Post by Tory on Oct 20, 2013 10:55:22 GMT -6
Every year my model car club holds its annual "Paper Bag" contest. You kick in $7.00 and then choose a model kit concealed by a brown paper bag. It is only after choosing you find out what it is. You also choose an envelope containing a color you have to paint it.You have 2 months to do with it whatever you wish, the only rule being you have to build the kit you chose and paint it the color you chose. After that, anything goes. The last time I participated in this contest I chose a Cadillac Escalade and the color white, which you might remember I converted to a septic truck and named it the "Turd Burglar".
This year, I chose the Revell Snap Together VW New Beetle and the color Silver. After seeing an image in an advertisement of a Hyundai Veloster converted to a zombie apocalypse survival vehicle I decided to go that rout with my VW. Here is the result. The machine gun and Jerry can are from the MPC "Hogan's Heroes" jeep kit. Everything else was scratch built or digitally modeled and output on a 3-D printer. The skull and cross bones was done in photoshop and printed on clear decal film. The main colors are Tamiya Titanium Silver and Grey Metallic. The sandbags are super sculpy. The barbed wire was made from picture hanging wire using a war gamer's technique I learned from a video on YouTube!
Hope you get a kick out of it, the guys in the club seemed to really like it.It won 1st place in a very competitive contest over 11 other entries.
Tory
This year, I chose the Revell Snap Together VW New Beetle and the color Silver. After seeing an image in an advertisement of a Hyundai Veloster converted to a zombie apocalypse survival vehicle I decided to go that rout with my VW. Here is the result. The machine gun and Jerry can are from the MPC "Hogan's Heroes" jeep kit. Everything else was scratch built or digitally modeled and output on a 3-D printer. The skull and cross bones was done in photoshop and printed on clear decal film. The main colors are Tamiya Titanium Silver and Grey Metallic. The sandbags are super sculpy. The barbed wire was made from picture hanging wire using a war gamer's technique I learned from a video on YouTube!
Hope you get a kick out of it, the guys in the club seemed to really like it.It won 1st place in a very competitive contest over 11 other entries.
Tory
