Rat Rod

From our readers – Civil (hot) vehicles by Hakan Guney

April 19, 2014
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In my previous post I already told you about Hakan Guney’s work. It was too much stuff to squeeze into one post, so here you have more. I’m sure you didn’t have enough, right? Among his most “traditional” civil vehicles, you’ll find 2 great hot rods: a ’27 Ford and a ’36 Ford Coupe . Another great project is […]

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From our readers – Doomsday vehicles by Hakan Guney

April 4, 2014
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The other day I just discovered Hakan Guney’s work. I was stunned by the high quality of his models, the realistic details and the doomsday phantasy vehicles. He aloud me to post some of his work on our blog. Thank you Hakan! If you go through his entire blog (which I did) you’ll soon find […]

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Great guys, great model cars

March 29, 2013
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Two weeks ago I went to Jabbeke’s model car show “On The Road”. I met lots of great guys over there and I dare to ask some of them if they would agree with taking pictures of their models on my gas station. They are all really friendly guys, so they accepted. The cars were […]

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From our Readers Cliff and Joan

November 7, 2012
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Cliff sent me some pics of his Rat Rod Cadillac Town Car. I was really impressed about the look of this ride. I guess what I liked the most were the welding seams on the roof from chopping it. The military details are pretty cool! Check out the shovel. The color of the chasis makes a great […]

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From our Readers – John and Marc

August 28, 2012
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  In this post, I will show you the work of two of our readers: John and Marc. To start with, I would like to show you John’s wooden gas station. He likes visible gas pumps. as he told me. He used one he purchased for this diorama, and weathered it himself to make to […]

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From our Readers – Yannick, Vincent and John

May 22, 2012
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On the title pic you can see Yannick’s Ford 32 Rat Rod. As Yannick explained me, he started with a Revell kit, but did a lot of kit bashing and scratch building himself. To make the ride real low, he scratch built the chasis. Note the details in the engine: the cables and the exhaust […]

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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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’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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1937 Ford Pickup – Rat Rod

January 10, 2012
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A few months ago I went to Bottrop Kustom Kulture in Germany with a group of friends of Trashers Club (The Netherlands). On the way to the show I made a few videos. Here you have Skip’s 1937 Ford Pickup Rat rod. A damn cool thing! Enjoy it!

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KIT REVIEW – 32 Ford 5-Window Coupe by Revell

January 7, 2012
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Many of you may remember the 1932 Ford Street Rod by Monogram from years ago. I can recall my brother building that car about 20 years ago. The kit was great back then. I bought it some time later. Now, why bothering getting the 32 Ford 5-Window Coupe by Revell then? It is a very […]

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New England’s Rusted Gems – Pics By Bruce

November 13, 2011
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Since we started with Modeljunkyard and specially with this blog, we got to know many new people who share the same passion for cars, and in many cases, junk cars. Bruce has been sharing his pics with me a while now and now, I want to share them with the rest of you.   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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Malte’s VW Karmann Ghia type 34 1965 – Rat Rod

September 18, 2011
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This summer I met Malte at the Bottrop Kustom Kulture event in Germany and his ’65 VW Karmann Ghia rat rod. The show was full of cool cars, customs, rat rods, hot rods, gassers… everything you can imagine. You know guys, I preffer american cars. But I must admit this Karmann Ghia is one of […]

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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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’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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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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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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