Published on Thursday 5 January 2017 by Kathy Millatt

Following on from the last couple of weeks, we're looking at how to model aged wood if you are starting with a styrene sheet rather than a piece of wood. It's a very different method because if you are starting with smooth styrene, the grain needs to be added first. If you are using a kit with moulded wood texture then you skip the earlier stages and go straight to the painting.

Step 1: Add grain and wood details to the sheet styrene

Step 2: Prime with basic grey car primer such as Halfords or model primer such as Tamiya.

Step 3: Paint wood colours using acrylic paints

Step 4: Add a wash to bring out the texture

Step 5: Clean up the wash with white spirit or enamel thinners

Materials

Styrene Sheet
X-acto knife
X-acto saw blade
Sandpaper - medium grit
Ponce wheel - used for adding nail holes
Halfords or Tamiya primer - must be grey - any spray can primer will do
Mixture of grey acrylic paints - I used the AK interactive Old & Weathered Wood series which include a number of acrylic paints in either warm or cooler greys
Dark enamel wash - I used Mig but Ammo or AK interactive make similar products
White spirit or enamel thinners

Index

00:15 The Real World
00:32 Method
09:42 Final Result
10:28 Mini Kathys

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