I've got no clue how to start painting

[ilovesoda]

Hello, i recently finished three models in N scale from Showcase Miniatures and GC Laser. All three of them are bass wood, and they're almost finished. It's time for me to paint them, and I have no clue what to do!


Here they are:

Please give me some ideas on how to paint them, thanks!

 

[jbaakko]

Humm, small pictures. If they're wood they should take paint w/o primer, depending on what you use. What colors do you want them? Do you want them to look old, or newly painted? Its time to decide that BEFORE you start painting.

 

[ilovesoda]

Humm, small pictures. If they're wood they should take paint w/o primer, depending on what you use. What colors do you want them? Do you want them to look old, or newly painted? Its time to decide that BEFORE you start painting.

Well, I want the farm and the cattle loading dock to be weathered, but the grain elevator to be a newer, but not freshly painted. I want them all to be basically how they look on the boxes, brand new.

http://www.showcaseminiatures.com/pics/115thumb.jpg

http://www.gclaser.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?
Screen=PROD&Store_Code=GI&Product_Code=0225&Category_Code=NSS

http://www.branchline-trains.com/laserart/trackside/grain_elevator/n_elevator.htm

theres what they look like on the boxes

 

[jbaakko]

The last one, should be good if you try out some wood weathering dyes, not paint.

The cattle ramp, looks like a simple white wash.
http://www.gclaser.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=GI&Product_Code=0225&Category_Code=NSS
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I'd recommend picking up some artists oils and playing with them on scrap pieces of wood, thinning with windex (water has too much surface tension), until you get it too look like the white wash.

The barn, I have no clue, the images are so small.

 

[ilovesoda]

The last one, should be good if you try out some wood weathering dyes, not paint.

The cattle ramp, looks like a simple white wash.
http://www.gclaser.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=GI&Product_Code=0225&Category_Code=NSS
(your link failed, here it is..)

I'd recommend picking up some artists oils and playing with them on scrap pieces of wood, thinning with windex (water has too much surface tension), until you get it too look like the white wash.

The barn, I have no clue, the images are so small.

Yhank you very much for all your help

 

[Muskieman]

or you could paint it & then weather it. It's up to you & your talents. I paint well then I dull coat then I dust.