It all started with a 1/24-scale toy bought at a supermarket and ordered by radio...
All of this will be disconnected, and the battery will be removed—since it will be inaccessible—once the truck is secured to its mount...
Bumpers, headlights and side lights, wheel covers, various antennas, step boards for getting out of the car, etc...
The thin wires are dental floss...
The rear section has also been improved. A side guard for the central axle—which is slightly off-center (drive wheel)—is positioned above...
Painting
Please note that the side doors do not have windows, which will need to be added during the finishing process...
Next comes a medium brown to cover the yellow. We then treat the paint using the hairspray technique (as already explained in several tutorials, including the Catalyna one)...
The front is decorated with a red stripe, as are the wheel covers...
The wheels and rocker panels are spray-painted with an orange-sand color, and then pastel powder is applied to the entire surface...
A reissue of an old model kit from the MPC brand—a model from the 1999 TV series *Cosmos*...
The Setting
It consists of a 57 cm x 35 cm MDF board with a 3 cm-thick piece of extruded polystyrene glued to it, raised on the left to show the excavation site where the second astronaut found a fossilized statue...
The entire piece is coated with wood glue and sprinkled with various types of fine gravel and small pebbles. The whole thing will be painted with acrylic paint for canvases...
It is painted with acrylic paint for canvases and is 38 cm high; it spans the entire width of the diorama...
Paintbrush & airbrush.
Of course, you don't have to paint a realistic background. You can either print an A3-sized photo or hang a poster to spruce up the whole thing. It's up to each person based on their skill level and personal taste...
