crazyrichard

nice job tom , looking great !

haha thats cool

thnx guys ad yes the windows might be usable for a outbuilding / shed ... and dont worry james no turtles , ponds or furniture .. or .. hmm i could build a miniture pond beside this servicestation .........................not haha

cooool and awsome build result !!

nice , nice

sweeettt ! really coming together very very nice , love the rust ..

thats a kit i wanted for a while , well the other version especially the more smooth delivery version .. i have this vision of this becoming a true hotrod but awsome to see a kit like this build , these cars really are geourgous cool !

nice tom and yes thats also what we use the table for all those little stuff you cant place anywhere , we have some old coins in there , 2 old silver tabacco boxes from grandfathers that passed away and one of my wife's father that i never knew , he passd away when she was young .. perfect place for all those antiques and memorabilia stuff

perfect nose job

whow awsome job ..

alright so all i will be using of the toy gasstation is the roof , on the pic you can see i cut open the front already , thats still rough.. so the building itself i will build from scratch and use this roof as a base to work on

i take my hat of .... seriously thats one of the best weathered models i have seen in a while . the dullness is just so cool .. really really realistic !!

nice nice nice !

haha thnx guys and yes the chrome really popped , its adds that extra bit realism , hope to do some work on it this weekend and yes arno its is the gamma chrome haha works so nice for all non dutch people , we have a diy store thats is called gamma , and they sell spray cans of silver from the gamma brand .. that stuff sprayed looks like chrome , that stuff sprayed in a bowl is like water chrome , its so thin and just like water .. so easy to let it flow on small parts with a small wooden stick or use a small hand brush and thnx john and whell i'm a self made diy-er .. never learned stuff .. and when in a rare occasion a professional sees my work i was usually like uhhm they must have some negative comments , but no i got reactions like great job .. so thats nice to hear plus diy saves you so much money hahahaha

thnx and whell i just looked on google for inspiration .. the final idea is to make a base building from wood and wood panneling on the outside and use the roof from the one i showed .. the front point roof i want to cut out the front so you can see in there and make wooden beams inside ....

alright i already had the idea to start a gasstation diorama in the future .. whell that future is now because i saw the old toy gasstation i got from some guy 2 years back , it was sitting unused and battered in my sons toy box.. so when he said he didnt play with it anymore i figured why not use that roof , the shape is cool and a great base to build on .. and in the theme of recycle and using all sorts of stuff like i usually do i desided to do a gasstation instead of a nother garage dio

whell didnt do anything to the tudor , but yesterday evening i walked by the closet its in ans realized the window frame needed to be chrome , so i took a thin wooden meat stick and some chrome and carefully put on some chrome , really stands out

from beginning to this .. just amazing .. its sooo smooth

love it , looks way cool

well yes i know what you mean , i always have like a idea and vision , not like a picture but a general line , or when i see something on a picture online i can get something similair going ... my wife really doenst have that imagination and sometimes thinks huh what is this .. but she knows it ususally will turn out good hahahaha btw i was not always like that i got more like this (build stuff and tinker around) at a later age you know what the fun part is and thats something i could not change about myself .. everything i create is done on the fly , on my modelbuilds , the garden , my house , furniture and even the motorcycle , i just start building and really have no clue what i'm going to build ... no drawings , no set plans and i just pick up materials and start ... seems to work best for me .... second part is , i earn a decnt and good living but i dont have the funds to go to the stores and just buy materials i want .. if money was no object i could do so much more .. but ... and yes but .. building stuff for a fraction of the cost people normally spend is just fun like on my house i use all sorts of stuff thats either cheap or for free , when i buy wood i look at the prices and take the cheapest bundle i think i can make work .. that does not mean i dont want to spend but there are more roads leading to ... the garden is really a laugh all the stones and i have like so much i got for free and got out of old stone piles ... i can keep writing examples but whell you catch my drift .. in a way it just so much fun .. an example the secretaire desk i showed ... i was looking at a second hand site where people can put stuff for sale , its hollands biggest site called marktplaats (marketplace) so for 4 months i looked for such a desk , they either asked a lot of money or it was really far away .. so one day i found one 10 minutes driving from my house ..(lol) and i bid 75 euros .. and that got accepted ... when i was done ...i found out if i would now buy such a desk in a store new or in a store vintage and done up like i did i would have to pay inbetween 800 to 1000 euros ... (whow) lets say i spend 10 euro on paint my grand total was 85 euro .. hahaha same with the bike i got that stock , in working order and for its age like new for 350 euro thats about 481,88 us dollar ... parts like legs , front wheel and small stuff where all parts that cost almost nothing second hand , the most expensive part was the new headlight i bought (new) ... so money wise its a laugh and fun wise its just ... so much fun to build something and whell i'm happy when i'm able to hobby around .. but sometimes i get frustrated .. i have like this skin pain on my legss , like 1000 needles are stuck in my skin .. and sometimes doing diy stuff and heavy construction is frustrating because i cant stand too long on a ladder or sit down on the floor .. i have been in and out of hospitals and they could never find anything , the only things they said was i have some musscle strenght loss in my leggs but they cant find out why or how , also did like fitness for my legs at a special palce but it did not get better .. so now i learned to live with it .. its also like good periouds and bad periouds ...and no its not rheumatism ... oh whell enough about that its cool to see you guys like my tinkering hahaha oh and for what its worth this forum has been the biggest inspiration for me on modelbuilding ever , and this forum has lead to me becoming better every time .. so much stuff here thats mindblowing ... !!! no problem and yes the garden is restfull indeed , for me restfull to work in / on .. i cant really sit a whole day in a chair doing nothing hehehe my wife usually says ohh there he go's again , i tend to sit down with here to chill and suddenly get an idea and go do it right away ps i'm a truckdriver (big rigs) and at one point i switched to the technical departmnent (garage) at my work and worked for a year and a half taking old trucks and trailers that where like rusted and looked horrible and stripped them completly , sanded them , new paint and decals , new lighting ... and basicly turned a turd into a .... i have so many pics of those that was like so much fun . but due to economy they closed the garage and now i'm driving a bigrig again .....

thats cool , curious on the build thread hmm i hope she isnt real sick or like .... ? and yes i know , your basement is looking supersharp !! nice work !! btw make sure no nails get under that earobed hahaha then its psst in the middle of the night , me and my wife had that when we where sleeping on one when we where waighting for the new bed to arrive .. we woke up in the middle of the night basicly on the floor and everything hurts

i see well always welcome for coffee i live on number 172 lol

thnx all !! and @ tim boyd thnx and nice story and would be cool to see your pictures and arno >> uuuhhhhmm you are spot on dude !! i live in the willemstraat in ridderkerk hahaha , thats cool you recognised the street !!! how often are you in the neighbourhood then ???? always welcome to drink some coffee or a beer !!

thnx dinky , well the honda in your quote i bought already build like that and just changed some things myself , then i got the urge to do it myself and sold that .. and a lot of people call me handy fun thing is everything is self taught ..i just try stuff

stunning !!