crazyrichard

i really wondered how this kit looked inside , almost bought this online .. so gonna follow this one for the price i could buy it .. hmm is worth the money just for the engines .. awsome movie btw that this is insane

whow , very nice build thread !! ,

actually i did improve some things on older models .. can be really cool imo

thnx blair much apriciated love your work also , so

started on the "promised" details , the graveyard .... started some dressing up , tried to use stuff that gives a old feel and also maybe more agricultural the glue was not dry and some paint was just aplied on the pics so thats what is shiney , that will dry up .. placed the barrel , a ford rear fender , old iron bend plate (is actual metal) , old iron wheel thing , old rack close up again shiney will dry up , the bung added in the barrel

oh whow i need that !! would save a ton of sawing !! , i still use a small saw , special for modelbuilding , but its got no handle ...

haha thats cool !! love the stuff spread out in front

yes i use paint stirrers also usually as a base so i have something steady and thick to work on

yes i understand this was my first one out of brass and my one goal was to make it not to modern looking , i didnt google for old oild barrels but i reconed i use loose trips .. that to me fitted better in the old way .. i did thought about trying to make a real tight and modern one some day !!

thnx guys !! and thnx brad , my english is pretty good , but sometimes i just dont know how to call something lol , not often but sometimes ... this was one of those times , i will try to remember this , bung hole ..... and manny thnx !! and yes you are right ... i do feel there is still fresh meat .. when i sometimes go to a bog modelstore i do see kids who buy or want to go in with their dad and are like whow look dad ... my son is 9 years old and from his own birthday money he bought a revell snap tite kit of a corvette .. he really wanted to and it was not real cheap .. so i asked a few times are you sure ?? , yes yes ....he said .. whell the kit is still unbuild .. i said we can sit down and build together .. you do the work and if you ... but you know he seems enthousiastic but in the end he needs to come and say i'm gonna build it or dad want to help me .. if i force him to sit down and do it that not the way i guess ... he does build like crazy on lego's , he has a hudge box full , a lot is my old lego and a lot is new .. he still buys new lego .. and is pretty creative .. in my opinion lego is a bot stepping stone towards modelbuilding ....you need to be creative if tyou want to build something not out of the box .. so for now ....his revell box is collecting dust .. i think and hope in a while he will get into it .. not going to push him , everybody needs to findtheir own passion now this made me think of myself , i'm 38 years old .... back when i was like 8 i went to the modelstores with my dad , my dad doesnt build kit but he builds ships from cartboard and plastic , all scrapp stuff , he build a whole harbour .. he works oin a big harbour crane himself and my dad owned a ship back in the days .. i even lived on a ship when i was a baby till 4 years old .. but going to the modelstores with my dad , and i cant remember a lot from the past in detail but that i do , that gave me a magical feeling all those cars and models and ... that was just special , i think a lot of kids get the whow factor in a shop.. the atmosphere and all .. so the man in the shop on 2 occassions gave me a simple small kit for free , that was the way back then to get young people enthousiastic .. i cant remember what type of kits they where but i do feel i glued it together like kids do hahahaha so in a rare occasion a few years later i glued the parts of a plane kit together that ended up in the trashcan ... never did i really started building .... when i got married .. and my son was a baby .. so 9 years ago i drove a kawasaki motorcycle .. and neir here was a small hobby supplies shop (sadly its gone now) with a backroom full of modelkits .. so i bought a bike raceteam truck and whell it didnt became much ...... but after a injury i was at home for like 8 months and was bored so i bought a few cans of foam like building insulation foam.. put boxes on a plate and sprayed mountains and painted them like rock .. added trees .. and to be hounest that wasnt half bad .. (no pics)... my whole life i lived in apartments like high build , always dreamt of a house with a garden and one day me and my wife bought this house .. from good old 1928 (i love old houses) , big garden (for dutch standards) a shed .. in that shed i kind of tinkered on motorcycles and one day i got a 1/18 die caqts car a packard .. and since i got stung with the hotrod virus , helped by the internet , because when that came a whole new world opened ... and i made a hotrod out of that found a dutch model forum ... people loved it and from there i bought a few die-casts in 1/18 and i re build them with altered bodys and new paint .. learned a lot of that .. on that forum i found the plastic 1/24 -25 kits so awsome and one day i bought myself a 1/25 ford kit and build my own hotrod .. then i was sold and became styrene addicted haha now what i always have had is when i see other people do stuff just by seeing and inspiration i fairly quackly pick up things .. and in a short time people reacted really enthousiastic on things i build ...that in turn gets you more enthousiastic yourself , like i must be doing something right lol in a short time i learned a lot and got more into building .. untill i found a dutch guy who builds garage dioramas , called wilco's dioramas .. i went nust seeing that and desided to start my own garage .. then found this website and this site .. lets say i am thankfull that i found this because what i saw here .. most dutch people are not really into hotrods or .. most like modern cars , trucks and a lot of army stuff .. here a whole new world opened , all the rods , dios , musscle cars etc ... some builders here inspired me and then ...i just kept building and building so really building hmm maybe i'm really a modelbuilder now since 2008 .. and i'm 38 years old .. so there is hope that older people also will keep this hobby alive haha

