I know theres alot of different ways to paint woodgrain, But I figured I would share the way I do it... Ill also do a few write ups on this page on different looks for different grains... I use only House of Kolor paints for my woodgrains. Colors are much easier to work with, and paints are much easier to mix and store. First off is my personal favorite (sorry dont have alot of pics of this process)... A light wood look: Following is what you will need: Tools-Airbrush -Air compressor -A few mixing cups -A couple of Cheap Chip brush (coarse bristle) -Respirator (safety first!!!) Paints-White -Root beer Kandy -Pagan Gold Kandy -Tangerine Kandy -Apple Red Kandy With the paints you have 2 options. You can purchase the kandys premixed and nearly ready to spray (just reduce 50/50 with reducer). Or to have good control of your colors you can buy Kandy concentrates, mix SG-100 intertcoat clear 50/50 with reducer so you now have a clear paint (but SG100 is not a clear coat and is not UV protective by its self) than add concentrate accordingly. (a little bit goes a long way)... SO... Steps on how to... - First off get your piece that you want to paint and sand it down with 500 grit sandpaper after everything is slick, use wax and grease remover to clean the parts. -Spray 2 medium coats of white 2 stage paint (no clear) -Give your parts about an hour to dry -Take a mixing cup and put in a little bit of tangerine kandy, take your chip brush and lightly stroke in one direction. -Using air brush streak Pegan Gold in random lines of size in one direction ( same direction as your grain. IF you wish add details such as knott holes, bug spots, and saw burns. -To make Knott holes take the airbrush and start a fine line and make a few oblong circles ending with a point on both sides. -To make bug spots take the air brush and make a fine dot, back out and make a larger lighter dot on top of the first, than make a quick stroke on top and bottom -To make saw burns make a streak not following the grain a little wider -Take airbrush and back far away from piece (12 inches or so) and put light coat of Pegan gold over entire piece. (you should still see your pegan gold strokes and details.) - Take Tangerine Kandy and repeat steps that you did with pegan gold, trying as best you can to follow all your details and strokes. -DO NOT TINT WITH TANGERINE KANDY YET. - Repeat steps with Root Beer Kandy (it will begin looking like wood at this point) -Now tint with Tangerine Kandy -Outline your details with Apple Red Kandy (only details a few streaks are ok, but the red WILL darken up the wood quite a bit) -Redo steps with Root Beer Kandy. -Lightly tint with Root Beer Kandy. -Tint with Tangerine Kandy. The number of final coats of both Root Beer and Tangerine are a precision eyeball kind of thing and make it look just the way you want it... Just remember you can always go darker BUT you can not go lighter...
Very neat. Is that a 49/50 woody dash? I attempted several methods but your results look far better than anything I was able to produce.
Next Wood grain: A Burl type of wood: Following is what you will need: Tools -Airbrush -Air compressor -A few mixing cups -Laquer Thinner -Clean rags -Respirator (safety first!!!) Paints -White -Lemon Yellow -Root beer Kandy -Pagan Gold Kandy -Tangerine Kandy -Apple Red Kandy With the paints you have 2 options. You can purchase the kandys premixed and nearly ready to spray (just reduce 50/50 with reducer). Or to have good control of your colors you can buy Kandy concentrates, mix SG-100 intertcoat clear 50/50 with reducer so you now have a clear paint (but SG100 is not a clear coat and is not UV protective by its self) than add concentrate accordingly. (a little bit goes a long way)... SO... Steps on how to... - First off get your piece that you want to paint and sand it down with 500 grit sandpaper after everything is slick, use wax and grease remover to clean the parts. -Spray 2 medium coats of white 2 stage paint (no clear) -Give your parts about an hour to dry -Using the air brush streak with Lemon yellow, some details are a good Idea - Taking Root Beer Kandy streak and do some details -Let dry for about 20 minutes. -Putting a little laquer thinner on a clean rag wipe in single direction ( your not trying to remove all the paint just partially) Dabbing the rag will also add an interesting effect. -Let dry for 30 minutes -Using air brush streak Pegan Gold in random lines of size in one direction ( same direction as your grain. IF you wish add details such as knott holes, bug spots, and saw burns. -To make Knott holes take the airbrush and start a fine line and make a few oblong circles ending with a point on both sides. -To make bug spots take the air brush and make a fine dot, back out and make a larger lighter dot on top of the first, than make a quick stroke on top and bottom -To make saw burns make a streak not following the grain a little wider -Take airbrush and back far away from piece (12 inches or so) and put light coat of Pegan gold over entire piece. (you should still see your pegan gold strokes and details.) - Take Tangerine Kandy and repeat steps that you did with pegan gold, trying as best you can to follow all your details and strokes. -DO NOT TINT WITH TANGERINE KANDY YET. - Repeat steps with Root Beer Kandy (it will begin looking like wood at this point) -Now tint with Tangerine Kandy -Outline your details with Apple Red Kandy (only details a few streaks are ok, but the red WILL darken up the wood quite a bit) -Redo steps with Root Beer Kandy. -Lightly tint with Root Beer Kandy. -Tint with Tangerine Kandy. The number of final coats of both Root Beer and Tangerine are a precision eyeball kind of thing and make it look just the way you want it... Just remember you can always go darker BUT you can not go lighter... I usually do like doing lighter wood but adding steps of root beer and red will darken it up. Adding tangerine will make the wood deeper, while adding steps of Pegan gold will make the wood lighter but if you try to darken it up to much it looks very strange. White Base Yellow Streaking Laquer Thinner Wipe Root Beer Added Almost done And Done!
