Another Land Rover.

This time it's one that will ultimately appear somewhere in the scenery of Easton, Isle of Portland. The idea of this entry is to show what methods can be used to produce a facsimile of a working vehicle without covering up all the detail yet still make it look rather grubby. In keeping with previous examples there will not be very much used of any of the materials utilised.

Preparation consists of checking that the tyres are on the wheels concentricly and that the cab area sits square on the chassis and trailing bonnet edge. I have several examples of Oxford Diecast 1/76th Land Rovers that were bypassed when it came to quality control checks. If something can be easily fixed I usually do just that rather than send it back to the supplier. A personal thing. On this particular example one of the rear tyres was poorly formed, so I removed it, turned it round and replaced it.

Tools to be used are a rigger brush for the wash, a filbert brush for the pigment and a couple of cotton swabs for cleaning up and manipulating. Materials to be used are MIG Productions Dark Wash, Testor's Dullcote and AK Interactive Asphalt Road Dirt pigment. That's it.

Apart from the white spirit.

For a change, you can see what the end result looks like before we start: