I have looked a lot of places trying to find a color that looks like white pine for painting wooden crates. ALl the flesh tones and beiges have too much red. Finally, I just decided to mix my own. I feel pretty good about a 50/50 mix of Model Master’s acrylic color Wood and Flat White. It takes a little more tweaking after the first mix but that’s a good start. The Wood color by itself is just not realistic. Same for Humbrel’s Wood color. The only time you would get wood that color is if you stained it. It’s not too likely anybody was staining wood for crates. So, now I have my color for freshly made pine crates. In fact, I think I can use the basic combination for practically any freshly sawn wood. I’m open to other solutions.
Now, what are you using to replicate heavily weathered pine crates? They are going to have a lot of black in the color, but won’t look anything like the greys offered in the standard paint colors.
Hey, Mick. Thanks for that. It appears I’m not the only one who has struggled to find a satisfactory color for unfinished wood. And for all that, the Titanic colors people don’t offer any suggestions for heavily weathered wood. I guess they didn’t have that problem on the Titanic.
Not until she sank… Then the weathering for her really ran amok! I like using Tamiya Deck Tan as a starting point for weathered unfinished wood, a nice sandy grey shade. For fresh wood, Humbrol Oak is a good starting point.
Thanks, Stikpusher, for the advice and the Titanic perspective. The Tamiya deck tan might just be a good starting point for weathered wood. I’ll give it a try.
Yes, for fresh white pine you need to mix paint. Try a small amount of tan or sand color with flat white. Weathered pine looks more of a very light gray, so mixing gray and white should do it. Just add small amounts of color to the white, test it, and then add more. Flats dry fast, so the tests show the color pretty quickly.
The Tamiya deck tan might just be a good starting point for weathered wood. I’ll give it a try.