Lastly Is what I call an antique wood Its dark Following is what you will need: Tools -Airbrush -Air compressor -Laquer Thinner -Clean rags -Respirator (safety first!!!) Paints -White -Black -Root beer Kandy -Pagan Gold Kandy -Tangerine Kandy -Apple Red Kandy With the paints you have 2 options. You can purchase the kandys premixed and nearly ready to spray (just reduce 50/50 with reducer). Or to have good control of your colors you can buy Kandy concentrates, mix SG-100 intertcoat clear 50/50 with reducer so you now have a clear paint (but SG100 is not a clear coat and is not UV protective by its self) than add concentrate accordingly. (a little bit goes a long way)... SO... Steps on how to... - First off get your piece that you want to paint and sand it down with 500 grit sandpaper after everything is slick, use wax and grease remover to clean the parts. -Spray 2 medium coats of white 2 stage paint (no clear) -Give your parts about an hour to dry -Using the air brush streak with Black - Taking Root Beer Kandy streak and do some details -Let dry for about 20 minutes. -Putting a little laquer thinner on a clean rag wipe in single direction ( your not trying to remove all the paint just partially) Dabbing the rag will also add an interesting effect. -Let dry for 30 minutes -Using air brush streak Pegan Gold in random lines of size in one direction ( same direction as your grain. IF you wish add details such as knott holes, bug spots, and saw burns. -To make Knott holes take the airbrush and start a fine line and make a few oblong circles ending with a point on both sides. -To make bug spots take the air brush and make a fine dot, back out and make a larger lighter dot on top of the first, than make a quick stroke on top and bottom -To make saw burns make a streak not following the grain a little wider -Take airbrush and back far away from piece (12 inches or so) and put light coat of Pegan gold over entire piece. (you should still see your pegan gold strokes and details.) - Take Tangerine Kandy and repeat steps that you did with pegan gold, trying as best you can to follow all your details and strokes. - TINT WITH TANGERINE KANDY. - Repeat steps with Root Beer Kandy (it will begin looking like wood at this point) -Outline your details with Apple Red Kandy streaks also -Tint slightly with Apple Red Kandy -Redo steps with Root Beer Kandy. -Tint with Root Beer Kandy. -Tint with Tangerine Kandy. The number of final coats of both Root Beer and Tangerine are a precision eyeball kind of thing and make it look just the way you want it... Just remember you can always go darker BUT you can not go lighter....
Thank you. It was a '51 woody I believe The pictures of the other 2 I will post whenever my internet lets me...
Really nice work, I learned the old printers ink & lacquer finish, but I dont know how it would work with modern acrylic clears.
Nice tech. On photobucket,click on photo and then use the box "Links to share this photo " located on the right side of the screen and choose the IMG link for here (put your pointer over it and left click the link,it will say copied) If IMG is not one of your options in the box (there should be 3 ) click on "update link options" and check the box for IMG You can post more than one picture at a time.To do this I open photobucket in another window and copy and paste them.I try to put them one another line so I can keep track of what photos I have already did. Steve SEE BELOW THIS IS HOW IT WILL LOOK
Any more requests for different wood styles? Customer brought me a motorcycle to paint and wants it wood grain but leaving it up to me on the type...
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