Help I need somebody, not just .....


Like some of already know (see earlier posting of me) I have constructed a dummy Sherman tank in Balsa wood.



I don’t like the natural color of balsa (to pale) and now I was wondering which is the best way to give the wood a more aged look?

I tried drybruching a little Panzer gray on some scrap but I does not look right.

What I want to achieve is a wood that is relatively new but is a bit exposed to nature (rain, sun, ….)

Any ideas???

Check out the railroad section of your hobby store. there are several products to age wood. I think one of them is called blacken it. there are a couple of different types to age wood differently.

:-)

Check out the railroad section of your hobby store. there are several products to age wood. I think one of them is called blacken it. there are a couple of different types to age wood differently.

:-)

Ronny,

I had that problemo with my shed... The wood would soak up to much fluid. I varnished the shed first, then applied a heavy coat of Humbol #1 (primer), then I washed the shed with a heavy wash of Tamiya # XF59 (Desert Yellow) and I finished it off with drybrushing some Yellow Ochre mixed with Titanium White on it.

the results look like aged grey / yellow wood. I compared it with the fence I have in my garden, and I'm quite happy with the results I might add.

HTH, it's just 2 Eurocents..

I stain the balsa with a walnut shade and then use white and gray pastel chalks to lighten it up, sometimes, for water spots, I use real water drops over the chalk. Thats for the color, for the wood itself I like to rough it up a little by chipping and splintering pieces off of it.

For a cheap method, try TEA!!!!!!

I have aged wood earlier by just give it a black wash
the wood will suck up the fluid rapidly if you touch the surface of the wood gently with a piece of tissue paper to get most of the wash off the surface. the result you have with that is that the wash is visible in the woodgrain wich gives your wood a more dark look

Ronny

to convince you I have a picture of a dio that I did a little time ago. it`s a corner of a french country side shed as you find plenty of in the bocage
the broken window frame was washed with a diluted black so is also the potato-crate that I scratched from matchsticks and some thingy that I got in an old tankkit and I`ve never used
it plus a small amount of plasticcard. Almost everything in this shed got the wash but the things in the cirkel show the effect on wood

A good source of wood aging medium is found at the bottom of a container of thinner htan has been used to clean many, many brushes.

Robert,
I like the way you painted those rocks ! Your rubble looks convincing.


Ronny,
I'd paint the wood black or very dark brown first, and then add lighter tones and drybrush. Depends what kind of wood you want to finish with...
Jan

Jan

The walls and rubble are really not special but they look good for me
The walls and (stone)rubble are made of Das clay (the white variant) and was made of all small "boulder" like stones the whole thing was painted humbrol black after that was dried I painted the whole thing in tamiya german grey. When the german grey was dry I just gave the whole building/ruin a drybrush with humbrol signal white and to finish it all off i gave the whole building a black wash

that`s the story of my french shed ruin :-) :-)