Terrain Challenge - The End is Nigh // The Final Flight

The first part of the final stage included flocking the board. I used my trust tri-tone mix that I use on my Normandy projects:

• Javis scenics no 3 – dark green fine turf
• Javis scenics no 2 – mid green fine turf
• Javis scenics – burnt grass fine turf

I covered sections of the model in watered down PVA, and put small sections of the dark in low places or areas where rain fall would sink. Next, I covered the majority of it in the mid green colour, and then sprinkled the burnt grass over the tops to give a hightlighting feel.

At this point, I covered the whole thing in isopropanol, and watered down pva to fix it all in place, and whilst I left this to dry, I applied the water slide decals to the plane.

Once everything was dry, I test positioned the plane again, and then set about killing myself inside. The airfix build had been a nostalgic step down memory lane to my youth, but I knew what I wanted with it, and so out came the rotary tool, and off came the wing and part of the tail…

I also took the blow torch to the prop and melted those to make it look like they’d been bent by contact with the ground. I painted the exposed parts of the broken wing with the plate mail metal colour I had used earlier to show where the paint had come off with contact with the ground.

Following one more dry fit of the plane now that it could sit correctly, I superglued the plane to the model, and added mud effects to the ground using a mixture of the C&B burnt umber and Windsor and Newton acrylic texture paste. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite give me the effect I was looking for, so instead, I added some PVA, and more sand to the ground to give the effect of the wing carving the ground open as the plane slid before getting jammed. This was then painted, washed and dry brushed as earlier.

Finally, I added some water to the hole in the ground using Gorilla 2 part epoxy. To assist the curing time, I borrowed a hair dryer and set about blowing at it with hot air for half an hour.