Woody in need of help

[hotrod59f100]

My uncle is getting back in the hobby. His first one on the bench is a 1948 woody . He wants to know what's the best way to make the wood 2 tone and do it realistically ?

[Guest]

I did this one by painting the bed floor with one color of brown, then going over it with a darker shade. When I did the darker shade, I dabbed the brush on a paper towel a couple of times to get most of the paint off of the brush,then just dragged it over the other color in a random pattern. This was my first and only attempt,so I'm no expert at it.

[hotrod59f100]

I did this one by painting the bed floor with one color of brown, then going over it with a darker shade. When I did the darker shade, I dabbed the brush on a paper towel a couple of times to get most of the paint off of the brush,then just dragged it over the other color in a random pattern. This was my first and only attempt,so I'm no expert at it.

Looks good. Does any one know if oil based or water based house hold stains work.

[Kaleb]

Only if your using real wood.

[Ramfins59]

OK, this is a '48 Ford Woody I built about 10 or so years ago. I used Testors sand, wood and leather paints to do the Woody framing, and then cut pieces of cigar wood/paper to fit the insert panels. I trimmed the wood/paper to the size of the kit supplied decals so they would fit perfectly. I glued in the wood/paper with thinned Elmer's glue and once all was dry, I brushed on some enamel clearcoat over the wood/paper.

The wood/paper comes in packaging for some cigars. The cigars come in aluminum tubes with a piece of the wood/paper wrapped around the cigar, but the wood/paper is curled up and very dry and brittle. Wet the wood/paper and lay it between the pages of a thick book (like a phone book) until it dries and then it will lay flat. Then you can cut it to whatever size or shape you need using either very sharp scissors or an X-Acto knife. I personally don't smoke cigars, but my cousin does and he saves me all his wood/paper.

Sorry for such a long-winded description but I thought this would help, especially due to the fact that nothing really looks more like wood than real wood.

This wood/paper can be used for interior, dashboard panels, door panels, etc...

[hotrod59f100]

OK, this is a '48 Ford Woody I built about 10 or so years ago. I used Testors sand, wood and leather paints to do the Woody framing, and then cut pieces of cigar wood/paper to fit the insert panels. I trimmed the wood/paper to the size of the kit supplied decals so they would fit perfectly. I glued in the wood/paper with thinned Elmer's glue and once all was dry, I brushed on some enamel clearcoat over the wood/paper.

The wood/paper comes in packaging for some cigars. The cigars come in aluminum tubes with a piece of the wood/paper wrapped around the cigar, but the wood/paper is curled up and very dry and brittle. Wet the wood/paper and lay it between the pages of a thick book (like a phone book) until it dries and then it will lay flat. Then you can cut it to whatever size or shape you need using either very sharp scissors or an X-Acto knife. I personally don't smoke cigars, but my cousin does and he saves me all his wood/paper.

Sorry for such a long-winded description but I thought this would help, especially due to the fact that nothing really looks more like wood than real wood.

This wood/paper can be used for interior, dashboard panels, door panels, etc...

Wow it does look good . The centers look perfect .On the trim boards he plans on doing a blond wood look .almostlike raw yellow pine with a clear coat. Thanks for the tip I'll use that for my self as well.

[espo]

I did a wood bed in a 50 Ford pick-up useing a paint layering technique I read about on one of the forums. The base coat was Tamiya TS-68 Wooden Deck Tan. Next I used some Tamiya X-33 Bronze that was lightly deluted, which I wiped lightly so that it would stay on edges of the wood grain molded into the bed. Next I used Tamiya X-26 Clear Orange which again was wiped of with a terry towel. You could use verying colors for darkness.