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[Chief Joseph]

Some 1/24th scale scratch built diorama details:


Windows made using model RR basswood strips and microscope cover slide glass. Security bars, hasp and lock made from styrene. Super simple details compared to what yall are posting here!

Not simple at all!  It takes skill to represent worn and weathered building materials and you have mastered that skill!  These building details look incredible

[Gluhead]

Complexity doesn't necessarily make for realism. Your stuff is out-of-the-ballpark-and-into-the-next-zipcode good, Chuck!

 

Btw, I sent you a pm the other day. I'm betting you've got your notifications turned off. 

[Hollywood Jim]

I love your work Chuck Doan.  I could look at it for hours.

Your one of, if not the best, diorama builders of all time !!

[Harry P.]

Dang! You guys are good! 

 

I can't even begin to compete with some of the stuff I see posted in this thread. For starters, I rarely if ever build entire assemblies, like some of the engines posted here, from scratch. But I do like to scratchbuild details and smaller parts.

 

Tonneau from newspaper dipped in watered down Elme'rs glue, shaped and left to dry and painted with craft paints. The welting is thread:

 

 

Quarter window latches out of bits of styrene, brass and sewing pins. A little out of scale, but as small as I could make them and still have them work:

 

 

The cargo box of this Mack:

 

 

Blanket and tiedowns:

 

 

Seat and seat springs:

 

[Marcus M. Jones]

everything but the transmission is aluminum, 163 individual pieces, and the rear wheels for my Cuda

 

thanks a lot!. you just made me wet my keyboard again with drool.

 

this motor is a work of Art.

Edited by Marcus M. Jones, 03 December 2012 - 07:02 PM.

[vintagedragfan]

Marcus, I appreciate that, there is some amazing stuff on this thread, so many talented people!! gorgeous work by ALL who have posted, Harry got skills too!! beautiful builds Harry!

[MicroNitro]

This is the first thread I look at each day.   Outstanding builders on here.   Here is a Harley drive pulley set I made for a forum members 1/12 Revell kit.

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[AzTom]

Some very well made stuff on here.

 

I just recently started scratch building stuff from brass. Here is a class III hitch and receiver I made as my first project.

 

[crazyrichard]

ooohh m g , some stuff in here is out of this world , some of you guys must be aliens

thnx for sharing its really inspiring
 



here are my hunble things all 1/24-25
 
a sink with tabs
 

 
a drill  and a grind / polisher all made of spare plastics from anything i could use , the polish wheel is from a dremel
with a real drill in there / smalles i could find
 






in the diorama (windows are part scratch)



attic from wood





garagedoor



wooden workbench



wooden table top

Edited by crazyrichard, 04 December 2012 - 04:52 AM.

[Chuck Doan]

Nice work on that diorama Richard!
 
 
Thanks all for the nice words! I can't get enough of the things you guys are posting here. I wish I had a fraction the fabrication skills in plastic and metal shown here. Some great imagination skills too!

[Tired of kit bashing]

Wow! Some really cool scratch build stuff here!Amazing work everyone!

[Roadracer]

This is some very nice stuff here! Thanks for posting!

[John Pol]

Lots of amazing work done I think alot of you guys should do how toos on your scratchbuilding skills. Alot of us can learn from you craftsmen.

 

John Pol

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Some 1/24th scale scratch built diorama details:





Windows made using model RR basswood strips and microscope cover slide glass. Security bars, hasp and lock made from styrene. Super simple details compared to what yall are posting here!

 

That looks great!

[clavender17]

Here are some pics of  my wrecker project....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Randy all i have to say is wow !!

[DrKerry]

Holy Mackerel Randy, that’s incredible !!!
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Ditto that, that is NUTS

[sjordan2]

Some pretty awesome scratchbuilt wheels and tires for a 1/8 '69 Camaro, by a modeler at scalemotorcars.com

 

http://public.fotki....nd-tires/#media

 

Build progress thread:

 

http://www.scalemoto...maro-build.html

[Luc Janssens]

Sure....here a 1/24 scale WWII GMC truck work in progress by my Dad (Eddy Janssens), the cab is resin, the rest is scratch build.

[sjordan2]

A little late on this subject, but Harry, your examples are terrific. I've often wondered If the tonneau I made for my Bentley would have been better in papier-mache, and you proved it.

[DanielG]

Man there are some talented ARTISTES on this forum! 

A pic of the pump that I built for the fire-truck conversion, maybe not my absolute best but by far the prettiest.