombie I painted and dipped as a test figure to see if it would be feasible to crank out a a super fast cheap zombie horde. The result looked good and painting was a snap, but assembling WF plastics annoyed me more than any fiddly GW stuff has ever managed.
The dip didn't make me happy either, but it was closer. The result was just too dark. Taking one more stab at it, I lightened the colors, painted on a thin coat of Quickshade, highlighted that, and then clearcoated with matte varnish.
The result is far from perfect, but I was mostly happy with it. This approach is one I've got to remember to keep with me on this project so that it doesn't die out like so many others, killed off by a search for "great" when I should stop at "good enough".
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