From SteveA: Hagglethorn Hollow Ruins (?? points)

Three pieces of "Hagglethorn Hollow" ruins, 3D printed with black filament in scale suitable for 28mm gaming.  While filament was indeed the best choice for cost and durability, the downside is the many many layers of print lines that form small surface ridges meant a simple dry brush paint job would result in very little suspension of disbelief that these were the shrunken stone ruins of a once great and maybe somewhat real castle 

So I took a "two thick coats" painting approach, using a ~ 4:1 mix of Artist Loft craft paint mixed with baking soda, aiming for the thickness of craft paint and the add texture of baking soda would obscure the print lines. 

First coat dark grey stippled on with sponge ensuring total coverage, second coat a lighter grey focused on the upper and outer areas, resulting in the desired "I cant really see the print lines unless I am looking for them" effect I was seeking.  However,  small snag in my paint plan was encountered after I performed and dried my first paint wash, when the science of exposing the Baking Soda(Sodium Bicarbonate) to a very watery paint bath resulted in some of the baking soda from stippled on paint dissolving into the paint wash and then later forming a undesirable clumps of white crust on the paint surface after drying.

So a third coat of stippling with an old craft bush became necessary to conceal the white crusty bits, but in the end was to positive effect as it did lend to more subtle color texturing.   A craft quality paint brush to anoint miscellaneous bricks with the liquid talent of Agrax Earth shade or Nuln Oil, and then some line work with thinned black craft paint to fill in the spaces between bricks completed the application of pigment, with the last step an application of a few ground level brown grass tufts, achieved the effect I was looking have in my future table top adventures.

I'm looking forwards to using these pieces for games such as Burrows and Badgers,  Frostgrave and maybe a return to Mordheim.

Dimensions of these pieces is roughly 6"x6"x3,  6"x5"x3",  "5,2",10".