wicker decals

[southpier]

anyone have an idea for making wicker (caned) body panels? or decal source?

I'm not inclined to try the "solvent & mesh" method.

thanks

[Ace-Garageguy]

I did a Google image search for "wicker texture". Lots to choose from. Find one you like, manipulate the image into the scale you need (possibly repeating it enough times to get the coverage you want), get one of the guys here who makes custom decals to do you a sheet or three. I seem to remember that Chief Joseph will do custom work. Maybe Scale-Master ?

Just a thought.

There are also several online tutorials on making wicker furniture items in scale for doll houses. I'm sure the techniques could be adapted to model car bodies. Seems like a lot of very small and tedious work, but it sure would be unique.

http://miniatures.about.com/od/dollshousefurniture/ss/Weave-A-Dollhouse-Miniature-Wicker-Change-Table.htm

Here's a book on the process....

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Scale-Wicker-Furniture-Dolls/dp/1861082843

Edited September 27, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[Art Anderson]

Are you talking about real wicker, which is a woven pattern made from reed, or are you talking about canework (like a caned chair seat)? Canework has been done on car bodies, mostly back in the so-called "Classic Era"--those high end, mostly custom-built luxury cars of the era 1925-48.

Faux canework was done on cars back then, by means of laying a tan paint on from a tube, painstakingly one layer at a time. It won't be easy, but that can be done by decal, if you know someone with an ALPS printer.

Heller's kit of the Hispano-Suiza H6 Town Car has canework on the body sides, with decals that sort of replicate this kind of pattern.

Art

Edited September 28, 2014 by Art Anderson