Nice work Tim , you’re well on your way .
Speaking of burnt wood , it’s most likely I’ll have have to address that feature also in my builds , just not there in the destruction phase yet .
Piece of basswood paint/washed light earth brown acrylic , AK marker tire black [ excellent flat black ] , pastel chalk light grey followed by white . You can use any light or heavy application you want and pastel chalks can easily be washed off to try again .
Thanks Glenn - ssssmokin’, nice plank! If I ever knew, I’d forgotten you were a pastels guy too…jeez that sounds suss 
…anyhoo you got that nailed. My next experiment is taking that effect further, towards the corrugated charcoal appearance of more severely burnt planking, I was just trying some corrugating on balsa strips with the flat side of a blade & it looks OK-ish. Will apply paint/pastel and post results anon.
Super progress Tim … wrecks are so hard to pull off, but you are nailing it mate.
spot on display of artwork.
J
Thanks John, yep Breaking Up is hard to do - still wrestling with the corrugated charcoal effect mentioned above so I’ve nothing to show yet. But with the speed of a hunted snail I can show;
A foil fuel tank ready for indentation/immolation…
Some basic destruction…
There’ll be way more tangled debris and wall-splintering, this is just first steps. Interior painting needs to happen fairly soon, followed by some charring. Meanwhile I needed to get an approximate read on the roof so ripped off a basic chunk pending mo’ splintering…
Wow! That is some destruction there! Remind me not to have you stay over.
Just a reminder that wood is no protection against whatever calibre it was you mentioned - 45mm? I can’t remember and am too fatigued to trawl back, but some very good effects there Tim, very good.
Bloody hell those termites are savage!!
I understand a similar effect can be achieved by leaving a model accessible to a bored cat…
M
Was the dog trying to remove the squeeky ?
J
Tim , looks good/bad , you know what I mean . Getting everything just right/wrong in building a destroyed vehicle is quite a challenge tho you look like you’re managing … now originally did you say a woman was driving or Ted Kennedy or it was struck by a 45mm shell , just asking for a friend ?
Hi Tim, this is looking good. I can imagine this took a long time to pull together. There is a lot of discreet construction required to make up the complete destruction! 
Cheers
Nick 
Tim allow me to say that you really have special skills when it comes to the destruction of things!
To depict the rear end being blown off is quite the challenge, and I can’t wait to see how your fender “mangling” turns out 
Any further treatment to the chassis frame in the works?
Very impressive 
Cheers 
Dave 
Thanks so much guys,
Brian – OK I’ll leave my miniaturised flame-thrower behind when I visit you, your usual bomb-disposal get-up should suffice in the pub. And yes a 45mm HE shell, which I’m assuming exploded on impact with the rear wooden wall.
Sam – odd you mention termites, I only learned a couple of weeks ago from a (retired) professional building inspector that when suspected, he used an amplifier/headphones – you can hear them chewing away.
Tom/Jerry - …Tom & Jerry?! No pets here, all cats should be exterminated anyway. I love (most) dogs as long as I don’t have to take care of them.
Glenn – yeah Chappaquiddick was an option but couldn’t find any female corpse figures in 1:35. Too soon…?
Nick – “discreet” wasn’t an adjective that I’d considered (or been noted for!) but I know what you mean.
Dave – yeah the chassis frame’s niggling me in terms of damage. My theory is the blast went predominantly horizontal/vertical, so by the time I’ve scattered/tangled/burnt debris over that exposed rear end I won’t need to bend it much, if at all. Let’s see what it looks like.
Further sketching in three dimensions…
It’s trickier than I remember to work backwards from the exact impact point & resulting blast, simultaneously working forwards from what bit/s to install next. A lot of what’s visible now will be corrected and/or overlayed with a bunch of assorted debris, preceded of course by painting/charring. I’ve provisionally given up on trying to get that corrugated-burnt effect on the woodwork, I think Glenn’s method should work OK.
I’m not sold on the roof storage tray being there at all, it mostly depends if this works OK after shortening & mangling…
I’m hiding under the workbench half-expecting Frenchy to prove the storage tray floor was all wood. (Henri Pierre, if it was pleeeeeze let’s just keep that between ourselves, it’ll should look so much better as torn/twisted sheet metal)
The jury is still out on this one 
H.P.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail . Very organized kaos in a believable way .
Can’t help with the luggage rack but I’d say wood , something just tells me there wouldn’t be a large metal plate on top of a radio truck , wouldn’t metal on the roof interfere with recieving and transmission ? I have no clue what it was made of , just a thought .
I too have no knowledge of what the luggage rack was made, but I would doubt metal as noted above, plywood would have been too valuable. I would suspect wooded slates such as 1x3’s or whatever the metric folks would call it. These laid sideways across the top of 3 or 4 support of the 2x4 equivalent and these sitting on stubby supports along their length.
Thanks Glenn & Jack – on one hand I’m inclined to agree with you both. It begs the question why else build the entire cabin from wood? I’m not sure there would have been much weight difference between that & sheet metal panels, if anything all that timber may have been heavier.
Or, if you’ll just step this way into the Ministry of Arguments…
By that theory wouldn’t all tanks with radios be made of wood?
I don’t know if it’s an ICM invention or not, but the tray floor follows the same curvature as the roof. Easier to fabricate in metal? Debatable.
Whatever, I’m floundering around for a good reason why (in Dioramartinworld 
) the metal tray floor - not even a heavy wire mesh frame - was a necessary field modification…termites?
Luckily for you, I don’t know a thing about the technical side of this, so will focus on the build - the destruction is spot on - although, maybe leading you to “havin’ a nervous breakdown!” (L Zeppelin)
Cheers
Nick
As in Dazed & Confused 
