Acrylic Paint Brown

Brown in a model landscape

Brown is the most used shade in landscape modeling of all. It carries the soil in a field and on a verge, the bare earth on a slope, tree trunks and branches, wooden fences, railroad ties, mud at a ford and the shadows between stones. Anyone building terrain reaches for brown sooner and more often than for green, because it is brown that holds the whole surface together beneath the greenery.

Paint properties

It is an acrylic paint, as its name states directly. It is easy to apply with a brush and dries quickly in a thin coat, so a second coat can be laid on shortly after the first. It is best to wash the tools right after work, while the paint is still fresh. The particular thinning, the drying time and the suitability for an airbrush are given in the manufacturer's instructions.

How to work with brown

Apply the paint in thin coats and plan the surface out from the darkest place toward the light. It works well to lay brown down as the base of the whole terrain surface before the scatter material goes on, so that the surface showing through is not white or gray. Thinned brown serves as a glaze into the joints of masonry, the hollows of rock and the wheel tracks in a field road. With a dry brush, the same paint can on the other hand pick out the wood texture of planks and fences.

• acrylic paint in a brown shade
• suits terrain, earth, wood and shadows in joints
• applied with a brush in thin coats
• usable as a base under terrain scatter material
• a brush and thinner are not included

Who it is for

The paint will be used by anyone building a landscape or a diorama who needs a dependable basic brown. Even a beginner can manage it, because terrain surfaces forgive small irregularities in the coat.

The paint alone is supplied. A brush, thinner and the parts to be painted are not included, unless stated otherwise.