Completed August 2019
This was a fun little diorama, for which I used the Revell 37 Ford Pickup. (Scale 1:25). The diorama consists of the kit (that I modified and enhanced a bit), scratch built items, and also a few things that I had 3D printed.
As always, I started with the base…..
Finally putting it all together….
First make it look new .................... then mess it up.
I used cat hair for the rat's whiskers.
Then I moved on to making the kit…..
The seat spring coils were individually made from 0.3mm jeweller's binding wire.
This truck is that it started out as a blue truck, which was later painted red. Then, with time, the red faded in the sun and the bodywork rusted.
To get this effect, I first painted a base coat of Rust-Oleum brown camoflage.
Then applied a blue coat and, using the salt technique, I achieved the patchy, rusted look.
I then applied red, salt technique, followed by a LIGHT white overcoat to make the red look faded.