#model trailer

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

mixed up some tacky glue + craft moss + a little water, and I had a nice paint-on moss that proved to be very buildable. feeling pleased with round one results, but I'm gonna be going back in a few times.

need to suss out a good tree sap effect. wonder if I could just dilute some sorghum and use that? much to think about.

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

I've been building a model trailer because after watching so many model makers I finally broke. this kit from Greenleaf is the only thing I could find even remotely close to the late 70s and early 80s mobile homes my family lived/lives in. technically it's not a mobile home, it's a travel trailer, but beggars can't be choosers.

the idea is that a bigfoot-hunting hillbilly crank has lived in this trailer since it was new, so my #1 goal is to properly layer the decades within. I think this should be easy since I can just base it off of my uncle's place.

it's actually ridiculous how meticulously I worked to mix the exact shade of dingy-green every mobile home in a Tennesse trailer park turns after long term exposure to the sun, honeysuckle pollen, and treesap. my hands are so shaky that even using tape to try and make that generic red+yellow stripe* turned out wobbly. going to make my much steadier partner go back over it.

*coachman, bell, and taurus all share a very similar color pattern, which I find very funny

it was hard to decide between building it correctly and then fucking it up later, or building it with the gaps now. against the advice of more experienced model builders, I built it with the gaps. I want to be able to use gap filler foam (iykyk) to give it that authentic sense of "my trailer should be condemned but I won't admit it to myself", and I feel like it will be easier to apply appropriately if the gaps already exist. time will tell if I regret this.

anyways now that it is built, stained, and painted, only about 1535356383829101 more steps to go. lol