UPDATE 27.12.2005
Hope everyone had/is having a great Christmas!
I’ve been using the three days off work, to sneak into my modelling room at silly hours of the night and start getting Jean Paul ready for the road.
I hope you like what I have done. My Mum, who is staying with us for Christmas, thinks it’s great but she
is the lady that thought my dirty diapers were works of art so she’s not really objective and I’m more interested in your opinion.
First of all, I finished off a final detail from my “working dipstick" episode - the filler cap.
The kit part is a plastic blob on top of the filler tube and since it’s so close to other parts that I have detailed quite carefully, I wanted to keep up appearances
(also, reference photos show this to be quite an interesting part in its own right).
I cut of the kit part and then made a disc and ring out of styrene sheet using my belt hole puncher. I glued together to get a 3-dimensional cap and then “painted” it with a sharpie pen. (in the photo it is just stuck to a piece rod for handling)
Reference photos show a closing mechanism made out of spring wire – a bit like the lids on jars that your Grandma used to make jam in! I recreated this using thin wire filaments and bending them to shape.
I think the final result is quite a good representation but not very cleanly built
– maybe I’ll do it again later.
To get on the road JP needs some wheels!!
I want this whole build to look a bit “used” but not "junked" so to recreate a chipped paint effect I decided to use the salt masking technique (don’t ask me why i decided to do it that way!!
)
First I painted the primed rims with Alclad2 steel, then wet the odd place or two and sprinkled with large-grain sea salt
(my wife was finally convinced that I have fully flipped my lid when I smuggled a pot of SALT!!!! into my modelling room – I don’t thing anything will surprise her now LOL)
This was then sprayed with my colour (dupicolor auto acrylic) and let dry. You can see the salt still under the paint.
After the paint dried I brushed off the salt and the steel paint showed through. The wheels were then detailed, filler valves added, washed and weathered. Here’s the final result:
Also, I painted the resin tires I cast. I am really pleased with how they came out (unfortunately, I have no idea how I did it LOL). The resin tire is on the left and the kit tire is on the right. I painted the resin with a custom mix of X18 and XF24 (dark grey) and it’s really hard to tell them apart.
I’ve also started on the dreaded painting
I have begun with the chassis and will work my way up from there.
Again I used the salt masking technique for paint chips.
The whole frame was primed and then pained with Alclad2 Steel and then hit with the same mix that I used on the tyres.
I did this to a) get scale colour effect and b) to provide a better contrast to the floor pan which will be a darker black.
The frame was then dry brushed (badly) and I also scrapped away some more of the black paint to reveal the steel colour underneath.
Also I recreated rusted patches in a couple of places (before priming) using CA glue and baking powder.
The rusted areas were lightly brushed with Pactra rust color and some MIG rust pigment.
The bits that the wheels are attached to (sorry, don’t know the name) were painted in A2 steel and then liberally washed with MPWRs secret wash recipies
I think that the muffler (?) came out really well. Baking powder rust, A2 steel, pactra rust, oil wash and MIG pigment while it was still wet.
I also attached the suspension dampers I made out of aluminium, steel and brass tube ages ago.
These should really have been painted black and then weathered but I just couldn’t bring myself to cover it with paint
(sorry 2CV for lack of accuracy
). I think it looks cool and that’s what counts the most
I’ve also started trying to “weather up” some other bits ‘n pieces. This a side by side of weathered and un-weathered bit of French engineering
Thanks for looking and I hope you are enjoying this.
Please share with me all the weathering experiences you can!!
Have a great time on New Year's Eve
