Another Bus get the Rust

A few weeks ago Adrian ran a game of Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars game for us. In preparation for the session I watched the video by Free League. I was impressed by the terrain of the board they used for the demo, particularly by the abandoned bus, and decided to make something similar.

For Zone Wars, I needed a larger model, in 28mm scale. I managed to find a plastic toy of an appropriate scale.

The toy was taken apart, and I removed the soft rubber rear-view mirrors, the window panes, the tyres, and the electronics and wind-up mechanism. I then spray-primed the model with a red-brown primer, and then sponged it all over with orange and dark brown paint to create a rust effect. As I wasn't sure how much weathering I would be doing at this point, I created the effect all over the model.

I then covered the model with salt for the salt-chipping process. Unfortunately the high humidity meant that the effect wasn't exactly how I hoped it would turn out.

Once the salt has dried (as much as it would) I sprayed he model with yellow paint, and when that had dried I brushed off the salt. At this point the model still looked a bit off, and I decided to add a black stripe across the sides. As this would be a terrain piece rather than a playing piece, I left the interior in primer brown, and just picked out the lights.

The result is shown above, alongside the two other school bus models I already owned in smaller scales: a 10mm scale one from the Dropzone Commander range, and a 20mm scale one which I made using a diecast metal toy, with bits from the Northstar Gasalands conversion bits to make it look like the smaller one.