"Painting Grey Wood - Tips?" Topic

I've not had much luck painting grey wood, so can anyone tell me how they do it? Can you be specific about what paints/colours/numbers you use as well…

Any old dark grey, selective dry brush with mid grey, careful highlight with light grey, watered down brown ink and varnish.

Folk Art brand craft paints offer a color called Barn Wood, which is a medium brownish gray. Use that as a base, apply a dark wash and then mix in some white and drybrush to highlight.

I start with a black base and then progressively lighter shades of gray. To go fantasy, I lightly dry-brush with silver or gold.

+1 ScoutJock that is the way I paint sun aged wood

+2 Scoutjock

+2 Scoutjock but any dark brown or black works for the base

For very old aged wood, start with a medium gray base then just dry brush lighter grays.

For newer wood, I start with a tannish brown base coat and dry brush gray over that. So the most exposed edges have weathered while the wood in the recesses is new. I use all craft paints but use whatever colors I have to hand.

Fort Frontier done in the newish colors, with the colors I used:

Vallejo Leather Brown mix with Vallejo Silver Grey. This will give you a whole range of hues suitable for representing grey wood.

Lifecolor have a set of paints for 'White Wood'.
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Excellent, thanks all.

Just dry brush with a light or medium gray.

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Simple method, use any grey (Folkart's Barn Wood is a very good base), drybrush various shades of grey with some brown and beige, brown ink wash.

Complex method, paint every plank in varying shades of brown or brown-grey, add layers of grey to each plank to represent variations in the wood, add different intensity washes to different areas, give it a very faint drybrush to even the tones, done.