How do you make plastic look like wood?

[Scott1984]

Well, I tried a little light colored grey wash in some areas to see if it would lighten it up a bit. Not sue if it did much. Thought I would post a pic. Let me know what you think. Still no weathering supplies yet so I will wait to do anything else to these. I did prime 4 more cars today. This time I tried white primer, to what it would do. We shall see. Thanks!

[davefoxx]

I did a similar process to finish these “wooden” freight doors: I hand-painted the individual boards with different colors of tan and gray craft paints and followed up with applications of brown and black washes.



Hope this helps,
DFF

[Paul S.]

Gonna try that.

[davefoxx]

Thanks! Oh, and I forgot to mention that I probably started with a spray coat of gray primer.

[Scott1984]

Looks great Dave!! Really nice work. It is pretty cool what you can do with cheap craft paints. Thanks

[davefoxx]

Thanks! Other than the base coat of red spray paint for the bricks and lightweight spackling for the mortar, all of the varying brickwork colors are . . . yep, you guessed it . . . shades of red, terra cotta, sienna, and orange craft paints, applied with sponges and a toothpick!

DFF

[Scott1984]

Nice Dave!! Brick work looks really good.