Plastic Pirate Sword Mod

Step 4 Wood grain

8. Maximize your time.  While you're waiting on your first coat of orange acrylic to dry, you can begin putting the Rub n' Buff on the filigree scabbard pieces. Take a tiny little bit of the metallic wax on your finger, and oh-so-lightly begin to apply the gold color on the raised portions of the plastic. If you press too hard, it will seep into the cracks and lines and create a uniform appearance. To get that antique look, stay only on the surface and let the black base coat show through in the cracks. Remember, you can always add more, but once it's on, it ain't coming off.

9.  Back to wood grain. If your orange paint is dry on the wood grain areas, go ahead and add beige. Just like the orange, don't worry if it's streaky. We will be building up all the colors over and over again, so eventually the wood areas will completely cover the black base coat, but for now just lightly paint over the orange. Set it aside to dry and continue making the filigree pieces 'gold' while you wait.

10.  Now it's time to add the brick red acrylic on top of the beige using the same streaky dry brush technique. Let it dry. Now, you can take your finger and add a few streaks of black acrylic, or, like I did, a few streaks of 'spanish copper' Rub n' Buff. Then, go back and do it all over again. First orange, then beige, then brick red. After two solid color progressions have dried, it's time to head outside with the spray paint again.