426-Hemi Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 This build, let me tell you............. I had to hurt myself to get it this far LOL BEEN GREAT tho, don't get me wrong! As you all know I love to take my time building, which makes me a slow builder by far..... I have been having a BLAST absolutely no-doubt about it, DOWNRIGHT fun, like you don't know! The design stages of things has to be what I LOVE the most.... its that brain food I guess......Just to see how and where I can "STUFF" of Shoe-Horn things in that would actually be needed for such a build!Something I haven't said, and will now, this build, has been helping me, with a pretty serious issue, that I just haven't spoke of....As you all know, I lost my Dad in March of this year. With that said, he LOVED Christmas, so much that on November 1st, he'd begin decorating the house and would continue decorating the house from November 1st all the way till December 23rd, YES that many lights, statues, figures, you name it, he had it.............. He had an ENTIRE village that goes in the yard to support Disney at Christmas! One entire corner of the yard was dedicated for these, he had I dunno 20 of these "villages" that he'd set up in the yard every year....Over a million lights, and thats not all, inside the house too, was like a damned Christmas decoration shop.....Gaudy, you bet, but. he loved it, and in someways, over the years I have it too, a much "lighter" version of it, and kinda been "stomping" it out and almost blew out that little flame.....WELL Dad & I had a serious falling out over 20 years ago....NEVER spoke a word to each other in that time either until 4 years ago, after Thanksgiving, and before Christmas, my wife was filling out Christmas cards, and each year, we would add a picture of our daughter Lily in the card and mail them to specific family members to get pictures, and there that year was one left, NEVER a year before did a mis-count happen on the number of pictures AND Christmas cards! We always had the exact amount, WELL this year, (4 years ago) I told my wife I wanted that last picture, and that last card, I filled out a note on the left of the card, giving my home phone number, with the picture of my daughter My Dad's ONLY grandchild, and mailed it off......... 3 days pass and the phone rings, and he was in tears on the other end...........Its not fair that he's gone, BUT, I'm glad I made that choice, it made him a happy man, to see his one and only grandchild, and the years from that time opened me up to a way to see, that I am a lot more like my Dad then I EVER gave credit too, this also goes for the Christmas attachment he had as well as I got, just I have a bit of a twisted sense. Those who know.......know just what I'm talking about here....This whole build, my Dad has watched over it, its something I can't explain, but its he's there, I said to my wife the other day in the shop, I wished Dad was alive to see this, and things, just...I know a lot of you out there knows the feeling you feel when you just "know"....I just know, My Dad as a spirit is uplifting that in me and I at times am not even aware of it....BUT I do give him the credit for this build, if it wasn't for him, I don't think the Christmas Spirit would reside in me right now as it does and hasn't been in the past....With it tho, I myself can see a difference in me, with the whole "Christmas Spirit" feeling and deal. Its way more....pronounced now I suppose would be the best way to describe it. So with all that "said" I guess the best way to end/finish that paragraph is, Dad, this ones for you!As far as the details, just toss in a little of the ole "Christmas Spirit" and see where it takes ya.....I've been a model railroader and NORMALLY, I'd be thinking up decoration to incorporate with the trains....Snowy scenes and stuff, kinda like the movie Polar Express really, so.....but why any different approach? The only difference is in the imagination really.....Just transfer it and the scale (size) of what your doing, or planning, like this sleigh, its planned as I went, NOTHING on paper, "Instructions" are really someone elses views on how it ought to be done, ONLY in THEIR own mind!!!!!! Altho NEVER quite as intense as this is, I mean really this model has a lot in to it, design, build, materials, you name it, BUT the enthusiasm I've put forth, just a bit above and beyond what I would have been doing for say a "Christmas Display" of running trains through a village that I made "look" like winter etc, and in some cases with the trains, it would have begun being assembled months ago! So a lot of that is in fact in this build, BUT shoe-horned into a much smaller space!Thanks tho everyone, thats what keeps it interesting, your views on what I've done or not done. One of the many reasons this forum, club is as much fun as it truly is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 So November 26th 2014, this build is COMPLETE! And last but not least, the "Undie" of the whole build.