The carpark is going to hell WIP

[Gunbird]

Well, bascially, I have almost given up on getting my painted cars back from The One. Which is discussed in another topic on another forum.

As I loaned him my entire collection apart from my Gestapo car I now have 0 models left for my moderns.

Great.

Dont really feel like it but have to rebuild the collection to reach my self set goal of at least 20 cars in various states of (un)drivability, and I have about a dozen now prepped and ready for paint, so tonight I started with this one.





At one time propably the pride of a kids collection, this Siku Ferrari has seen better days. Lately I have been snapping up broken and smashed cars just for this purpose, to use as wrecks. Maybe do me a Fallout city (I got the idea while playing the game again for the first time in 5 years   ) or build me a junkyard and everything in between.

Obviously, it isn't finished yet, but tried a few new things. Sped up the rust process by being a bit more crude with paint and rubbing it all over with my fingers, then inking a bit and repeating. Saved me quite some time. The glass ia another trial. At the moment I'm quite happy with it, I just need to go over em with black again to thin out the lines, and when everything is done and varnished go over it with matte varnish again like I did with my old truckwreck.



Might finish this tomorrow or let it languish for a few months, time will tell. It needs a bit more orange anyway, and the base some more beige.

Johan

PS Oh, and is there some psychologial figure in the room who can explain to me why I like making wrecks so much?

[Lowtardog]

Lovely paint work, how do you achieve the rusted look?

[Grimm]

Realy cool it is allway a pleasure to see your work  :love:

thanks Grimm

[Gunbird]

Some more progress tonight, as I found out the shop selling the MAN trucks was selling the boxes at half price I just went from shop to shop and bought 7 more boxes (thats 14 trucks and 14 cars for you). Might pick up the remaining 5 on monday.....

I'll start uparmouring a fresh one in the morning, for now this is as far as I got. The MAN is great for it as its exactly 1/72 and will look nice in green



The good thing about these MAN trucks is that they are 1/72 and visually makes the Yellow Benz and black.blue Volvo look good scale wise (as those are pretty near or on 1/72 . Still not a clue how to paint the box body of the Yellow fare Benz so I've asked for my gf to take some shots of trucks tomorrow and pick out the one she likes best. I told her anything goes but yellow

The Renault and the black Benz look quite nice next to the truck, but both are 1/55 - 1/60 models, so most 20mm figs (barely) reach to the top of the car. With the Renault its even worse due to the raised part.

Now I don't care one bit about that, as these are quite literally line of sight blockers aka Carpark filler, but when I put the true 1/72 scale cars next to them the diff is a bit too obvious. Can't be too picky though, how often do you find older cars like that at 10-50 cents a piece Oh well, got 14 cars from the boxes as well with quite a few Benzs so better make those Maffia as well

I managed to find some really old Matchbox trucks in the fleamarkets junk box which I was planning on either using on a junked base for Fallout wrecks (like the Ferrari in the earlier pictures) or painting a beat up running model for Africa or the Middle East. Though the one with the has a smashed up windscreen on the other side and is missing a rear tire (thats propably hanging around in the spares box as well somewhere. I got them cheap (well, 1 euro a piece is still a bargain in my book) as the seller knows what I do with them and I picked up about 30 models from him the last time we met





Would wrecking and painting these be sacrilige?

Also picked up some kids stackable containers.



Too big for 20mm though, nice for 28mm. No doors and holes in the top that need to be filled, so thinking about making 2 2doubles and 2 singles, painting them and selling them. Should be a nice test to see if there is some interest in them. I doubt it though.

Tomorrow more.

Johan

[Gunbird]

Didnt do squat on any of the WIP's on the table, instead started a new one (story of my life  :: ) and she should be finished tomorrow after I add somemmore dirt and floating and creeping weeds, and maybe a bullethole or 2 in the window. Not going to name her.





It's just something to have hanging around in the harbour. Something that has been there for ages.

Talking about ages, Matt, I started on the kid tonight. She makes a nifty ghost as well (I reposed her a bit)



Hmm 2:45. I think that means I should be in bed....let's just do that

Johan

[Deathwing]

That boat is officially awesome.  Would love to know the process of how you did it.  

Joey

[Bravo Six]

All are very nice Wayswatcher (or should I call you "Gunbird"  :wink: ).

As soon as I saw the boat the lyrics ".. the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed..." from the Gilligan's Island theme entered my brain.

Nice work all around. Inspiring!

-Todd

[Wallyocerous]

What scale is that boat?  I love all the 1:3000 scale stuff I've seen of yours.  More!  More!   :wink:

[Gunbird]

Thx lads.

It's actually easier then it seems, as I usually start with an idea in my head and then try and find a mathcing pic on the internet. I just mix the pics into what I like and in the end the boat is perhaps 1 hour of work in actually paint, half of that waiting for inks to dry.

It's 20mm scaled, just like the rest of my current work, but I will be sidestepping to 1/300 and 1/3000 again very soon.

Johan

[Gunbird]

Just go keep this going, cause I have most certainly not stopped, working on my Volvo truck now, just did some freehand:



Happily brushing away now....

Johan

[Musketeer]

These look great. I really need to get a move on with my Zombie wars terrain and this has just inspired me. What colours  did you use for the rusty car and truck? :love:

[Overlord]

What colours  did you use for the rusty car and truck? :love:

Dont mention the rust.... :lipps:
http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=2203

[Gunbird]

Oh, its ok, hence I didn't comment on that when I was rushing past my emails this morning before work.

I do think giving you this link is more helpfull though:
http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=2143

So far no comments anywhere about my freehand, guess its back to painting death and decay then.... I'm propably better at that anyway.

Johan

[Gunbird]

A table full of half and almost finished stuff now...better get out the whip and finish a lot before starting new stuff......so just a teaser for tonite.



Johan

[Gunbird]

Nothing special, just another quick wreck.





Quick rustjob, some basic ash and a weatherd half melted bit of plastic. Not entirely correct but meh, it breaks the monotenous orange blobbyness.......next!

Johan