Projects

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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’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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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [4] – Engine details

August 8, 2011
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Last week I continued adding a few details to the engine. After painting I started wiring the engine and detailing the carburetor. The easiest way to attach the cables was to drill little holes on the distributor and the engine block. I used an old telephone wire to do the wire. For the black plugs […]

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Old Texaco Gas Station – 1:25 scale model [1]

July 16, 2011
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A few days ago I started working on a new model project, this time an old Texaco Gas Station in 1:25 scale. I’m a huge fan of old/retro gas stations and everything related to it. I think I have one of the biggest photography collection related to gas stations, gas pumps, oil cans, metal signs, […]

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64 Mustang Convertible Tripplet Project & some building tips

July 10, 2011
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  So, I’ve started this projet yesterday. It is about building three “almost” identical Mustangs. This project is based on the 64 1/2 Mustang Kit from Revell Monogram (I wrote a review on this kit a while ago). While building this kit, I realized some things that you may want to pay attention to. Generally, […]

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1/24 Barn Instructions: Progress

May 22, 2011
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Many of you know that we are working on a few other projects right now, and many of you may know that one of them is a 1/24 or 1/25 scale barn for a junkyard diorama. It can also be used a a small diorama element too. After our first experiences with the Underhaulin and […]

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Tokheim 39 – Gas Pump scratch build scale model

March 24, 2011
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I don’t know why I always had a fascination for gas pumps, specially old and rusted ones. I originally wanted to build a 1:1 scale replica, but not having enough time and tools to do it, the project was frozen. Many years later, when starting our junkyard diorama project, I decided I must had a gas […]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [3] – Engine compartment

February 18, 2011
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The engine compartment of this kit was a real mess. As it is a relatively big scale (1/16) I just couldn’t live with that. I decided to make it complete new. I searched for real pictures of a real ’57 Chevy Bel Air’s engine compartment. I found a few nice pictures. I took the firewall’s […]

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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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Seb’s -real- 1955 Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria [1]

January 13, 2011
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Some people say you’ll never forget your first love…  and I must admit, that’s right! My favorite car was -and still is- the ’57 Chevy Bel Air BUT…  the ’55 Vicky was my first car. I’ll never forget that hot summer. It was just a few days after my 15th birthday. My uncle had bought […]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [2] – Further Progress

January 2, 2011
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I kept on working on the 1957 Chevrolet. On this video you can see some more scratch built details, such as the inside of the hood, which was almost completely built on plastic. The bolts holding the rear suspension to the differential and rear axle were pretty unclean on the original model, so I made […]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [1] – High Detail

December 4, 2010
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This build is based on a pretty old kit from ESCI – ERTL. Although the scale of 1/16 is pretty big, this model doesn’t have much details out of the box. So I had to do a lot of scratch building to make many things by myself so the model would look more realistic. This […]

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