Alabama Slammer

[Wardukw]

If you're covering stuff with a tarp, you don't need to expend your accessories; a blocky shape under the tarp will be sufficient. 

That's what I'll do. I'm trying to think of a way to make something that looks like a pallet of water bottles.

There's the Vietnam trucks like Iron Horse and Eve of Destruction.

Ken mate to build what ya want is dead easy ..you can build a wooden pallet from plastic and just stuff a block of whatever you want to use on top..cover it with a tarpaulin and your done .
I filled the rear end of a Kangaroo Sherman with what looked like a very large load of cargo ..all it was was balsa wood stacked up and glued....then I covered it was a tissue ..pva glue and let the weight skin into the gaps to give it a  heavy look ...worked a treat bud 

[kerick]

Here's a little update on the trailer. I've started building steel shields from corrugated plastic sheets. Something to keep some of the cargo from getting too shot up. The plan is to make it look like it was cut from junk shipping containers kind of like this gun truck.



So here's the story so far.









And a start on some stuff to fill it up with. The wooden boxes were painted with Citadel Colors Flesh and then a heavy wash of AV Dark Rust. Two of them were already OD green and washed with the same Dark Rust. I should pick out the metal parts with something worn looking.



There will be an opportunity for some tarp covered stuff if I can make it look like a blue plastic one. Another option is giant cardboard boxes. They seemed to be everywhere.
I have the AV rust and dirt paint set and I've started stippling on some rust colors. My bottle of Micro Mask is still good so I might apply some of that tonight yet to mask off the rusty parts. I'll have to look at that cargo bed floor. Much too clean. Probably not much rust but plenty of worn metal and dirt.

[Rick Lowe]

Rocking right along. 

[Old Wombat]

 

[PR19_Kit]

Those 45 gall drums DEFINITELY need 'weathering'! In my 47 years of hydraulicing I NEVER saw one that ever looked 'new'!

[NARSES2]

That gun truck in the top pic looks like a mobile grandstand or maybe even a mobile score board for when cricket teams tour the remoter parts of the world 

Coming along nicely 

[zenrat]

Those 45 gall drums DEFINITELY need 'weathering'! In my 47 years of hydraulicing I NEVER saw one that ever looked 'new'!

You're right.  But they must have been new once...

[PR19_Kit]

Those 45 gall drums DEFINITELY need 'weathering'! In my 47 years of hydraulicing I NEVER saw one that ever looked 'new'!

You're right.  But they must have been new once...

I reckon the factory had a 'weathering line' just before the Dispatch Dept, and there were rows of guys with sprayguns spraying them from more 45 gallon drums of Tamiya Weathering sets!

[kerick]

Those 45 gall drums DEFINITELY need 'weathering'! In my 47 years of hydraulicing I NEVER saw one that ever looked 'new'!

You're right.  But they must have been new once...

They were new, but only once!   

[Steel Penguin]

when i worked in an oil blenders, you did see the odd new drum,  but as most of our storage was outside they weathered very quickly,  and dings and crumples are par for the coarse, as you generally have to tilt / roll the darn things to be able to get anything out, and at 45*4.5 = 202.5 Kg with just water, plus the drum weight, they generally went single man movable,  bring out the fork lift time,  clang, boing, poink ! 

[NARSES2]

when i worked in an oil blenders, you did see the odd new drum,  but as most of our storage was outside they weathered very quickly,  and dings and crumples are par for the coarse, as you generally have to tilt / roll the darn things to be able to get anything out, and at 45*4.5 = 202.5 Kg with just water, plus the drum weight, they generally went single man movable,  bring out the fork lift time,  clang, boing, poink ! 

Fork Lifts ! My dad left school at 14 and one of his first jobs was on a brewery dray. They had to unload the barrels and then get them into pub cellars. The barrels were rolled off the back of the dray to drop onto a large sandbag, then rolled along the pavement to the cellar ramp and slid down that onto another sandbag. he said he was shown how to roll them by an "old timer" (his words). You got a bloke either side of the barrel with their foreheads against it and they rocked it gradually until its momentum took over and then you "steered" it. One of the reasons the barrels were not full, so you could rock it.  Apparently the department of health and safety didn't exist back then 

[kerick]

when i worked in an oil blenders, you did see the odd new drum,  but as most of our storage was outside they weathered very quickly,  and dings and crumples are par for the coarse, as you generally have to tilt / roll the darn things to be able to get anything out, and at 45*4.5 = 202.5 Kg with just water, plus the drum weight, they generally went single man movable,  bring out the fork lift time,  clang, boing, poink ! 

Fork Lifts ! My dad left school at 14 and one of his first jobs was on a brewery dray. They had to unload the barrels and then get them into pub cellars. The barrels were rolled off the back of the dray to drop onto a large sandbag, then rolled along the pavement to the cellar ramp and slid down that onto another sandbag. he said he was shown how to roll them by an "old timer" (his words). You got a bloke either side of the barrel with their foreheads against it and they rocked it gradually until its momentum took over and then you "steered" it. One of the reasons the barrels were not full, so you could rock it.  Apparently the department of health and safety didn't exist back then 

That was "using your head"!!!!   

[kerick]

And the latest update on the trailer. I made a big attempt at rusting the steel sheets. You'll have to tell me what you think. It wasn't looking right at first but I kept adding different colors from the Vallejo rust weathering kit until it looked close. I wanted it to look like bad rusting where the sheets were cut apart and welded together again.









The sheets look almost white in the pics but they are a light grey. On second thought I should have gone with a railroad reddish brown or something but too late now.

[Wardukw]

It's a damn site better than I could do mate so yeah that looks pretty cool 😎.
You could give the light gray a wash of red brown if ya wanted Ken ..that would work to 

[Old Wombat]

Not bad! Not bad at all!     



I find stippling the rust effects colours on with a flat-cut stiff brush gets the spotty look of real rust, & for something like these panels I would do the rust first over a larger area (I did all of the visible metal sheets on the PBR), then stipple on liquid mask where you want the rust to show through, then paint.

If you want streaks, you gloss coat, put spots of different rust effect colours along the edges of the rust area & swipe downwards with a damp, long haired soft brush.

That's what works for me, anyway.

If they're not glued in you could give that a try, if you feel the need.