nightshiftmodeller

We can start with weathering!

Added 2024-09-12 14:13:07 +0000 UTC

My friends, the Land Rover is closed off, painted, unmasked, and ready for the really fun stuff.

Learning from advice I received a year ago on the Chevy, I masked the windows with a large piece of tape and carefully traced the contours with a fresh hobby blade. Super clean and effective!

You'll also find a couple of photos showing how that oxidized aluminium surface looked like before I applied the top color. It's the same method as on the inside of the cab. Pretty straightforward, not the most elaborate or convincing, but good enough for those chipping effects.

Now, the real step up was creating a stencil for the Ledbury Road Motors. I wanted to use the provided decals, because that's just how I vibe, but I knew they wouldn't do the worn surface justice. So I took a picture of them, straightened it in Lightroom, created a black and white silhouette in Photoshop, imported and scaled it down in Cricut studio and made a stencil on my Cricut Maker 3. This is the second or third time I used this tool since I bought it 2-3 years ago! And after this experience, I'll start using it more often. I just never found the machine as user friendly or precise as I was expecting, but it's good enough!

More masking nightmares awaited me on the scratch-built roof sign. Here I had to draw the individual strips on a piece of paper as a visual reference, and then used the dimensions to draw the shapes on the model, and apply masking tape.

Paint buildup on the rear lights was removed with lacquer thinner and clear paints could be easily applied afterward.

And just as on the inside, the decals were applied directly onto the matt surface. Again, with no issues! :)))

I already squeezed out a bunch of oil paints on a piece of cardboard, but right now I'm gonna hit the surface with a pin wash. There are always many small flaws with paint jobs like this, but nothing tidies them up better than a wash!