I’m little bit on the late side for this weeks update. I think like everyone else my schedule is all over the place at the moment and I just forget to get everything together in time for the normal ten o’clock update. But I’ve got there in the end and I hope it was worth the wait. For anyone following on Twitter then you will know I’ve been working on the paint job for the Trukk this week and I’m really happy with myself for actually getting it finished in a week. I think this may be the be the first start to finish project I’ve completed this year, and it’s inspired me to try a couple more things. But first of all what lets have a look a the Trukk.
I’ve been treating this a table top build all along although to be fair not actually played a game of 40k since 4th edition I don’t know if it will ever actually grate a table top. But that notwithstanding the approach to painting this has been the same as I’ve used for my other orks and that involved starting with a black primer and then adding a worn metal effect before adding the colour.
I started everything like this including the inside of the cab. Most of this won’t be visible but I know it’s there so I needed to paint this up before putting everything together. Nothing special for the interior but I think it’s one of the little details that needed doing.
Then it was onto the rest of the model. I’ve used a technique that Al showed me where I add a dark red in something of a rough pattern over the top of the metal and then add a couple of layers of highlights to this. The idea is that it goes metal, dark red, light red with the aim being that it give you that effect of the paint wearing away over time, or simple damage. It’s not an approach that would win you a Golden Deamon but it works very well on table top models, or at least I think it does. Then through in a couple of accents in the form of the yellow bit. A bit of weathering and there you go. Two weeks start to finish and I’m really happy with the outcome especially because I’ve used a few magnets to allow it to be a tow trukk, an open bed or enclosed bed all in the same package.
That’s it for this week. My plans for the next few weeks is to work on a couple more trucks. I want to do one very similar to this but with more scratch building around the cab, which will also allow me to make use of the bits I have lying around. Not enough to build a trukk without the scratch building but enough to give a challenge. Then I want to do another that will be more of an up-armoured trukk. That is still more of an idea at them moment but I want to work towards it. So until next week staff, enjoy your hobby and I will hopefully be back on time next Saturday.
