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Ewwww....that Nurly fellow will certainly stand out in a crowd. His name is probably "Boyle".

You almost want to hand him several tubes of skin cremes; I say "almost" because I don't think any of us want to get anywhere near him.

...Tea Maid...yep, lost in translation...but it does make me want a cuppa right now.

Boyle McScabby?

I did some riveting on my armoured pickup. I could never join the League of riveters - its too fiddly for me This is another vehicle for the orlock gang and I will be atempting to make it look as rusty as possible I expect. Maybe I should create my own league - the League of rusty spoons?

Is it too obvious that the wheels are from lego? Anyway special thanks must go to monkeytroll for providing the chassis and lego wheels. Cheers

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fiddly work it is^^ but it is also quite rewarding and can create an inner peace

the truck looks very good... only the tire pattern is obviously lego looking... but i wouldn´t bother changing that... i think it is rather fitting to the overall look of the car...

The rivets are certainly necessary to the amoured look. As I used green stuff for them it was a bit of a chore getting them roughly the same size and getting them to stick to the car instead of my finger! Also kept dropping them - I think if I had the technical resources to make plastic rivets it would be more fun.

well...there are so many ways...if it is for small rounds of making rivets i would suggest shasolenzabi´s methode... he used thinned PVA and just aplied small droplets on the model... the GS methode for me is one of the hardest i think...also IF you do this i would advise you to first make the rivets and then let them cure completley... then aply them with super glue...

the rod methode dave uses is one of the few that gives best results but also takes some time to get used with... my own with the holepunch set is by far the easiest... tho it needs the tools... a very small holepunch sometimes can be bought in artshops...1-1.5 mm it should be for delicate models...

Yeah, the Lego wheels look pretty boss actually. Nice and hard edged and solid looking. I say keep em' for sure.

Pick-up looking good - bit of colour and a lot of rust and it'll be sweet as

For gs rivets best method is probably to roll out thin sausages the diameter of the rivets, let it cure then slice rivets off at your leisure.

what i said^^

I will bear that in mind next time - these ones were made soft, pressed on soft and then I smeared a little superglue over em to stop them from falling off later. Hope it works. But with hindsight your proposed cured sausage method sounds better.

Hell I'm drunk right now - good thing I have spell check. Old friends got me into it.

I gona watch die hrd 4 - Its not the best one but it does have a lotta amusment - old man vs computers and all that

well...skol^^

as for DH4...hmmm...best part was from thate female adversary...maggie Q... the rest...well...best forgotten

Well it did it for me when I first saw it - but I was drunk so my critical faculties were hampered. But thats ok they are now too.

Skol? what the beer?

no...the swedish (?) drinking salute^^...you folks probably say cheers^^

Salut!

Oh dear I wasn't going to drink last night but when the gang turn up in town its too rare to miss. Great conversations about Freudian-ism and lots of beer in funny shaped glasses.

The truck looks really good now I have smeared on some black wash. I'm going for the kinda desert dust and rust look aka mad max 2. I must remember to do an anarchy symbol on it somewhere and maybe get the other truck out and do the same.

I am feeling very enthusiastic for armoured trucks and cars atm but I don't think I can afford copplestones ones so its toy cars and plasticard for me.

Lego is awesome, and always wins. Have you looked at ramshackle's vehicles? Great fun, modular, and cheap as chips resin.

Hmmm ramshackle - I will go take a gander at that


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Didn't like the vehicles but the parts catalogue will be useful. The vehicles look a bit too simple.

Fair enough. The Tridlins are great!

Lovely Truck Weety! -And the coat on that scaavy really looks moldy and moth-eaten and nasty!!

It's the GS that is a pain, plastic or even paper rivets are much easier.- Also jewelry-making beads, or even split peas work well for big, orky rivets

Split peas! That's a big rivet. I've got mad max on the brain today - the saxophone riff from beyond thunderdrome is stuck in my head and I found the first film in a charity shop - I was looking for toy cars to mad maxify, no joy yet, all the wrong size.

Wow!

Splendid truck is splendid!!

For rivets, Weety, have you tried Instant Mold?


I make a small "tool" of the Instant Mold about the size of a small pencil. Heat up one end of the Mold, and find a small rivet that I like the size and shape of, and press the mold to it. The rivets I usually find are things like the little "buttons" on the bottom of plastic pencil cases, or pretty much anything like that. even the tip of a dull pencil.

Anyway, put a very small piece of GS in the indent of the tool, and use the tool to press the rivet onto the surface you want to rivet.

It may need a bit of cleaning up when the GS cures, but it makes pretty good ones. As shown on my Steampunk War Walker:




Just in case you want to try again.

If you don't have Instant Mold, I would try the Styrene Rod method that Vik mentioned.

Intriguing RS... how about a pic of the tool?

I'll have to get back to you on that. I thought I had a pic, but I don't know where it is.

I'll get a few pics of the process too!

Cool walker - Thanks for the tip

Painting has begun!

Work in progress - needs more rust and dirt plus paint the wheels

Nice old looking metal there, look forward to the full rusting

Very cool Weety!

The effect on the truck is very grainy - I achieved it thanks to stupid stupid army painter primer spray - normally its a bloody disaster but for this a grainy effect was just what I needed!

Looks cool like its been caught in a dust storm

Yep - thats what army painter does sometimes - seemingly at random. I was hoping it would do that this time though.

Some rust and stuff has been added to the truck - also I've had a supply drop (it was payday) of 10 sheets of plasticard in five different thicknesses; 2mm, 1mm, 0.75mm, 0.50mm, 0.25mm - I might make some more mad max vehicles. There's other things I need though and if it will ever stop raining I will go car booting and get a whole bunch of battered toy cars for parts.

Anyway here's the gun truck - I maight apply a layer of dust (army painter primer maybe) and then dull that down with some dark umber wash

Nice work on the gun truck. I personally don't think that you need the layer of dust, but that's just me