Transformation: GP39-2 From Shiny Brass to Grimy Green

[P5se Camelback]

In an effort to reduce “clean-up” after airbrushing the wheels of the power trucks, I made a “Kwikie” Power Truck Wheel Mask …

Using my calipers, I measured and marked off the axle centers of the drive trucks, drew center lines, and marked the circles with a pen and one of my circle templates …


… cut around the circle with a #11 blade …


… and slid the drive truck in from behind …


After a quick trip out to the garage, we have Grimy Black wheel faces, just aching to be weathered …


Patience, little round guys … the time will come!

The truck side frames were reassembled and set up in “third hand” gripper, given a trip out to the airbrush station in the garage and …


… and when the humidity shot up due to a local downpour, the took up residency under the heat of a high intensity bulb …


… and now the truck side frames are Grimy Black and awaiting some weathering …


Next will be the chassis (with the fuel tank) and the walkways/end platforms/railings/cab interior … but will have to wait for the rain to stop and the humidity to drop 20 or 30% to once again atomize pigment out at the airbrush station in the garage.