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 This range covers buildings from Southern Europe, including Italy, the Spanish peninsular, the French Mediterranean coast, Greece, Turkey and the Mediterranean islands. Please click on the product code to view a picture of the model Scroll down the page for our guide to painting Italian and Spanish buildings |
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The
TimeCast Painting Guide for painting Italian and Spanish buildings
Italian
Buildings
Italian buildings can be found in a wide range of colours, although plain stone buildings are frequent in northern Italy and along the Po valley. Coloured plasterwork or rendering would be more common in towns or on the homes of the wealthy. Utilitarian farm buildings would be more likely to be left in unfinished stone. The usual colours for buildings are simple earth tones, easily made from natural materials, while white painted buildings would be more frequent in the south. A row of town buildings may be painted in several different colours. Stone buildings are usually left in their natural colour. Window shutters are frequently painted green or dark brown. We recommend these colours from the Coat d'arms paints for painting Italian buildings: Plain stone buildings: 221 - Horse Tone Dun 524 - Tan Earth Plaster and Rendered Buildings: 101 - White 112 - Bone 224 - Horse Tone Bay 506 - Desert Sand 532 - Italian Red Earth Spanish Buildings
The practice of painting nearly every building white is a fairly recent occurence in Spain. Originally it was only the wealthy who could afford to paint their homes white. On a recent visit to Spain we learned that it was not even common in Andalucia until the 1960's. Prior to this the houses of the less wealthy would have been left in the natural colours of the rendered plaster etc. Many buildings in Northern Spain, along the Pyrenees and in Catalonia, are simply left in a natural stone finish, with no rendering or plaster. Many churches in northern Spain are plain stone. Some Spanish (and Portuguese) houses have the door and window frames outlined in yellow. This is an old tradition whereby the devil, who supposedly hates the colour yellow, is prevented from entering the house and can add an unusual touch of colour to the models! We recommend these colours from the Coat d'arms paints for painting Spanish buildings: Plain stone buildings: 221 - Horse Tone Dun 537 - Faded Khaki Plaster and Rendered Buildings: 101 - White 220 - Buff 221 - Horse Tone Dun 524 - Tan Earth Tiled
Roofs
The typical southern European tiled roof can be almost any shade from a bright terracotta red (modern tiles are generally a brighter and more cosistent colour), to a faded pink or even various shades of grey. The colour often varies from roof to roof dpending on age, weathering, lichen growth etc. We recommend the following colours for painting tiled roofs: 119 - Rat Brown, 224 - Horse Tone Bay, 529 - Beige Brown |
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pieces, or white
metal parts, which may cause a choking hazard and are therefore not
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