Karl's Project Log. 8/5 Industrial Grinder: Completed!
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:37 am
With the hiatus for the Blog I've decided to open up a project log here for whatever gaming stuff I'm working on.
First off, I've got an aproximately G-scale mail car that I'm turning into a warehouse. I believe this was made by Lionel, though it's one of their toy product lines that run on plastic track with a battery powered engine. The entire train was at my local goodwill. Lucikly it was parted out since this was the only car useful to me and it's broken wheels meant that it was only 50 cents!
I didn't take a picture, but originally it was like this, though not nearly as detailed as the picture below is of a finely built LGB model.
Sometimes it's a nice challenge to see what you can kitbash just from the pieces that come with what you're bashing. Everything on this building came from the car itself. See if you can guess what came from where. Once you start hacking something up you will often find all kinds of interesting shapes that can be moved about at will.
It also shows that effective kitbashing doesn't always require having a huge sockpile of extra bits. Though I do and it can help.
After shortening the roof I was left with a bit of extra top walkway so I made a small platform to indicate where models might be able to climb to the roof.
I'll be retaining the openable -now rear-door. I also scraped off all the various handles which were much too high and a dead giveaway of the model's origins.
Though the "model" was of a wooden train car I wanted to make the building look like metal. Thankfully, unlike the LGB model above, this one was too cheap to have any scupted wood grain. Here you can see many of the little dings I made by poking at the building with my model knife. It's not perfectly realistic wear, but these rough dents will show their worth when drybrushing. The depths will stay dark and the edges will attract a bit of paint adding alot to the worn "look" of the model.
A few of the parts disassembled for painting separately. The roof walkway is a nice touch that will make it easy to put models on top.
This was actually a pretty easy build. I only used the tools below and the disassembly, conversion and construction was done in one evening.
I'll post pics of the finished building tomorrow.
First off, I've got an aproximately G-scale mail car that I'm turning into a warehouse. I believe this was made by Lionel, though it's one of their toy product lines that run on plastic track with a battery powered engine. The entire train was at my local goodwill. Lucikly it was parted out since this was the only car useful to me and it's broken wheels meant that it was only 50 cents!
I didn't take a picture, but originally it was like this, though not nearly as detailed as the picture below is of a finely built LGB model.
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Sometimes it's a nice challenge to see what you can kitbash just from the pieces that come with what you're bashing. Everything on this building came from the car itself. See if you can guess what came from where. Once you start hacking something up you will often find all kinds of interesting shapes that can be moved about at will.
It also shows that effective kitbashing doesn't always require having a huge sockpile of extra bits. Though I do and it can help.
After shortening the roof I was left with a bit of extra top walkway so I made a small platform to indicate where models might be able to climb to the roof.
I'll be retaining the openable -now rear-door. I also scraped off all the various handles which were much too high and a dead giveaway of the model's origins.
Though the "model" was of a wooden train car I wanted to make the building look like metal. Thankfully, unlike the LGB model above, this one was too cheap to have any scupted wood grain. Here you can see many of the little dings I made by poking at the building with my model knife. It's not perfectly realistic wear, but these rough dents will show their worth when drybrushing. The depths will stay dark and the edges will attract a bit of paint adding alot to the worn "look" of the model.
A few of the parts disassembled for painting separately. The roof walkway is a nice touch that will make it easy to put models on top.
This was actually a pretty easy build. I only used the tools below and the disassembly, conversion and construction was done in one evening.
I'll post pics of the finished building tomorrow.
