The Hollywood Garage

[Mercman]

That was a color wheel for lighting up your Christmas Tree. It came with red, blue yellow, and green if I remember right. It was also used in car shows to highlight some of the radical Kustom builds.

Your small details like the bug sprayer, and such are absolutely genius.

Back in 57 we didn't have a garage our car sat outside.

Edited December 31, 2012 by Mercman

[Harry P.]

A Christmas tree color wheel! It was used to give color to those shiny aluminum Christmas trees that were oh-so-stylish in the '50s and '60s! My friend who lived two houses down had one of those silver Christmas trees with the color wheel back when we were kids. Pretty cool stuff back then...

[Hollywood Jim]

Right guys !!

Yeah, we had one of those silver Christmas trees. It was made out of tiny strips of aluminum foil type stuff. Too cool !!

Sounds crazy, but I want another one. I'll bet one with a color wheel would sell for big bucks.

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[southpier]

contained 5% DDT

[Dr. Cranky]

Enjoying this one quite a bit.

[Ira]

GREAT BUILD JIM!!!

Real Nice Detailing...

[gasser59]

Me too. Love the rotating color wheel. I'd like to find one that still works. Are you going to have a beat up cardboard box for the tree too?

[vaughn]

Cool stuff going on here Jim !!!

[Danno]

Cool stuff going on here Jim !!!

There's always cool stuff going on in Jim's head!

[Hollywood Jim]

Thanks for the compliments guys !!

OK, this one was difficult. I wanted to make a push lawn mower. Some very strange shapes involved.........

Come on dude !! Drop the beer and get to work on that lawn..............

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Edited January 1, 2013 by Hollywood Jim

[gasser59]

Hey Jim, that turned out awesome. It will look really fitting once its painted white. What's next?

[Hollywood Jim]

Hey Jim, that turned out awesome. It will look really fitting once its painted white. What's next?

Thanks !

During the next week or so I'll be building small items to put into the diorama. Boxes, tools, junk, etc.

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[Dr. Cranky]

Super cool scratch-building. Nice detail to add to the dio. Cheers and happy 2013.

[Hollywood Jim]

More done today:

Boxes

Rags Etc. Kleenex and white glue. And material and white glue.

Boxes of junk.

Boxes of tools.

The reason this guy can't find time to work on his hot rod is because he has to fix toasters and stuff like that !

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[Dr. Cranky]

So far so good. Very cool, Mr. Hollywood.

[Hollywood Jim]

I made some more junk.

An old style drill.

I made a saw.

Here are some things I've been collecting, all painted off-white.

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[Chas SCR]

Man all I can say is you are the King of the Diarama stuff! wow

[outlaw035]

jim u rock...i lov'n this dio....

[gasser59]

That stuff rocks Jim. You need a couple of old fishing poles too.

[Nitro Neil]

This is going to be great. Can't wait to see it finished.

[vaughn]

Looks great Jim. What are you using to make your junk and stuff ?

[James2]

Good Stuff!

[Hollywood Jim]

That stuff rocks Jim. You need a couple of old fishing poles too.

Thanks !!

Hey a fishing pole is a great idea !!

I made one a few years ago. Now I'll have to dig through some boxes and find it ! ( It might take me longer to find it than to build another one.. LOL )

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[Hollywood Jim]

Looks great Jim. What are you using to make your junk and stuff ?

Thanks !

I use plastic, I have lots of different Evergreen shapes and sizes.

I use wood, I found a bunch of model railroad lumber at a junk store.

I use paper. Lately I have found paper and cardboard very useful. Like breakfast cereal boxes. It is easy to work with, can be bent around curves and glues and paints up great.

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[Hollywood Jim]

Starting to place some junk around to see how it might look........

I tried some shading on the workbench.

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