Wood grain decal?

the Baron

 

 

plasticjunkie

cb, you will be amazed what an acrylic base and oil paint will create. This is my plastic guillotine but it looks like real wood. I can walk you thru the process via PM if you want.

 

 

 

 

Is that the old Aurora kit, PJ?

 

At least, I think Aurora issued one.  But now a scrap of memory makes me think that they never did, because of the complaints about the Monster series.

 

Anyway, it looks good!

 

Thanks. Yes it's an Aurora kit I got off eBay a while back. I sprayed light tan acrylic paint then used a fan brush and artist oils to create the wood grain.

plasticjunkie

cb, you will be amazed what an acrylic base and oil paint will create. This is my plastic guillotine but it looks like real wood. I can walk you thru the process via PM if you want.

I'm the same as Don, I print my own on an inkjet printer.

GMorrison

Red colors on paper can fade pretty quickly.

Lot's of wood images are available online for things like wood stain product sites.

I'm glad that worked for Big Jim, I've had problems printing on paper. Red colors on paper can fade pretty quickly. Decal film seems to hold color longer.

cb, you will be amazed what an acrylic base and oil paint will create. This is my plastic guillotine but it looks like real wood. I can walk you thru the process via PM if you want.

Try contactinf speedway decals. While not in his lineup on his site he did artwork and may be able to print some.

Here is what I have done. I have taken photos of flooring, resized them to my purpose and printed them on large size self adhesive mailing labels. 
Seen below is a tile floor. The walls were also drawn by me on a paint program and printed on the mailing labels also.

If you are willing to make injet decals, it is easy to make them yourself.  I have some interior oak doors upstairs that are plain, with no fancy molding.  I figured out what size I needed for a project, shot the door, and resized the image in my photo program to make it the scale size I needed.  Pasted it a number of times into my graphics program and printed out the sheet, made a half dozen at one printing.  They worked great. I printed them on white decal paper to get a color that matched the door.  Simple rectangles are easy to cut from sheet.

You might want to try your hand at painting the grain yourself, though, too.

There are a lot of tutorials, and a lot of posts even here in FineScale, but I'd like to draw your attention to a couple of posts in Keyda81's B-17F build here:

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/p/184310/2102856.aspx#2102856

She has painted the plywood bits and her finish looks really good.

She describes the steps she followed, but basically, you paint your base color to match the overall color of the wood, eg, a light tan or a sand.  Then for the grain, you take a dark color, keeping it thick, and use a stiff brush to drag it over the surface to replicate the grain.  Oils work well for the grain, since they're relatively thick and stay wet long enough to let you adjust how your grain looks.

Vary the colors for the type of wood you're trying to replicate.

Hope that helps!

cbaltrin

Just curious if anyone knows of a source for wood grain decal that could be cut for use on interior trim? 

Thanks 

GM's right, there are good products out there for the WWI aviation modeler.

I did a quick web search on the keywords, "wood grain decals" and the typeahead added, "for model cars", and got a good number of hits.  Here are some you might want to look at:

https://www.newcenturyhobbies.com/Wood_Grain_And_Bed_Strips_Model_Car_Decal_Sheet_p/11043.htm

https://www.uschivdr.com/ (keeping in the WWI genre) Uschi van der Rosten has a lot of different types of wood grain decals

If you look for WW 1 aircraft decals, there are a lot of wood decals to choose from.