Alex Flint

I named it GEAR JAMMER. This started out as a Ford C600 Cargo Truck. I painted it with a custom mixed Green acrylic craft paint color. I then sponge painted the patina on it using two different shades of brown acrylic craft paint. The interior is a Light Brown color with a Light Brown craft felt for carpet and headliner. I modified the interior tub to get the front wheels to fit with the cab sitting low. The barefoot gas and brake pedals are Nahuel Customs designs that I 3D printed. The seatbelts are some Brown ribbon I found at Hobby Lobby and the buckles are 3D printed. The engine is an Iceman Collections twin turbo Cummins diesel engine. I 3D printed an intercooler for it and made some custom pipes to connect it out of some styrene rods. I weathered the engine with some black acrylic craft paint dry brushed on. The frame is designed in two separate halves and 3D printed for this specific build. The wheels are 3D printed Alcoa Dually rims that I modified with spiked lug nuts and the tires are modified Z Force tires to fit these specific rims. The single hump rear fenders are also 3D printed and attached to the frame with some skinny styrene rods. The fuel tank is a custom 3D printed beer keg and a Nahuel Customs gas cap. The taillights are Nahuel Customs 1959 Cadillac taillights that I 3D printed in clear resin with some red dye mixed in. The front suspension is another Nahuel Customs design which is a custom big rig drop axle that I 3D printed. The rear 4 link suspension is also 3D printed and also a Nahuel Customs design. The airbags on the front and rear suspension are 3D printed in a flexible rubber resin that I don't use anymore. The driveshaft is custom made out of a couple of 3D printed u-joints and a styrene rod. The frame and rear fenders are painted with SMS Hyperchrome Cold Tone airbrush paint and weathered with some Brown acrylic craft paint and a sponge. The rims are also painted with SMS Hyperchrome Cold Tone airbrush paint but I didn't weather them. Everything that wasn't painted with SMS Hyperchrome Cold Tone airbrush paint was hand painted with a paint brush. This was a stalled project for a long time and it's finally done.

I built this to look like it's ready to be crushed. I started it by grinding some rust holes in the body. Then I sprayed on some rusty metal primer. Next, I sprinkled on some Epsom salt and sprayed on a Light Blue. Once the blue color dried, I brushed off the large pieces and left the tiny pieces to resemble rust bubbles. After all that I brushed on some rust-colored paint around the rust holes. I even added some watercolor paints to the rust holes as a wash. On the rust hole in the roof, I added some very slight green watercolor paint to look like it's got a little bit of grass starting to grow on it. I completely eliminated the engine and the hood but kept the hood hinges and the radiator. I added a radiator hose made from a black hollow rubber bead cord and a wire mesh screen for the radiator itself. The broken windshield and rear window are made out of a glass laptop screen protector that I cut out with scissors and smashed with a hammer. The passenger side window is done the same way except I cut out a thin strip and wedged it in between the body and the door panel then chipped along the edge to look like it was shattered into pieces. The passenger side taillight was eliminated and replaced with some red and black bead wire for detail. I patted on some rust-colored paint onto the bumpers and grill to make them look like they are rusty and attached them on at an angle, so they look like they are falling off the car. I ground out a hole in the bench seat and glued some pillow stuffing to the underside of the seat and painted it a brown color and weathered with a brownish watercolor paint with a little black mixed in. I eliminated the steering wheel but kept the steering column and the dashboard. The crushed soda cans are 3D printed. I put a pack of Camel cigarettes on the seat that i printed out on an inkjet printer and filled with some very thin styrene rods to resemble 1/24 scale cigarettes. I painted the undercarriage with a rust-colored primer and, while the primer is still freshly wet, I sprayed a flat black color on and let it mix while it dried. I used a technique I learned in Scale Auto Magazine to make one of the tires look flat. I carved out the middle of one edge and glued a piece of styrene plastic to the leftover flaps and the painted it flat black and the end result is a flat tire. The rims are painted flat black. I added a bunch of stuff in the bed. Those items include a mesh screen radiator with rubber hoses still attached, two rubber tires from another kit, a set of bumpers from a 1980s GMC Pickup kit, a real metal jewelry chain I painted with black calligraphy ink to make it look greasy, a 3D printed crushed soda can, and a 3D printed roll of duct tape. This is my rustiest build I've ever done.