Shite in Miniature II

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11 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Nicely done! What colour blue did you use?

Mr Hobby aerosol silver then Tamiya metallic blue aerosol. Not sure of the exact codes but the blue is the colour you are supposed to use for its rally Subarus. I put the blue on quite thick so its ended up with a candy metallic sort of effect, complete fluke! Silver round the back section was painted at the same time, took longer to mask off than any other part of the build.

8 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

That’s great… is there a story behind it?

Nope! Kent models had a few of these Street food Suzukis, a kebab shop, gaming station etc. This one caught my eye cos of the big comedy fish! I've seen similar for sale on yahoo.jp auctions, ones with fibreglass crab claws and stuff, lol!

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4 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Weathering on the Kraz dumper is done. 
I went quite heavy given it’s meant to be a site truck.

It’s mostly Ammo Mig mud and earth paints of various colours and consistency applied by brush. Once it starts to dry I trowled on a mixture of different coloured weathering powders which mix with the paint and stick. The inner hubs of the wheels and around wheel arches & up under the dumper bed got a heavy coating. 
Lastly I used the thinnest mud paint to dip a stiff bristle brush into the ‘flick’ splashes of the paint up the bodywork from low down, to resemble where it’s driven through wet mud and muddy water. 
I masked off the drivers side windscreen wiper sweep to leave a clean patch. One door mirror broke removing it so I’ve made a replacement from wire and reattached the mirror head 90 degrees to original like a different mirror has been fitted after it got knocked off. 
Crudely hand scrawled vehicle numbers were done by hand with white paint then a bit of weathering put over. Also used a pair of pliers to bend and twist the front bumper on one side as if it’d hit something at some point. 
 

Tremendous!