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Some of you may remember the build I did of the Norman E. Timbs special......if you do, I will spare you the gory details, if you did not see it, just look it up....it is in the forum somewhere. After the car was complete, and I thought I was "done" screwing around with it an idea popped into my head one day. During the research for the build I read many stories and saw many pictures on the life and almost death and finally the rebirth of this unique vehicle. Well, the idea was that I could "replicate" the different stages of the car and bring the static pictures to life in a diorama, well, actually three dioramas depicting three distinct stages in the life of the car. Picture one is the birth of the car. I had viewed the picture of the Timbs special sitting on the trailer out in front of Norman Timbs house as it was being taken over to the metal fabricator who was about to form the aluminum panels over the wooded buck he had built of the swoopy shape he has designed. In the upper left you see the actual picture of the buck on the trailer. We "airbrushed" out the buck from the picture, blew it up and added the actual model I made from balsa wood of the buck. The model was painted in tan and gray tones to match the black and white photo of the buck. The model "Pops" out of the scene giving it a three 3D look. In the second diorama, I modeled the car the way it looked as it was found abandoned in a California junk yard. Again you can see the actual picture in the upper left and not yet visable below it is the model. Here is the model of the car as it was in the junk yard. And finally in scene three, here is how the car looked as it was presented in 2010 in the Amelia Island I designed, and my brother created the artwork for the grill and front and rear bumpers that was photo etched for this build. Not visible here, but under the long back of this car is the complete chassis and resin Buick Straight 8 engine, This diorama has a motor hidden in the base with a remote control unit to raise and lower the back of the car, just as the real car has........but the batteries are currently dead, and I am out of fresh ones, so if you want to see the engine and chassis, all scratch built, look up the other posts of the car and you can see it is excruciating detail. P.S....if you look at the old postings and your eye are sharp, you will notice that this is a different body to the original model I built. I was not happy with the windshield and the interior color, so I rebuilt the body and made a better windshield and used the correct color for the interior.