Best way to paint fake wood?

[youonlywish]

Hey folks, I think I've found out a way to make plastic have the texture of wood, but what about the look?

How could I achieve a dark walnut colour?

How would I paint that?

[TommyGunner]

What I like to do is take the part that you want to paint wood and spray paint it with Rustoleum Textured Brown paint. I then let that cure and after the paint has cured I go over the textured paint with steel wool. This will take of most of the texturing that was applied with the paint.

I then take a watered down black paint and put a very heavey black wash over the brown paint and let that sit for about 1-2 min. I then whipe off the extra paint with a paper towel, thsi will give you a very dark base brown to work with. I then take an old knarled up paint brush and apply small irregular streakes of black paint to the guns surface, I let this sit for about a min and then gently whipe that off.

The end result will give you a very dark wood finish with some noticable but blended in grain effects on the rifle. Like this.







The whole process will only take about 1/2 hour or less for an entire gun, when you get good at it.

TommyGunner

[Capt. Zak]

You can also go to Menards, Home Depot or any home improvement store and pick up a "graining tool". They can be found in the aisle with the stain and/or brushes. Directions are on the package for convincing wood effects. I used it to great effect on some synthetic door jambs and you can't tell they are not stained wood.

[youonlywish]

Thanks folks.
I'll be sure to use these ideas.

I'm currently working towards finishing my first custom (but not nearly original) creation... a converted M14 - M1.

[wishnu]

Hi
I just finished paint my VB m14 (originally black). First, i made base painting with krylon camouflage brown (i got it at ace hardware). Than i scratched the body surface with art knife to created the pattern of wood porous (remember, don't scratched to deep. just superficial only, and created an interrupted line. After finished create the pattern, i painted the the pattern with dark color acrylyc paint (i used raw umber acrylic paint for painting witch i got it at the book store). I didn't paint the pattern with paintbrush, but i used the tip of damp cloth and got paint straight from the tube (i didn't diluted the paint with water first). completed lining the patern. you can covered the body with water diluted dark color acrylic. The purpose af this step was to filled the scathed patern with dark color, and dot forget to wipe remainder of the acrylic.
To created the color of wood, i used burn siena acrylyc paint with damp cloth. And the last step, covered the woodlook (i named it), i use krylon clear satin lacquer.

[2nd Bat]

Show us your results wishnu. Sounds like the right approach Burnt umber sounds like a good suggestion. Was your Krylon clear satin finish flat enough or did it create too much gloss for a military stock?