Sun 24 Jun 2007
My recipe for weathered wood shingles
Posted by Daniel Swearingen under Structures , Waterfront[4] comments / Leave a comment
While building Ark Number 4 for the Tiburon Railroad-Ferry Depot Museum I needed to make a weathered wood shingle roof.
Here’s the recipe I came up with.
- Apply Campbell Shingles or other paper/wood shingle material
- Ink-alchohol wash lightly
- Dry brush Tamiya XF-66 LIGHT GREY
- Dry brush Tamiya XF-23 LIGHT BLUE, followed immediately by more ink-alchohol
- Very lightly dry brush Tamiya XF-21 SKY
- Highlight with china white pencil
- Seal with Dullcote
- Add more highligts with ink-alchohol and very small brush
Hindsight: airbrushing a control color to tone down the contrast would have made the effect a bit better.
The final result on the model:
