FORD ESCORT RS1800 MK2

[Jim R]

Hi Stuart
Decals look fine and the whole effect is very convincing.
Jim

[Pikeman]

Hi Stuart
Decals look fine and the whole effect is very convincing.
Jim

Thank you Jim I really appreciate that

[colin m]

Added the decals and scratched through to the rust and added some weathering.
Hope it still looks ok with the decals as I was not sure to add them or not .

What a completely worn out and battered pair of arches they are. Totally perfect.

[Mike Mortimore]

Hi Stewart,
I'm a further refugee from the MM forum. I'm a military model maker/ bodger........but have a few cars in the stash.........Tamiya Mini's (9) and having owned something like 40 odd over the years.... plus the Tamiya Subaru Impreza WRC'99.
Like the idea of the barn find.. found a few of my previous mini's in similar circumstances. ( bought a 1969 Morris Mini Cooper for my 65th birthday)

What I particularly love is your rust effects.......excellent. Please share how you have done it please.
Looking forward to seeing this progress.
May kick start me to have a go with a car.......:rolling::rolling::rolling:

Cheers Mike :sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

[Pikeman]

Hi Stewart,
I'm a further refugee from the MM forum. I'm a military model maker/ bodger........but have a few cars in the stash.........Tamiya Mini's (9) and having owned something like 40 odd over the years.... plus the Tamiya Subaru Impreza WRC'99.
Like the idea of the barn find.. found a few of my previous mini's in similar circumstances. ( bought a 1969 Morris Mini Cooper for my 65th birthday)

What I particularly love is your rust effects.......excellent. Please share how you have done it please.
Looking forward to seeing this progress.
May kick start me to have a go with a car.......:rolling::rolling::rolling:

Cheers Mike :sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

Hi Mike glad to have you on board and I look forward to seeing your builds, thank you for your kind feedback about my build it’s only my second barn find build so still learning myself.I used mig and ak interactive washes and chipping worn affects, and then use Vallejo med crackle. All rust washes and pigments from ak and mud effects ak and mig products hope this helps cheers Stu

[Pikeman]

Bit more done on the decals and added a shatter side window, hope you like it so far(windows not fixed in place yet )Stu

[papa 695]

Looking good Stuart,
If it was me I'd add a little more rust colour to the arches where the white shows through the blue decals. and if your feeling very brave. using a small drill bit, drill some holes in some of the same places make it look like the wing has rotted through.

[SimonT]

Another way to make rust holes is scrape the plastic with a curved blade from the inside until the plastic is wafer thin, almost translucent
Then use a pointed blade to carefully stab random holes through the thin bits to create the doily effect of rusted edges

[Pikeman]

Looking good Stuart,
If it was me I'd add a little more rust colour to the arches where the white shows through the blue decals. and if your feeling very brave. using a small drill bit, drill some holes in some of the same places make it look like the wing has rotted through.

Thank you for your advice Ian will take a look see what I can do

[Pikeman]

Another way to make rust holes is scrape the plastic with a curved blade from the inside until the plastic is wafer thin, almost translucent
Then use a pointed blade to carefully stab random holes through the thin bits to create the doily effect of rusted edges

Appreciate your advice Simon thanks for the tip

[Pikeman]

Hi
Ok I took some advice and done a bit more work on the arches I hope they came out ok as it’s to late now.
Also added some more decals,what’s your thoughts guys .

[Jim R]

Hi Stuart
This gets better and better. Very realistic.
Jim

[papa 695]

Great work on the arches Stuart they look fantastic rusted and beaten.

[Pikeman]

Hi Stuart
This gets better and better. Very realistic.
Jim

Thank you Jim, I really appreciate your kind feedback

[Pikeman]

Great work on the arches Stuart they look fantastic rusted and beaten.

Took your advice and went back to them to hopefully make them more realistic and it sounds like it’s paid off, appreciate your feedback and advice Ian