Painting Wood

[stev1eran]

Hi all,

I am after some advice again
I am painting Stormtroopers Officer of Hussars, The Great Retreat, one of the areas that I have not yet mastered is painting wood whether it is on a rifle or in this case on the pistols.
I have undercoated the areas in humbrol tan and I am now ready for working with the oils.
Have any of you good fellows got any tips?
Thanks

Steve

 

[John Long]

I usually use Mars Brown, Mars Yellow, and Burnt Umber. I alternate stripes of those three colors on the undercoat. Then, I blend them together slightly trying to maintain the seperate colors. Sometimes I will drag the colors in some places to simulate the waviness of the grain. If you use this technique be careful not to overblend.

 

[captnenglish]

Steve,
Is this the 54mm figure? If so, I'm working on that figure as well, I don't use oils, but what I have done, in acrylics sounds simmilar to what you are doing, I undercoated with flesh and then did a coat (or two) of mahagony brown thin enough for the flesh to show thru, but still giving the impression of finished wood and finally a satin coat. If the figure you are working on is 120mm or their bust, it should still work.

 

[stev1eran]

Thanks guys,
I will give it a go
Matthew - the figure is Stormtroopers 120mm

Steve