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THis truck is growing into a masterpiece!

AWESOME!!! My Space Ghost finally arrived. I mean, Space Skeleton. He's in somewhat of an unfinished state.

Is that the flash still on the wrench?

It is. All that will be carefully removed.

Sometimeswhen I get a 25 year old mini with flash still on it I think: "some guy somewhere is pumping out pirated copies and making a mint" but then I look at the mini and think that either they were a bloody good forger and I dont care, or its just never been owned by someone who gave a damn about flash and mould lines!

Actually a good forger would have removed the flash probably.

He is well cool and I want one even more now I see a good photo.

Monkey - rivets will probably be GS - its the simplest way.
The bumper will probably be as spiky as looks good - von dom might have a point about the spikes being OTT, but I need to stare at it for a long amount of time pretending to think before I decide.

Von dom - the broken window will defo stay (must remeber to mask it before priming). That was a nifty bit of work with a scalpel. - the bullet holes arn't GS - its just that the plastic under the dodgy silver paint job is exactly the same colour as the GS I'm using.

cheers all. It might see paint today - who knows

Wow Vik, you must be slipping' she said your favourite words (need kore rivets) and you didnt respond.

Viktor von Domm wrote:now i have an image of a flying dwarf over the disc of the moon in my head... like E.T...

and to tell you a small story of my time doing service in the army... we were at the decontamination company... wearing full protection garment... one of our mates , who constantly couldn´t be kept from farting pulled his gasmask off his face while still being under full protection... he was literally in his own private sauna...so he breathed his full aroma in...well to cut a long story short... he went grey then green and we thought about cutting him out of his gear...it was just that we all lay on the ground while he choked due to his own odors....lol...imagine that now with that mentioned beaky...ot to put it in another way:

Where he is sat down. That is where my surf shop is!


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Weety. You are on page 81!

Wimper.

Christ on a stick! you are right... 81. An epic tome of random puns, comic asides and digression, smattered with occasional finished works. Not as vast as gitsplittas 300 page sea of commentary, banter and humorous side-arguments, liberally sprinkled with mantis warriors. Lol. I love blogging.

RIVET-RIVET-RIVET. I need more of them

I think that is pretty cool to have waay OOP minis with the flash still on them! Much easier (but not as fun) as removing some 8 year old's attempted paint job with a wire wheel and the Dremel.

Well this is a proud moment for me - I've been in full creative flow since I got back from work and I'm exceedingly smug about the results - I want to make more!! cant wait for my rhino... decisions to make - will it be guard, marine, chaos or cult? should it have epic scale deathstrike missiles strapped to the top? should it have a multi melta? should I make a razorback etc....

Any ways here are the pics - just needs a lick of rust and some graffiti

Wheety that's awesome! Your precious is being mailed today!

Looks great! Bumper stickers on the back would look cool to go along with the graffiti. Something like "how's my my driving.." or "I wish my girlfriend was this dirty" or something similar.

Of course, to-scale stickers couldn't be read, so maybe that is a bit far...

Anyway, can't wait to see it finished!

I found the top hatches! Threw them in the box along with a few suprises.

Dodgy silver paintjob? I don't know what you're talking about That was going to get red, gold and green inks over it, but the scalextric got shoved into storage before I got round to it.

Anyway, new version looks good girl Glad to hear you got the V-hickle bug now, I want to see you converting more stuff

Looking forward to the rusting and tagging.

Of course it does mean I need to get rid of some paperbacks to make room, I desperately need another shelf for warhammer figures as they are getting cramped.- I might do a grand ebay sci-fi paperback sale soon.

Thanks all for comments and thankyou dsteinglass for digging out those top hatches!

I wasn't sure about your project weety... but I was wrong... that's definitely cool!

Aaahhh, geting rid of more books?

