WNW Roland D.VIa with lot's of extra's finnished.

[Alexis]

I think you nail it , well done !






Terri

[radio]

Wonderful wood paint.
Martin

[NinetythirdLiberator]

Beautiful wood effect, Danny!  Subtle is the key, I think.  Looks nice.  The color looks spot on too.

Excellent.  Keep going! 

Dan (another Danny)

[LindsayT]

Very convincing!

[Umlaufmotor]

Beautiful, I like your wood effect-paint 

Servus
Bertl

[DannyVM]

Thank's guy's and girl's for the nice comments.

Greetz

Danny

[Des]

Your lozenge application is excellent and the wood effect you have created is superb, very realistic looking wood, well done Danny.

Des.

[Ernie]

Beautiful work, Danny.  The woodwork is superb, inside and out.
Thanks for the detailed build log. Nicely done!

Cheers,
Ernie

[mgunns]

Hello Danny:

You are making good progress on this.  I like your wood tones.  I am watching these Roland DVI build logs to get ideas for the wood.  I like using oils over the decals, especially on this bird with the neat planking.  I will be watching as you progress.

Best

Mark

[Snowy]

Great work Danny. First the engine, then the wings and now the wood on the fuselage, you are going great guns on all. I look forward to following your progress.

[DannyVM]

Thank's guy's for the nice comment's.

Greetz

danny

[vincentm]

Great work on this model. I love the wood grain, thanks for sharing your technique, I think I'll try that. Just one question: how many dots of oil paint do you put on the tan undercoat, I mean which density?

[DannyVM]

    Just one question: how many dots of oil paint do you put on the tan undercoat, I mean which density?                       

Thank's Vincent

Now regarding you're question:

how many depent's on how heavy you want the texture of the woodgrain. It's difficult to say, but the next photo give's a idea.



This is a test piece i made before i painted the cockpit, but it gives a pretty good image of the density i use also for the wooden plancking of the fuselage.
I will try to take some pictures of the progress thiss weekend.

Greetz

Danny

[vincentm]

Thanks for the pic, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

[DannyVM]

Hi guy's and Girl's,

today i finnished the woodwork on the fuselage of my Roland, and i must say that i am pleased with the result.
I've seen that some people really could use a how to, for theire own project, so i tought it was about time to share some noob techniques   regarding wood grain structure
First i need to say that this project is also my very first woodgrain project so far.

I will explain the progress using the vertical tail of the Roland.
Iff you look at the surface of the fuselage, you will see that there are a lot of nails (rivets) where used to secure the plank's to the fuselage frame. These nails are an important part of the fuselage and therefore they can give a really good extra detail to the whole model.
To accent the nails i put extra oil paint into the engraved nails.

The cross you see at the verical tail are the nails that are filled with oil paint.



Now i will place dot's of oil paint between the lines.



The quantity of dot's are different regarding the woodgrain that you desire, so less dot's meane, a lighter woodgrain effect, but also less room to play with the paint for a different wood texture.
To place the dot's i use a number 00 round pointed brush.

Now, to get the first woodgrain effect i use a flat brush number 1. With long strokes i blend the dot's into each-other, this will be yoy're first woodgrain texture.



Remenber to clean you're brush after every stroke on a kitchen paper. IMPORTANT NOTICE : do not use any cleaner, because this will ruin you're work.

After this is done, i use a number 2 flat brush, and again with long strokes i blend the oil paint to get a more finer woodgrain.



iff you think "ok this is fine be me" ok then you can stop, and you're work is done, but i will use a thirt flat brush, a number 4 to get the woodgrain a little finer.



Et voila, you have a wooden fuselage. All depent's on personal favour, and you can go very far by this methode. You can blend with different colors, and you can change the direction of brush strokes to get other patterns.

Now back to the project, the whole fuselage is done, and this is the result.









Thank's for watching guy's.

Greetz

Danny