Wood Ornament

This holidays I´m spending time trying to do a good wood ornament to hang on the wall.

I bought two metal 1/43 BBR models, they are deliberately rustic and I think they can look good in a olive wood base.

Fingers crossed that my poor ability allows me not to destroy all this beauty, I will keep you updated.

Its time to go to the mart and purchase new dremmel accesories.

The BBR 1/43 metal and resin in progress, not the best scale model you can see by far, but decent imho.

Engraving the letters in the wood

Today I´ve continued engraving the letters

I´ve found the same tone of dye to apply for the finish!!

I have injected some epoxy through a crack to reiforce the piece, after buying a syringe yesterday and another one today, the pharmacy clerk looks at me strangely...

Letters finished, work in progress!

Enlarged holes, still unfinished. Also applyed a dyeing coat to test it.

More or less this is the idea, need to give it a proper finish of course.

The holes are irregular to give the impression that the cars are "emerging" from the wood.

Thanks chap!

Imperfections removed from the holes, still not finished but the end is already seen!!

This morning I went to the pharmacy again, to get the third syringe...

the 10ml ones I use are sold out and I have only been able to get a 1ml one, clearly insufficient.

The clerk has suggested the possibility of going to another pharmacy but i prefer not to buy syringes or condoms where they dont know me

so I´ll have to wait another week until they receive a new batch.

Spent the morning restoring the sides in matt dark brown.

Back side reinforced with fiberglass to prevent cracks

The result is ugly and thanks to a SAAB 900 SE donor, will be covered with magnificent swedish leather.

Spending the morning dyeing to charcoal grey and giving the backside a proper finish.

Unfortunately the holidays are over and I still have to crew the cars and give the whole thing a proper finish...but today is the day to clean the house and resume with the annoying daily problems again...

Appreciate your interest guys!