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Old Gas Station Diorama – #5 & #6 – Vintage furniture and Oil Rack – Styrene scratch building [blueprints + video]

February 22, 2013
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I’m making progress building the details of my gas station diorama, this time the office furniture and an old oil rack. All pieces seem more complicated than they really are. It took me only a few hours to complete all pieces (3 chairs, one table, one oil rack). The most difficult part is bending the […]

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Old Gas Station Diorama – #4 Pylon Sign – Styrene scratch building [video]

September 7, 2012
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This time I’ll be adding a nice detail to the Gas Station Diorama: a pylon sign. Somehow I love pylon signs and neon signs. There will be more signs coming in the future. That’s for sure! Anyway, here you have a few pictures of the sign, but I recommend you to watch the video to […]

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Old Gas Station Diorama – #3 Garage doors hinges [video]

August 23, 2012
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One more and last step to make the garage doors: the hinges. The challenge here is handling the small pieces, the accuracy needed in order to make the hinges work properly and look right, and finally the amount of hinges you’ll need. Take it easy and try first making a few hinges before making the […]

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Old Gas Station Diorama – #2 Garage doors tracks [video]

August 20, 2012
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Here I’m again with more details on how to build your vintage gas station diorama. This time it’s about the tracks for the overhead garage door. This looks more complicated than it really is. If you watch the video carefully a few times you’ll realize it’s only a few steps and only a few pieces. […]

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Old Gas Station Diorama – #1 Garage doors [video]

August 9, 2012
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Hello guys, a few weeks ago we released our new ebook on hot to build an old gas station diorama from scratch. Now I’m working on the bonus material with more info and tips on how to build many details of the diorama. On this video you’ll see how to build the garage door panels […]

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From our Readers – Doug Wilson’s 1:10 scale Radio Control outdoor diorama will blow your mind!

September 4, 2012
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We love to stay in touch with our readers. Doug Wilson is one of our truest followers. He is not only a passionate scale model builder, but also a radio control fan. He combined all his passions in building his great -one of a kind- 1:10 scale outdoor diorama called: Wolf Creek Radio Control Scale […]

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The Gas Station blueprints and scratch building tutorial are here! [ebook]

July 29, 2012
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Many of you guys have been waiting for this tutorial to emerge. After mayor setbacks and an injured arm, I finally managed to finished this great tutorial, which I consider my best diorama and book ever. This tutorial includes, as all our books, a step by step guide, a parts list, blueprints in 12 different […]

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New Gas Station Project – Based on the OLD BARN

December 3, 2011
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Right after publishing the OLD BARN book, I told Seb I wanted to build the OLD BARN myself. He suggested I could try to make something different, based on the OLD BARN book – there is not much use of having the same barn twice, right? I thought making an old wooden Gas Station diorama could be […]

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ModelJunkyard with the Texaco diorama on MotorManiacs Magazine #12

November 21, 2011
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  [English] As you already know, Motor-Maniacs is our favorite german Magazine. The cool thing about this magazine is that they are really open minded and that they respect all kinds of car related passions. From the hardcore traditional Hot-Rod Scene to the low budget guy driving a european classic car including the perfectionist restorer. This […]

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Easy Rider – 1969 – Lot’s of diorama inspiration [the full movie]

October 15, 2011
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The other day I was looking for a few cool scenes of classic movies such as “Bullit”, “60 Seconds”, “Dirty Harry” and many others and casually I found Easy Rider on YouTube, not only a few scenes, but the full length movie. The movie is a road trip classic and is full of inspiring scenes […]

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Texaco Gas Station photo shooting in Switzerland [1st location]

August 23, 2011
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As you have already seen in our previous posts, we have been working on a gas station diorama and went out to shoot cool pictures of it surrounded by the great landscapes of Switzerland. Well, here you have a few pictures of our first location. We choose a quite valley with a few houses, various […]

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Our latest projects are taking shape – Gas Station diorama

August 1, 2011
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Hey guys! Last week my brother and I met to finish some of our latest projects. On the one hand, I was working on the triplet Mustang project and on the other hand my brother was working on the TEXACO gas station diorama. We also took some time to build a “one day rat rod” […]

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1/24 Junkyard diorama project

February 4, 2011
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As you might already have realized by now, we are really passionate about junk cars, junkyards and everything that looks old and rusty. One of our greatest dreams is to own a junkyard full of great classic cars… but how do you do that when you live and work in a big city and you […]

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Great guys, great model cars

March 29, 2013
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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 […]

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Professional use of junk model cars in Pimp My Ride promos [videos]

November 6, 2012
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I was having a look at the portfolio of a friend on behance.net when I suddenly came across this great promotion videos for the world famous series “Pimp My Ride” where they used model cars to make the videos. The result is great, and the usage of the forced perspective shots is just perfect combining […]

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From our Readers – Denny, Clayton and Kerry

September 27, 2012
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Denny sent us a sample of his racers – all junked. Really cool work! I liked the one covered – it has some kind of “barn find” spirit… if you know what I mean – could be a great theme for an old school stock car.   Clayton sent me an email a while ago […]

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From our Readers – John and Marc

August 28, 2012
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  In this post, I will show you the work of two of our readers: John and Marc. To start with, I would like to show you John’s wooden gas station. He likes visible gas pumps. as he told me. He used one he purchased for this diorama, and weathered it himself to make to […]

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Dodge Monaco Dukes of Hazzard Roco`s Police Car by MPC – Kit Review

February 11, 2012
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I bought this kit as a Christmas present for my brother – who always got just shirts, socks and scarfs and was finally hoping for the rest of us to think of something else (hands up if you feel the same). This is one of the kits I always wanted to buy but still passed […]

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’32 Ford Rat Rod – The 24 hs of Le Junk #1 [video]

January 29, 2012
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Our first Episode of “The 24 hours of Le Junk” is finally here! Iggy has boxes and boxes full of parts, incomplete kits, etc. A real junkyard in scale. We decided to make something out of it and picked a few pieces for this rat rod. Then we thought, why not making it also in […]

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Kit Review: Ford C-600 Tilt Cab by AMT

December 17, 2011
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I’ve ordered this kit some weeks ago. I was actually thinking of buying a Dodge truck, but then I changed my mind and I’m really happy this Ford by AMT! As you can see above, the box is done in “retro look”, which makes the good old days come up again. It gives you the […]

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Kit Review – 1940 Ford Pick up by Revell Monogram

November 27, 2011
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Some weeks ago, I was walking around a flea market close to where I live. I never expect to find scale models, because there aren’t many people doing this in this area. So when I saw this kit in that stand, my day was done Since the kit is in a very good condition (and […]

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