How to Paint a Weathered Wood on Plastic

Ray,

I WOULD PURCHASE STAINS from hunterline.    The work very well on wood and have shades for what you wish to achieve.

Most of what I have done is Mini-wax stain.  Golden Oak and in some cases darker Walnut. 

Hardware store.

India ink wash would darken the stain.  Note that some woods accept stain well, others not so good.    Mike CT  

Ok my fault. It is wood grained plastic exterior walls that need to be painted. I guess the impression left was they were made of wood. Thank you for the tips, Mike your stuff always looks great. i remember a topic on doing this but can't find it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks again

Ray

Look under the Scenery Sourcelist,

How-to's: PACIFIC COAST STAIRLINE scroll down to the article 

Yeah, I know it's sometimes difficult. 

Good Luck, Dave G.

I use a combination of washes made with a bit of black paint and thinner, and powders. 

Ray:

Another project that was all plastic.  An Ertl Farm/Barn.  My wife worked extensively on this project, until she was either upset, or happy, sometimes it hard to tell the difference .  There was a two paint application and uses of an eraser to remove some of the final coat to simulate peel-ed paint. There was uses of Bestine Rubber cement solvent and Rubber cement diluted and brushed on the first coat of paint before the second color was applied.  She also did a lot of dry brush application of lighter colors.

Note the red plastic color.

Application of two colors of paint and the peel effect.

Note the dry brush, off white, on the roof.

Another "What were they thinking??", out of the box, project, was the MTH water tower.  We worked something close to, what we thought, was a red-wood color and, with some dry brushing, and india ink, on the roof, were please with the new look.

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 IMO.  The Sweet lady, my wife, is talented with the brush  

Mike CT

great work, especially on the barn.

Nice work. Looks real.

There's lots of interesting ideas HERE

How about an MTH Depot turned feed coop?

Ray, I have used acrylic "barn wood" on some things either as a base coat or accent color on wood.  I have not used it on plastic, but my experiment on a scrap of plastic would be first a spray can primer color close to the final color you want and then finishing the details of weathering dry brushing with various weathering colors of grays and barn wood. Hope to see your photos soon.  BTW, what is your base color?

Tom's MTH Depot is an excellent example of  model painting.  Thanks for posting  WOW!!

Gentlemen,

In OGR, run 275 of last January, 2015 Tom Yorke did an article that featured many fine step by step photographs of a tiny store called "Acrylic Reality". This article detailed everything from undercoating, paint consistency,procedures and so on for using acrylic paints to transform a resin model (plastic) into a realistic rendition featuring brick, concrete, wood, metal and roofing into a realistic rendition of an old, worn building. Please look into this fine article and I'm sure it will answer many of your painting and finishing questions.

Tom Yorke, et al. Great instructions  in #275,  the most important words are patience and let dry. Thanks, 

Dave G.

Great tips! Thank you all for your help. Now to get to work.

Ray