Junkyard Diorama

[Model Junkyard]

Hi everyone!

We are working on a huge Junkyard Diorama project (1/24), including lots of cars, a barn, a gas station, and lots of other stuff.

My brother and I started a website to share our work with all junk fans.

I invite you all to visit our Website, you can download some nice Wallpapers for free.

You can also see some of our work in a new gallery I created on the forum as well!

We are always happy to meet other model car fans to exchange ideas, tips, etc.

Just mail us!

Cheers,

Seb & Iggy

Edited June 21, 2010 by Model Junkyard

[Jim Gibbons]

Very nice work! I never though that I'd tell someone on this board that their models looked like junk, but for you guys, I'll make an exception! Your website is great, too. Welcome to the board, and looking forward to seeing much more of your "junk!"

Cheers,

Jim

[modeler]

nice concept

[Model Junkyard]

Very nice work! I never though that I'd tell someone on this board that their models looked like junk, but for you guys, I'll make an exception! Your website is great, too. Welcome to the board, and looking forward to seeing much more of your "junk!"

Cheers,

Jim

Well, you're right! In this case that's a great compliment!

Thank you!

nice concept

Thank you!

Here is one more picture of our work:

Edited June 21, 2010 by Model Junkyard

[Model Junkyard]

Hello guys,

We have been working on the diorama the last weeks. We have a new car, a '34 Ford, and we were trying things out on how to make the base plate.

Here you can see:

[Chuck Most]

Always, always, ALWAYS love to se the model Junkyard stuff! Keep it coming!

[Jim Gibbons]

Very cool...I like the way the upholstery is torn up. I'm also a junkyard junkie; when I was a kid, there was a small one about a mile down the road I'd ride my bike to with my friend and wander through. There was an old Renault Dauphine my friend and I would sit in and pretend to drive. One of the saddest days in my childhood was riding the school bus home, and seeing a crusher emptying the whole yard and shipping it away. I haven't been to one since the early '80s when I rode with my friend to get parts for his '56 Buick. They had a great selection of late '40s to early '60s cars. There were many intact and restorable cars there, but you would have needed a helicopter to get them out of the woods. I peeked in the glove box of a great pink and black nearly rust free '56 DeSoto, and there was the owners manual! I still have it. There was also a pretty good '59 Chevy Impala convertible in silver with a red interior that would have made a great restoration project, as it had a surprisingly small amount of rust considering it was a northeast car. Thank goodness for the internet, and model dioramas like yours; I can wander through these junkyards at will.

[Eshaver]

Hummmmm, from the look of the pictures , I would say ya'all be in North Texas towards the New Mexico border . It's starting to get sparse there as in terrain , trees , and off in the distance , you can see the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountians . I miss my home folks ........... Ed Shaver

[george 53]

Geeze, watta loada junk!! Nice job, VERY junky lookin!You guys got this kinda junk there?

[Model Junkyard]

Hey guys, thank you for the great feedback!

@ Jim Gibbons.

Believe me, I know exactly what you mean. I got the news this week, from my uncle, that he sold the entire Grandpa's junkyard a few months ago. The crusher machines where there and they took everything away!! As the junkyard is 14.000 kms away from where I live now, I don't get there very often (last time 3 years ago). Luckily, during one of my last visits, I made an intensive professional photo session of the grandpa's junkyard. At least I have great pictures now. I will create a section for grandpa's junkyard in our website. We loved to play there (my brother, cousins and I). We will recreate some of the scenes of grandpa's yard in our model junkyard project. I'll keep you all updated.

[DRG]

I never could understand taking a new model and making it look like a piece of junk. But I must admit that you have done a very good job of it.

Simply proves that one mans junk is another mans treasure.

But to junk a 1940 Ford????

[dannyi]

...what a great start on what I know will be a great looking dio! Your rust and weathering techniques are spot on. Look forward to following along with the progress.......keep posting!!

[Model Junkyard]

@prg5609: ...junk cars are a passion. Passions are -in most cases- not logical. Sometimes, when starting some models it "hurts" a little to junk them. But afterwards we love the result.

You know, we have been building car models for a long time as show room stock cars. At some time we got bored and started trying new things.

@dannyl: Thank you for your feedback! this is a long term project, I'm happy that you want to follow us!

I had a look at your website. Very interesting stuff! We might order something...

Edited September 14, 2010 by Model Junkyard

[dannyi]

@dannyl: Thank you for your feedback! this is a long term project, I'm happy that you want to follow us!

