A couple more for the month of finishes, and yet another departure with my first team of cars for Gaslands Refuelled from Osprey Publishing - I say finishes, these weren't even started 24hrs before the game I'd been invited to last Thursday evening!
Both cars are 1/64 diecast toy cars from Hot Wheels - 'Flash Drive' and '24 Ours', bought many years ago when the original 'blue series' book was new... with a resurgence of interest locally (including Carl), the 'Refuelled' version was a much more recent purchase just a few weeks ago, being hardback and 3 times the page count.
Both cars were dismantled to make painting easier and all the wheels glued in place, with just the small addition of a resin minigun from Ramshackle Games and a cut-down 20mm scale American .50cal machine gun from AB Figures.
I'm not sure if I ever had a paint scheme in mind for these, but more recently I saw it as an opportunity to try the Chameleon colour shift paints from Green Stuff World - Storm Surge Green in this instance.
- if I'm honest I don't think the surface area is large enough or sufficiently curved to show them off at their best, but it's still a nice and unusual finish which does vary between turquoise green and blue at different angles.
The addition of a white racing stripe was a last minute decision, and although not my neatest work I think it does add that something extra I felt they needed to break up the solid colour.
I had always intended these to be 'factory fresh' with just a small amount of paint chipping and weathering, but in the end I couldn't bring myself to deface the paintwork and possibly end up ruining them with the Chameleon paint being difficult to touch up if necessary - instead I will move on to another team, I doubt any others will be this shiny and chrome!
Nearly half way through December now and I'm not sure what else will see the finish line, but several projects on the go so fingers crossed?
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