kruleworld

it's not impossible to strip the time machine stuff off a Aoshima BTTF kit. here's mine for some reason i built the chassis for it. it's almost a model in its own right.

moparmagiclives i like the way you captured it to look like cast iron (whether or not that was intentional) it looks very good.

it's not a good idea to drive through alabama with Liberal messages on your car. i don't know how i'm going to do Hammond's dodge pickup, since no 91 dodge ram has ever been released in plastic or diecast. nearest i can find so far is the old 70s little red dodge pickup.

Finished the first in this episode, May's Cadillac. This was rebuilt from a revell cadillac off my shelf that i'd built a few years ago. i stripped it down and repainted it dark blue with a semi-gloss vinyl roof. i polished it before reassembly and added the handpainted graffiti and printed some number plates to finish it off.

looks like you have quite the eye for good modeling. John, Fuji cameras have a macro function (look for button with a flower on it) which will help take photos of close up. here it's the bottom button:

That will look great on a diorama. good way to save an otherwise junk model. your rust looks good but needs some color variation to liven it up a bit (some dark rust around the holes and where the moisture tends to collect),. that will stop it looking like dried mud.

Bonekrosha, you should try your hand at bodywork, all you need is a scrap body, sandpaper and some body filler. here's the charger with green paint. i'm not sure if i want to build the rest of the factory bodywork, like the inner fenders. unlike the 69 charger, the 3rd gen are a much more complex shape.

The imperial looks good and i love the way you did the Riv roof on it. I'm also glad you're doing it in black.

mightily impressive chassis there. i agree,shame to cover it.

you didn't show us the front, but everything else looks pretty spot on. should be good when redone. also that galaxy looks the biz

well done and a worthy trophy, which obviously had a lot of work in it. the real one

it's actually a model i'd like to see done as a 1:1 car. I like it how it is with the wheels and rake.

nicely done. i like the dice on the mirror. paint could use some polish but is a neat design and it's well photographed. and a tip for next time, sand off the seams like the one running along the top of the front fenders.

looks good. that'll look good once polished up.

Street Charger is a 1/16 73 charger that was recently reissued. I'm returning the body to a more factory style. Started here, trying to fill the wheel arches. rear seems pretty easy, but i think the fronts will be harder. i've been using the AMT 71 charger as a guide. i made a strip of styrene that i filed to create the angle of the factory wheel arch, but it's kinda hard to see it here. Reworking the front wheel arches. i've backed it off with a thin sheet of styrene and did the new line, then filed off the flare with filler, then later add an arch strip like the rear. after filling to the correct shape, i tapered the edge, then glued a lip made from styrene. Mockup with the kit tire Ready for some paint. i'm thinking lime green with a black stripe.

i'm not much into lowriders, but that's eye catching one. a nicely built model and the paint is excellent. you might want to rethink the BMF idea, tho. the paint looks dull compared to the kit chrome.

the mini from Bourne. front/rear bump bars were made from paperclip wire, tarp roof was made with masking tape. one panel was painted matt black and had a hole drilled for the missing indicator. number plate was printed from screen capture.

i built this 1984 Toyota Corona Wagon, as owned by my father before he died. it was made as a tribute to him as my mum wasn't happy to see it go after we sold it. I used the Aoshima kit, but it is a sedan, so i lopped off the roof and rear and used styrene to build up the wagon shape. the colour was mixed by the local crash repairer to the factory code to repaint the hood, so i used the left overs for the model. If you want to see building here http://www.thepartsbox.com/BB/viewtopic.php?f=251&t=3008

This is my 86 Hyundai that i owned about 10 years ago and the model i built of it as a memento of my old car. the model is an Academy curbside kit that i had a job to track down. decal is home printed

This movie from 1987 is a bit forgettable with it's story about robot wives that only have spare parts in the middle of a deserted forbidden zone, but the Mustang that Melanie Griffith's character drives is quite distinct. I had a AMT 65 mustang hardtop languishing in my junk box, so i decided to use it to make this car. At some point it's roof had been cut off and had been glued back on, so it's a bit of a junker. it was already red, so i didn't bother to repaint it. i just added the black 'burn' to the front half and the stripe across the top. i also scratchbuilt the front and rear 'bumpers' complete with winch. I also added the big tires (from the amt 73 mustang kit) which meant i needed to raise it up. rather than rebuild the chassis (which is all molded in one part) i simply added spacers to raise the body away from the chassis. i also sprayed some 'dust' across the rear. to do, i just need to finish up the weathering and photo it outside. imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/ a pic of the front and rear 'bumper'

My collection of models is quite large, so i thought maybe if i restricted myself to one subject (tv/movie star cars) it might help. it doesn't. if you can find an obscure subject, there's not much you can't model. This truck should have a covered spare wheel, which apparently is in the 37 panel kit, Does anyone have a spare one or not used theirs?

The 37s i decided the truck featured in ST:Voyager episode 'The 37s' . They find it floating in space, apparently taken from earth in 1937 and belongs to a farmer who was kidnapped by aliens. The truck is presented in the episode as a dirty, maybe rusty old vehicle, but they were kidnapped in 1937, so the truck should have been brand new, but then again, they say it's been floating in space for 300 years, so maybe the exposure to radiation caused the paint to look flat? unfortunately, no model of the 36 ford pickup is available, but revell has a 37 ford pickup. it's built box-stock, but i added acrylic weathering paints, which also took the gloss off the paint (quite nicely). The base is a diecast left-over base, i painted it in voyager's colours... primer grey and then did the center section in galmet beige paint.

of course, you might want to resize to 800x600 BEFORE you upload to flickr. if you use, bleah, Internet Explorer, right-click the image and choose 'original', then right-click image and choose 'properties', in the URL tag, right-click and choose 'select all', right-click again and choose copy. then here press the image button and paste (ctrl-v). (ugh, ie is so messy).

looking at flickr, you can only hotlink photos of those that offer 'Original' as the size in Firefox, right-click and choose 'copy image location', then here press IMAGE box and paste (ctrl and v key (ctrl-v)) testing

for that, you get an old issue of Dukes Hazzard with the 500 rear window, and a coronet front from modelhaus.