No pussy-footing around, straight in at the deep end goes our Pugsley.

Should be good, Andrew's 4mm one certainly seems to work. You could probably assess what it's looking like by wetting the sides, to get a temporary gloss.

I knew you'd do it Pugs', I just knew it

Just cannot wait to see the finished beast

Thanks everyone B)

PMP - Not sure what you mean by that, do you think the effect is too subtle at the moment? I must admit I am struggling to photograph it at present.

Mikkel - Both really, I want it to be ultra-realistic on both levels. Like I say, it's a pretty tall order, but I hope to achieve it one day.

Must have required significant bravery to get started on that, but it looks promising already - coupled with all the crazy detail you added to the cabs I think you might well get your "no clue it's a model" photograph out of this one

For illustrating/evaluating the effect before you paint it, have you tried taking a picture with low ambient light and something like an anglepoise lamp positioned in the plane of the side? I've been doing that to see how smooth my clay is (not very) and it shows up every little dent.

Bravery or stupidity - I'm still not entirely sure which

Thanks for the vote of confidence B) I hope to achieve that with this one, but who knows! I tried the lighting thing but struggled to get anything other than the largest dents to show up. A bit of Klear to give the area a gloss finish seems to have worked - I'll just sand it off later.

Do you have any more shots of this effect and which shaped burr did you use?

Cheers

Tom

No more shots at the moment, but I'll see what I can do. I used a 3mm conical carbide burr to get the effect.