Hello All :) I do dabble in other media besides card and paper, and here's my rendition of one of those very toy-like big scale metal bodied cars. Frankly, they're a bit nasty out of the box (at least, this model was!), but this was picked up dirt cheap as I wanted to try my hand at replicating some real life weathering, so it didn't matter if I messed up too much!
The real racing machines were brush painted and cleaned with an oily rag, so this model has the same brushed finish, which has been polished with a toothbrush and my finger ends (the grease burnishes up matt paint something lovely!) and then automotive 'black wax' - the stuff you put on your car's plastic bits. The exhaust burns were made with the wax and by literally burning the paint with a smouldering incense stick. Rust was added using, naturally, real rust scraped off some old garden shears.
Lots of details were added, and the seats made up from an old leather purse. There are dress-making pins, sequins, sewing thread, hemming elastic, metal garden twine, bits of fuse wire, old USB cable wire and parts of old pens and a disposable lighter in there as well, just for variety. I'll use anything if it fits the bill, and preferably comes out someone else's rubbish bin! The dashboard and the racing 'passed' stickers in the cockpit I did in Photoshop, so it does have some concessions to paper modeling :)
Hope you like it!
Plumdragon
The real racing machines were brush painted and cleaned with an oily rag, so this model has the same brushed finish, which has been polished with a toothbrush and my finger ends (the grease burnishes up matt paint something lovely!) and then automotive 'black wax' - the stuff you put on your car's plastic bits. The exhaust burns were made with the wax and by literally burning the paint with a smouldering incense stick. Rust was added using, naturally, real rust scraped off some old garden shears.
Lots of details were added, and the seats made up from an old leather purse. There are dress-making pins, sequins, sewing thread, hemming elastic, metal garden twine, bits of fuse wire, old USB cable wire and parts of old pens and a disposable lighter in there as well, just for variety. I'll use anything if it fits the bill, and preferably comes out someone else's rubbish bin! The dashboard and the racing 'passed' stickers in the cockpit I did in Photoshop, so it does have some concessions to paper modeling :)
Hope you like it!
Plumdragon
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