junkyard diorama

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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Form our Reades – Victor Ortiz’s pocher 1/8 scale ’32 Alfa Romeo junker and project car

October 31, 2012
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If you like a model kit and can not decide how to build it, then buy a second kit and build both options such as Victor did with Pocher’s 1/8 scale 1932 Alfa Romeo Spyder Touring Gran Sport (Pocher K73) Restoration project diorama 1/8 scale – 1932 Alfa Romeo Spyder This diorama has won the […]

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From our Readers – Victor Ortiz’s 1/43 and 1/12 scale dioramas

September 18, 2012
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Victor Ortiz is one of our readers from Mexico. He have been building scale models and dioramas for almost all his life and has an extensive model car collection. He recently shared some of his work with us. As he builds in many different scales You’ll find from 1/8 scale highly detailed cars to 1/43 […]

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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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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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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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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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Jerry’s Resin Realm – Find almost any car you can imagine

October 1, 2011
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One day, surfing the net, I found a forum discussion about resin bodies from somewhere called Resin Realm by Jerry. As I visited the site, I was stunned! Jerry has a variety of bodies that could make any junkyard diorama look like out of this world! Let me show you a few examples:   This is a […]

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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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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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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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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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Book on model car weathering

November 18, 2010
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After the great success with the eBook ‘Underhaulin – How to make a junk model car’, we decided to publish it as a real printed book version of Underhaulin featuring all the basics on how to build a junk model car. Check it out here. This book features over 60 pictures explaining how to make […]

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