It was time for more stuff for this project!
I bought these two cheap toys at a local poundland/dollarstore, typical bright coloured Chinese plastic toys. But the scale was great for Walking Dead, so time to give them an apocalyptic treatment.
I first started with the
bright orange truck. I took off the container and disassembled it. This made airbrushing a lot easier. I first went with a dark rusty brown and then used a sponge to add more orange and brown colours on top for variation. After this had dried I added some chipping medium to it with a sponge. Then I added blues to the containers, with an airbrush this is so easy. Start out with a very dark blue and work your way to a very light blue. Only takes 5 minutes or so. This needs to dry very well…and then it’s time for chipping! I took a large stiff brush and some warm water and just rubbed the wet brush over the areas where the chipping medium was. This dissolves it and you take the medium and blue paint right off. Super easy to do and gives an awesome weathered effect as if the paint has come off and you see the rust underneath.
I used some oil paints and pigments to add some more rust and finished it off with some leaf scatter and coloured sawdust (fixing it with Mod Podge, works so well). During assembly I decided to keep one of the doors open and add some boxes and bottles so it would make for a nice objective in the game too.
The container can be placed on the truck or separately on the table. Always nice to have options.
The truck itself was easier to do. I first airbrushed it with matt varnish and then added grime and dirt with oil paints and pigments. I used rusty pigments only on the metal parts and not on the body itself as I assumed these are plastic and wouldn’t rust. And I also added leaves and sawdust for an old, abandoned finish. I made sure the rear part also was covered, so it made sense if it was on the table without the container.
Then the flatbed truck. I really went to town with weathering, adding tons of pigments over the oil paints. But in the end the pigment fixer behaved weird and everything became a bit tacky. So I used Mod podge with pigments on top. And WOW that combination works fantastic! The Mod Podge fixes the pigment very well and you can easily add texture because the stuff is so thick. Of course you don’t get the typical dry and dusty look you can get with pigments, but honestly I think that doesn’t work too well for gaming any way (it comes off too easily and it will often leave pigments and stains everywhere).
So two finished vehicles to add to my tables. A lot of fun experimenting and trying to get a nice TWD look and in the end I’m quite happy with them!
11 November 2010, 04:56:38 PM
