Working with older Floquil colors and stains

[pizlinard72]

Hello everyone
I recently found my old, rather large batch of Floquil colors and stains in a cabinet that I had not looked into for „decades“, literally. They were sealed, look good and smell the same. After a long time I am getting back into modeling with wood. Initially I want to use wood for the deck of flatcars and parts on buildings. I am trying to get a worn down, white-gray look. My thinking was to seal the wood and then add several washes, finished with some weathering powder to add some more variety. The picture below shows a piece of wood that was cut with a laser. The little sliver lines represent rectangular steel washers that hold the wood in place.

I started with Floquil AL Pro Cote. Could you tell me how this would be different than Floquil Glaze or  FloStain Crystal Cote? I no longer know what AL Pro Cote is for.
Then I added a highly thinned white wash, followed with black wash on the top and a black wash only on the bottom part. Then very little Cherry Stain, finished with some antique white as well as ash colored weathering powder.
The wood in the picture below is from Northeastern and has been treated in the same way. The wood on the right hand side has not yet received the weathering powder treatment.

I would like to ask you for your advise on how you treat you wood to look weathered and if you could help me with your experiences with Floquil products.
Thank you!
Christian

[Mike Trent]

Hi, Chris. It's been a long time, but I remember the "Driftwood" color was my favorite. That's long gone now, but it looks to me that you are doing very well with what you are doing. About two years ago, I came across a line of wood stains from www.hunter line.com in Ontario. So far, I have only bought "Driftwood", but I like it very much. It dries to a silver-gray color much like the silver-gray you show.


www.hunterline.com

[Tim Schreiner]

Driftwood was awesome, and so was Antique bronze. Both were discontinued for some reason. I wish Floquil was still around. I cleaned out most all of what Caboose Hobbies has before it was all gone. Fortunately I still have quite a bit, but every year I have to toss out a couple bottles that got hard.

[pizlinard72]

Thank you Mike and Tim
Driftwood is the look I want to go for. However, instead of applying one wash, I now use four to get the same look. Maybe I'll try to mix all of them and see if I can get the same effect.
What do you use to seal off your work on the work? Testors Dull Cote or something similar?
Would anybody else know what FloStain AL Pro Cote was used for?
Thank you, Christian

[Tim Schreiner]

Dulcote, or the Tamiya version is also very good

[pizlinard72]

Thank you Tim
Will do. Pictures of final results to follow.
Kind Regards
Christian

[Mike Trent]

Ditto on both counts.

[Todd A Ferguson]

I always considered Driftwood to be just a thinner version of Grime.   I have a large stash of Floquil and Scalecoat I but the past 18 months I’ve really focused on using Tamiya and Vallejo acrylics.  To me there are many advantages to them.