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| This is one of those things that really bugs me about latex weapons. I just haven't ever seen a wood finish that I'm completely happy with. The 'larp wood' soldering iron grooves effect just kinda knarks me. I can put up with it but something about it grates. Why is this so incredibly popular? I dont get it... Shven
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Shven (10/27/2007)
I can put up with it but something about it grates... Shven Perhaps the fact that it resembles unfinished wood. Having trained with staff weapons, I really prefer my wood polished... Bought an axe years ago with a painted grain. It`s lovely. Don`t know who the manufacturer is, though.
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The best finish I ever saw was by second skin, where Mike had cast a flat piece of wood plank, cast a version in flat latex sheet, then wrapped the weapon haft with it. All he did after that was dye it using a wash of leather dye, wiped it off to leave the detail of the grain and then sealed it. It was very realistic, even close up it looked like real wood. I did try it a couple of times on weapons that I made and it looked very cool, although its a bit time consuming to produce a mould for sheet big enough to wrapmost hafts etc, it saves ages latexing and is realistic as well. Thats the best way around the usual LRP wood effect haft IMHO, cos if you can master that, you can reuse the same principle on most weapons that require a wood effect!
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Put me down as another hater of the "soldered grooves" look -- I think it's stupid.
Personally I like to just paint brown latex on, using a brush rather than a sponge or dipped effect, and keep all the brush strokes vertical. That gives more than enough of a grain effect to resemble finished wood.
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Heroic Knight
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The comb method works pretty well, basically use a comb to create the grain effect in layers of different shades of latex.
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I paint woodgrain on using two different tones of brown, the darker top coat is semi-drybrushed in the direction I want my grain to go in long overlapping strokes.
If I want bark (rather then finshed wood) then I take a block of furniture foam and slice thin layers from it with a razor blade using a messy cut
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Yeah, I've used the semi-drybrush, 2-layer approach too -- it's all good.
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Riftworld: Rossar Kuug ("Clearly mad, because he thinks he's a Com-Trow Skirmisher" - Aela)
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Otherwise usually crew ("Quite spry & fit, & willing to wear a big costume & run around a lot" -- various event organisers)
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| Vertical Brushstrokes is usually what I go for. Just venting a little really. Have to say, Eldritch's tool range is really nice in this regard.
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| I use the cast method whenever I can get away with it- I basically bought a pack of vinyl floor tiles (well planks really) which had been cast from real wood, took a plaster cast and voila one wood texture mould. It looks great on the back of shields as well.
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