Hello, everyone and welcome to the first part of my new video series focused on the Great War. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to paint wooden propeller with oil paints. In the end, the propeller should look like this. I have chosen two different propellers for this video. One is with two blades and the second one is with four blades. Both are in 1/48 scale. Actually, the scale does not matter much. You can use the same technique if you have a model in 1/32 or 1/72. Ok then. Now we can start. First I must fix all the imperfections such as mold lines and holes like this one. I glue a toothpick into the propeller for better manipulation with it. If you are not sure if you have cleaned all the imperfections, I recommend spraying the propeller with one layer of primer. Now it is much easier to see all remaining imperfections. So now is the propeller prepared to be painted. If you do not have an airbrush, you can simply paint the base color with an ordinary paint brush. How to choose the correct base color for the wood? As you can see on real planes each propeller has a various shape, and it also has different color shades. It is relatively simple. If you imitate light wood, then your base coat should be white. If you imitate dark wood, then you can use some kind of light shade of brown color. Ok, I think that it is not clear enough. I prepared a small example for you. Here I have a few shades of oil paints and several bases in different colors. Oil paints are partially transparent so it is important to choose the right color for the base. As you can see, the best option is to choose lighter shades because if your base is dark, Because if your base is dark when oil paints will be very dark too however I recommend trying some mock tests before you start painting your model so So now enough of theory and let's paint something. I show you how to paint light wood. I use yellow ocher and small pointed brush. I paint wooden texture with a darker shade of ocher. I just mix a little of brown to yellow ocher. If you think that result is nice you must let it dry for one or two days and then fix the paint with transparent clear varnish. This is how the single-colored propeller looks like. Anyway, you probably need something like this. I show you a few mistakes which I saw on some models. The first mistake is painting dark wood straight lines. It doesn't look bad, but from the side view, you can see that wood is bent and this is not correct. The second mistake is to paint dark wood slantwise and with a wrong direction. You can make this error when you paint the second side of blades. So how to paint it correctly? You must simply paint the shape in the right direction and check it from the sides of the propeller. However, you achieve the best results if you have a photo of the original propeller and you paint it according to it. As I said, oils dry from one to two days in thin layers, and therefore I can adjust the shapes as needed. As you can see, the lines are pretty straight but don't forget that I need to improve the thickness of each line. I use enamel thinner for this purpose, and ultra finish pointed brush. That was a testing propeller, so now let's paint the real one. And the propeller is finished. Now I let it dry for one or two days, and then I apply several layers of clear varnish again. As I said at the beginning, I wanted to paint a four-bladed propeller as well. I It's a little bit harder than a two-bladed one, and I painted it with darker shades for a change. The first layer of oil paints is mixed with brown and red. This time, I don't fix this layer with clear varnish. However, it depends on you. If you start painting dark wood immediately, you will save two days of drying. It is quite funny to paint wood texture on each blade of the propeller because they must be same. Therefore I like oil paints because you can simply change or modify the shapes as you want. It is also possible to completely clean the oil paints with enamel thinner and start again. When the work is done, I let it dry for two days as you already know and then I fix it with one layer of clear varnish. Now it only remains to paint some details and apply water-slide decals. Of course, only if they are included in the kit since some propellers don't need them. In the end, you can coat the propeller with one or two layers of transparent clear varnish. As I am thinking about it, this technique requires a lot of varnishes. :-D And here you can see both propellers. Although this technique is not difficult, it requires some practice. And it is definitely worth it to put this on the world war one model plane. Thanks for watching and see you next time when I will continue with the second part of my video series. It will be again about painting wood texture