Trevor L

I've gone with a similar blue for the same reasons.

Those Miniart tyre 'slices' look good, but as you say they can be fiddly to get right.

More good work. I'm glad I'm not the only one that stops to take a closer look at rusty stuff when out and about.

Negative ion generator, you say. I can't decide if that's something an evil Bond villain would use, or if it's the name of a 70's krautrock band!

Looks good to me. A very realistic overall effect.

Looking good. I do like a rusty chassis!

That looks tasty. Top off with some cream and raspberries and tonight's pudding is sorted! Some great work, and I like the foil idea.

I've now moved on to the cab interior and started painting and weathering it. For the seat I was considering using the foil method that was linked to in the group chat, but it seems a delicate material and one wrong move could ruin it. I was trying to think of an alternative, then it came to me in a brilliant flash of inspiration*: masking tape! It would be more secure and has a sort of leather grain texture to it, but once stuck down it may be tricky to cut. After a bit of experimenting it seemed to work though, so I went for it. First I painted the seats an orangey yellowey foam colour, then stuck the masking tape on and cut it to shape. Some of the edges are a little rough but that can be put down to age and wear. I also wondered whether a 1950's vehicle might have springs instead of foam, but decided to ignore that. I then painted it black and dry brushed a sand colour over it. After that I used a scalpel to carefully cut some patches, keeping it as flat at as possible, then folding back the loose parts. The loose bits stuck up a bit so I used a little glue to flatten them down, then dabbed some dark brown on the exposed foam to make it look grubby. I need to paint the metal side arms and maybe weather it a bit more, but this is how it is looking. *please excuse over dramatics. I'm sure someone thought of this idea many moons ago, but for a little while I imagined I had invented a new method.

Great start. You've become a right little amateur arsonist! I'm planning to use the lighter method on mine, and it's something I haven't done before. Any tips to avoid a complete model meltdown?

Very nice. That book looks good. I may try and get a copy, if it's not too dare.

Nice touch.

I hope it looks ok this morning, but if not I'm sure you will figure out a way to improve it.

You really are embracing Enzo's 'build them all' mantra!

That's coming together nicely.

Hmm, this project appears to be growing by the day!

Thanks Paul. I did enjoy it. On one of the sessions I popped in to do a little bit, and before I knew it two hours had passed.

Update time, and with the build pretty much complete I am going to paint and weather one section at a time, starting with the chassis. As most of this won't be seen I could experiment, and hopefully hone some methods before I get to the more visible parts. After painting the chassis black, I went over it with thinned light and dark rust shades. I then dappled a light orange rusty shade over parts of it with a frayed old brush. Over that I added some pigment for texture to a dark oxide colour and splodged it on. Finally, I used some lighter shades again to highlight some areas, and I've ended up with a rusty, crusty hunk of metal. The pics maybe don't quite do it justice, but I'm really rather pleased with how it looks.

It's great when experimenting and trying new methods works. I hope you obtained appropriate approval for using the kitchen as a modelling lab!

Nice one. Bathing in IPA got me thinking. I wonder how many bottles I'd need?

Great link. Exactly what I had in mind, but I never would have thought of that method 👍

Great video. Lots of other ideas and tips in it too 👍

I like all the textural and tonal variety, which is something I want to try and achieve on my build.

That's looking really good, with some lovely detail.

I am also thinking of doing this, but haven't seen any methods for it. I was considering using tissue to represent torn material, then painting a foam colour in the exposed areas. I've no idea if that would work, but I was planning to experiment first.

Nice hackage and slashage 👍