FoA SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray

[scrivs]

James (H.M. Stanley) gave me a rather spiffing Empress SCW truck a couple of weeks ago and I splashed some paint on it at the weekend.



More photos and details of the colours used etc. on the Scrivsland blog

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Nice truck but not one of ours though 

[scrivs]

Mmm... James said it was and it was in an old box of yours. Maybe he can chip in later.

[Plynkes]

Looks like it's meant to be a Bedford OY or OX, a British WW2 vehicle. Ever so slightly too late for SCW unfortunately.

[scrivs]

Looks like it's meant to be a Bedford OY or OX, a British WW2 vehicle. Ever so slightly too late for SCW unfortunately.

Excellent, it can join my Desert Rats instead

[H.M.Stanley]

Interesting. I'd have sworn ....

Force of Arms perhaps?

[H.M.Stanley]

And a very nice PJ Paul!

[Plynkes]

Excellent, it can join my Desert Rats instead

Oh that's good news. Would hate to see a nice paintjob be all for nothing.

Of course you can also just use it as a proxy in your SCW game and pretend it is something else.  

[Plynkes]

Interesting. I'd have sworn ....

Force of Arms perhaps?

I believe so. Just had a look on their site. It's actually depicting the civilian pattern Bedford 30cwt the wartime one was based on, so is totally kosher for SCW.


Sorry for spreading wicked lies! 

[H.M.Stanley]

I believe so. Just had a look on their site. It's actually depicting the civilian pattern Bedford 30cwt the wartime one was based on, so is totally kosher for SCW.


Sorry for spreading wicked lies! 

 

Thanks for clearing that up. I probably picked it up at the same time i bought some FoA Asaltos. The truck had been languishing in my unpainted SCW pile for some time until a certain pair sparked the project into life again recently with CoC/SCW 

[scrivs]

Thanks chaps, thread title updated accordingly.

I'll definitely also be using it with my Indians now that I know it is a Bedford.

[Happy Wanderer]

Lovely paint job Scrivs! I particularly like the way you got the glass to work....any chance you can give us the color palate of how you produced this beauty...I have a number of SCW FoA trucks prepped awaiting paint.

Cheers

Happy Wanderer

[scrivs]

I paint a brown line at the bottom of the windscreen and a dark blue line across the top. Paint successively lighter lines of blue until you reach the brown, paint the interface between the blue and the brown with a thin white line. Paint some very thin white diagonals.
Finish off by painting a thin black line all around to tidy up any 'mess'.