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 A couple of "ADDED" pics. for your viewing pleasure...... My MOTM in the FALLING snow, with an added "bonus"..... CHRISTMAS LIGHTS to go with it...... in the dark, and the "dots" in the picture? ARE REAL SNOW FLAKES! Not often you get to do something like this but it was staged and timed JUST right! Thought, I'd take full ADVANTAGE of this opportunity.... Model "Santa's Hemi----------SLEIGH?????" COMPLETED 11-26-2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) Classic Plastic Model Car Show Entry 2016.... I took this Sleigh and entered it in the "MISC." Category, and Won 3rd place in points! I ALSO took home that same day Best-of "Most Humorous" Model Trophy as well! I was & still am pretty proud of that accomplishment! -Thanks everyone for following along! Edited December 27, 2016 by 426-Hemi Spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 -I'ma ABLE to update! SO I got it all posted, for everyone to see......... Thanks for looking, NOW I'm off to another build to see if I can update it as well! Thanks for looking, comments always welcome....... ENJOY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren B Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Congrats on the trophies they were wellllll deserved, and knowing how much your Dad enjoyed Christmas even better, sorry for your loss by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 Congrats on the trophies they were wellllll deserved, and knowing how much your Dad enjoyed Christmas even better, sorry for your loss by the way.Thanks Darren! I appreciate it, and yeah I still am sorta fighting the loss of Dad, its been difficult as this truly was his favorite time of year and the man simply LOVED Christmas, and I have some of that in me too, thats why I went on to do the build you see here,and to go along with it, he ALSO has that crazy sense of humor you know of too, specially the Christmas "decor" in the sleigh.... -And honestly, I don't mind it either LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterNNL Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Great build!I might have been tempted equip Mr.Claus with a Red fire suit and mask plus swap out his lantern for a can of nitro,but yous still "sleighs"me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 Thanks Tom! I appreciate it man. yeah, I could have, added all that drag racing apparatus, BUT I "HAD" to keep it "Christmas-y" for what it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Gore Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Congratulations on your well deserved trophies. I missed this build in 2014 so I'm glad that it was bumped with this update. Where is the snow track from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted January 8, 2017 Author Share Posted January 8, 2017 Congratulations on your well deserved trophies. I missed this build in 2014 so I'm glad that it was bumped with this update. Where is the snow track from?Thanks! I'm NOT sure I posted it here back in 2014!!!!! As part of the contest rules was not to post it being done anywhere else online! I just recently added this thread as I THOUGHT I had got the thread going last year and could NOT find it not even under my "activity" on my account so...... I just made up the thread and went on to show a couple others here some of my "Crazy Side"....The snowmobile track is off a 1:18th scale Die Cast toy my Step-Son had and when he got older and is on his own now, gave me all that stuff that he had, and the broken stuff, I "re-purposed" with his permission, all the other stuff in tact, I boxed and stored for him maybe some day with his own kids.... The snowmobile was one of such broken toys that I tried to keep as much as I could for re-purposing, the track is all I have used so far from that toy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Gore Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 LOL, I don't know where I got 2014 from.Good use of a re-purposed running gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted January 11, 2017 Author Share Posted January 11, 2017 LOL, I don't know where I got 2014 from.Good use of a re-purposed running gear. I mentioned it in the posting of the build I do believe several times! UNLESS you know the same build from the online forum it was built for (in the contest) and I simply may know you from there, maybe?As for the snowmobile track running gear, yeah, I thought it was a GREAT repurposing of the parts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Now THAT is hilarious right there AND very inventive. Totally awesome work and a BIG congrats to you on the win. Wow!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
426-Hemi Posted January 11, 2017 Author Share Posted January 11, 2017 Thanks Joe! Much appreciated!!!!! Yeah it was something to build I have to say, wasn't an easy task in some of its parts..... BUT the ALL of the wins I've gotten with it to date since 2014, well all that hard work is worth it for the Wins I've taken home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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