I pick the color I want( oil base) and dilute it about five to one with thinner.You can then brush it on and get a great finish that shows the natural wood grains.
Ed
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Ed Thanks for the tip. I'll do the picnic tables first, I think. This should just about complete my baseball field with subway running in the background(elevated). I'll post pictures once it's done and I figure out how to post them.
Tom
artie
most of the time I use alcohol with a few drops of india ink and put it right on the bare wood.
start off light, you can keep going over it to make it darker
if you distress the wood 1st like with a fine saw blade the marks will hold the wash and show up darker
From there you can also use other washes of black or brown to give it a certain tint
Use the oil base stain like MINWAX, when you open up can the stain has two parts, the vehicle or oil, and the pigment or color. When a can is freshly opened, the vehicle will have enough pigment in it to give you a lightly stained appearance. To get more color, take a stick and go to the bottom of the can and scrape it you should get lots of pigment. Hope this helps.
laz57
Here is my method for getting the weathered grey look:
http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/weathered_wood/
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Harold
As a base for really weathered wood, I use an acrylic paint called "barn wood" that can be found at hobby lobby. Then I use a dry brush method to add different accents. Sometimes after the barn wood is dry, I will stand back 2 or 3 feet and do a very light over spray of "earth brown" and then add more colors with a dry brush. If I do not want the wood that gray color, then I use the dilluted method previously described and add different colors depending on the affect I want.
Here are a few examples:
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