LRDG Trucks completed

 

Finally. These two LRDG trucks and their six crew have taken much longer to complete than any of the previous vehicles. So much stowage.  And it hasn't helped that time available to paint has been less available.

Following on from the work in progress post, the basecoats were built up and the many, many pieces of stowage were painted, repainted, washed, and highlighted. The wheel hubs were airbrushed by making a small paper and tape mask to shield the rubber and light stone, blue, or pink was applied.

The Company B decals were added to both vehicles; the decals needed to have excess backing trimmed and were susceptible to surface scratching - more so than other decals I've used. The scratching wasn't very important as they were going to get weathered anyway, but it meant I had to be very careful during the process.

Each of the six crew was detailed, though I'm still not happy with my ability to do faces. The Warlord crew are in a nice variety of clothes, a mix of KD shirts and shorts, leather chaplis sandals, BD trousers and jerseys, FS and knitted caps, and the iconic Arab keffiyeh headdress. 

The crew and vehicles were assembled and varnished, and then weathered in much the same manner as the Marmon-Herrington armoured car using AMMO of Mig Jimenez Ochre for Light Sand as a filter coat, with AK Interactive Africa Dust added to edges and areas were dust would build up, and finally some AK North Africa dust pigment was added, mostly to the tires.

A final coat of varnish, and the first two LRDG 30 cwt trucks are finally ready to roll off my worktable.

I'm not sure what I'll do next.  Ideally it should either be Konflikt '47 infantry or some more of this "Behind Enemy Lines" force, but I think it'll have to be something simple and relaxing.