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🕑 Added 2022-07-20 22:45:28 +0000 UTCMy friends, the Beetle is finished and ready for a small scenic base! In this case it's quite necessary because, let's be honest, it sure does look a bit out of place like this, doesn't it?
Adding the natural scatter and moss was the most enjoyable thing I've done in a VERY long time. You already know how much I enjoy moss and green grime from dioramas, and this was the perfect subject where I could feel like a child on a playground!
I started in the interior, not only because most of it would be obscured, but also because I wanted to finally assemble the model. The floor was covered with fine earth (basically a powder or dust), dry leaf scatter, some twigs from tiny plant roots, and flooded with VMS Ballast Freeze. Once dry, I added blobs of PVA and sprinkled them with Woodland Scenics Fine Turf. Then I gave everything a coat of flat varnish and started painting - Ammo Earth was used to add some extra color to the ground scatter, and the moss was painted with Vallejo Golden Olive. Ammo Slimy Grime was then applied as a selective wash around the moss and blended, toning it down a notch. The wheel was painted completely with acrylics.
The outside was the same, but here I had to apply the moss in a much thicker layer. This was done in multiple stages where I would apply large blobs of PVA, sprinkle, remove the excess, repeat. Then I started brushing the PVA over the moss, the moss would absorb it, and I would sprinkle more fine turf, slowly building up the volume. After a coat of flat varnish I didn't mess around with enamel earth here, just Golden Olive as a thick wash. This wasn't sufficient, though, so I airbrushed the moss with two mixtures of Tamiya Bright Green and Flat Yellow (look up Tamiya X-15, it's the happiest green you've ever seen), and this provided the oh so wanted richness and color gradation. Finally, slimy grime was again blended around the moss, creating a darker outline, but also providing a smoother color transition between the moss and the car.
And that was pretty much it, now I can make a simple yet vivid forest scenic base! I think a circular shape would be great here as it would suggest that the model should be viewed from all directions.
Honestly, rotten cars seem to be so much fun, I would definitely do this again!
Comments
Chris Braille-Scale
Thanks Jeff! That looks like a good option
Chris Just get it from eBay that’s where I order it and the shipping is very reasonable look up hobbie nexus supplies this is VMS’s eBay page the shipping isn’t bad at all!!
Amos Mayhugh
Looks like an old car we have on my property. Although the one out in our back pasture is a 1932 ford of some kind. its too far gone to tell what make it is.
