rockspider
Quarry Creeper
Once upon a time there was a Proline Early '50 Chevy pick-up body, meant for trucks like Stampede, for E-maxx, Twin Force and similar monster trucks of the period.
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I had bough one, for my Kyosho Twin Force, cutted and drilled for body posts, but never got it painted, then changed up my mind, and the body ended up in the unused parts bin. For years, literally.
One day I needed some lexan scrap to test a primer paint, not lexan specific. There it go, painted the whole body red oxide, and tested for adhesion. Then thrown in the bin again.
Then a couple years ago it resurfaced, and by curiosity I tried it on top of a freshly built CFX-W chassis. It had the front grille cutted away, do not remember why. Anyway I got the idea to use it as a test mule for dents and weathering, a few techniques I wanted to try on lexan.
Started with a little propane torch, heating here and there, trying to give dents a shape with stones and everything that was laying around, just to see if I could achieve realistically shaped dents on a lexan body. well it was a test mule, so didn't really care if getting carried to far with dents. It ended up chewed and spit like there's no tomorrow...
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Ok, worse than this...
I had a few alu scraps around and tossed together sort of a Mad Max style grille&bumper... It started showing some potential...
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Let's try some paint weathering then...
Some acrylic brown, water thinned, by brush, and when dry, removed with an abrasive sponge
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Then applied some acrylic matt white, by spraycan, all over
Then more brown by brush
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and when dry, again with the abrasive sponge, those 3M non-wowen pads
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slowly the abrasion was exposing the different layers, giving depth to dents and wear to panels... I definitely liked the way it was growing...
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then it was time for a thinned light sand color, by brush
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and more abrasion
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happy with the general weathering, it was time to add a little bit of steel color by fingers. a tiny drop of water based steel color acryl on my fingers, rubbed between fingers until almost dry, then massaging the spots where steel would likely appear on dents and damages
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Funny how it got that old rust patina, almost by itself!
To keep with the Mad Max line, a more aggressive bumper was added...
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then a few other details, plastic pipe bent for side exhausts, and a scrap leftover of a honcho rear cage as a bed rollbar
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To seal it off the elements, a matt clearcoat
It also enhanced the color contrast
Here the maiden voyage, on the rocky shore
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I had bough one, for my Kyosho Twin Force, cutted and drilled for body posts, but never got it painted, then changed up my mind, and the body ended up in the unused parts bin. For years, literally.
One day I needed some lexan scrap to test a primer paint, not lexan specific. There it go, painted the whole body red oxide, and tested for adhesion. Then thrown in the bin again.
Then a couple years ago it resurfaced, and by curiosity I tried it on top of a freshly built CFX-W chassis. It had the front grille cutted away, do not remember why. Anyway I got the idea to use it as a test mule for dents and weathering, a few techniques I wanted to try on lexan.
Started with a little propane torch, heating here and there, trying to give dents a shape with stones and everything that was laying around, just to see if I could achieve realistically shaped dents on a lexan body. well it was a test mule, so didn't really care if getting carried to far with dents. It ended up chewed and spit like there's no tomorrow...
Ok, worse than this...
I had a few alu scraps around and tossed together sort of a Mad Max style grille&bumper... It started showing some potential...
Let's try some paint weathering then...
Some acrylic brown, water thinned, by brush, and when dry, removed with an abrasive sponge
Then applied some acrylic matt white, by spraycan, all over
Then more brown by brush
and when dry, again with the abrasive sponge, those 3M non-wowen pads
slowly the abrasion was exposing the different layers, giving depth to dents and wear to panels... I definitely liked the way it was growing...
then it was time for a thinned light sand color, by brush
and more abrasion
happy with the general weathering, it was time to add a little bit of steel color by fingers. a tiny drop of water based steel color acryl on my fingers, rubbed between fingers until almost dry, then massaging the spots where steel would likely appear on dents and damages
Funny how it got that old rust patina, almost by itself!
To keep with the Mad Max line, a more aggressive bumper was added...
then a few other details, plastic pipe bent for side exhausts, and a scrap leftover of a honcho rear cage as a bed rollbar
To seal it off the elements, a matt clearcoat
It also enhanced the color contrast
Here the maiden voyage, on the rocky shore