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All wheels have now been fitted to the chassis and both sets of tracks completed and attached. Boy, that was a tedious job if ever I did
one. And I always thought that model making was supposed to be relaxing and stress reliving!
I came to realize that the tracks/wheels were too light in colour. Therefore, I airbrushed over them with a black/dark grey paint mixture.
I also used this color to 'dirty down' the main body of the vehicle. After all, the thing is supposed to look like it fights fires!
The next job was to replicate the detail over the vehicle. As mentioned previously, I had already located the 'girder bridge' parts and had
these to hand. However, the other parts were a bit harder to track down, so I ended up having to make these from scratch.
There are 5 drums on the back of the vehicle, which look like beer kegs (!). I could find nothing remotely like this shape, so made one
using plastic tube and car body filler. I made a mold using alginate and cast a further 4 out of resin.
I figured that the shovel, that sits in front of the vehicle, would need to be a pretty good fix (especially as it had to be able to move up
and down), so I made a master pivot from half a ping pong ball, plastic card and tube and cast 2 copies in solid resin.
Anyone walking into my workshop and finding these would probably think they were false nipples!
Whilst using all of this resin, I used some of it to coat the inside of the balsa wood body to add some strength.
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