Wood Decking for flatcars, truck beds, siding, fences, etc

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This was originally posted in the armor section but certainly applies greatly to Railroad modeling as well. There are a number of railroad examples shown there as well.

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Wood Decking; Using paints, washes and pastels

Been having some pleasing results of late using paint, transparent washes and soft oil pastels to create the look of wood decking. I wanted to share this in hopes it might be of some value to others. My work centers primarily around wood decking seen in various military recovery vehicles, cargo trucks, railroad flat cars and miscellaneous other subjects mostly in the Armor category. I will start first with a recent build of mine; the Sd. Ah.115 recovery trailer from das Werk. [IMG_2305] He…

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I spy a Dragon Wagon trailer. That StuG scene and the staked flatcar decking are great.

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Thank you Fred!

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Some recent “Woodwork” on a number of plastic kits: