Finished Builds

Making a Picture Frame with an Old Window

March 30, 2012
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I was walking around a flea market some weekends ago. I saw this old window for a couple of bucks and I though: great thing for a picture frame! This is what I started with. An old window, with just one piece of glass. As the window was pretty well built, and the glas looked [...]

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62 Ford Ranchero Beater – 1/25 Scale from AMT

March 17, 2012
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I’ve built this one a long time ago. It was just a quick build. I was thinking for a while if this build was worth a blog post – and today I thought: although it isn’t one of the greatest builds around, maybe it can be of some inspiration for some of you. This model [...]

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Ford Taurus, you’re in the army now! – The 24 hs of Le Junk #2 [video]

February 22, 2012
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Turning one of the most boring kits ever into something cool can also be a challenge. The Ford Taurus was released several times by AMT/Ertl during the past 20 years. My brother got this kit as part of a big deal including many kits. Initially he did not know what to with this one. It [...]

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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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41 Plymouth by AMT – Finished Build and Building Tips

January 20, 2012
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I’ve built this model right after the 40 Ford and the 57 Ford junker plus sofa. So this was my third junk scale model. The idea was to make a simple build. So I didn’t put much extra effort on scratch building parts or anything else. Still, I did take the time to cut the [...]

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AMT 55 Chevy Pickup – Street Machine Beater

November 4, 2011
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The first time I saw this kit was a real long time ago. My brother and I were still teenagers. We had picked the kit in one of our favorites stores back then. At home, we were really amazed about it. My brother built that one pretty much the same as shown on the box. [...]

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The Old Barn Diorama – Finished project!

October 29, 2011
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Here it is! It took lots of work, but we finally did it! Finishing this project has been a new milestone for me. The barn find is one of the greatest dreams for any classic car fanatic like us. I always thought, an Old Barn model is a MUST-HAVE. I think I prefer to let the [...]

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Making a Scale Model Display out of Old Bumper Parts

September 9, 2011
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As you know from the posts related to the Gas Station, the Mustang Triplet Project and others, my brother visited me for a Modeljunkyard Week in summer. We had quite a few busy days and to take a rest from all the model building and photo shootings, my brother started to put a display out [...]

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Texaco Gas Station photo shooting in Switzerland [3rd location]

September 3, 2011
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One of the best features of this photo shooting is the waterfall you see on the upper left of the title pic. I see that waterfall everyday while driving back from work. My brother Seb was totally amazed about it. Thanks to the rainy days before the photo shooting, there was more than enough water [...]

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Texaco Gas Station photo shooting in Switzerland [2nd location]

August 28, 2011
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If you are an old barn lover you’ll immediately understand why we have chosen this second location for our photo shooting. Switzerland is the paradise of old barns. Unlike in the U.S. the old barns in Switzerland can be up to a few centuries old and you don’t have to drive miles and miles between [...]

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

August 14, 2011
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A few weeks ago we spontaneously decided to build a rat rod out of Iggy’s parts box. The project was done within 24 hs including all scratch builded parts, painting, etc. Afterwards we decided to start a series of projects that we’ll be doing within 24 hs and we called it “The 24 hs of Le Junk“. [...]

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Mustang Triplet Project – DONE

July 26, 2011
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My brother came over to visit to work on Modeljunkyard. We have just finished our projects, mine was the Mustangs. The idea behind this project was to build one brand new Mustang, one used (slightly weathered) and one junker (heavily weathered). The first Mustang above is the junker (I guess you noticed). One special feature [...]

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57 Ford Fairlane 500 Junker – Some Building Tips

June 25, 2011
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Those who have been following us for a while now may know this build. In this post, I want to give you some new insights of this junk model car – so if I already told you about it, it is still worth it to read this post! The scale model was inspired by a [...]

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36 Ford Hot Rod Junker 1/25 scale from AMT

April 17, 2011
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This 36 Ford is based on the 3-in-1 AMT kit many of you know. It took me some time to figure out how I wanted to build this car – specially while thinking about the question “fenders / no fenders”. I went for “no fenders”, as you can see. I saved the fenders for the [...]

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1948 Ford Convertible Junker Model – Barn Find

March 19, 2011
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I built this car a long while ago, after pausing it for almost a year. I had started this junker but it was let undone in a box, forgotten. After I re-started it, I had a “barn find kind of build” in mind, as if someone would have just found it and pumped air in [...]

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1960 Junkyard Dog Chevy Pick up

January 8, 2011
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I bough this model as part of a lot on ebay. I had to unpaint it before staring with it (see how to restore a in this post). The idea was to build this pick up truck as a junkyard dog – or maybe a beat up farmer pick up, likes those I saw every [...]

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1965 Ford Galaxy 500

December 23, 2010
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This model car is based on a kit from AMT, scale 1/25. I bought this kit as part of a lot on ebay – it was partially built, but not really clean. So I had to first unbuilt it and put it again together as a junk model car. This car was built without the [...]

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