VLOG: Weathering Toy Cars For Your Apocalypse
November 10, 2016 by johnlyons
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Yes! I’ve been looking forward to this once for a while now.
Awesome! Thanks John!
I would add rust as well and maybe mud on low parts with sponge but its pretty much what I do with mine.
Yep, just the plog I was looking for.
I’m assuming this technique also works for die cast metal models ?
And what about damage effects ?
Reference pictures : https://nl.pinterest.com/DIYRV/rv-accidents/
These things can burn too :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4KJo7M7ZJI
Yup all of our dicast is done this way 🙂
We have stuff that’s rusted, wrecked and burnt out too, I’ll see if we can get him to demo it sometime soon!
That would be nice. 🙂
One trick I remember from decades ago was to burn bits of sprue and use the smoke to blacken the ‘burnt’ parts.
The black smoke is toxic, but it does look like something burned for real …
Nice one John, you always have the right ideas. Cant wait till kick off, to see what i ‘ve missed out on, my reason why i could not come and would have loved to, as this is my cup of tea. (Although i drink coffee) lol. Just made it out of hospital today, with a replacement knee so cant go far away from the box. Or i would have been first in line to come across for this one. (Not been able to get though customs with the amount of Drugs i would of carried) sorry pain killers. Hope you… Read more »
Great, but needs more kudzu!
nice one john, for the window wiping and similar tasks try the make up cotton buds slightly different from normal ones they have like a flat end and dont tend to shed either. asda do them cheap and i find the extra distance from my chubby fat fingers means i can see better and gives more control.
as for requests id like a vlog on your desert hills from your wild west exodus table please
Great video I have been buying some cars so know I can weather them
What scale did you take for the die-cast-stars?
Any companies you can recommend?
They look beautiful on the table!
The first thing to go during the apocalypse is proper vehicle maintenance and cleaning. Where is the survivors’ pride in their vehicles? LOL
Great work John!
if it’s one of those Toyota Indestructables (or whatever the type was) then you don’t need to bother with maintenance.
I think Top Gear had great difficulty to breaking it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
a great job John I think you would need a more green colour for damper areas like the UK & Europe because of the mildew stuff that grows quickly
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2428/3626354130_a9bb934104_z.jpg
I had “off-market” type Matchbox cars for 20mm Ukraine Force-on-Force . . . but I always thought they looked too shiny. I tried to fix this by completely re-painting one or two of them, which were completely ruined and I now have to use as burnt-out wrecks. 🙁
Thanks to @johnlyons , I’ll apply these tips toward fixing the rest of them. 😀
Great demo John, I’ll be applying these techniques for sure.
Guys, I’ve looked everywhere for the right scale cars. Boot fairs, pound shops, Ebay. nothing at anything approaching sensible money. What makes / brands did you get? might help me narrow down my search criteria….
You can get 1/56 diecast but there not common
There is loads of cheap 1/43-1/48 stuff out there and would seem to be a common scale for this sort of thing. As long as your consistent the slightly smaller sizes shouldn’t be noticeable
Bigger sizes I meant
only thing I would add to it is a little bit of green smears from mold/algee which you see on the top of vans and caravans after a few years out on the road
Maybe this is dumb question, but what is the brand of all that junk in the dusty mix? Would secret weapon pigments work for that? Thanks.
Great tips with the washes, looking forward to more of these. 🙂
Right, I’m off to rob the kids toy box!!
Great tutorial – to give it a mat varnish beforehand is a great step. Thanks a lot!