How to realistically paint wooden wheel chocks.

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I am building a tank transporter and the kit includes a large wooden planks used as wheel blocks/chocks. How can I make these look realistic?

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I have been playing with a similar situation and I simulatethe grain with my hobby knife and then use a darker brown was to the lightly sanded grooves.
John

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I had the same thing on my Dragon Wagon.
Having worked with heavy equipment for a number of years, I noticed that most planks, chocks, timbers of any kind that are used in construction soon become soaked in various fluids of some kind or another and will take on a greasy black colouration. Nothing near to a wooden plank in colour. So that’s the route I took.

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would it be modeling sin to actually use wood?

I would think the LHS would have a nice selection that could be cut to length, pounded to fit and painted to match [:D]

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i think it’s ok to use real wood so long as it’s on a correct scale because the lines on the wood might differ and off-scale.

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Absolutely nothing wrong with using real wood for this type of thing.
Works great to use wood as wood.

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try getting some cigars and useing the wooden wrapper that’s inside the tubes, I haven’t tried it yet but I have a RSO with the pak 40 I want to replace the sides that are plastic with the thin wood and maybe put a tint to it to simulate some wolf P…