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Pickups, Trucks & Machines at Jabbeke 2014 model car show [4]

March 23, 2014
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If there is a main theme for Jabbeke’s model car show that is trucks, trucks and more trucks. This model car show started as a group of truck scale model enthusiast many years ago. Somehow it went out control and it turned into one of the best model car shows in Europe, but you can […]

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Rally and Racing Cars at Jabbeke 2014 model car show [3]

March 22, 2014
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One of the things I admire the most about racing and rally model cars are the paint jobs. Some guys must spend more time painting the cars than building them. Specially the rally cars. Of course there are always many decals involved but I can recognize a great paint job when I see it, and […]

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European & Asian Cars at Jabbeke 2014 model car show [2]

March 21, 2014
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Although I prefer american cars, there are many european cars that I really like. I can not say the same for asian cars, they are really not for me. But this blog is not only about me, but also about what you folks like. So, for those of you loving european and/or asian cars, here […]

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American Cars at Jabbeke 2014 model car show [1]

March 17, 2014
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Last weekend I went to Jabbeke’s model car show. The show takes place every year in Jabbeke (near Brugge) in Belgium. The show is getting bigger each year and the location is just great, a very modern sports centre, big enough to house this great event. The organizers are really friendly people, it’s always a […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – door panels [3]

March 8, 2014
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Holidays are over, it’s time to continue with my ’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside project. I’ve been working on the doors lately. After scratch building the door jambs, I decided to improve the truck bed as it was an easy and fast job. Now I’ll show how I made the door panels. After cutting the door […]

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Old scale model slides from the 80’s and 90’s

February 28, 2014
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As I told you in my previous post, a few weeks ago I went to Argentina and finally had the opportunity to open our accidental time capsule. Among other things, I’ve found this old slides of our scale models. the picture were taken by a friend of mine who had a reflex camera. The pictures […]

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Opening our accidental time capsule and finding all our scale models and vintage stuff after 13 years

February 24, 2014
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It was december 2001. Argentina was going through a deep economic crisis. Iggy and I had come from Germany to visit our family during Christmas. What we didn’t know was that it was going to be last time for more than a decade that we would see our apartment in Buenos Aires and all our […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – bed fenders [2]

January 31, 2014
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Here is the second step of improving this ’64 Chevy Pickup kit from Revell. After checking many pictures of the real thing online, I decided I had to improve the bed fenders as well. The original bed looked too toyish to me. The pics speak for themselves. A very easy process with a huge visual […]

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Vintage 702 aermotor windmill – making the wheel [2]

January 24, 2014
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After lots of research in order to understand how the wheel is built, I managed to draw very accurate plans and a 3D model of the entire windmill. The next challenge was to build the wheel. Drawing it is one thing, scratch building it is a complete different story. I made a few small modifications […]

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Vintage soda crate templates [ download ] Scales 1:5, 1:6, 1:8, 1:10, 1:12, 1:16, 1:18, 1:25, 1:32, 1:43, 1:64, 1:87

January 18, 2014
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Some of you have been asking several times for the soda crate templates that I announce many months ago in my post on making the 3D-TV Scale Model Display Barn Find Diorama. Making this templates took me several days of full time work (I would say at least a week). I searched and selected approximately […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – doors [1]

January 13, 2014
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After a break of several weeks, I’m back. This time with a new (sub)project which will be part of the farm diorama I’m working on. This is going to be an old farm pickup, based on a ’64 Chevy C10 Pickup Fleetside in 1:25 scale from Revell. I decided to improve many things on this kit, […]

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Vintage 702 aermotor windmill – scratch building the tower [1]

November 3, 2013
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For this project, I decided to start with the tower. After drawing all the plans according to the original parts descriptions I purchased the profiles and glued everything together. It takes some patience but it’s a very straight forward process. Making the steps on one of the columns was a a little more difficult. The difficult […]

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Vintage farm & aermotor windmill • Molino de viento y casa de campo

September 26, 2013
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[ENGLISH] I grew up in the center of Buenos Aires a multi million inhabitant city, but every holiday I used to visit my family on the countryside, in La Pampa province. It was always great to switch from the stressful and noisy metropolis to the quite and relaxed countryside. Old readers of this blog already […]

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Joep’s classic Ford Taunus collection

August 28, 2013
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At the Ford Taunus M Club Nederland I met Joep, a 70+ year old guy who seems like being in his 30s. Last year he and two 80+ year old friends traveled across Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Brasil in a VW T3 Transporter. That gives you an idea of how young this guy feels. […]

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Ford Taunus M Club Nederland

August 22, 2013
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During the Framer’s Day in Alphen (The Netherlands) I met the guys from the “Taunus M Club Nederland“. A group of very friendly and enthusiastic classic Ford fans. The club focus mainly on the Ford Taunus models, (specialy the “M” series) but as the Taunus was the basis for many other Ford models, owners of […]

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Farmer’s Day in The Netherlands (Boerendag Alphen 2013)

August 18, 2013
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I must admit, this summer is a great summer in The Netherlands. We are enjoying great weather, and with this great weather I can really enjoy visiting open air events like the one I went to last saturday: “Farmer’s Day” ( in dutch “Boerendag”) in Alphen. It was actually a double event as there was also […]

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ModelJunkyard’s new shop is online!

August 15, 2013
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We have been working very hard lately on a new site for our online shop, and now it’s finally online! This was a major project. Those of you with web design experience know what I mean. Now you can combine hardcopy books and ebooks on the same order. You’ll find a a more detailed product description […]

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Making the facade of Miami’s Colony Hotel in 1:43 scale – #4 Windows and final assembly

August 9, 2013
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On my previous posts I shared with you the process of building Colony’s Hotel facade, painting an making minor details. Today I’ll show you how to make the windows, the doors, the venetian blinds and other small details. Making the windows is very easy but you have to have a lot of patience as there […]

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Making the facade of Miami’s Colony Hotel in 1:43 scale – #3 Painting

July 12, 2013
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The Colony Hotel in Miami is one of the most photographed buildings in the Deco district and in Miami in general. The Colony Hotel is not only iconic for it’s design but also for it’s color scheme. On this video you’ll see the process of painting this facade in the right colors. I used acrylic artist […]

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Why Cars & Parts Magazine used to be my favorite subscription

June 21, 2013
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Back in the 80’s and 90’s I subscribed to Cars & Parts magazine. I immediately liked the magazine because of the great articles about car restoration, car history, car auctions, swap mets, etc. But there was a series of articles that I enjoyed most: junkyards. On almost every issue they used to bring an article […]

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Ford Granada, Taunus and Consul parts swap meet (Germany)

June 8, 2013
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Last week, after the Kustom Kulture meeting, I had the opportunity to go to a Ford Granada parts swap meet. I was in search of a few parts and as I’m selling my 1980 Ford Granada MKII I thought this might be  a great place to offer my car. During the swap meet great cars arrived, […]

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Kustom Kulture Forever 2013 – Zeche Ewald – Herten Germany

June 3, 2013
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Last weekend I went to one of the greatest custom car and bike shows in Europe, “Kustom Kulture Forever”. The event used to take place in Bottrop (Germany) at Schwarze Heide airport. Due to bad weather combined with lack of asphalt, among other reasons, the organizers decided to search for a new location where this […]

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Making the facade of Miami’s Colony Hotel in 1:43 scale – #2 Windows and details

May 19, 2013
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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. […]

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Making the facade of Miami’s Colony Hotel in 1:43 scale – #1 Structure

May 4, 2013
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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. […]

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