? Making Styrene look like...New wood (lumber yard stock).

[chutton01]

All this talk about the Atlas Lumber Yard shed (my plans are to salvage the radial saw & tool bench portion of the wall for use in a interior of millwork/furniture workshop - and then combine the remainig shed with some walthers ones to provide a sizable enough lumber/building materials distributor to warrent rail service) has me wondering something - I have some molded plastic lumber stacks, molded in rather unrealistic 'tan-yellow' wood color.  I wish to repaint these as new lumber, as one would see in any building material/DIY center (I know colors can vary widely, but I wish for a more realistic (but generic) 'tan-yellow' I suppose.
I checked Pacific Coast Air Line of course, but only found info on wood weathering (great for old wood pallets, but not for for-sale new lumber - I could have sworn there was a snippet on making fresh-sawn wood, but I couldn't find it).  Then I started searching around, found one snippet from this forum on a.) First painting with Kilz primer (would any white primer do?) and b.) Minwax Provincial 22.  Since it looks as if lumberyards (and graveyards) are gonna be popping up on all sorts of layouts, other suggestions are welcome...
BTW, I find the 'obvious' solution (Testor's Wood paint) looks OK IF you can weather it a bit (with a black wash & some chalks - great for things like garden tool handles or wood pallets which get hard usage, but are stored away indoors so they don't get the grey sun-bleach appearence, just a bit worn).  But fresh-cut milled lumber, not so much.

[ne_trains]

Poly Scale CSX tan is a good starting point. Mixing white, brown, black, red or green will give you various hues and shades to represent different wood species.

[hminky]

Since you mentioned the PcalRwy site, I had a picture of styrene as new wood. The problem was that the ink to get the great look is no longer available. The old Koh-i-noor burnt sienna made perfect new wood on primed styrene. The new inks don't have the same color. The color can be acheived using the new Koh-i-noor raw and burnt sienna's and doing a double stain.

That was the combo to get the raw wood look at the top. It works but not as good as the old Koh-i-noor.

 http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/aging_wood/

That is all I can do to help

 Thank you if you visit

Harold

[chutton01]

Polly Scale CSX tan (as the base), hmm - I'd like to give that a try - did you need to have a white primed base coat beforehand

Since you mentioned the PcalRwy site, I had a picture of styrene as new wood.

Hah, I wasn't imagining it then!

The problem was that the ink to get the great look is no longer available. The old Koh-i-noor burnt sienna made perfect new wood on primed styrene. The new inks don't have the same color. The color can be acheived using the new Koh-i-noor raw and burnt sienna's and doing a double stain.

I think I remember that advice from the PacCoast site, but I brought a different brand of 'Burnt Sienna', which looked miserable.

Well, all ideas are good, as mill wood in the DIY centers seems to have different shades...

[ne_trains]

Polly Scale CSX tan (as the base), hmm - I'd like to give that a try - did you need to have a white primed base coat beforehand

I tend to prime buildings and scenery details with with good old Testors gray primer (spray can). However, starting with a white prime coat would probably work well.