Carnivàle Truck 7

The Carnivàle Truck is very nearly finished now, when I get to this stage in a project I like to get a few photos of the model so I can see better what needs improving.  For some reason, when you see the model on a screen you start to notice imperfections that you can't really pick up when looking at the model, the magnification helps too.

The weathering is mostly done with oil paints, either as pin-washes applied to the crevices and rivets, or applied neat and then blended in with white spirits in specific areas.  The dusty areas again are mostly off-white oil paints, except on the windows which are AK Interactive pigments applied in a wash with water, then cleaned away with water.  The windows deserve a mention, after reshaping the window frames quite significantly, the supplied panes wouldn't fit (and were way too thick anyway) so I cut some new ones from clear blister-pack plastic.  Its not really that clear in these photos, but I scribed a line about 1mm in from all the edges on the inside of each pane to replicate a detail on the screen used vehicle.

An important lesson I've learned here is that the detritus I put inside the truck cab is entirely a waste of time.  You can't see it on the real model, and you can't see it in the photos.  It was fun to make though.

Right, on to the final touch-ups and then some proper photos of the finished truck.