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Suzuki San, Fine Molds

Wood Grain Decals, camo stencils, Burnishing Agent for Friul white metal tracks....much is done and there is much more to come.

Allow me to have a few words about how all of this has begun.

The aircraft model you see below is Wingnut Wings´s 1/32nd scale LVG C VI. I built it in 2010 within a period of around 3 months. It has won serveral gold medals, best of class and audience awards. It was pretty much successful.

People always asked how the wood was done. Well in this case, the grain texture was painted by hand with a pin brush. During the conversations with the modelers i often realized that its not easy for everyone to paint a wood grain by hand. All of the sudden i had the idea! Why not using a decal for it?

I ran some tests and it all came out nice. It straight led to what we have here:

The possibility for everyone to reach a FASTER AND BETTER result as i was able to paint by hand.

Not only the military side of modeling is interesting. There is so much crazy stuff available around the world, its hard to find a topic to focus on. Military modelers tend to weather their models pretty heavy sometimes. This has led to sheer sience and very complex painting techniques, setting the bar higher and higher. On the civil modeling side, you find much of these techniques adapted. There is really unbelievable stuff out there, again demonstrating that it always is a good idea to look beyond your own nose.

Uschi now has begun to focus on this side of modeling as well.

During the process, many other ideas came up and we will release a range of nice and usefull products, helping you to gain fast and professional results when it comes to wood on aircrafts, ships or vehicles. Furthermore you´ll find pretty sweet stuff when it comes to complicated camouflage on AFV.

On the AFV side it might be interesting to know that we found a way to weather your FRIUL tracks in next to no time, using the effect of natural oxydation. Check out Uschi van der Rosten´s Kettenfärbemittel, Burnishing agent for white metal tracks.

Please visit the whats new section for updates

Thanks for your interest!

Sincerely yours

Uschi v.d. Rosten

At this point you have the choice: Extreme, conspicuous and clearly noticeable, or the subtile, well balanced and quasi-subconscious way. It´s up to you and your imagination and taste.

The picture above nicely shows a more subtile grain effect at the sides of the model. This was achieved by reducing the impact of the decals via an slightly bright brownish mist by airbrush. On the upper part of the fuselage, the oil colors are applyed directly on the decals. We have a rather dark wood, with a distinctly wood grain appearance here.

On the above picture, we have a quite overdone wood grain for an 48th scale Albatros. However ist shows clearly the apperance of the system in kind of extreme way.

On the above picture you can see the gentle, professional and more balanced way to use the product. As mentioned above, on the side-panels a misting and very thin coat of Tamiya XF-15 flat flesh was sprayed over the decal. This reduces the impact of the grain. Furthermore it allows you to render rather brighter tones of wood, because you do not need that much oil colors on the glaze anymore.

Meanwhile, The Uschi van der Rosten staff members.........

until it fulfills your needs!