This is more a paint question than a modeling question.

Can someone give me some ideas to paint weathered wood? Looking at real trees or wood that has been outside for a longtime, the colot tends towards grey.

I just can't find a combination that I think works. Any GW paint combo's you know work?

Thanks in advance.

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I think starting off with a brown basecoat, and then slowly mix in some greys. As you add in more grey, the brown colour will turn slightly greyish. You could also add in a little green on the final highlight, but I'd advise testing this first.

I wanted a greyish brown colour on some clothing on one of my miniatures, and so done this (not with the green), so I think it would work nicely for trees too.

Hope this has helped

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Mix a few drops of black ink into some Isopropyl Alcohol and spray the wood with the mixture. It will turn the wood gray and will stain unevenly. Old model railroader trick.

I use khaki as the base colour and highlight it with a light grey. I don't know the GW colour names these days since I use Vallejo paints.

If I'm trying to give a weathered appearance to actual wood (balsa etc), I use the black ink trick that Nevinsrip mentioned (but I just dilute it with water, not isopropyl alcohol).

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I use XV88 as a base followed by a mix of this with skrag brown as a highlight. Then a wash of agrax earth shade. And finally successive highlights with xv-88, and dawn-stone. And if you want mix this again and add in some ushanti bone to do the lightest highlights

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hi the look i think you are going for with real wood is a greyish sheen and this is achieved by putting a 1 inch square of wire wool into a jam jar of white vinegar for a week then painting it straight onto the wood when dry you will have this effect if you look at my rohan houses in the gallery then this will show what the finish is like

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That looks great. So the vinegar is the paint?

This trick works on unfinished wood. The solution is a oxidizer. I do not know what it would to to plastic short of a mess.



The yellow/brown wood in the photo was treated with vinegar/iron instead of paint. There was a lot of limonite in the cheap steel wool so it weathered yellow rather than black. When the plastic set came out I repainted the wood to match. Black base coat with brown dry brushes. I use brown because my rocks are gray.

Black ink in isopropyl alcohol is also a railroad trick. Use it like a wash over wood or paint.

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Tomorrow I was going to construct a bunch of weathered/wilted trees. I will be trying your method, cheers .