I had picked these Corgi lorries up in months past and I wanted to spruce them up a bit so they could be photographed in parking area by the shed.
The wheel axle tips were painted to get rid of that "Corgi" look, and the front wheels were turned ever so slightly. I used a motor tool cutting disk to turn the wheels by cutting about 2/3 of the way through the axle on opposite sides on the inside of the wheel. Use care here because the cutting wheels will heat the steel axle up and you don't want melted plastic wheel hubs. Then just bend the axle at the cut and you have turned front wheels.
The tow hitches also had those nasty rivets filled in...
All three were given a coat of clear flat matte acrylic, and then weathered. A dirty wash of grey with some subsequent airbrushing pretty well summed up the weathering operation. |
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