Wood grain?

[Dane]

I've gotten to the point where I'm painting the back of Sheya's wooden shield. I was just wondering how people did their woodgrain. Right now I'm just covering the shield with very thin coats of brown. Once I get it where I need it to be, I'll be washing with a super-thin coat of black to fill all the "cracks" and knots. After that I'll drybrush sparingly with a lighter brown and finally with just a tiny bit of ivory or light tan.

 

How do others do wood? Does the above sound close?

[Xymor]

Yeh Dane that farly close to how I do mine.

[Hells_Clown]

Good wood grain really depends on the sculpt, though this is one case where dry brushing works well. Just don't be too heavy handed and over do it. Nice n light as you were saying. Oh, and go against the grain to help pick it up with the dry brushing.

[coogle]

This might work. Use a series of thinish lines with thick paint in the direction you want the wood grain to go. Then ink wash, then reapeat. This should make a wood grain. I think.

[FreeFall]

I ususally start with Woodland Brown or Hawkwood, then use an ink wash. If I want a subtle effect, I go with wood shading ink, but usually I go with a black ink wash. it stands out better, and the transparency of the ink let's some brown through. It's more subtle while being crisper than a paitn wash, IMO.

 

Did that last sentence make any sense? I need some liquid energy this morning.

[Digital M@]

for a sculpt with wood grain, I do close to what you described. I have seen several pieces that people have used a dark brown and using freehand have added wood grain lines over a lighter brown. It can be beautiful, but I have not had luck with it yet. The brush is still too clumsy in my hands.

[MinipainterUS]

This is about as good as it gets:

Hot Lead Wood Texture

[Enchantra]

OK for woodgrain this is the way I do it. YMMV.

 

Basecoat in a dark brown.

Layer on in areas that I want to be lighter varying shades of lighter and more reddish browns. Then I do a wash of black. I let that dry completely. Then I drybrush with a bit of light brown. In areas where I want to crevasses in the wood to be darker I use my micron pen. Allow to dry then seal as normal.

[Ghost Rider]

The way I do wood grain on the non-sculpted wood areas is to lay down a dark "base" color, wait till it dries then put on a coat of the lighter color then when that is almost dry take and drag an old toothbrush across the surface creating the "grain" pattern.

[johnnyxxl]

if the wood grain is not on it I cheat and use a wood grain decal from my model shop made by one of the big decal distributers its in a sheet much the same size as bare metal foil comes in and is usually in two color tones of the same sort of wood. The grain pattern and color is perfect for our scale sizes and looks very real and not as fake as paneling tends too.