Any tip for wood effect

[juniorbrasil]

Well, I'm wanting to do the Tardis from Dr Who series and have found a model for print and assembly.
But before starting this part I would like to know how to paint the paper and get the wood appearance because I admit I tried to find some site but did not find.
I want to try to make the same effect I've seen in some assemblies boats, where the painting they do stay with this appearance of wood.
But I can not find the right website that I saw this explanation.
I think the only difference is that I will use blue ink.

Thanks

[DeadlyTedly]

One thing you con try is to print twice, once with a wood texture, in grayscale, and then send it through the printer again, in blue. Various wood textures are available online, or there are tutorials online for image processing programs like Photoshop.

[airdave]

You understand that the Tardis is not made of wood, right?

I'm not talking about the TV versions...they're fiberglass.

But the original Police Call Box is made of concrete.
The front opening half-door was made from Teak.
And all painted with thick enamel paint.
Any lines and surface textures are mainly mold impressions in the concrete and brush strokes in the paint.


Did you also know that Call Boxes were originally RED!
They were all changed to Blue, in the 1960s, after the Tardis appeared (in Doctor Who).

[db-sa]

Did you also know that Call Boxes were originally RED!

No, that was only in Glasgee.
Metropolitan Police boxes, on which the Tardis was modelled, were always blue and the earliest 43 examples in 1929 were actually built of timber with only the roof from concrete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_box

[airdave]

First Police Boxes were installed in Glasgow...thats all.
By the 1920s/1930s, they were across Great Britain.

Only the very first ones were wooden.
1928-29-30 introduced the "modern" design that we are referring to.
(The Tardis design)
Yes, the prototypes were wood with concrete roof.
The adopted design was all concrete (except for the half door).

I'm under the impression that all were red until the 1960s.
There is one of four surviving original Police Boxes in a Glasgow museum...it is red.

[abhovi]

What I do to imitate wood for my ship models is self-adhesive plastic with a wood imprint. You can buy sheets of 45 x 300 cm (as a roll) from a German company d-c-fix (Deko-Folien, Klebefolien und Tischdecken online kaufen - d-c-fix ®) for 5 euros. It comes in many colors, but I decided to buy the white one. I cut it into strips and as it is self-adhesive it can be stuck to any base, paper and cardboard are both fine.
Don't forget to spray it with a primer and when dry, you can paint it any color. I use Humbrol 63, a dark yellow ochre. When totally dry (two or three days) I brush a dark brown oil paint called Van Dijk's Bruin (Talens paints, it is sold in collapsible tubes) on it, taking care that the paint fills the wood structure. Then I wipe it all off with a cloth, so that the paint remains in the wood structure. You get a perfect imitation wood in this way.

[juniorbrasil]

Well, honestly I did not know they were made of concrete, thought were of wood. I admit that as a reference to the assembly following sites that only showed the phone booth used in the TV series and on these sites the photos appear that the cabin is made of wood.

About the sheeets to buy for me it is difficult, because I live in Brazil and maybe the final cost would be above expectations.

And on the wood effect would try to make with paintbrushes and perhaps with the airbrush where helpful.

But maybe if I just assemble the cabin and paint in blue, with the closest possible the tone of the original color, get the desired effect at least in color. The desire to give the appearance of wood, it's to stay the same as presented in the series.

[JohnGay]

Seems the confusion comes from the reboot of the series in 2005. The Art Director insisted on making to new TARDIS look like a wood box, and made it much larger, because he thought the original Police boxes came in different sizes? Seems he didn't know feck-all about Police Boxes. It was only when it was redesigned for Matt Smith that they went back to the smoother look again.
Also, most fan-built TARDIS' are made from wood, for obvious reasons (-=
I'm not sure the original prop wasn't wood, until they had to move it too many times. It certainly wasn't cement (-=
But go ahead and make your own with the look you want.

Cheers,

John Gay

[airdave]

If I remember correctly, I think it was called, something like, "castcrete"?
Would probably have been lighter than wood.
Less frame work.
Cast side panels using a concrete based mixture, that are joined together to build the Box.
And a solid cast roof.
Although, that does look like a substantial slab base.
To keep it from blowing over in a storm?

As a fan, you might want to recreate the Tardis as a prop replica
and ignore the real beginnings and history of the Police Box.
Copy how the tardis itself was built.

As a TV prop, built from sheet plywood and fiberglass so (as John says) it is light enough to move.

But then again, if you are building a "Tardis"
doesn't it have to be made from Tardis material?
It is...in reality...only a projection.

[CMDRTED]

juniorbrazil you can use cold press watercolor paper and print the blue on it. it gives a grain like effect covered in paint. you can take the other guys advise on materials for the other parts.