Hey guys,
Thanks very much for the kind words. I hope to have a few pictures soon but in the meanwhile here is the way that I did the floor and the balastrad was done the same way just using different colors.
The floor was sheet styrene and I marked it out and then scribed in the patteren. For the scribbing I used sewing needles, the bigger ones. Once I had the groves deep enough I took some liquid glue and ran it in the ruts, this helps to melt any burrs. Once dry, overnight I waited, I lightly ran some sandpaper over the surface. I then airbrused the tan/gray color, deck tan and a bit of stone gray. Once this was dry I hand painted the green tiles using Andrea Napoleonic green.
The next step was the swirl/marble patterns. The gray areas were just different shades of gray mixed with the base until the really dark ones were German gray. I then used different shades of green for the green section and the Greman gray. A side note, while I was painting the different sections I would take dirty water, from the paint tray and wash over the paint, this helps to give it the feather look. Once all this was finished I took the base and gave it an oil paint wash of Sepia, very thin. When dry I painted the grout/groove sections with a mix of German gray lightened up with deck tan.
I then airbrushed the base going from let to right and then back the other way. I did this in a mist, where is was not very heavy. I then took the base and rotated it the other way and did the same thing. I kept repeating this process for about 12 coats. Doing it this way causes it to orange peel and then when you rotate it the the other way it fill in those voids. I then repeated the whole process over but this time heavier amount of Future until I had a total of about 15 coats. I think it looks better in person but will try to get a few nicer pictures as well.
Thanks again,
Joe
