Sixties Sam

Classy looking Lincoln! Great color, and a good build! Nice work! Sam

It's always good to see another Pennsylvanian here! Welcome! Sam

It's almost done! Here's a shot of the whole diorama. Gotta make a winch on the trailer, and modify the tongue and add a hitch to the truck. Here's the shed area. The roof is aluminum foil, made to look like a standing seam metal roof, then weathered and dented up a bit. I made a jig to emboss the foil to make the seams. It's just two pine blocks, one with a coffee stirrer protruding out about 1/16". and the other with a slot in it. Here it is stamping the foil. Just squeeze it, then index the foil seam to the edge of the block and repeat. The foil is glued onto the plywood roof with spray adhesive. Sam

Another great build of a fifties classic! Looks good! The interior is really nice! Sam

Nice! I like the color, the scoops and the wheels. Great work! Sam

Very nice, Tom. They look real! I did mine today on this barn roof. I cut strips of poster board about 10" long and 3/4" wide, then cut slits every 1/2" to look like shingles. I glued the strips down and overlapped them like you would real shingle tabs. Sprayed them flat black, then a light coat of Rustoleum gray textured paint. The textured paint has white flecks in it. They don't look too bad, I think.

Update: Added a foam base with sawdust "grass", and mocked up the shed area where the old Chevy has sat for years. It's coming along! Thanks for the compliments so far, guys!

I just painted the rims blue. On models with the rims and wheel covers molded in one piece, I spray some body color paint in a bottle cap or pudding cup and use a small brush to paint the outer part of the rim. It's pretty easy.

It's a broken brick holding the wall for photos.

Very nice! I'm glad you saved the derelict deuce! The panel truck and stock roadster are nice, too! You don't see many 32's built stock. Great colors on all three! Sam

Here's one I did a few months ago. Not my best work. The paint was a very old spray can, and came out sort of lumpy, but I was tired of messing with it, so I left it alone.

Nice! That grille is killer, just perfect for the car. This will really be nice when it's finished. Sam

Now there's something different and really cool! Great work! The driver figure brings it to life. Using corn meal = genius! Sam

Outstanding build! You captured the mood of the era with that color choice! Great work! Sam

Love that engine! Great spark plug detail, and the fan belt idea is really good! Sam

Hi, all. A couple years ago a friend gave me this 56 Chevy model he had tried to build years ago as a teenager. I planned to rebuild and repaint it, but it wouldn't come apart (he must have used a whole tube of glue!), so I made it into a junker. I painted the top white, and the body flat black, then rusted it up with rust colored primer and some real rust from a Brillo pad, and smeared a little mud on the wheels, etc. I decided to make a diorama I call "Barn Find" depicting the Chev being winched onto a trailer hooked to a pickup truck behind an old barn where it was found rusting away. The diorama is under construction, and here are a few photos. The barn wall is black foamboard with wooden coffee stirrers for siding, painted red and scuffed up with coarse sandpaper to look weathered. Roof section is plywood. It will get paper shingles. The base will be 3/4" thick foam with grass, dirt, and gravel on it. The trailer will have a winch and cable pulling the car onto it. Windows were drawn in CAD and printed on poster board. Framed them with basswood and glued onto the wall. No openings to cut out! Barn wall is 24" long. Here's a close up of the barn siding. I'm pleased with the look. I hope to have it done for a car show later this month. Comments welcome! Sam

I like your 49 Merc, Tony! Great color and interior! Sam

Cool! Love the 49 Merc's! Great color! Sam

Beautiful! Great finish, and so clean. I like it! Sam

Great save! Looks really good in black and red. Very good work! Sam

That is great work! It looks real and makes me want to be in the garage working on a car! Excellent details and realistic weathering on the outside. Sam

That's a beauty! Great work! Good looking planes in the background too. I fly R/C too. Sam

Now there is some modeling history on wheels! Great old kits! Sam

Great looking model! I built one of those Lotus Ford kits back in the day. It was green with yellow trim, I believe. Sam

Great truck! I like the color, and the hinged bed cover. Nice work! I missed the Vietnam experience. when I came out of high school in 1967, they still had draft deferments for college. I went to Penn State. When they went to the birthday lottery system, I drew number 350. I admire anyone who served there. Lost a classmate to a land mine in 1969. Sam