[WWI] Simulating wood panels

[Carlos Carreira]

Hi Gerald,

An alternative to photographing real wood is scanning images from
books dealing with woods. I own "World Woods in Color" (you may look
inside it at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0941936201/

An alternative is "The Woodbook"
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3822838187)

I already scanned some plates of the book but I'm still to print them
in decal paper.

Regards,
Carlos

On Jan 12, 2008 9:58 PM, GERALD ROBINSON <ghrobin at comcast.net> wrote:
> Pardon the intrusion of a "lurker".  I have just taken up the hobby
> since retirement, and it is so different than my childhood airplane
> hobby (balsa and tissue, etc.) that reading the list's emails has been
> an essential education.
>
> I wonder if anyone else has tried photographing plywood, and then  using
> Photoshop to size the image, insert the right color, sharpen it, and
> print a decal.
>
> I have tried it on 1:32 Camel, and after finishing with a spray to give
> a varnished effect, the wood paneling around the cockpit looks pretty
> good to my inexpert eyes.
>
> Photoshop has all the tools to make copies of the initial exposure, add
> required colors, and size the grain to the model size, so really one
> exposure should be the basis of making decals for inside or outside of
> the plane.
>
> I would appreciate getting some responses and you judgments about what
> is the best method.
>
> Gerald Robinson
>
>