Over the years I've built some strange stuff........

[tbill]

This is as weird as I’ve come up with so far, no where near the cool stuff already posted though.

 

[vintagerpm]

Thrust DC3 - LSR vehicle made from a DC3 airplane.

Another DC3 converted into a mobile home.

Steampunk landship made (partially) from a WWI tank.

[DrKerry]

  On 5/6/2020 at 11:48 AM, tbill said:

This is as weird as I’ve come up with so far, no where near the cool stuff already posted though.

 

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Ooooo, I like that Tom!!! That has KOOL written all over it!!!

[Tom Geiger]

Since we’re sharing Deoras....
I started this one maybe 20 years ago, those photos are dated 2002! That’s the backyard of my old house in New Jersey!

I had bought a case of Deoras for the slant six engines. So I had models to burn! This one used two chassis’s for the stretch.

I had been on CAD systems since the early 1980s so I drew this up and the body is actually card stock templates. 

Here’s the stretch. Back then I just lined up the leaf springs, I would’ve done this very differently today!

Edited May 6, 2020 by Tom Geiger

[Pete J.]

  On 5/6/2020 at 11:48 AM, tbill said:

This is as weird as I’ve come up with so far, no where near the cool stuff already posted though.

 

Ok now that is something you don't see every day.  Could have been a foose design.  I remember on Overhaulin that he did a Camaro RS front on a El Camino.  Nice work.

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[Pete J.]

  On 5/6/2020 at 1:50 PM, vintagerpm said:

Thrust DC3 - LSR vehicle made from a DC3 airplane.

 

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Ok, now that is some old tech meets the fertile imagination.  A suck and blow gooney bird.  For those who may take offence at the name that is derived from the affectionate name given the Cessna O-2A given by the pilots who flew them as FAC's in Vietnam. I really like the treatment you gave the rear wheel. 

[Bronzekeg]

some great builds on this thread

[Scott Colmer]

This thread was meant or me.  Lots of very unique stuff. And some familiar ones too. I usually try to do stuff that has not been seen before. This time I'll post some things I don't usually trot out. 

First up - The Ultimate Salt Shaker. A team build from me and Tim Lantz. When it was clear our pink 66 Nova would not get done in time for the NNL, we came up with this. Time got the Nova; I got the salt shaker.

UFO 40 version 1 before it was a UFO, just a fantasy 50s drag racer.

UFO 40 version 2. Once I narrowed the roof, it became the UFO 40. Still unfinished after 25+ years.

The product of the last Rat Plastic Thrash I attended - A one day event. Build a model with only glue and primer using scrap box items. Bring your junk. Build models. Have fun. I was accused of being too detailed.

The Island Girl. Recently disqualified from competition at the DSC. Even though it is a plane based on 49 Ford woody, it was just too far from a car to make the cut. Understandable. I knew it was a long shot. So it is in the display section. 

The Lo-Cal special. A skinny Vette for LSR fun. Still unfinished.

 

Edited May 7, 2020 by Scott Colmer

[DonW]

Wow!

[Lunajammer]

On behalf of Ira Dahm, who drifted off to more important things, but his work should be recognized. Unfortunately, all his great picture threads have been compromised by Photobucket. Still worth looking through his posts.

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/profile/627-ira/content/?type=forums_topic&change_section=1

 

Edited May 7, 2020 by Lunajammer

[cobraman]

Ira built some great stuff.  I wish he was still building and posting here.

[NOBLNG]

  On 5/7/2020 at 3:37 PM, Lunajammer said:

On behalf of Ira Dahm, who drifted off to more important things, but his work should be recognized. Unfortunately, all his great picture threads have been compromised by Photobucket. Still worth looking through his posts.

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/profile/627-ira/content/?type=forums_topic&change_section=1

 

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Wow!!! That Man’s builds are truely AWESOME!

[Scott Colmer]

Ira is kinda one of those unsung heroes of the hobby. He has been writing articles since the way back. His Moon Cube version 4 is what inspired me to make a body from sheet plastic.

It was thrill to get to know him through the Showrods site and talk with him at the NNL West. Ira is definitely one the great original thinkers and prolific builders. 

I recently found a link to his collection. It includes his magazine cars too.

http://www.sonic.net/~joymkrs/Dahm/ACP.html

Edited May 9, 2020 by Scott Colmer

[stavanzer]

The little helicopter that Ray Kurn built. Not to take away from Ray's fabulous build, but I found another build of it, with some History.

http://modelingmadness.com/review/w1/austrian/fosterpkz.htm

Neat Thing.

[vintagerpm]

Another odd ball I've built - Tucker Torpedo LM-GTP kit-bashed from a Jimmy Flintstone Triclopz, Tamiya Porsche 911 GT1, & a Revell CART Indycar.

More pics here.

[DonW]

Excellent Tucker!

But that orange with the Jagermeister logo always works for me,

[Russell C]

Me, I don't see dead people, I see cars that aren't there.  So, I build 'em like I see 'em. And I have a tendency not to keep my cylinder counts on track. Perhaps a person might say my avatar model isn't all that strange in the overall scheme of things ..... but instead that most other wagons just happen to be extra normal.

[cobraman]

I love to see all this crazy weird stuff !

[Tom Geiger]

This was my first contest car built some 25 years ago. I came up with the concept of a VW kit car of a 32 Vicky. I covered all my details as a roadable functional car.

As I thought I should, all the panels opened. I made a tilt nose and added the rear hump off an Anglia. The bucket seats even tilted forward to reveal..

A baby seat I scratch built from a Deora bucket seat. 

There were no details missed, steering column, master cylinder and even a mounted spare tire. The fuel tank was in the nose, filled via the radiator cap and is visible inside the tilt nose. 

 

And a fully wired VW engine.  People were a lot less open minded then. I took this model to shows up and down the East Coast and didn’t even get a third place. 

I was in contests where they gave a trophy to models that weren’t even painted and I couldn’t place!  I asked judges for a critique and got responses like, “Nobody would ever build a car like that!” (At the time one of the cars that was cleaning up at same shows was a 32 with a Ferrari engine). One judge told me they disqualified my car because I forgot to add a battery... um, it’s a VW, battery is under the back seat. My favorite remark from a judge was that my model was disrespectful to Fords and I was lucky someone didn’t smash it!

Back then when I built my first complete and purpose built junked car, I had a guy yelling at me at a show that I ruined a perfectly good kit. My friends and I thought it was pretty funny. They even gave me an award for turning perfectly good kits into junk.

We’ve come a long way!