Ainsty Castings Armoured Pick Up Truck and Wrecked Car

Last time I told you that I had placed an order for three Ainsty Castings 28mm scale resin vehicles but I only told you about one of them - the Derelict School Bus. So, here are the other two vehicles that I bought - set 8056 Armoured Pick Up Truck and set 8050 Wrecked Car. Both come from Ainsty's Streetwise: Car Park range.

Vampifan gets in on the act again to give you an idea of scale. Don't worry, he isn't getting paid any extra for this!

My only criticism of the Pick Up truck is that I wish the floor in the back section was much lower down. As you can see from the photo above there is very little clearance between the floor and the tops of the surrounding sides. Okay, it probably is this way to make it easier to be cast in one piece but I still find it a bit jarring when I compare it with my WWG card model pick up trucks. On the plus side, you can easily fit a figure with a 25mm diameter base in the back of the truck.

The wrecked car is an absolute beauty and you can see straight away that this is just so much scrap metal. All four tyres are missing. One of the headlights have been removed, as has the engine hood. The bodywork is full of dents and bullet holes.

I painted the glass parts of both vehicles in Foundry Black Shade 34A. For the bullet holes in the windows of the wrecked car, I painted the cracks around the bullet holes in the windows with Foundry Arctic Grey 33B. The area directly surrounding the bullet holes was done with little dots of Foundry White 33C. If you paint over the bullet hole, as I did a few times, just repaint the hole in black. To finish off the windows I gave them a coat of gloss varnish, being careful not to paint it over the actual bullet holes.

The pick up truck was painted in Foundry Chainmail 35A and given a variety of ink washes over various parts - Citadel Badab Black, Citadel Devlan Mud and Citadel Asurmen Blue. Since Games Workshop stupidly renamed all of their paints and inks I have no idea what they are called now. Most of the truck was given a black ink wash. Some panels were given a blue or a brown inkwash for that patchwork look.

The body of the wrecked car was painted using the Foundry triad of Bright Red 15 paints. Note that on the Armoured Pick Up truck the area between the wheels is solid resin. It looks odd at first but once you paint it black and put the model on your gaming table it is not noticable at all. I wonder if any of you would have spotted that from my photos if I hadn't pointed it out. I certainly wouldn't have.
The Armoured Pick Up Truck has a solid look to it and looks like it was built to survive in a post apocalyptic world. Add some weapons to it if you want to use it in a Car Wars type setting. As for the wrecked car, it is a great piece of scenery, ideal for depicting a run down part of your neighbourhood. As with the Derelict School Bus reviewed last time, these models have been reduced in price by the good folks at Ainsty Castings. The Wrecked Car now costs £4.00 and the Armoured Pick Up Truck now costs £5.00. Both are good value for resin cast vehicles.