PHPaul Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) Hi, Paul from Downeast Maine here. I'm 69 and twice retired. Once from the Navy 1969-1990, and completely in 2012 after a career in various forms of maintenance. As a kid in the Golden Era of Muscle Cars (graduated High School in 1968) I built a lot of 1/24 and 1/32 cars and trucks. As an adult I was into HO scale model railroading for several years. For the last couple of years, I've been building 1/16th farm equipment out of brass and restoring/resto-modding Tonka toys. I enjoyed the scenery and structures part of model railroading more than actually running trains (one reason I got out of it) and this Winter decided to try my hand at a diorama in 1/64 using the Ertl farm toys I've collected over the years. I hope it's okay that I joined for the diorama forum rather than any extensive interest in model cars. I've been perusing the diorama section as a guest and I can already see I'm WAY out of my league here. Fantastic stuff folks! I've already stol...uh..."borrowed" a few ideas. I can post a few pictures of my humble efforts if/when anyone is interested. Edited January 20, 2020 by PHPaul typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatz4u Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 post them now, we are always interested, welcome Paul.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHPaul Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) Since you insist....? Some of my favorites in farm toys. A 1/16 Ertl John Deere Compact kit-bashed to match my 1:1 JD750. Loader and rotary mower scratch built. Backhoe also scratch built. A Tonka truck resto-mod with scratch built snowplow. Current pastime, a 2 foot by 4 foot 1/64 scale farm diorama Edited January 20, 2020 by PHPaul typo and wrong picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatz4u Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 nice work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctmodeler Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Wow those are nice ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHPaul Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Cool stuff! Welcome to the board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Welcome to the forum Paul, some really nice stuff there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modelbuilder Mark Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Welcome you have some cool stuff going on there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramfins59 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Welcome to our plastic playground Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Welcome to the forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldiablo78 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Welcome and have fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterNNL Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Great work. Is the farm a scene from your past? Nice to see a builder working in multiple scales and materials. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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