"What's your favorite musket or rifle butt wood color?" Topic

I like the GW Citadel Bestial Brown paint.

I use Coat d'Arms Horse Tone Chestnut. Gives a nice "varnished wood" look.

Valejo's mahogany brown

I use Coat d Arms Wood Brown. Thanks for the tip, I'll give Bestial Brown a try.

I'm colour blind, so I paint by numbers. I use Leather Brown for leather and GW Spearshaft Brown for spears when they made it.

This type of topic is very useful to me.

Thanks,
JohnG

A dark wood color. I am not picky.

I like Scorched brown from GW.

I use a dark brown craft paint but it gets washed with a brown ink like everything else so it ends up looking fine.

Reaper Woodland Brown

For French muskets produced between 1794 and 1801, I use the following mix:

1. A light gray undercoat
2. A 30% water, 20% Rencoat Orange, 50% Citadel Ogre Poop Brown wash
3. Sun dry for 20 minutes
4. Highlight with 50% Reaper Oil Cloth Tan/50% Tide free & gentle formula
5. Pixie Dust
6. Profit!

Ok, that's all crazy. Usually I use some sort of craft paint brown for all rifle stocks, rifle butts, horse butts, etc.

Mahogany brown (like Waco Joe) or Vallejo dark flesh.

Ceramcoat "Candy Bar Brown"

Dark brown craft paint base. 1st highlight add burnt sienna. 2nd highlight add a dash of white to the above then paint wood grain.

I use Delta Ceramcoat Velvet Brown as a base, highlighted with Delta Ceramcoat Spice Brown as a highlight.

GW Bestial Brown and for smaller scales like 10mm and less I usually mix in some Vallejo Beige Brown to lighten it up.

I use Stone Mountain's "Rifle Stock"

Delta Ceramcoat Burnt Umber

I used to use Delta Ceramcoat Brown Iron Oxide, but since they've changed the formulation, I use Vallejo…something.

whatever color I use tring to match my Brown Bess, and at 15mm high and 3" away it works rather well.

I'm with Waco Joe and Sloppypainter – Vallejo mahogany brown. As an alternative, their flat brown does a good job.

Bestial Brown all the way

When I want to get fancy I use a wash of Devlan Mud

Foundry Chestnuts or Conker Browns

Ceramcoat, Autumn Brown.

Ceramcoat Velvet Brown same as tochtli. For spears and such, Testor's wood tan.

Testor's Brown.

I don't have a hard and fast colour choice for musket timber but I do always use Vallejo Woodgrain ink over whatever I choose be it a one colour or two tone wood grain choice. Darkens the finish giving the wood a stained appearance with a light sheen.

regards
dave

Howard Hues Rifle Butt is my musket color of choice.

Derivan- Gun Stock Brown

Humbrol natural leather with a peat brown inkwash.

Humbrol natural wood or sometimes brick red.

Humbrol #133 Satin Brown.

GW Scorched Brown, with Bestial Brown highlight.

Foundry Musket Stock Brown 72A-B-C:

Everyone change to Greystreak's option, they look awesome!

15mm general dark brown, normally from GW.

10mm I leave them black.

I thought this was going to be a parody thread. But you've all taken it so seriously and now I'm embarrassed…

OK…
Cuisse de nymphe émue.
Oh, but the OP was about *musket or rifle*? So sorry

Brown.

(helping Midpoint out)

Cheers,

The Bandit

Sm's rifle stock, or nearest color to it.

I mix them up. I usually have 4-5 different color musket stocks in a unit, assuming that in time of war consistent musket/rifle stocks would not be common. Look at WW2 weapons, and you'll see a lot of variation in stock colors. Why would the Napoleonic era be any different?

Foundry's Musket stock browns and spearshafts are OK

GW Terracotta… discontinued.

Vallejo flat brown mixed with black.

I find this entirely edifying. Looking forward to more discourse. I haven't seen many Humbrol users.

Vallejo Cavalry brown, 70982

Mollinary

brown

Armory Torch Brown.

At one of the conventions I picked up a color called "Butt Brown". I'm not sure if they meant a rifle or not…

GW paints:
Bestial Brown – base coat
Snakebike Leather – contrast layer
Vomit Brown – woodgrain highlights

Vallejo leather brown or flat earth!

Generally a dark brown, depending on what I have on hand at the time.

If you're color blind I wouldn't take too much notice of the names given to the Vallejo colors because they can vary quite a lot from what shade you would expect them to be. Have a non-CB friend give you advice and use them according to the numerical designator only.