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Improving some Kirk teaks Pt3 - Tackling a teak finish

JaymzHatstand

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I have had a bit of a play with creating the teak effect on the First Open using one of the methods suggested on this forum (a quick search proved rather fruitful and interesting!) That of a painted base coat (in this case Tamiya XF-4 Yellow Green) followed by a number of coats of wood stain (Ronseal Antique Pine as recommended by Wordsell forever), depending on the condition of the coach dictates the number of coats. The pictures below demonstrate the appearance of the coach over three coats. See how the colour becomes darker and almost richer, although the camera flash doesn't do it full justice, but I wanted to have a 'control' light setting for these shots to demonstrate the change in colour. It does look a lot better in natural light, and not a garish contrast to the 'teak' solebars as the camera flash shows!

 

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I have tried to keep my brush strokes flowing in the same direction as the wood grain (horizontal below waist, vertical above) so that the colour variance along the panels looks prototypical. I wasn't aiming to get a proper 'wood grained' effect, as from normal viewing distances this isn't too discernible, and would probably drive me batty trying to achieve it!

 

I've also made myself a samples chart with various squares of different shades of paint and woodstain so I can get an idea of how to achieve differing colours for a more varied rake.

 

I haven't done much more with the interiors, but the seating units are marked and ready to be cut, so once that task is done I should be onto final interior assembly and painting!

 

Any comments or suggestions are, as ever welcome.

 

Cheers

 

J

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Matthew Cousins

Hi James, I wonder if a base colour that is a bit nearer to the solebar colour might be worth a try, but the result that you have achieved is a good effort.

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Hi James,

 

That finish does look good. :)

 

Look forwards to the next instalment.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

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JaymzHatstand

Thanks for the compliments, Matthew, the Open Third has had an orange base coat applied, once its had the woodstain applied, there'll be some photos of that on here. That might have to wait until after Warley of course!

 

Cheers

 

J

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