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Gray + Brown wash?

Which? they all look different.

For gray-weathered wood, use a light wash of Badab Black.
For weathered but kinda still natural, a light sepia wash followed by a light badab black.
For natural, use sepia.

For cherrywood, sepia and a light baal or a ogryn flesh wash.

EDIT: these are the techniques I use on craft sticks or balsa wood, I should add. For a different material, I would paint it gray and use a wash of light sepia like you suggested.

Yeah, I have some craft sticks fashioned into makeshift fences.

They're already primed black, however.

Bummer.

For natural wood, it would probably be ok to paint it a light brown/tan color and use a black wash to grey it down a little. I might have to explore this and it might make a good article someday. Thanks for the thought provoking topic, malfred!

I'll keep it in mind when I do another set.

So you just wash the material straight away? Nice! That'll make the next project much faster.

Well, to be honest I wait for the first coat of paint to dry, but yeah.