Military modelling...on a train

[Scalemodelmedic]

Hey guys,

I've been away a while. Mostly in the gym ;D but I've still been chipping away (see what I did there!) at some modelling.

One of the things I've been tasked with is taking a military modellers approach to railway modelling. This will form a new video, with the whole process detailed as normal, so I took a screenshot from the video as a "preview".

What you're seeing here is a mixture of various techniques. Firstly oils - rather than just washes and thin layers I used a new approach. Still in layers, but applied differently. Over that I used the ubiquitous hairspray technique to do some "washed off" graffiti. This will form an underlayer for some fresh graffiti the technique for which will be detailed...well..when I figure out how I'm gonna do it !

I hope I can cross the genres succesfully!

Cheers
Jon

 

[ScaleModelMadman]

Looks good brother!

Who's going to be pulling that? Thomas or Percy?

Can't wait to see the video.

K-

 

[sunsanvil]

Fantastic. Cant wait to see more.

I think "military modeling" can be ported to just about anything. Maybe "wear and tear" is the great universal. I've been trying to bring forward some of the sensibilities to the Gundam/Mobile suit crowd, so far with positive results. Applying your techniques to a freight car seems like a success waiting to happen.

 

[Exarkun77]

From the title, i thought you were building models while travelling

I'm impressed by the texture of your paint job. Looks rusty, dusty and everything, nice work.

 

[Grendels]

Can't wait to see that video......

 

[Scalemodelmedic]

Great ! I just lost a whole stage of the video. The file came off the memory card corrupted so over 500mb of filming just went down the pan, and it was a whole step in the process that can't be undone and done again. Just marvelous !