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Looks good, I like old stuff like that.
Can you show its size compared to a tin of paint or a coin?
Looking forward what you will do with the real wood....looks like balsa.
Maybe you will paint it but maybe you need a varnished or washed look....I don't know this truck at all but looking at it it gives me an idea to search and try such a model myself.
I have fooled around with colouring that and it turns too dark very quickly when using stains or other thin colourings.
Huge difference between different balsa "planks" regarding grain direction, grain width and grainsize.
You can also use colour pencils, fruit juice, tea, coffee, food colourings or coloured wax.
Also the colours may not cover uniformly and you get light-dark contrast creating highlighted grainstructure and out of scale look.
Sanding may clog the open grain and cause another problem etc.
Then, depending what you use, there is the UV of sunlight bleaching all or part of the colour very quickly...use an UV filter as final coat, like an external paint.
If there is any glue (CA, PVA, special balsa glue) on a visible part it will give a diiferent colour result than the rest.
The ends will take a lot of colour compared to the sides.
You might try certain "household" liquids to react with the wood to create contrast or age it, although you never know what you get.
Examples I have not tried myself: Diluted ammonia may "brown" the wood, but will probably not work on balsa.
: Caustic soda (1 teaspoon/ltr) may darken the grain.
It might be something I will try myself soon now, balsa is a strange type of hardwood.
So good luck.
Things always take longer than expected but rushing it might cause results you don't like and you will always remember that when admiring the final result.
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Nice and quirky subject. Just make sure you are not coughing in the close proximity of that fragile looking thing.
You can put it into the proposed IAC 90 group build too, as Mr. General Collins is the father of Irish military and civil aviation.
Filip
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"You can put it into the proposed IAC 90 group build too, as Mr. General Collins is the father of Irish military and civil aviation". And now you tell me this! After I swore a sacred and mighty public oath ( How hard can it be?) to build an IAAC SE5a, wings and all, for just that occasion.  
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GhengisMcCann wrote:"You can put it into the proposed IAC 90 group build too, as Mr. General Collins is the father of Irish military and civil aviation". And now you tell me this! After I swore a sacred and mighty public oath ( How hard can it be?) to build an IAAC SE5a, wings and all, for just that occasion. Paddy - why not a diorama, involving this marvellous model, the figure of the "father of Irish military aviation", AND the aforementioned SE5a? The big fella arriving at Baldonnel or Gormanston, or wherever, and reviewing the potential of the IAC, 90 years ago, while the tender is there to make sure that Dev or some of his irregulars doesn't come along to shoot him!
Three models in one go, and a sure prize winner.....
What's not to like??
Philip
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