Painting wood effect

[Rev]

Hi guys

i\'m trying to paint a wood effect for gun casings.

My attempts look a bit rough, i\'ve used a GW scorched brown basecoat, with a chesnut wash, then i\'ve tried to paint thin \'woodgrain\' stripes with a mix of scorched brown and snakebiteleather (GW)


does anyone have any better ideas, experience, or article they know of?

cheers

rev

 

[lahatiel]

Can\'t say I\'ve tried any of these, but I googled:

miniatures painting wood grain

and came up with this, this and this.

In just glancing over each page, I think the second two links are geared more towards painted wood with grain lines sculpted in, and I\'m not sure that\'s what you need. But the first link, I saw, has sections on painting both sculpted and smooth wood grain.

 

[Rev]

thanks for those links,

the effect i\'m trying to get is on a smooth surface, not an already rutted woodgrained surface.

i\'ll keep hunting!

 

[DaN]

I think the best thing is to simply know what colours you want...

And to do that you need to know your timbers

For instance:

Pine is a yellowy, creamy colour, the grain being a very slightly darker red-brown.

Whereas a darker wood such as mahogany is a very dark red-brown and the grain can be almost black.

I\'d also recommend soft washes (Chesnut brown etc) to show grain that isn\'t at the top if you see what I mean.

Depending on how realistic etc you want the wood-effect to be I\'d say from 3 layers up.

 

[Modderrhu]

Working over a white undercoat, with very thin glazes...
1. Towards the ends of the wood, paint some scorched brown. Streak it towards the middle, along the grain of the wood.
2. Using snakebite leather, do the same thing, but overlapping unevenly with the scorched brown, and also onto the white. Streak over the white as with the scorched brown.
3. With bubonic brown, overlap the snakebite leather with streaks, also completely covering the white.

The basic idea is to get an uneven grain by using uneven streaks of thin paint, glazing over transitions of the darker layers. For a smoother effect, with less obvious grain, you could slip some intermediate browns in-between the other layers. It\'s quick to do as well, since being neat will only ruin the effect.

That\'s what works for me, anyway.

 

[Rev]

got any pics of that effect Modderrhu?

rev

 

[Modderrhu]

Not right now, no. I\'ll have to take some pics on the weekend.

 

[Rev]

I\'d appreciate that mate.

I\'ve kinda given up for now, my repeated attempts looked poo.

I found an article in WD about the Vostroyan wpn stocks, but my replication looked \'minty humbuggy\'

 

[lahatiel]

The tips for smooth surfaces from the first link above didn\'t help?

 

[mickc22]

is this the sort of effect you are after, i did a woodgrain effect on the base of Heresy\'s Feral Queen

 

[Thecadian]

thats a good idea for a base

jamwes

 

[Rev]

That really is a good wood effect - i did mine in a similar technique but it didnt look that good.

I\'ll work on it, and keep reading lath\'s links to help - thanks for those.

rev

 

[Ogrebane]

I did an article for making and painting wood grain. Might help you here

This is the link < Wood Grain Link >

Hope it helps

 

[lahatiel]

Good stuff, Ogrebane... how did I miss that that I posted those first three links?

 

[Ogrebane]

No prob. My stuff is for simple use tho not for advanced. I like Mods method I think I\'ll try it for my GD entry. If it works I\'ll post a partial pic here.

 

[Torn blue sky]

Holy crap mick! I thought that was real wood till i read your post! Effin good job mate!!!:beer:

*edit* It\'s actually quite handy for me to, this thread! I\'m just about to start on a wood elf and was kinda wondering about a good grain effect!

 

[mickc22]

Thanks TBS, that was the general idea, no it\'s just a 25mm slotta, there are a couple of give aways but initially it does the trick

I\'m thinking of doing a woodgrain tute, would anyone be interested?

 

[provoke me]

I\'m thinking of doing a woodgrain tute, would anyone be interested?

HELL YES!

 

[Modderrhu]

Okay, here\'s the promised example. Unfortunately, due to a habit of giving painted minis away, I don\'t have a better example. I did this Dark Elf bolt thrower about two years ago. Oh well...

 

[mickc22]

done the tute, here is a teaser

just got a few questions about articles, started another thread in the general section
*edit* all sorted just waiting on approval