I had a look at your website. Very interesting stuff! We might order something...

[David G.]

I never could understand taking a new model and making it look like a piece of junk. But I must admit that you have done a very good job of it.

Simply proves that one mans junk is another mans treasure.

But to junk a 1940 Ford????

I've had the pleasure of helping to restore several 1:1 cars that started out looking like (or worse than) the Ford in question. To this day, any time I see one of these old "junkers" setting on a lot or in a field, my mind begins to race with all the possibilities. There's a sort of high that comes from tearing into one of these old junker-gems that you just can't get in any other way. Anybody who's experienced this rush knows what I'm talking about.

I've built a few models in this manner, and to me, a build like this tells two stories. One story is the long, difficult road traveled by this car: The other, its potential rebirth as a hot rod, customized cruiser, or just a complete factory-fresh restoration. I also find the "junkers" a bit more realistic than the hyper-polished, graphic-intensive super-custom builds. They're even a bit more real to me than the clean "factory stock" builds, though I've built kits in all three forms and enjoyed each one.

So when I see a model built as a junker, I see the gritty miles of years of hard service, and the excitement of all the possibilities yet to come! It's just another point of view.

Regards,

David G.

Edited September 16, 2010 by David G.

[Model Junkyard]

I've had the pleasure of helping to restore several 1:1 cars that started out looking like (or worse than) the Ford in question. To this day, any time I see one of these old "junkers" setting on a lot or in a field, my mind begins to race with all the possibilities. There's a sort of high that comes from tearing into one of these old junker-gems that you just can't get in any other way. Anybody who's experienced this rush knows what I'm talking about.

I've built a few models in this manner, and to me, a build like this tells two stories. One story is the long, difficult road traveled by this car: The other, its potential rebirth as a hot rod, customized cruiser, or just a complete factory-fresh restoration. I also find the "junkers" a bit more realistic than the hyper-polished, graphic-intensive super-custom builds. They're even a bit more real to me than the clean "factory stock" builds, though I've built kits in all three forms and enjoyed each one.

So when I see a model built as a junker, I see the gritty miles of years of hard service, and the excitement of all the possibilities yet to come! It's just another point of view.

Regards,

David G.

David, your words could be 100% my words.

What you describe is exactly what I feel and think about the junk model cars!

Thank you for your post!

[ronr]

Excellent work, I will be watching this one very close. Weathered and rusty autos are a passion of mine. I love to see them look real instead of shiney.

[vaughn]

Great work...reminds me of some junkers in Alabama out in a field where we use to play as kids and thought there were ghosts that hung out there. Great stuff.

[Model Junkyard]

@vaughn: it's quite similar for me. Lots of childhood memories are connected to junk cars. If you subscribe our newsletter you'll get many of these stories. We are building some of those memories in scale models. Some kind of memories materialization. It's cool.

@ronr: I had a look at you pics. You have great stuff there too! I love the junk pick up with the tree and the gas station diorama.

I'll be building a model of that classic texaco gas station soon for this 1/24 diorama. I saw you have a picture collection of texaco gas stations there. I love those gas stations as much as classic cars. One day I will build a gas station replica on real size, close to my house, just to have the cars and all my hobby-stuff there.

For the '57 Chevy 1/16 diorama I already scratch build this texaco gas pump:

[Chuck Doan]

I like that pump, and the your junked cars too! It will be interesting to see the scene come together.

[The Modeling Hermit]

You're very talented and detail oriented. I've spent many years hanging around my uncle's junk yard, and I can say that you've captured the look quite well.

[Model Junkyard]

You're very talented and detail oriented. I've spent many years hanging around my uncle's junk yard, and I can say that you've captured the look quite well.

Thank you for the kind words!

[imatt88]

I love old junkers and relics in farmers fields!

Are you guys planning on adding a forum to your website?

Cheers, Ian

Edited November 21, 2010 by imatt88

[Model Junkyard]

I love old junkers and relics in farmers fields!

Are you guys planning on adding a forum to your website?

Cheers, Ian

Hi Ian,

We love that too.

We recently added a Blog to our website where we'll be sharing not only model cars but also pictures of real cars, specially junk cars, barn finds, etc.

You can visit the blog here: http://blog.modeljunkyard.com/

[Eshaver]

Seb, I saw ya at Primarily Petrolinia .......... Nice work. Ed Shaver