Pick-up
This is very basic.
The hubs were painted with Tamiya XF-16 Flat Aluminum.
A black oil wash makes these more interesting.
The seats started to get upgraded. I put wide 3M masking tape onto the surface, pressed into the crevices with a toothpick, and cut the edges with a #14 blade.
Original vs tape covered seat.
After painting the tape with gray, I started to create the damages with the point of the scalpel.
The rubber parts are painted.
The first big mistake. Painted the base with Vallejo Steel, then applied hair spray.
Main color, with some dirt in the cabin. After the green, I sealed it with varnish - I should have not done that.
After seeing lots of vehicles with added armor, I created these from 0.15 brass sheet.
The logo is from a kit from AliExpress.
I created the weld joins with Vallejo Putty, painted black, then highlighted with a grapthine pencil.
The drum brakes got their rust (artist shop acrylic paints).
So, the platform's sides were made from thin plastic stripes and balsa wood.
Some balsa weathering.
A bit of looted gear on the truck (several details in a different album).
I'm still very stuck on this, but decided to apply the jolly joker of AFVs: mud. More mud. And then some more, to cover the mistakes.
Started to add round screw heads by Meng. Strangely relaxing phase?
Almost finished the mud, only addig some dense mix to the wheel arches, and we're done (apart from the wheels, but I leave them out for now [need the tyres for creating pattern onto the diorama surface])
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4 25 June 2022, 19:27
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1/35 civilian vehicles aren't in abundance, and the best for this purpose was the 2-door variant from the Meng set. I wanted to open the doors, and the 4-door seemed too modern, albeit I can't specify the year or the place (somewhere in the former Soviet Union) the diorama takes place. The first few steps were quick, but recently I got stuck, my muse left me it seems... well, here's the story so far.
