Here is the second step of this facade project. Here you can see the process of making many facade details such as cornice, moldings and windows. I used 1 and 2 mm thick grey cardboard for the facade and styrene profiles for the windows. As always, here you have video and pics of the process. [...]
This kit was styled by Gene Winfield for AMT. Gene Winfield, as a car customizer, was well known for movie cars (Blade Runner, Robocop, The Last Starfighter, and some more). He joined AMT during the 60s as a consultant to design kits. This kit is one of those designed by Gene. I really like these [...]
This time I’m starting a whole new project in a whole new scale. I needed a change. I’m building a facade of the world famous Colony Hotel (Miami Florida) in 1:43 scale to display a few die cast cars that I have. Many years ago, we went to Miami for holidays with the whole family. [...]
In this post, I want to show you a heat gun and tell you what this tool is good for. I will also tell you about some applications for this tool, in model building but also at home or in the garage. The heat gun works basically the same way as a hair dryer. It just [...]
Last week my brother Iggy came to visit me. We decided to went to the DAF Museum, in Eindhoven. The DAF museum is small but very nice. The collection is well presented. You have not only cars and trucks, but also real size recreations of the old factory, the directors office and even a small [...]
About two week ago, I decided to visit a Classic Car Market in Switzerland with a friend. Although I don’t live close to Fribourg (and I wasn’t looking to buy any classic car), it was definitely worth the visit! All the “usual suspects” were there, so I would like to dedicate some pics to the rather unusual [...]
Two weeks ago I went to Jabbeke’s model car show “On The Road”. I met lots of great guys over there and I dare to ask some of them if they would agree with taking pictures of their models on my gas station. They are all really friendly guys, so they accepted. The cars were [...]
This is the third and last step of the 3D TV display case project. As I already mentioned on my last post, I wanted to make a barn find and “American Pickers” diorama. American Pickers is one of my favorites TV shows, on History Channel. If you know that my grandpa used to be also [...]
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