ICM – HOW TO PAINT & WEATHER WW2 TRUCKS WARHORSES

A publication on painting and weathering trucks of the Second World War

This is a book, that is, a printed publication, not a model or a set of paints. It came about in cooperation with the kit maker ICM, whose name it also carries in its title, and it concentrates on one particular group of subjects: trucks from the period of the Second World War. That is a theme discussed markedly less often in modeling literature than tanks, even though trucks make up the majority of the vehicles on every larger diorama.

What the book deals with

• Painting trucks and the move from the base coat to the final shade
• Techniques of wear: scuffed paint, corrosion, dust and mud on the chassis and the fenders
• Working with the materials that turn up most often on trucks - tarpaulins, the wood of the cargo bed, rubber
• Step-by-step procedures on which the order of the individual layers can be followed

Why trucks in particular

A truck is weathered differently from a tracked vehicle. It has no tracks to spray mud along its sides, but it does have tall wheels, a flat cargo bed, wooden and textile parts and far more painted areas, on which every mistake in the transition of shade shows. On top of that, the load bed is scuffed by the cargo, not by the terrain. Anyone who carries a procedure over from a tank to a truck unchanged will get a result that comes across as improbable.

Who the publication is for

For modelers who build military vehicles and dioramas and want to move on from a uniform coat to a surface with more depth. A basic knowledge of working with a brush and an airbrush is assumed; the book is not a manual for complete beginners.

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