Grumpa
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Very, Very cool custom! I love the rear window treatment and tail lights.
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Beautiful build! Wish it was parked in my driveway!
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Ron, I don't know if I've got it figured out or not!
Here's a photo of the motor that somehow got missed!
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This '32, finished in the spring of 2011, iis the culmination of eighteen months of "on again, off again" work.
I have tried, on two occasions today, to post some photos along with descriptions to "On the Work Bench", but I must be doing something wrong.
Oh well! Here are some photos of the finished product.
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Great looking car. The color combination, along with the choice of wheels, really set this thing off. Looks like it rolled off the pages of "Street Rodder".
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Wow it worked!
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Thanks for all of the great comments Guys! I appreciate them. This is a great site, with some really great builders, and all around great people.
My thanks to Gregg and Model Cars Magazine for doing it up right!
I've gone ahead and opened a "Photobucket" account and will try to add a few more photos of this build. Hopefully this old guy will figure it out.
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What an incredible model John. Your attention to detail is unsurpassed. The frame and engine are by far some of the finest modeling that I have ever seen in any genre of modeling. The fact that so much of the detail will go unoticed once the build is complete is a true testament to your fidelity to realism.
Good Lord man! I can smell the grease and diesel!
I can't wait to see how you handle the flames!
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Patrick I would start by looking around your home town or within five or ten miles outside of town to find some of your inspiration. I've used "FOTKI" as you can type in "Old gas stations" in their search and get a ton of photos to look at. Most service stations from around the thirties forward were built of cinder blocks. so the width of one of these in scale would be around 5/16". If you are going to use a textured material resembling cinder block, you could look at using foam core (around a 1'4" thick)for your walls to adhere the siding to. You can get it at most craft stores. This material is really easy to cut. As to a gas pump, I would look at possibly "Ebay". You could always find one and due it up for Shell or Exxon.
I hope this helps. Mark
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I've got to agree with "Doc Cranky". This is one classy looking Ford. Using the black as a base makes a big difference in this color. Looks good.
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An absolutely beautiful little model. I have to agree with Grayghost that it looks like it just rolled off of the assembly line.
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This build was completed back in August of '09. It is the first 1/25th scale model car that I have built in thirty-seven years. Spent about twenty-five years in the model train hobby. Got out of that and rediscovered my first love. Boy do I wish that I had all of those parts that I had as a kid back in the mid-sixties to early seventies. Oh well.....I've started collecting them again.
This is the Monogram '65 Impala kit. Great kit, and I have always liked the '65's.
The model was built as a daily driver, "Waiting for that special someone" to come along and rescue it.
I had a blast building it. Did some minor scratch building. additions of detail, and modifications. Motor was heavily weathered and the paint was treated to both a light gloss and Dullcoat in areas where the paint would have faded a bit. One thing that I noticed in my research on old '65's. The chrome on the bumpers always seemed to hold up pretty well. So there isn't to much weathering on those. Just a dull coat treatment.
So here are a few photos.
OK! So there are only four photos. Evidently I have exceeded my "global upload quota". Not sure exactly what that is, but this old guy will get one of his "twenty something" year old kids to figure it out.
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This is one wicked rat-rod. There's a rod builder down in Thomasville, NC who builds some really cool looking rat-rods. I saw three of them at a Thursday night get together of hot-rods that has been going on for something like twenty-years in High Point, NC last year. Anyway, if yours was all black, and in the right setting. I would swear that it was 1 to 1 scale. Great work! Really cool!
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Thanks guys for the positive comments. Actually Tony, the dio was built to 1/25th scale. Although the Camaro is 1/24th, the size difference is hardly perceivable, and any way, I had kind of a selfish reason. I wanted to borrow it from time to time for photos and to take to the occasional show.
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This diorama was built to house a Franklin Mint '69 Camaro, and given to my son as a 2008 Christmas gift. As the diecast was a gift as well, I felt that it needed something a little nicer than an AMT display case to display it in. I didn't actually finish it until June of '09, but he did get what the first few test shots show, and a Baggie of wood to go along with it. He's been kind enough to let me borrow it a few times to display at a couple of shows.
I started with an "IMEX", 1/18th scale display case as the inside dimensions are just right for a 1/25th scale garage of this type. The first two photos show the doll house siding that was used and some testing of stain, paint and weathering. As an inch in 1/25th scale equals .04166 everything is pretty much to scale.
There are 181 pieces of distressed, stained, and or painted pieces of wood contained in the structure, and 129 pieces of 1/16, .020 chemicaly blackened brass wire to simulate nails. Each "nail" was touched with the head of a Dremel and flatened out to give a "nail head" appearance. I owe this technique to Chuck Doan.
The tool box, shelving, jack, and a few other details were pulled from the Fujimi garage tool kit. Other details were acquired from some of the great resin casters out there. A great deal of the details had to be scratch built using brass, wood, and several other materials.
Coming from the model train hobby, and having built everything from "N" scale to 1/4", as well as a 1" scale doll house and furniture. I had become very familiar with suppliers of just about everything, but after a thirty-six year hiatus from building model cars. I was amazed at how much this world had changed and what was available to the modeler, but nobody makes a 1/25th scale "Budweiser" can so that I had to do that myself. Oh well!
Some of the manufacturers that were used were. Doll House Miniatures, Northeastern Scale Models, Kappler Mill & Lumber Co., K & S Brass, Fujimi, Grandt Line, Ozark Miniatures, Jim's Printable Mini's, Evergreen Styrene, and several others lost to memory. The internet was used extensivly to pull signs and such. Including the January 2009 issue of Playboy. See if you can find it. Oh, I forgot, "Q-Tips". These were used to pull fibers from to duplicate "cob-webs". Another Chuck Doan idea.
Hopefully I haven't bored you with too much detail.
I hope that you enjoy "Can't Wait".
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Really nice work Junior. Love the completed street scene. As an "X" model railroader I really appreciate what your doing. For what it's worth, aesthetically "A" got my vote.
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Being new to this forum I thought that I would throw a few photos of models that I have built over the last twenty-years or so.
After discovering that I can actually download photos to this forum from my own desk-top files as opposed to having to retrieve them from "Fotki", well that sealed the deal for me.
I've been modeling since around 1964. Built mostly cars up until about 1972 and then took a break....a thirty-seven year break! Actually I turned my interests to model railroading in the '80's and developed a lot of techniques over the last twenty-five years.
Realizing, in 2009, that I would never get around to building a layout, I re-discovered model cars. Boy has the landscape changed since I've been away.
Hopefully I will get a few photos up on, "On the Workbench" and "Under Glass" in the next couple of days of a couple of builds over the last three years.
I hope that you will enjoy the attached photos.
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Great looking '32. Unique color choice, and a definite departure from the usual black or red!
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Awesome wheels! Looking forward to the rest of the build!
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This one has seen one to many New Jersey winters! What genius to take a tin toy car and turn it into this. Incredible!