Today's attempt at modelling were about as miserable as the weather, so if you don't want to hear me moaning, a lot, you may want to sit this one out
I'm still having no luck finding cheap seated figures so did some more surgery. This chap has proved quite adaptable. He's become a guy waving (repositioned arm) a kneeling figure (repositioned arms and legs bent with a heat gun) and now he's trying to keep warm in the cab. A spot of filler and the inevitable 75 coats of
model air that are needed when brush painting and he'll be right as rain.
Got some green stuff on the scenery. It was far too bright so toned it down with the
airbrush. Used tea leaves for the soil at the waters edge, painted brown. Also did a bit of blending and shading on the road, it's edge, and the rocks while I had the hissy stick out. Looked ok until I stood back and realised the wheel tracks look totally unnatural. A vehicle wouldn't go off the edge of the road at that angle.
I'd knocked off and lost one of the mirrors from the trailer rig so substituted one from the wreck. I had a go at making one, aiming for a bodged field repair look that the driver had done himself, already rusting since it was never painted. In the end it just looks like a rubbish attempt at scratch building a replacement though. Whilst making that abomination I also managed to break the mirror on the other side, then knock the door off, so all that side is now swimming with blobs of CA glue.
Then made a hash of fitting the windows in the supposedly pristine truck. It then got worse as I tried to fit the PE wipers. I smashed all 4 to pieces just getting this one in, and ruined the screen in the process. So now two vehicles have one badly fitted wiper blade between them.
Starting to feel like I can't wait to get this over and done with as it's becoming a chore. Good job I'm back at work tomorrow so have 4 days with a good excuse not to go near it.