Replicating wood grain on a dash

[drodg]

What do you guys and gals use to replicate wood on the dash of a car or say on a console?   Thanks

[Modelbuilder Mark]

First, there is the option to replicate it in paint. There are several tutorials posted here in the forum. This is a search for several similar discussions. site:modelcarsmag.com/forums wood grain

You can also do a quick search on Youtube .https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paitning+scale+wood+grain

But the easiest would likely be to simply dig through your kits that have woodgrain decals, and use them. 

[Snake45]

I paint the area black, then sort of dry-brush over it with a suitable shade of brown until I've achieved a satisfactory effect. 

If going for a lighter shade of wood, I'd substitute a medium brown for the initial coat of black, then dry-brush with the lighter brown. 

[espo]

I'll usually due my own wood treatment on dashes and interior panels. Another idea is to use wood decals. There are several sources for that including decals from  one of the Woody Wagons or decals of the bed floor on some pickup kits. Long ago I used one of the Home Supply Stores adds that showed wood cabinets. I would cut the add paper to size and used a little diluted  Elmer's Glue to hold it in place till it dried.  

[cobraman]

I sometimes paint area with Testors Wood (bottle ) then a little brown dry brushed over that and then a coat of Tamiya Clear Orange ( bottle ).

[drodg]

Thanks everyone.  Great suggestions.  

[Russell C]

For the dash panel and console in my silly Plymouth GTMX-5 shorty that I built in the 1990s (I entered it in the GSL 2015 contest for pure laughs, 3 pics here), I used strips cut straight out of a magazine that were from a nice crisp photo of some woodgrain item. Same sort of magazine photo material for the panels in my old 911 woody wagon.

[Brutalform]

Tamiya Desert Tan, then lightly add some fine brush strokes of Tamiya Bronze, then go over that with Tamiya Clear Orange. 

[Rick L]

On this surfboard I started with Model Master chrome yellow over white styrene. Then a Vallejo rust wash over that. If you want a deeper color such as walnut or mahogany go lastly with a third darker color such as Model Master rust. Use a coarse dry brush technique and let each color dry before putting on the next. This is a case where you WANT to see the brush strokes. Just be sure not to completely cover the previous coat.

[drodg]

Wow you guys get the job done.  I am actually going to be building the MPC  1970 Coronet Super Bee so it has the rally gauge cluster as standard.   Thanks agin