>>7517894>>7517906>>7517908I didn't take a lot of wip pics so this will do. The rpk was done more than a year ago but was more or less the same process I followed for the pkm, for the latter I went for a finer grain with more contrasting colors so they don't disappear and streamlined the whole process a bit after what I learned with the rpk but further refinements might be needed if I do more wood in LA builds.
Basically the process goes:
>base color, for ak/rpk/pkm/etc is usually an orange brown so use that>pick three browns: very dark, dark, medium>paint the wood veins and grain>glaze the base color to unify a bit, this depends on how noticeable you want the veins. Also if you did them the way you wanted them already on the painting step just skip this.>weather if you want to>varnishNot exactly revolutionary I would say but really effective.
