| These are the preliminaries from our "Road Warrior" theme. This is my creation during construction. I'll add more photos when I get my next roll of film developed. This was a Snap-Tite jurassic park Hummer. I started by cutting the top of it's back deck (cage bottom) off to try to fit a box from an old chevy step side pickup kit in it. I found out that the framework underneath sat way too high to make it look decent. On to plan B. glue it back in from underneath and cut the standoffs to fit at the lower height. Atleast the back doesn't sit too high now. I used the supplied cage side as a guard for over the windshield. Then I sat around for the better part of a night setting up a set of I-beams from scratch to produce the hedge row cutter frunt bumper. The gun action has been in my junk box since the late '70s. I think it was from a Pz IV. The gun mantel and barrel was from an unused version of a Tamya Pz III. the sight is a part (I think a bomb sight) from a B29 kit.The sides of the gun action happened to fit in the end of the kits goofy front grabber. I sawed them off at a decent length and glued them to a Hetzer road wheel that sits on a pin in a recessed hole in the bed (that part can rotate.) At this point I needed to paint the thing to have it ready for the club meeting. No more time for cool dents, broken headlights and the like. Hmm.... post holocost. scavanged parts..... paint it like they came from several vehicles. Some military humers are just plain OD green. or at least the replacement parts are. so the hood is plane. A quick black spray cammo for the body. A black door from a civilian hummer. Damn, no gloss black. The woes of a military modeller... Ok a red tail gate. One hinge and clasp green, one of each red. Different color rims! Not enough time to let everything dry and get enough colors through the spray gun. OK brush the mud. Take some pics while it dries. run out of film. Do overall weathering. Hmm It's only 2:00AM use a sprue to make a leg and boot. wrap in cleanex and glue down with elmers thinned with alcohol. Brush glue mix all over to stiffen. paint jeans blue and the boot black. Go to bed. Get up. Paint top of leg red. Drag wet leg across hood (for good drag marks) and plant in front bumper. splatter a little extra red paint on hood and windshield. Go to meeting. |
