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  • Member since
    September 2012
  • From: Indianapolis
Painting wood
Posted by Squatch88 on Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:24 PM

I'm building the Wright Flyer and once I get to the step of painting all the struts, which were wood. How do I get them to look like wood? Same with the canvas wings.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Friday, January 11, 2013 9:29 AM

The canvas wings are easy- there are a couple of colors that work. I prefer Testors Model Master "sand".  Just a few drops of flat white makes it even closer.

The stained wood parts are something else.  Doing a good job of wood is about hardest painting job there is. I find I need to do a brush painting on it instead of airbrushing. I usually do two coats two colors, a base coat (usually a lighter color)  and a second, translucent coat, either a wash or drybrush.  Since the drybrush coat tends to look pretty flat, I then overcoat with gloss clearcoat (usually Testors glosscoat).

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    October 2009
  • From: Turkey
Posted by Clausewitz on Friday, January 11, 2013 9:39 AM

WWI aircraft modelling almost always requires wood grain simulation. I do it the way I learnt at Swanny's Models website. That is, spray a coat of sandgelb or similar, wait for a day and when dry, protect it with acrylic clear cote, like tamiya x22, wait for a couple of days, then take a wide brush and stroke brown artists' oil paint. When you lift excess of the oil paint from the surface, sandgelb from underneath will be visible, simulating a wood effect.

Check my 1/72 camel build and see if that's close to what you want. You can find a detailed explanation with photos on Swanny's.

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