Continuing the Veloce Brio work-in-progress…

I mentioned in a previous post that I had some rules for this model that I wasn’t allowed to deviate from for the sake of verisimilitude, and the biggest one was to try and think like an automotive stylist rather than somebody who designs military/industrial equipment. The second half of that is in choosing colors.

Over the years, I’ve had a selection of “safe” colors that I used across most of my models. Instead of using those, I decided I needed to change things up and do a manufacturer-specific palette for each vehicle. For the Brio, there are 12 colors–6 of them are bright colors, and 6 of them are more toned-down colors. I even gave the colors cutesy manufacturer catalog names.

The bright colors:

And there you have it, the manufacturer-specific palette for the Brio. For each vehicle in this series, I’ll be doing the same thing, and each palette will be different. That way, when you have a whole bunch of vehicles done and you put them on the tabletop, there will be a pleasingly realistic color variance across all the different makes and models. Not all vehicles will have 12 schemes–each vehicle is going to get whatever selection of colors makes the most sense for it.

I’m also in the process of working out a few details with Denny on the subject of releasing this model. I have to stress something right now–this wasn’t originally intended to be an actual release, but it kind of suddenly turned into a full product before I knew it. I pinged him the other night to explain things and asked him what he thought of releasing this model, and he liked the idea. 

He had a few suggestions that I’m still working through, and then there’s the matter of transitioning from the old Ebbles branding to the new.

Yes, I even have a picture for that. Well, two.

I’ve incorporated the official WWG page key and whatnot into my frame templates, which you can see above. I think that wraps up the transition to my new job.

Now, the reason I emphasized the fact that this was essentially an accidental product is because in the future, when I know something is actually intended to be a WWG product, there’s a good chance that I’m going to be posting the Workbench articles for that product on the WWG forum instead of here.