DOOMSDAY CHARIOTS – MODELING POST-APOCALYPTIC VEHICLES

Doomsday Chariots: building post-apocalyptic vehicles (AK Interactive)

This printed publication from the AK Interactive imprint revolves around free modeling work, around machines that come about by converting production kits of cars and vehicles into improvised armored, worn-out and patched-up vehicles. It is a picture book about methods and about how to keep the result believable, not a list of parts and not a kit. Reading it does not call for knowing any particular real subject; the emphasis lies on the craft, that is on work with surfaces, on composition and on how to turn a model into a piece of storytelling.

What to look for in the book

The exact extent, the number of pages and the language version are given by the publisher on the cover, so what is summarized below is the subject matter the publication covers.

• Conversions of ordinary kits of cars and vehicles into a post-apocalyptic form.
• Work with surfaces: rust, flaking and oversprayed paint, worn places and traces of repairs.
• Improvised armor, reinforcements, racks and loaded material.
• Dust, mud and grease as a means of giving a vehicle a history.
• The composition of the whole and of the base, so that a scene reads convincingly.

Who it is for

For modelers who want to turn aside from building strictly to a real subject toward a theme of their own, for builders of dioramas and for anyone who wants to improve their work with wear and rust, as those methods find a use on an ordinary military or civilian model as well. The book also suits use as a gift alongside modeling equipment.

This is a printed publication, not a model or a kit. Paints, tools and kits are not part of it.