Matchbox 1/72Dornier Do.28D Skyservant. Post-apocolyptic bush-plane.

[CSMO]

This was built for a "Mad Max" club build for my local club, the Central Missouri Scale Modelers/IPMS-USA.



This was inspired by the gyroplane and the weird Aussie crop-duster from the Mad Max films.



I opened up the cargo door, added a rear bulkhead, removed a few seats and shuffled around the rest, dropped the flaps, off-set the rudder and tail-wheel, and scrapped the dainty spatted main gear for something a little more robust. I added a pair of drums and a pair of crates for cargo and a rack for extra 20mm magazines.


 
From the scrap-box I  used some girder material for bomb racks for the fuel drum napalm bombs. (The gasoline mixed with laundry soap powder would be ignited by hand grenades with the pins pulled and the spoons held in a glass jar). The two barrel bazooka type rocket launcher is plastic tube, florist wire, tape, and a piece of scrap card for a mount. The 20mm door gun is from the old Revell "McHale's Navy"(TV show) PT boat mounted on three pieces of scrap plastic.



I needed a wild paint job. I used the WW2 German armor camouflage pattern known as "ambush". It features contrasting mottling on a segmented camouflage pattern.



The segments and mottles are all freehand brush-painted. I used Pollyscale Italian Yellow #2 & Italian Red and Model Master Green Zinc Chromate for the paint.



Mad Max stuff has to be really nasty, grungy, and skuzzy looking. I used Wal-Mart Tan acrylic craft paint and Vallejo Black-Gray for the weathering and exhaust and gunpowder reside stains.. I put blobs of each color on a palette with a puddle of alcohol. Using a large and soft paintbrush, I applied the thinned paint in different consistencies to replicate dried mud, dirt and dust as well as the staining.

Adios, Larry.

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice one! 

Love the concept, details and execution. 

[zenrat]

Love it.  The paint job must have taken you forever.

Airtruk

[NARSES2]

Love the cammo style 

[McGreig]

Like everyone else, I'm impressed by the colour scheme and painting. And I like the extra work that you've done on the basic kit. Very impressive 

[TallEng]

Really scruffy looking
And excellent work on the camouflage 

Regards
Keith

[sandiego89]

Like this a lot.  Well done 

[major]

Way cool! Love it!

[comrade harps]

Suitably scungy!