Resicast 1:35 armoured bulldozer

[Mark1]

I think you’re mistaking our lovely beaches for those of southern England :smiling3:

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This is the modern beach in the area where the photo was taken, after Ciara paid a visit last year. All beaches around here are fine sand, so I think I’ll add some sand-coloured washes over the tracks and lower parts of the bulldozer, with probably a few larger bits with tall grass sticking out to camouflage the gaps in the tracks.

Yeah fair enough,second photo is a bit deceiving .
We do have some nice beaches lol

[Guest]

I can’t say they seem overly inviting to me, and I found them very hard to walk on, even more so than a dry sandy beach Anyway …

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I applied a wash to much of the suspension, made from a greyish sand colour paint that matches the local beach sand here reasonably well. I took care to really only put it on the tracks and horizontal surfaces nearby, as it’s intended to represent sand, which falls off, rather than mud, which sticks. After it had dried, I enhanced the effect by painting the same colour neat into areas where more sand would build up, and the mixing it with thick, acrylic structure gel and some stiff hairs cut from a house-painting brush to represent the tall grass that grows on the dunes around here (this is planted there deliberately, to prevent the sand from being blown away by the wind). I painted it first of all over and into all the ill-fitting and damaged parts of the tracks, to hide the defects, and then into other areas where even thicker sand might build up.

To put in the stowage racks, I built four boxes like those that can be seen in the film clip of the real bulldozer:

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These were mostly made with my chopper tool, by cutting a 6.5 mm wide strip of 0.5 mm plastic card into 13 mm lengths for the top and bottom, and then cutting lengths of 3 mm wide strip to form the four sides of each box. After glueing them together, I cut thin, narrow strips for the little planks that form the edges of the short sides, and when the glue on those had dried, I filed them flat to get rid of the seams between them. That done, I cut diagonal seams in the corners, as this is much easier than putting two 45 degree corners onto sixteen bits of strip and hoping they fit together as they should.

[Guest]

I enhanced the sand effect using Vallejo Weathering Effects Light Brown Mud that I applied with a fine brush to build up more sand in specific places and give it more texture. In real life the sand is so fine you wouldn’t see any texture in 1:35 scale at all, but it looks better on a model if you do. A wash of Tamiya Flat Earth then brought out the texture. I took care to only put sand onto surfaces it wouldn’t immediately fall off of — fine, dry sand doesn’t stick to vertical surfaces like mud does, after all.

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In the racks and on the back, I added stowage from stuff I found in my various parts boxes. It’s not exactly what was on the real thing, largely because that’s impossible to really say from the available pictures. My excuse is that the model doesn’t represent the dozer as it appears in those, but at a slightly later time because else it wouldn’t have grass stuck in its tracks

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And with that, it’s on to the completed models section