The Grand Tour - Ash Wastes Dune Buggy (Take 2)

As you may have seen over at Leadplague or Sho3box, this year the WIPsters guaranteed each other at least one hobby related present this year, with a Secret Santa gift sharing.

 

My Santa recognised that vehicles have been a bit of a theme this year, and that I clearly needed more racers. I was therefore as excited as a 4 year old with a full stocking when I opened my present:

 

That's right - a mint in blister OOP Grenadier Future Warriors Lightning Strike Buggy!

 

You may recall that I painted one of these lovely little cars in the summer of 2016, but that one was missing a host of parts, including the front bumper, roll cage and driver. I also realise after comparing the two, that my previous version has two sets of rear wheels, instead of the smaller front pair.

 

Lightning Strike Buggy swiftly tacked together.

 



My plan was to build the new buggy unmodified, and to paint it with a contrasting colour scheme. I selected racing red, then weathered the paint job to hell and back!

 

In retrospect I wish I'd painted more definition between the red paintwork and rusty areas, but there's no going back now!

The white stripes were simply freehanded, whilst the numbers (to give it a racing feel) are decals.

And just for the sake of comparison, here's the two buggies side-by-side:

Of course, the real reason to have models like this in the first place, is so you can mock up little racing dioramas, right?!

...it's the final turn, Rick Nitro is holding the lead and the crowd go WILD!!!...

Thank you Secret Santa - a really enjoyable start to painting for 2017!