BDSchindler Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) I am relatively new to this site and just recently found the Dioramas section here. So I thought I'd share something I built a few years back. First, let me give you a little background on me, I am a former modeler that way back when I was 17, hung up the tools for the sake of a real car and girls. For the last 15 years, I have been an avid diecast collector working within the hobby for several companies such as Lanes Automotive, GMP, Highway 61, Icons, Franklin Mint Danbury Mint and West Coast Precision Diecast. I have also written for Toy Cars and Models Magazine in a standing monthly column "A 1:24 hour Hobby". After that magazine folded, I wrote for the poorly managed The Car Room Magazine. The Car Room Magazine (aka T.C.R.M.) was a great magazine in the beginning. It was owned by a guy that more involved with himself than anything else. I know Joe Kelly for over 10 years and not once did I ever doubt him. After 2 years of "we're not turning enough of a profit to be able to pay you", I quit and took him to court for the money owed (had a contract). When I quit writing and the court case was over with me as the winner of a decent settlement, I started to think about the Diecast collecting hobby and I had a premonition. The following dumpster is filled with representative of manufactures that all ended up with Broken Dreams by going out of business. Diecast cars to represent ERTL 1/18th scale diecast, boxes representative of GMP and Franklin Mint and hundreds of copies of The Car Room Magazine. It was in part therapy as well as a middle finger salute to someone I trusted more than my own brother at times. The dumpster is scratch built in 1/12th scale and the display case is one used to house Basketballs. Enjoy the photos and ask any questions you want... Edited October 30, 2015 by BDSchindler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Wow! The level of detail is spectacular! Nicely done. What are the sources of the bottles, cans, etc. in the dumpster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg K Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 nice work Brian. love the idea of putting the past in the dumpster (along with booz) and making it into a diorama. happy to hear you got a decent settlement too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Great detail, nicely done ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Excellent.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxer Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Was a wonderful diorama to look at all the well done detail. Was great therapy I'm sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim B Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Great details. Nicely done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Pugh Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Wow! That's fantastic!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDSchindler Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 Wow! The level of detail is spectacular! Nicely done. What are the sources of the bottles, cans, etc. in the dumpster? Thanks guys, once upon a time many years ago, I was fortunate to land an intern spot in the model shop for the Transportation and American History Smithsonian Museums. My parents were friends with one of the heads of the Shop when I was 16 (now 57). The cars are actually 144th scale diecast cars that were manufactured by Racing Champions, the company that bought out the ERTL Toy Company and subsequently ran the itself into the ground by overproducing the snot out all scales in diecast market just like they did the NASCAR diecast market. The GMP and Franklin Mint boxes are photo reduced to 1/12th copies of real boxes that both companies packaged their products in. Assorted bottles and cans were purchased from Hobby Lobby over int he Doll House accessories dept. Dogs and Rat were vinyl animals also found in Hobby Lobby...the trick was to heat and bend the Dalmatian's leg that is taking a leak on the stack of magazines without scorching it. The magazines are photo reduced to 1/12th the original size of the covers and spread throughout. There are nearly 500 of the magazine covers in there. The dumpster was made after photographing and measuring an actual dumpster. Made from sheet polystyrene and various shapes were glued then things were heated and "beat up" to look like so many of the modern day dumpsters. Once complete, primed and painted Krylon Green and added the rust details. Some of the rust was actually a metalizing powder that you heat to give an appearance of metal...I just never heated it. After that just dirtied it all up. The decals were stock photos readily available on the innerwebs printed onto white Testors decal paper with a thin coat of fixative applied...once applied, Micro-sol decal setting solution was used to soften and let the decals actually melt to a degree on the dumpster. The fun part was the fictional newspaper that is also on the right hand side entitled "Hookers-R-Us" a Hobbiest Newspaper to Adult Entertainment. Only the fictitious front page was done with headlines like "Tiger's "Woodie" - Is It Stiffer Than his Putter?" and "How To" articles like "Stilettos for the Street!". This idea stemmed from rumors of the magazine reps attending a car show in Monterey and some after hours hi-jinks that took place (I wasn't there, fortunately!). It was great therapy for me as it took a while to shake all of the garbage that took place after I quit the Magazine. So much mud slinging that if one person just simply did the right thing rahter than try to profit from lying and orchestrating more drama than all of the daytime soap operas combined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintagercr Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 That is very ambitious..........nicely done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 WHOA!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie8575 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Well done. Very powerful imagery.Charlie Larkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasser59 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Nicely done. I'll bet that felt good. A good dio should tell a story and yours certainly does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Twister Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Beautiful work and a great story line...Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helix Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Impressive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTalmage Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Thats killer! I bet you wanted to also light it on fire and take a picture after you finished it to top it off LOL!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDSchindler Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 Thats killer! I bet you wanted to also light it on fire and take a picture after you finished it to top it off LOL!!Actually, no...I get more of a satisfied chuckle every time I look at it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominik Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Wow! maybe you place it on a Diorama? it Looks fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyrichard Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 cooool !!! LOVE IT nice trash > most would be picked out before it got dumped i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDSchindler Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 Thanks guys, I really appreciate the feedback. A couple of things I forgot to mention regarding the correlation between The Car Room Magazine and Broken Dreams. The Motto of the magazine was always "For Collectors, BY Collectors" The Magazine was always referred to as "TCRM" in forums...an acronym for The Car Rom Magazine it just so happened that when I created and applied the fictitious name of the refuse company that SUDDENLY some similarities came surging forward perhaps in a Freudian manner See anything similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasser59 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 The dog seems to be looking at the sign and thinking "Hmmmmm..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DumpyDan Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Sad day, but I like what you have done. NICE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTalmage Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 The irony... I was just looking on youtube for stuff on the Munsters Koach and the Dragula... and I stumbled across a video from "the car room magazine" and the guy was talking about the die cast or plastic built up reissues of the two cars... and I kept thinking where have I seen that name before??? oh, yeah, right here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterNNL Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Ironicly very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlueTube Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Brilliant stuff...well done sir!RegardsBrian Kroon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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