Just completed Italeri's "Coal Powered Truck". Did it steampunk colours for the missus who's into that genre.











Just a fun build to get back into the swing of things after a break of 12months or more but any comments welcomed.

That's pretty cool. I like it.

Jim

That is super cool

The wood looks realistic. How did you do it?

I've seen several pieces done in "steampunk" style and I like it! But what is steampunk? A style? An era? A movement? I'm intrigued to find out more!

@JimB, thanks

@KoSprueOne, to do wood tones I take a mid brown and base coat what I want to do, then heavily dry brush a light brown (Tamiya deck tan by preference), followed by a light dry brush of a reddish brown and then a VERY light dry brush of another mid brown (so 4 different browns all up) then one or two pin washes for shadows in crevices.

@Hunter, think movies like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Jules Verne books, Laputa castle in the sky. Kind of a cross between Victorian era style with sci-fi tech often powered by steam. think of a Steam powered plane for example. Wood and copper tones abound. Wiki can give you more.

Thanks Konigwolf for your reply. I'll dig around some more! Thanks! Your model is looking great btw...