Try to imagine that the whole car is red, but the front end is covered with a shell of armor. That's the effect I was attempting.   

Primary colours rule this mean machine. Looks pretty slick, although now I'm thinking maybe I should have kept the hood blue. Or maybe m...

Another Car Wars car, painted by Yours Truly. Moderately happy with this one.   

Hammer time! This Car Wars model is a bit more weathered than some of those featured in my recent posts.   

Another Car Wars car, this one again painted mostly with contrast paints, coating lightly as best I could. Not a bad result.   

Another Car Wars car ready for mayhem. Retributor Armor is great for ammo belts.   

Another Car Wars roadster, armed to the teeth for autoduelling mayhem. Once again we see slight improvement of my contrast paint application...

And now we come to the Car Wars paint job that pleases me most, Boomerang. I managed to blend some colours, the windows look good, the guns ...

Speedster of the universe! 

I painted Scarab mostly with contrast paints, and I think my application on Scarab improved a little by this point. I'm trying to be ver...

Here's another Car Wars vehicle, the only truck in the set. I'm pretty happy with my paint job here, which includes some rust, grime...

I had the bright idea to paint one of my Car Wars cars uniformly silver. Not so good.    I added a sepia-toned ink wash. I think this is bet...

At first I thought this looked pretty good, but now I think it needs a few more touches--some Nuln Oil on the guns, I think.   

This Car Wars coupe is described as shooting clouds of smoke to obscure the field of battle, so I created some soot effects to dirty up the ...

Another murdermobile for Car Wars. This time around I tried drybrushing a lighter shade of purple over my original dark purple basecoat to p...

"That looks like the Batmobile," Sean said when he saw this photo. That wasn't my intent, but I can see what he means. This pa...

Here's the first set of miniatures for Car Wars, fully painted and weathered to look like they've survived a few battles. 

Another Car Wars model, the Conestoga. You can see that my paint application was still flawed, but I fixed it up a bit by repainting with ac...

Here's another Car Wars vehicle. This one is Kodiak, a burly-looking, brawny beast, and perhaps my favourite of the five I've painte...

I have finally painted a non-wrecked vehicle for Car Wars. I started with contrast paints, but I really didn't like the result, so I pai...