Desert wreck.
Hi all.
Here's a recent build of mine, it's a Chevrolet gun tractor in 1:35 scale.
It was a couple of firsts for me, first time with the rust and faded markings.
The rust I found looking around a model railway show with a train nut, it's a two part compound and it develops in a few hours. I have to say I think it's quite effective,
The second new concept for me is the faded roundel on the roof. That couldn't have been easier as it's just given a light over spray with a pale grey colour. I made the remains of the roof tarpaulin from a small piece of tissue dipped in a diluted white glue mix and sprayed with a very thinned green/grey colour.
I usually make aircraft but I did this just for a change and while it has faults I'm quite happy with the way it's turned out.
Paul K.
"Faults" or not, I think it turned out quite nicely. And this: "...rust was achieved using a 2-part compound that develops in a few hours...". Can you expound on the process? Not being a 'train guy', I've no clue what you mean. 🙁
Great weathering and rust effects. well done.
Cool vehicle 🙂
One of the better "wreck" models I have seen.
Why did you make the Frame as a type of wall around your model and didn't put it on top?
Rust in the desert is for me contradictory - no rain no rust.
Apart of that - nice work.
Hi Hans.
I was house bound for a short while at the back end of last year. I asked my wife to get me a frame when she was out and that's what she came home with. As for the dry desert I found some photo's on line and they show the vehicles to be almost devoid of paint and with a slight rust colour. I assume the paint stripped body would be years of the sand blaster effect of wind in the desert and the rust colour well the sea might be just a short distance away, well that's my argument anyway!
Paul.
Fading colours
I made tests exposing different colours to sunlight.
my general obeservation was:
1: red turns to yellow
2: yellow fades out and
green turns to blue
3: blue fades out very slowly
of course different qualities of colour fade out at different speeds
Great job - looks very realistic to me! Always fun to test out a new technique or material.
Looks really nice Paul, makes me wonder how much of this stuff is laying around this world just waiting to be found. For what its worth I have found/ seen a lot of old vehicles scattered around the high desert areas here on the west coast of the USA, that are rusted as bad or worse than this. So I think your good with it. Well done