Decaying Stuff - part 7

A quick (and badly executed) brush paint job to check if the chairs can pass as chlidrens' chairs by painting them in vivid colors. I think this might work.

Decaying Stuff - part 6 - Sort of a drawback

I sat out to prime some of the 3D printed 1/35 scale chairs I bought for this little project. Like this:

Perfectly OK chairs, at the first look. Then I thought it would be nice with a matching table, which I scratch built from styrene and some brass rod. But when I placed a chair next to the table I saw that something was out of scale. The chair looked awfully small alongside the table. Measurements and calculations showed that the chairs are rather 1/45 scale than the advertised 1/35. Bugger! 😒

The small size also reveals itself when a chair is placed alongside the bike. The picture below shows the problem.

The fridge and the washing machine (from the same manufacturer) are also on the small side, but only a tad. I think they can pass. What to do with the chairs I do not know right now. I'll postpone that decision for now, and start working on the scenery base instead. Seems funnier. 😐

Decaying Stuff - part 5

Attention turned the appliances: a refrigerator and a washing machine. The kits are 3D printed and do not contain very many parts, but are well executed and contain a surprising amount of details. Here are the parts (except for the glas part of the washing machine hatch), after priming:

And here they have been assembled and given a basic coat of white paint.

Even the inside of the washing machine and the back of the refrigerator are modelled!

Time for decaying, i.e some rust and grime. Perhaps I overdid it some? At least the grime in the fridge.

Decaying Stuff - part 4

 I continued working on the bikes. First a general layer of rust colors.

And then the various parts were brush painted:

- An aluminum color on all the bare metal and chrome parts.

- Remnants of the original frame color

- Black and grey on the tires, saddle and handles.

Then it was all brought together with a light rust wash and some weathering powders.

I'll leave it at that, at least for the time being, and turn my attention to the refrigerator and the washing machine.

Decaying Stuff - part 3

 Black primer.

Decaying Stuff - part 2

I started by assembling the bicycles. It turned out that the actual bicycles where identical in the two different "Soldier-with-Bicycle" kits I had bought. The two kits where the same, except for the figures themselves. What otherwise differed between the kits was which gear you were supposed to load onto the bike. This is what the bike parts of the kits both looked like.

I just wanted the generic bike parts and not any of the military gear. I also did not use the more archaic looking parts, like the old style hand-brake handle, since I wanted the bikes to pass as a little more modern items, matching the washing machine and the refrigerators.

This was not a very easy build (for me at least), since many parts were very small and fragile, having a tendency to break. Resulting in some not very nice looking attempts at mending. 

I made one of the bikes more or less intact looking while the other one has been somewhat cannibalized and wrecked  Here are the two bikes after assembly.

Decaying stuff

Long time, no post. But now I think it is time.

I have decided to make a try at a small vignette just showing ordinary everyday things in decay. Yes, as simple as that. Should give an opportunity for some fun weathering. My inspiration is stuff like this.

To get started I but these kits. I will not be using the figures. Only their bikes. 😀