Ho i weather my wood

[kennyrach]

I weather the wood model with India ink and alcohol and i make my own alcohol ink with Rite power dye and 91% alcohol for blue, green, red, yellow. Slate gray. If you want a fade color then use light black alcohol ink at 70% alcohol to 1tbs of black India ink to one pint alcohol. Then use light alcohol ink made with the dye for the wash color look.For if want driftwood look i use first white ink and 91% alcohol pic # 1 then i used gray paint dry brush on .once dry i then give a wash of ink and alcohol

 

[kennyrach]

Here picture of weather black gray

 

[kennyrach]

Here yellow and green.and red

 

[Matthewd5]

I weather the wood model with India ink and alcohol and i make my own alcohol ink with Rite power dye and 91% alcohol for blue, green, red, yellow. Slate gray. If you want a fade color then use light black alcohol ink at 70% alcohol to 1tbs of black India ink to one pint alcohol. Then use light alcohol ink made with the dye for the wash color look.For if want driftwood look i use first white ink and 91% alcohol pic # 1 then i used gray paint dry brush on .once dry i then give a wash of ink and alcohol

Nice useful info, where did you find the 91% alcohol?

Matthew

 

[kennyrach]

You can get the 91% alcohol at CVS , Walgreen ,or drug store

 

[zoegraf]

I weather the wood model with India ink and alcohol and i make my own alcohol ink with Rite power dye and 91% alcohol for blue, green, red, yellow. Slate gray. If you want a fade color then use light black alcohol ink at 70% alcohol to 1tbs of black India ink to one pint alcohol. Then use light alcohol ink made with the dye for the wash color look.For if want driftwood look i use first white ink and 91% alcohol pic # 1 then i used gray paint dry brush on .once dry i then give a wash of ink and alcohol

Thanks for sharing. Looks great.

In the third shot, you are using black india ink for the wash?

I have a bottle of indelible black India ink. It says on the bottle that water can be used to dilute it; can I use this ink?

 

[waltr]

The India ink you have would work fine. Its one of the products I use for weathering. Just experiment on some scrape pieces of wood.

Here is a link to more info of weathering wood and other items.
http://www.sierrawestscalemodels.com/clinic/clinic.shtml

 

[zoegraf]

The India ink you have would work fine. Its one of the products I use for weathering. Just experiment on some scrape pieces of wood.

Here is a link to more info of weathering wood and other items.
http://www.sierrawestscalemodels.com/clinic/clinic.shtml

Thanks. I'll check out the link and do some experimenting.