I'm afraid I may have to, I've read them all anyway - I've got E.E. doc Smith, douglas adams, terry pratchett, Ian banks, arthur c clarke, ursula le guin, julian may, alan dean foster, issac asimov, ben bova, ray bradbury plus many more obscure authors - I will link to the auctions in case any take your fancy. But then again I might keep the sci-fi and scrap the classics instead - victorian writers can be fairly boring but they sell well because they are "classic"

Thanks gitsplitta - I wasn't sure if it would look good myself - and I still wasn't sure till I undercoated it

Nice Rivets too!

Truck looks cool , especially the rivets .

did someone talk about....nuts...nails... screw...bolts...dowels...or something like that.... i think i heard something through the void....hmmm... must be misstaken about that....*trods off*


er... about that truck! splendid! i think this will be truly grnad and the best part will be it will be a great inspiration for lots of peeps to to likewise! i scoured the fleamarkets for quite some time now and never found a good matching scale for some old toy to be hacked apart to be later reborn as a nice gaming model....

your choice was ...good!^^

vik

Technically speaking it was monkeytroll's choice of vehicle - I have looked at old carboot/fleamarket toys myself and it is very hard to find them at the right scale.

Anyone got any good rust recipes?

burnt umber as a base coat, maybe some pastels or pigments on top , or lighter browns dappled on with a sponge.

Chainmail, random splodges of dark flesh, orange, and a mix of the two. Badab black and devlan wash, heavy drybrushing/stippling/sponging of chainmail and silver, more washes to suit.

Chainmail, dark flesh patches. Chainmail overbrush, couple of brown ink washes, very light silver drybrush:



Silver with red and brown ink splodges:


Very heavy chainmail drybrush over a black washed dark green. Heavy stippling with orange, dark flesh, and random splodges of yellow, orange and brown inks. Light drybrush of chainmail. Powders to finish. Ground up pastels make great powder substitutes to add some texture on top :



Tinbitz then chainmail drybrushes over black with brown patches: (in RL you can see the mettalic sheen)



Tinbitz, very light drybrush with catachan green then very thin wash of some green that I've forgotten:



Light overspray of olive over black and red spray base. Random large splodges of macharius orange, mechrite red and dark flesh. Badab blsck and devln washes. Chainmail drybrush, dark flesh stippling and selected variety of washes:



I'd say just mess around with various browns, oranges and reds. Messing around with drybrushing, stippling and washes is fun as if you don't like the result, further messing around will change it but ad some extra texture to the finish.

If you're doing a large area do some heavy sponging of a colour near the centre of the area and a light sponge in some other places to simulate patches of the original paint.


Although, as you posted your query in the morning, you've probably finished the truck by now and have started a couple more minis

Gorgeous!

Mmmmm. EE "Doc" Smith. Maybe Weety is the mythicall Red Lensman!

Wow thanks monkey! Actually I had done a wash of black and umber over "pig iron" (privateer press) and then didn't like it much and couldn't dicide how to proceed so your "Essay on Rust" is helping - time to cut up some sponge and get stippling.

I cant say I've ever read the lensman series. The ones I've got are from the "family D'alembert" series and is about a family of circus performers from a hi-gravity planet who are all super strong and live in an aristocratically led space empire

read the lensman series quite a long time agi and from that point of view i liked it... when i think about the books i think it was a bit like a continuing of ever more powerful enemies and the striving of a more technological solution to their problems...too bad the books are away^^ and i can´t figure out where to get them anymore... of course now i would read them only in english...

Yeah, many, many moons since I read any of the Lensman series, think I have a couple squirrelled away somewhere. Recognise the Family D'alembert, but that's about it, not sure if I've read those or not.

You may be on to something there Brian, as I recall the Red Lensman was the only female to be able to use a Lens, she was a curvy redhead with awesome mental powers, can't remember if they included the ability to slow down time in order to paint up some minis before the Galactic Patrol needed her help again

Nice work! But IMHO that marine from the first post looks like an ork in shoulder pads, shin guards and a helmet....