Nice wood grain
that is some nice wood grain on card stock. I have done similar things with styrene, (and with wood, for that mater) dragging a razor saw over it to get some exaggerated grain. I have gotten a soldering iron that has an end like a exacto knife from Micro mark, and some little blades designed to burn grain into wood, have not tied it yet, will report on it once I do.
Thanks for sharing the process step by step. that gives some of us old dogs a chance to learn a new trick; and shows the guys just starting out the process as it starts, and step by step. this makes the whole process less intimidating, and may encourage them to work carefully step by step, which is how the magic happens.
Bill Nelson
My Great Grandfather was a carpenter for Pullman Standard, and worked on the Palace cars, my Grandfather was a carpenter for an automotive co back when the bodies had a wood frames. When Ford started paying way more than the other car companies, my Grandfather went to work in a ford plant making crates for T models, and making three times more than he did at the other company making door frames with complex curves. I worked for a construction & remodeling company in the summer when I was in high school, and at a cabinet shop, after graduating from college . I have been away from woodworking for a living for 30 years, but I live in a 130 year old farmhouse, so I still live and breath carpentry @ full scale as well as HO. My Dad was a professional Forester, so the wood is in my blood from the forest to the finished product .