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From Our Readers – Some great models from John, Gary and Robin

May 8, 2012
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We get a lot of emails from our readers, some send back greetings or comments – others send us pics of their builds and projects. So my brother and I thought, it would be great to show everybody the cool stuff our readers send us. Of course, we asked for permission first. The title pic is a [...]

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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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Visiting Madurodam – The Netherlands – A miniature city in 1:25 scale

January 14, 2012
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A while ago we visited Madurodam in The Netherlands. Madurodam is one of the greatest dioramas we have ever seen in 1:25 scale. It’s not only a diorama. It’s a miniature city or, actually, a miniature country, representing the most important attractions of The Netherlands at one place. There you’ll find small areas of Amsterdam, [...]

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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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Merry Christmas – Awesome Diorama with tricks

December 25, 2011
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Merry Christmas, specially for those of you celebrating these days! Besides merry wishes, I would like to show you this awesome “Christas Diorama” I found some weeks ago and share with you some of the tricks this smart builder made (this is not our work)   How about this tree? Check it out and have [...]

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2012 Calendars – Featuring Gas Station, Old Barn and Junk Model Cars

December 9, 2011
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Las year, we made one calendar featuring our coolest junk model cars. This year was full of projects and new scale models. So this time, we made two calendars more! Besides the Junk Car Road Trip Calendar, we made one featuring the Texaco Gas Station with Tokheim 39 Gas Pumps and the other one, featuring [...]

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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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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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Our latest projects are taking shape – Gas Station diorama

August 1, 2011
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Hey guys! Last week my brother and I met to finish some of our latest projects. On the one hand, I was working on the triplet Mustang project and on the other hand my brother was working on the TEXACO gas station diorama. We also took some time to build a “one day rat rod” [...]

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Free Tutorial: Making Road Signs

May 28, 2011
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I was on the phone with my brother the other day and he said something like: “would be cool to write a tutorial on how to make road signs out of soda cans”. I was so amazed about the idea, that I couldn’t let it wait more – so I started to experiment. The process [...]

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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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