I've been working on terrain for a Sci-Fi Desert mining settlement. You can see the two buildings I've made so far here: TMP link
I wanted a civilian vehicle and a dumptruck seemed an obvious choice for a mine.
Here's the vehicle it came from.
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A Fisher Price dumptruck. It has train wheels for some reason, so I assume it came from a train set. It was 99 cents at a resale shop.
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It makes sound and lights up when you press on the balast in the dump bucket. Unfortunately that had to go to make a place for models to stand, and I couldn't figure out how to easily wire up the lights with a switch.
I dug dents and gouges all overt, scratchbuilt a roof of .5mm plascard (a 99 cent for sale sign from the hardware store provides alot of material) and added a few 40k tank bits. The bump in front of the hatch is a mount for some of the pin-mounted machine guns that I've made for my other post apoc vehicles.
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The train wheels were removed and replaced with wheels from another 99 cent resale shop truck
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I had to remove the balast and electronics, cut away alot of the inside of the dump and make a floor from plascard. The cutaways with the clippers I used came out rough, which really matches the inside of a dump which is usually dented, dirty and scratched. The roof is removable, though I haven't built an interior.
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As my hobby time is limited, painting was simple and quick.
-Prime with Black spraypaint
-Drybrushes of color being sure to leave black at cracks, interior corners and vents
-Thoughoughly drenched wash of Burnt siena (allowed to pool in crevases and left to dry overnight) to make the rust appear in places where rust naturally would
-Dabs of silver sharpie at the dents and gouges.
-Sealed with a light dusting of matte spray.
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I also painted the inside of the clear plastic head lights (The lowest pair of lights)once the bulbs were removed with silver paint before gluing them back in.
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Here it is among the previously made mining buildings.
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