PHPaul Posted January 20, 2020 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
thatz4u Posted January 20, 2020 Posted January 20, 2020 post them now, we are always interested, welcome Paul..
PHPaul Posted January 20, 2020 Author 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
PappyD340 Posted January 21, 2020 Posted January 21, 2020 Welcome to the forum Paul, some really nice stuff there.
Modelbuilder Mark Posted January 21, 2020 Posted January 21, 2020 Welcome you have some cool stuff going on there
misterNNL Posted March 24, 2020 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.
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