Small off-road 'Run Down' truck depot yard Dio

[Guest]

That looks amazing, just one more thing oil stains scrap HGV engines=oil stains .

still looks sierra hotel though must have taken you ages to do the blown tires and the wire work

keep it up

martin

[tiking]

That looks amazing, just one more thing oil stains scrap HGV engines=oil stains .still looks sierra hotel though must have taken you ages to do the blown tires and the wire work

keep it up

martin

Thanks Martin. The blown tire actually took me 5 mins to make. Very simple.

[Guest]

As everyone else has said, that is truly incredible, the attention to detail superb, even down to the partially run over slightly angled piece of plate steel under the left rear dual wheel, how many times i've seen that exact thing in the yards of the garages i've worked at yet would never think of doing it.

The shipping container is so realistic and I love your weathering.

Please share how you did the blown / stripped tyre tread, that looks just like the ones you see roadside on our motorways when a truck, (lorry), dumps one.

[tiking]

As everyone else has said, that is truly incredible, the attention to detail superb, even down to the partially run over slightly angled piece of plate steel under the left rear dual wheel, how many times i've seen that exact thing in the yards of the garages i've worked at yet would never think of doing it.The shipping container is so realistic and I love your weathering.

Please share how you did the blown / stripped tyre tread, that looks just like the ones you see roadside on our motorways when a truck, (lorry), dumps one.

Sorry for the late reply. The blown out tire was simply done by cutting out part of the tire and placing braided electrical wires inside. I found the braided wires at my work place which was thrown into a dumpster.

[Guest]

i just stumbled on this incredible dio..it was so good i actually had to laugh! Epic!

[tiking]

i just stumbled on this incredible dio..it was so good i actually had to laugh! Epic!

Thanks a lot. Here are few rescent pics with some small changes:

[Guest]

stunning work, very inspiring!

[tiking]

Thank you.

[Guest]

Tiking, your work is outstanding! I am getting back into modelling after many years and I love the realism experts like yourself get. My question to you is how do you get the peeling paint effect? e.g. -the blue showing through on the doors with the brown/rust lifting off the surface. Also, how do you make what looks like rust underneath the surface - it looks like actual bubbling of the paint! Wonderful work.

Thank you, Bob (P.S. - I am not an artist)

[Guest]

Absolutely love this. Hopefully one day i Will be able to build something like this. Awesome work there!!!

Pascal

[Andy2035]

Hi Charles,

The more I look at this the more I can smell grease and oil...

Thank you for sharing this...

Andy...

[tiking]

Tiking, your work is outstanding! I am getting back into modelling after many years and I love the realism experts like yourself get. My question to you is how do you get the peeling paint effect? e.g. -the blue showing through on the doors with the brown/rust lifting off the surface. Also, how do you make what looks like rust underneath the surface - it looks like actual bubbling of the paint! Wonderful work.Thank you, Bob (P.S. - I am not an artist)

Sorry for the very late reply. Have not been on here in a long time. Been busy with the kids and work. The procedure is pretty simple.

1. I first sprayed the model with a base color. That's blue.

2. After it dried I sprayed coat of the final color, that being the brown. (I would suggest you spray a dull coat just to protect the underlying color(blue or whatever color from coming off).

3. Then I let it dry for 5-10 mins, then I just peeled away, using a X-to knife. You could also mask the area with artist masking fluid, which would protect the area after spraying the final color on top. Either way the results are the same. At least for me. I just experiment.

4. The rust underneath is a combination of Mig rust power and black, grey pigments I mix together to get the variations. The peeling effect is pretty much the same procedure by scraping the top layer just carefully, enough to lift it off without it coming completely off.

[tiking]

Decided to rearranged the look of this dio. Just dis-regard the ugly look of the form board sides. Pics were taken before the side panels were added.

[eddiesolo]

That is one superb dio, it does look so real, how did you get the flaking effect? 5 star build, just awesome!

Si

[tiking]

That is one superb dio, it does look so real, how did you get the flaking effect? 5 star build, just awesome!Si

Thanks si.