Projects

Wiking’s Hanomag K55 crawler tractor 1/25 scale [#2 front grill] [video]

May 15, 2012
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Here is the second part of Wiking’s Hanomag K55 crawler tractor in 1/25 scale. This time I’m adding more detail to the front grill. First of all i had to cut the gas tank, hood and front grill in separate pieces as they were molded all together in one piece. Soon after starting cutting and [...]

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Chevy Black Widow and Fireball Fairlane

April 27, 2012
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I’ve told you that I started the Black Widow from Revell. Of course, the idea wasn’t to build the car just out of the box. Thanks to the hints and tips given by some of you, I found some really cool insights. So there is some scratch building involved here. But while talking about the [...]

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55, 56 & 57 Chevy Bel Air automotive paintings

April 21, 2012
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Last week I just finished this series of Chevy Bel Air paintings. The tri-chevys are among my favorite cars since I was a kid. Unluckily I’m not the only one…  and in the meanwhile the prices of this great Chevys are beyond most people’s reach. As you might notice by now I do not limit [...]

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Wiking’s Hanomag K55 crawler tractor 1/25 scale [#1 crawler tracks] [video]

April 17, 2012
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If your favorite scale is 1/25 and you were looking for a tractor, you might have already noticed that there are not so many options available. Most of the farm and land machinery scale models are available rather in smaller (1/32) or bigger (1/16) scales. Not so long ago I was looking for scale models [...]

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57 Chevrolet 150 – Black Widow Project – Building Tips, Facts and Questions

April 15, 2012
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I wrote a kit review about this Revell model some time ago. I really liked the kit right from the start. So, when my brother and discussed about our next project, an instruction DVD tutorial, I suggested to build this car in the racer stock car version. By the way, we will be filming this [...]

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Recycling soup cans for vintage oil can replicas [How to & oil can template for download]

April 3, 2012
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A few weeks ago, we still had freezing weather here in The Netherlands. Following the dutch tradition we were eating tomato soup in the evening. While eating my soup I thought, hey! why not making a vintage oil can replica out of the coup cans? Said, done! I took measurements of the cans, designed the [...]

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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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Grandpa’s 1942 WWII Chevrolet G506 / GMC Tow Truck – junker

February 7, 2012
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How this 1942 Chevrolet G506 army truck from WWII ended up in our grandpa’s junkyard in Argentina we’ll probably never know. One thing is for sure, it was a cool truck. It was functioning and our grandpa build a tow truck out of it for the junkyard. As I told you before, I used to [...]

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Gas Pumps for Old Barn Gas Station Project

February 3, 2012
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  As I’m making a gas station, I think it is about time to start with the gas pumps and do some styrene work besides all the woodwork I’m doing, right? I stared by printing the scaled templates out of the bonus material coming with our book “Gas Pump – Making a Gas Pump model [...]

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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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New Gas Station Project – Based on the OLD BARN [PART 3]

December 30, 2011
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I just wanted to share some new thoughts on this project. As you can see on the pic above, the side structure is a bit elevated now. While discussing the project with my brother, he mentioned that the roof extension seemed kind of low. Although a car or a pick would still fit below it, he was [...]

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New Gas Station Project – Based on the OLD BARN [PART 2]

December 23, 2011
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  I’ve been working on the “mod” on the OLD BARN to make a Gas Station. I hope you remember my last post. Above, you can see a test fit. The main structure is already glued together, the side structure too (however, the aren’t glued together). I printed out the blue prints (included with the [...]

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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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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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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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