Prime Time!

Prime Time! For some it is that excellent hit by The Tubes back in 1979 and if you wish to reacquaint yourself with it or even see a golden oldie if you were born later then click here! For Mrs Woody, Prime Time is either watching a murder mystery or reading a murder mystery. Should I be worried???? Any way she had a bumper viewing session today of aforementioned programmes so I used the opportunity to have some Prime Time myself and have managed to do some priming of the Zvezda 5350 Mustang truck as well as a bit of other painting and a bit more assembly. Most of the cab components are now assembled and most have been primed in Vallejo black primer which gives a great finish. They will get at least overnight to dry before I do anything else.

Look at the detail on the doors - you could almost put your 1/35th scale map in that door pocket.

I have. as previously explained in an earlier post, primed the inside of the body. This contains wooden seating which although in the traditional military manner would be painted in green along with all the rest of the truck, would actual wear when troops were sat on them. Equally the wooden floor of the body would be painted green but the paint would wear and scuff away in the places where troops would walk. To replicate this in model form there is a technique involving hairspray. Basically you spray the wood colour, protect it with a coat of varnish and then before you spray the top coat a coat of hairspray is sprayed onto the areas you want to show the paint underneath the top coat. The top coat is then sprayed and left for a short while to dry. Then using a stiff brush or a cocktail stick and water the top coat is abraded and this reveals the paint underneath. If you get it right it should look like natural wear and scuff marks. It is sometime since I did this so it will be interesting to see what I manage to produce. If nothing else I should have a sweet smelling truck! At the moment the inside of the truck body looks like this.

Putting it all together at the moment the truck looks like a real wreck but its coming together - really! So long as nothing untoward and mysterious happens to me that may have similarities to a murder mystery book or TV programme this kit might actually get finished this month! Now there's a challenge for myself!