haha whell yours is out there i can tell you that , just stunning ...

awsome build . just love it !!

thnx thnx here is the drum in daylight .. maybe add a round filler opening ... took 2 pics in the garden today , to bad most of the time there is always something in the pic that gives away the scale , but when i will shoot on location in the nature park i think i will be able to make cool shots with nice farsights

hmm looking very promising

i got a roll of brass plate , superthin from a friended builder and since i want to try and work with brass in the future , like make chassis and parts i thought lets try to make a drum out of the brass plate it did not have to be perfect because it needed to look a bit old , so that made it more easy the roll first red paint and a wash of brown , will add some stuff to it tomorrow also gave the fence a coat with pigment powder , really looks better now imo total vieuw

found some small gravel , it was in a jar and ment for interiour stuff like to put in a glass for ...?? lol i thought its better off becoming a bit of random gravel to my small gate in the fence , made it so it looks it slightly went on the concrete also a great spot to take pics of modelcars .. so i think i will not stuff that earea full ...maybe some stuff along the fence .. on my big garage dio i made the fault of wanting to put in to much and then there was little room for actual cars lol

whouw !! thats all i got to say oh no i lied also something like > awsome !! haha

awsome !! just stunning !!

nice !!

nice tom !! and thnx guys !! made a logo in the sign and weathered the pole and sign under the round sign i can place a dquare sign so tom you where spot on close up overall vieuw the corner on the dirt will be dressed next , make a outhouse there

thnx guys and this is 1/25 scale ... and yes with the trees it looks great , when its finished i will take it to like a local park , its more nature and nice and rough .. there i want to try and make pics just like the well known guy with the awsome dio photography or at least try to make some pics a bit in that style .. wont be as good but .. started the commercial pole ? how do you call that , found a big tyre and thought whow that would be awsome to use .. bit difefrent from the usual , i could use an old tyre logo ... also gave the soil a wash and gave the bushes / weeds the same yellow tone as the grass

thnx guys and whel no because in some weird way scale persons tend to make it less realistic , maybe later on but if i do i want quiality miniature people not those fake ones could be cool though i think if you liked the previous pics you love these i took some outside today and on 2 the sun was shining. pics are made in the garden , when its done i will look for a nice park and make pictures there .. without the sun (went away as quick as it came lol) but this really shows the colors and tints real nice the dirt , man i was amazed just ground out of my garden mixed with wood glue and now its dry and its dark again , its sealed and is fixed tight , imo it looks great the grass is made more yellow and somewhat dead with oil paints the idea is to add old parts in teh dirt along the fence , some old knackered tyres , some stuff under a tarp .. and just dress up that corner real nice in the corner i do want to make a toilet outhouse , would look so cool hahahaha

nice idea !! it made me think back of the awsome hollywoord dio here and when you place a colored item / car in that really pops building looks great !

thnx brad .. i must say its been so much fun .. starting to really come together now already cant waight to start a new dio lol gave the fence a wash with brown oild paint and put some weeds around the fence and grass .. maybe i will make a little outhouse on the dirt in the corner haha

thnx blair !! whell i think i finally found the perfect set up for the corner !! took soil from the garden and mixed that with wood glue , hope it will work , i think it will , made it higher along the fence and low at the gate ... did the grass with oil paints and made it more yellow , like its ....half dead ? added the pole and painted the concrete strip the car will sit beside the pole as a sort of commercial piece , i think i will make a sign or logo on the side with the bodyparts like wings and hood they got a coat of valejo rust pigment powder on a thin wet coat of brown paint a better vieuw of how it looks irl the fence will get some washes this is just the base coat