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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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Making a Picture Frame with an Old Window

March 30, 2012
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I was walking around a flea market some weekends ago. I saw this old window for a couple of bucks and I though: great thing for a picture frame! This is what I started with. An old window, with just one piece of glass. As the window was pretty well built, and the glas looked [...]

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Junk car pics from ModelJunkyard’s friends

October 9, 2011
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Having a blog is great! You start having contact with people you would never have the opportunity to meet other way. I’m surfing here and there and that’s how I sometimes find cool stuff from like minded people. Other times it’s the other way around. Other people find us. Well, here are 2 guys I met [...]

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Grandpa’s junkyard [1]

February 25, 2011
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Our grandpa used to have a junkyard. We grew up in the big city and every winter and summer holiday we used to visit him and spend the whole time playing around in the junkyard. The car you see here is a 1969 Ford Fairlane 500. We used to play in that car and also [...]

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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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