Yes you knew I was going to eventually quote something from Convoy! I contemplated painting the tractor blue but decided to go a different route and try green.
Here is a early WIP shot of the tractor. Weapons will be blacked and then metaled up. The turrets for the top of the trailer and for the top of the box truck are right below
Here is a later one with a bit more detail work on the cab, by no means finished. I have some clean up to do, the ink wanted to wander outside of the panel lines for some reason.
This is a shot of the trailer and magnitized weapon turrets.
Lastly, the box truck which I decided on grey as the main color. Not sure if I will use a secomdary. It can use the above turrets as well. It has a single weappons spot while the semi trailer has two.
While I had the green out I decided to block out some color on the Chaos Warrior project as well. Thats it for now.
I wanted to do something a little different for the second round of cars. As I rummaged through my (or better put my sons’) piles of Hotwheels I realized that it had several duplicates. Then it struck me, I’ve been wanting to do some wasteland cars and opportunity presented me with a great idea! I pulled out several of the doubles so I could do an interceptor/wasteland version of each. One lesson learned from the first project, unless it is an open top vehicle I’m not going to waste time on the interiors! Here are some of the twins!
This set includes one from the original set of cars I did last year and a copy to do the wasteland conversion. I need to buy some structural HO scale plastic beams and such for more ram conversions.
These are a couple of Dodge Chargers. I elected to go with at black primer coat on this set of mins and quickly found out that for the wasteland conversion it is perfect but for the interceptor/good paint jobs it was too dark in my opinion. At least with light colors, this one actually started off with a yellow paint job that simply wasn't happening. Then a grey that I wasn't happy with either. I think the green turned out pretty good. nor just a bit more weathering.
I like the looks of this vehicle with the double twin engines and the low rider look. For the interceptor version I elected not to prime it and instead went with just weathering the factory paint job. I did pull the engine insert and paint it. I enjoyed doing the armor plates and making the rivets on the wasteland version of this one and others. there is still some work to do on all of them. I need to do windshields for a few of the wastelanders. And the weapons could use a ink wash and then another highlight or two. Overall I'm happy with the results.
