Building a small scale crawler hauler

[Doom!]

Not bad at all!

 

[Haastnooit]

Thanks Doom!

When I looked closely at the bodyshell off the blue FCX power wagon in preparation to apply a wash, I noticed the basecoat of the body is a rust like red. That made me decide to sand down some of the paint and try to make a more worn out look on the cab. Another first, I never tried this technique before.

Grabbed some (used) sandpaper, the finest I could find and wet sanded the surface of the cab carefully. I learned that you need to take it real slow, because when you tend to “break trough” the surface color, a complete bald spot is not far away.

Below some pics of the sanded cab …

After sanding I applied a coat of Vallejo “oiled earth” wash. Unfortunately I did not learn much from applying the wash on the Patriot … made the same mistakes. Fiddled around with applying and removing the wash again and again when I felt the results are not to my liking.

Just apply it and walk away is what you should do! Anyhow below some pics of the end result on the FCX24.

Some close-up of the cab only, also dirtied up the front window and made some clean spots from the windshield wipers.

I did not get any pictures of the finished combo yet. I will get them later when there is daylight, preferably outside as well.

Well I guess this is it for now for this part of “building a small scale crawler hauler”. Perhaps I will add some more details to the flatbed trailer later. Now I want to focus on the second half of the project and start working on the next combo … The Glacier towing a gooseneck “sports crawler trailer”.



See ya on the next one …

 

[blaster27]

Thanks Doom!

When I looked closely at the bodyshell off the blue FCX power wagon in preparation to apply a wash, I noticed the basecoat of the body is a rust like red. That made me decide to sand down some of the paint and try to make a more worn out look on the cab. Another first, I never tried this technique before.

Grabbed some (used) sandpaper, the finest I could find and wet sanded the surface of the cab carefully. I learned that you need to take it real slow, because when you tend to “break trough” the surface color, a complete bald spot is not far away.

Below some pics of the sanded cab …

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After sanding I applied a coat of Vallejo “oiled earth” wash. Unfortunately I did not learn much from applying the wash on the Patriot … made the same mistakes. Fiddled around with applying and removing the wash again and again when I felt the results are not to my liking.

Just apply it and walk away is what you should do! Anyhow below some pics of the end result on the FCX24.

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Some close-up of the cab only, also dirtied up the front window and made some clean spots from the windshield wipers.

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I did not get any pictures of the finished combo yet. I will get them later when there is daylight, preferably outside as well.

Well I guess this is it for now for this part of “building a small scale crawler hauler”. Perhaps I will add some more details to the flatbed trailer later. Now I want to focus on the second half of the project and start working on the next combo … The Glacier towing a gooseneck “sports crawler trailer”.



See ya on the next one …

Your skills are really incredible. You really get into it.

 

[Doom!]

Really like how it came out!

 

[Haastnooit]

I did not post any pics yet of the combination with both trucks fully weathered as I said I would in my last post. So to keep my word. Here they are ..

 

[Tex Koder]

I did not post any pics yet of the combination with both trucks fully weathered as I said I would in my last post. So to keep my word. Here they are ..

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Mind Blowing!
Fantastic work there buddy.


And just to clarify...
These are actual Functional RCs , correct?
Not just scaled models.

 

[Arise0185]

I did not post any pics yet of the combination with both trucks fully weathered as I said I would in my last post. So to keep my word. Here they are ..

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These really look fantastic... Are you going to drive them? If I had spent the countless hours working on them, I know I'd be terrified of scratching them up