Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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Thanks, Mikey!

Pulled weeds from 4 of my garden beds - good enough for today, so it's back to weathering the M630 and watching the US Open.  Rusted up the wheels after popping off each of the truck sideframes. I think the frame, trucks and fuel tank are about done with the brush.  

   

Then I got the fine point brush out with some black paint to blacken all of the air intakes, grills, exhaust port on the shell.  Then some delicate darkening of hinges, steps, plows, walkway edging, handrails, etc. with a very dry brush and a lot of patience making small changes.

   

Next I got the black wash out (a little bit of black paint mixed with a lot of rubbing alcohol) to try to get the crevasses in the shell to stand out and dull up the colors.

   

I'm pretty much good with that look, and it emulates the ArtStation look I wanted: krys-halamic-m630-bcr-early-2-pack.jpg (1918×1024).  I'll just throw on a little bit of black PanPastel, and I think we're done.  The back of the shell is sticking up a little bit - I'll have to look into that at some point.  In the end, it's a lot better than seeing a melted shell rolling down the tracks.