I was cutting some Centerbeam cars, and decided to build one. That's something I have not done in more than a decade. So after I built it, it sat in a pile on my workbench for a couple weeks. Today I was cleaning my work area and when I got to the car, I decided to detail it as an empty. I started by super gluing EZ Line to represent the cables as sometimes seen in MT mode: Next I applied rust effects, pooling it up on the flat deck areas and letting it dry: Then I applied chalk powders, with the darker colors down low: I then diluted some select acrylics, dabbing here and there to represent more rust spots: And finally I applied debris to the deck. Some are small sticks to represent broken spacers from the lumber stacks, and I found a new trick, that if you dab some glue on the car, then dip your paintbrush in water, then into the chalk powders, it makes decent caked rust and dirt debris: Side shot, you can see I painted the roller bearings on the truck blue for fun, and all the nice brake gear hanging underneath the car: And this angle shows the cables and debris on the dirty empty car:
Excellent! nicely detailed. Without load does look much better! makes them more interesting! I have a few 3D printed one I did but I didn't put that much details!