aged/old timber

[Ignatieff]

Any tips as to how best achieve that 'grey' look that weathered timber has?

[Captain Blood]

Mix Khaki and a bit of black, for the base coat. Then add gradual small amounts of ivory or white to the mix for the drybrush coats. The final (light touch) drybrush should be a very pale version of the mix.
The khaki helps give it that slightly greeny-grey tinge old timber has...

A few piccies, using this recipe...

[Za Zjurman]

Thanks captain for the great how to. Do you use a specific khaki.

Cheers,

Za

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Try this link - Volume 4 of Cry Havoc. Painting Wood.

http://confrontation-haven.freeforums.net/thread/19/cry-havoc-scans

Tony

[Captain Blood]

Thanks captain for the great how to. Do you use a specific khaki.

Vallejo Model Color Khaki.
 

[Za Zjurman]

Vallejo Model Color Khaki.
 

Thanks 

[S J Donovan]

I have had some success painting wood (directly-no undercoat) with silver then dry brushing with white.

[Ignatieff]

Thanks fellas. Good advice

[Hupp n at em]

Gunbird shared a really quick and effective method in his Fallout thread over on the PA board...

Elk and Hupp, it is black basecoat, a whitegrey drybrush and then a brown wash, some places heavy, other places light. Really simple, nothing shocking, made for speed.

And some billboards made from wood and plastic.

Full thread is here, and it's worth a look. 
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=85030.0

[Ignatieff]

Oh you talented bunch, thank you!

[Elk101]

For what ever reason I can never get this to look right! It's either too dark and grey or too brown.

[Captain Blood]

Try the khaki method Steve

The thing with human perception of colour, is that it is unfortunately shaped for life by what we learn as children, mainly from kiddies' books.
So we all grow up knowing that sheep are white - except of course they're not. Look at any sheep in any field - they are somewhere on a cream - brown spectrum. Similarly, the sea is not blue - more often it is somewhere between green and brown. Grass in rarely green, but has a vast rage of shades, and even the freshest grass tends towards yellow on the spectrum.
And tree trunks are not brown. Look at most tree trunks, they have a lot of green in them - unsurprisingly really, because they're just big plants.
So old timber, even when it's bleached to almost white by age and the elements, still often has a slightly greenish tinge to it - but very rarely brown. Hence the khaki.

[Elk101]

I'll give it a go. I've got a lot of timber to paint with my Old West stuff. Thanks 

[emosbur]

Another method:

http://trainscape.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/madera-vieja-creosotada-podrida-muy.html

[ancientsociety]

I weather wood with thinned acrylic inks - cool grey, paynes grey, black, and burnt umber - then drybrush with white acrlic paint against the grain.

Quick, easy, and cheaper than using paint.