Painting "Wood"

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**Catyrpelius**

I'm working on finishing up my newest Malifaux crew, Lord Chompy Bits and Teddies. The crew is going to have a base theme that looks like the floor in a childs bedroom. I made up some bases and green stuffed a pattern that looks like a wooden floor. Now I'm trying to figure out how to paint it so it looks like actual wood. Any Ideas?

**Orki**

Umm, paint it brown?

Just base coat it in whatever shade you want, then drybrush a light tone on, and then wash with a darker brown. You can manullly add streaks of a different brownif you want more texture too.

You can glaze it with different tones to show age and wear for example. Greens for a damp manky wood, or black/brown for scuff marks (try an antique effect with lil scratches etc).

Not really much more to add really.

**johnscott10**

All i can suggest is go to a local laminate floor supplier, have a look at different styles, and try paint it to mimic it, after all you wanted a base similar to a childs bedroom floor.

**Orki**

Likey a light oak/maple/pine colour then.

**Leigen_Zero**

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat440022a&categoryId=400020§ion=&aId=3700036a

I used this when painting the bases in my mordheim warband (pics in my gallery) and it came out very nicely

**Gashmangla**

Leigen_Zero wrote:http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat440022a&categoryId=400020§ion=&aId=3700036a

Wow! That was awesome!

**Catyrpelius**

Thats an amazing find, I'm going to have to try this on atleast one of the bases.

**DeathReaper**

yea that seems like an extraordinary amount of work to put into bases, so good luck to you.

**blak43**

http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=2670

Excellent tips for how to paint woodgrain, especially on flat surfaces, good luck.

**HadoukenAvenger**

Basecoat Calthan brown
Vermin brown
Snakebite Leather Light Drybrush
Bubonic Brown light edge higlight
Wash with Devlan Mud.

At least that's how I do it