Projects

Monument Valley Diorama – Roswell incident & Classic cars

November 8, 2014
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On my previous post I already shared with you some pictures about the making and delivery of the king-bed sized monument valley diorama. On this post I want to share with you more cool pictures of this very singular project. Monument Valley Diorama – The Roswell incident scenario One of HorizonHobby‘s request was to create some kind […]

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HorizonHobby ‘s monument valley diorama for MediaMarkt

November 6, 2014
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Several weeks ago I was contacted by HorizonHobby with a very unusual request: Building a monument valley diorama in king bed size (2×2 meter or 76×76 inches) with a mountain in the middle (80 cm/31 inches high). Those of you that have been following our blog for a while now know that I always embark in every […]

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DIY [real] car seat upholstery – 1980 Ford Granada MKII

August 7, 2014
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Hello guys, I know this post might be a little bit off-topic since this is a blog about scale modeling… but I decided to share this new project with you anyway. Most of you guys are car guys and I thought you might like to see this project in the making as well and it might […]

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32 Ford 1/25 Scale – How to make hood hinges

July 18, 2014
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It’s been a long time since I’ve built those hinges. I took me some time to finally gather the videos and put the how-to together. As you will see, making hinges for a 32 Ford hood isn’t all that hard. All you need is some brass tube and a brass rod, that fits well into […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – bench seat [9]

July 13, 2014
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I could’ve let the bench seat on this ’64 Chevy Pickup in one piece… but I couldn’t resist the temptation of adding some detail to it. It looks terrific, adding a nice high detail piece to the model and it’s easier than it seems. Cut the bench seat in two pieces Add some styrene pieces where […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – tailgate hinges [8]

July 4, 2014
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Now the tailgate hinges are done. This project seems to be just about hinges, door hinges, hood hinges and now tailgate hinges. I was actually quite surprised that no hinges for the tailgate were included in the kit. I mean, just leaving to pins on the bottom corners of the tailgate and a pair of holes […]

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Vintage 702 aermotor windmill – adding the sails to the wheel [3]

June 28, 2014
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My 702 aermotor windmill si making some progress. I’ve just added the sails to the wheel. After building the tower and building the wheel’s structure (hub and spokes) now comes the difficult task of adding the sails to the wheel. Most of the parts are made out of aluminum others with styrene. In order to […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – hinges pillar [7]

June 22, 2014
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After cutting the doors open and making the door panels, now it’s time to solve a few loose ends like the hinges pillar and the interior panel under the dashboard. There is not so much to say about this. Here you see the finished hinges pillar. I forgot to make a few pictures of the […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – hood hinges [6]

June 20, 2014
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On this post I’ll show you how I made the hood hinges for my 64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside in 1/25 scale (Revell kit). This ’64 chevy pickup project is going out of control. I can’t stop adding details to it. I must admit I enjoy scratch building and modifying a model much more than painting and detailing. […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – cabin floor [5]

May 10, 2014
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One more step in this project. As you’ve seen in my previous posts, I’ve been adding a lot of details on this kit. After opening the doors and making door panels, there is one more thing to fix: the cabin floor. The kit’s cabin floor is far from representing the original, so there were many […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – hood details [4]

April 11, 2014
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On this post I want to show you how I improved the hood details. I first saw this kind of hood structure details at scale models my bro Iggy did. I instantly got  hooked on “hood detailing”. Although this details will be difficult to see in the finished model, I wanted to do it anyway. […]

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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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’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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’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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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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Grundig 3D TV – Scale model display case – Step 3: Barn find & American Pickers diorama

March 26, 2013
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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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Grundig 3D TV – Scale model display case – Step 2: Display interior and screen

March 23, 2013
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Here is the second step in the process of making a 3D TV scale model display case. This time is not about thinking “out of the box” but thinking about “the box inside the box”. I want to use the 3D TV to display other dioramas, so I decided to make interchangeable diorama boxes. After […]

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Grundig 3D TV – Scale model display case – Step 1: TV disassembly

March 11, 2013
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A while back I bought an old Grundig TV Super Color 1630 from 1976. I already knew what I wanted to do with it but I wanted to keep it secret. Here is the first part of the process, disassembling and cleaning the old television set. I’ve been reading online about dissembling old television sets and I learned […]

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Gas Station Project – Based on the OLD BARN [PART 4]

March 3, 2013
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Finally, I’ve found some inspiration to continue this project I’ve started last year. From time to time, I tend to do smaller things in between, while working on a larger build. While working on this project, I’ve thought about what brand of gas would it sell. I’m still not quite sure about it, but I […]

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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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