Gaslands (Steve)

 Another Gaslands car painted for the table top - BlackSlash-Kill

I bought this old and banged up toy for a loonie at a Flea Market this past summer with the intent of restoring it with a Gaslands treatment.  (Original car info from bottom of car: Marjorette, Chevy 57, No 223, ECH 1/64.)

For the Gaslands treatment, I drilled out the screws to separate parts and to get access to the car interior. I replaced the plastic glass windows with screen and used a metal file to cut gouges around the wheel wells, side panels and roof.  I added cut plastic panels over the doors to simulate some attempt to 'repair' the vehicle.  The mounted forward facing machine guns are from the North Star 'Implements of Carnage' sprue.  

I initially used dry brushed grey highlights over a black paint job, but the grey dry brushing along with metal colored gouges looked busy, taking away from the damaged look I wanted for this vehicle. Also,   the grey highlights visually combined with the metal colors in the cuts to result in the car's paint job appear overall as grey rather than the desired black and metal I wanted.  So I repainted the black paint job, repainted painted the metals within the gouges and gave it a wash with liquid talent followed up with a light dry brushing  of silver to highlight the raised metals parts.    I also decided to not paint any dust on the car lower body and wheels as I'd normally do for a Gaslands vehicle to give it a dirty from battle look.  For this car I preferred to just focus on the contrasts between a back paint job, damage and metal parts, relying on the dry brushing and wash done on the metal parts to carry the overall appearance of shading.