woodgrain interior

[allthumbs]

I am building a 1933 caddy and would like to woodgrain the dash and door panels. Can anyone give me an idea where to find or make material? Thx

[Ramfins59]

You could try using different colors of earth tones (sand, wood, leather, browns)with a dry brushing technique. Or you could use wood veneer paper found in some cigar packaging. Or, you could use the woodgrain decals found in some woody kits.

[allthumbs]

thx I was beating my head against the wall trying to put that together. I will try your suggestions and let u know how things turned out. Thx again

[Draggon]

Heard tell that Tamiya deck tan, with drybrushed with flat earth, then covered in clear orange works pretty well.

[Art Anderson]

I am building a 1933 caddy and would like to woodgrain the dash and door panels. Can anyone give me an idea where to find or make material? Thx

In the 30's, Cadillac, pretty much like all other luxury carmakers, used black walnut, in either straight grain, or "burled" (the curly grained wood found at the base of the tree) for dashboards and the sills at the top of doors.

For this, I would use a medium brown (check the Modelmaster or Humbrol paint racks for this, in flat finish, can be either enamel or acrylic), and then "dry brush" Testors/Modelmaster "rubber (which is a brown black color, flat finish) over that to give that hint of wood grain. When this is all dry, brush on some clear of your choice, and you should have a close approximation of black walnut.

Art

[allthumbs]

thx for all the suggestions. I need to learn how to dry brush. I printed out 2 wood grain designs to scale and will use dulcote to prevent any bleed thru then clear coat. It just might work.

[MoparWoman Jamie]

You could try using different colors of earth tones (sand, wood, leather, browns)with a dry brushing technique. Or you could use wood veneer paper found in some cigar packaging. Or, you could use the woodgrain decals found in some woody kits.

Or he could do like I did on the semi truck project I am working on (which is in the Truck forum area under Mack Superliner). Use fostperiest wood all together.

[allthumbs]

Or he could do like I did on the semi truck project I am working on (which is in the Truck forum area under Mack Superliner). Use fostperiest wood all together.

fostperiest wood?

[booboo60]

Could go too a floor and tile store, and just ask for a cpl woidgain peel an stick samples, I have done this.

[sjordan2]

You can also print out whatever wood grain you want and make stickers or decals.

http://www.certainlywood.com/woodmenu2.cfm?p=6