Pilgrimages To Cadillac Ranch ('53 Seville)

[Dr. Cranky]

Some sweetheart tourists come to Amarillo to get off the road and photo op in neat places . . .

While others get off the beaten path to come check out their favorite year Caddy . . .

And yet for others it's a promise to come check out the famous site before getting into another wreck . . .

Nothing says automobile fun like a Peanut Butter Lid diorama!!! Enjoy.

[Steven Zimmerman]

I've always been told "a good diorama tells a story",I would say you've got that covered!..great job. Steven Zimmerman aka the'Z'man

[Randy Kern]

Virgil, I'm still chuckling as I write this That is a great little diorama! Is that an Alloy Forms Caddie there? I've built quite a few of their metal cars for an H.O. train set-up I built with my son some time ago. Cool!

[Dr. Cranky]

Yep, thanks. It's a little pink one I picked up at Wal Mart. These kinds of dioramas would be good too for Hot Wheels. They are just pure fun!

[dub]

Darn it, Virgil! I try to stay away from B&D because all of the diorama action will divert me from my car building. I want to build a few dioramas to eventually add in to an HO train layout when I finally get the space. Right now though, I have a backlog of cars to build stuck in my creative center that have been waiting too long to come out! Maybe this PB jar lid or even a coffee can dio is the way to quench the dio craving..... What I should be thinking about is a photo backdrop dio for the rods I'm building. The street scene you showed when you finished Frankie is what I was thinking. Anyway, very cool work and good work with the diversions, too!!!

[Raul_Perez]

Very nice work, Virgil!! I prefer small dioramas, and you nailed it with getting it all into a peanut butter lid!!

[Dr. Cranky]

Hey, Dub, my friend, how do you think I started building dioramas. I was building all these model cars and then one day I thought, that's it, I need a place to photo op them . . . and I started building a road with some grass, some rocks, next thing you knew . . . well, here I am building both now. It's all good, right? It's all part of the fun.

Raul, I never throw away the lids to peanut butter containers because I've always felt they make the neatest base.

[Dr. Cranky]

Here's one I had build a couple of years ago that got a few folks building PBLs!

[Raul_Perez]

That's too cool, Virgil!! How many of them do you have built?!

I build a lot of 1:25 "backyard mechanic" dioramas, typically 7" x 9". I sell them at a friend's diecast model store and at the local model shows to help pay for my other obsession, diecast engines and cars. My wife says that she just doesn't understand the attraction of a 1:6 engine sitting on a stand. I don't know any way to explain it to her other than "because it just looks cool!".

Keep building and posting,

Edited January 24, 2008 by Raul_Perez

[Dr. Cranky]

I don't build too many of them. I think this is my second or third. Hey, the fact that you can sell your work is icing on the cake, you know. Well done.

[mr moto]

That is just too cool! Very creative and downright amusing!

[ramonesblues]

That is so cool! I'd love to build one, but I hate peanut butter. Can I use a mayonnaise jar lid? Heh Heh!

[62rebel]

ya know, GI Joe is approximately 1/6 scale... some greasy coveralls, tools and toolbox, and he could be a mechanic standing by his latest build....

one of my OTHER hobbies; trying to replace the 'Joes i destroyed in the '70's.....