Nine years, one month, and a few days ago, I got a 28mm Warbases church to that very dangerous stage of finished called “good enough for the table for now”. It got basecoated with just a bit of detail in two posts back in May 2017 and June 2017.

Unlike some of the slow-burn projects around here, Warbases still produce this church and honestly, it’s still a really nice building. Nicely scaled to not overwhelm even a small skirmish table, some nice engraved detail, and still a bargain.

Last time we saw my church it looked like this. Basecoated, roughly drybrushed, and some basic detail and highlights painted. I did get the porch roof installed and the base painted and flocked after that last June 2017 post, at least.

I’ve always intended to get back to the thing, add detail to the outside, and finish the windows and interior, so last week I hauled it out of storage and got to work.

I used half a dozen semi-random colours to pick out roof slates and wall stones, especially trying to break up the streaking and blotchiness of the roof. The window frames got painted grey, details around the porch got cleaned up, highlights got reinforced, and at the end of the first painting session the exterior looked a lot better.

I still wasn’t entirely happy, so I took the grey on the top of the tower down several more rows of stone, ending with a brighter feature row, added more colours to the roof, drybrushed various bits of roof and walls different shades (including a bit of purple here and there. Use weirder colours than you think for your stonework, it’ll work, trust me…). I also bumped the edge highlights, and finally did some Payne’s Grey (really a very dark blue-black) pin washes to reinforce shadows and inner corners.

Pretty sure the outside painting is now done! Finally.

I’m going to experiment with plastic screen and clear UV resin for windows, then probably do interior walls with thin strips of pink styrofoam insulation. The floor got done when I assembled the building nine years ago, but the interior is still all bare MDF otherwise.

Not being a churchy person in real life, I need to do a bit of reading to figure out what a church like this might have looked like on the interior in 17th C England. Probably mostly whitewashed plaster with some exposed stone details, the Reformation having made fully decorated churches unpopular?