tokheim 39 gas pump

Gas Pumps for Old Barn Gas Station Project

February 3, 2012

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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’32 Ford Rat Rod – The 24 hs of Le Junk #1 [video]

January 29, 2012

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

December 9, 2011

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

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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The Old Barn Diorama – Finished project!

October 29, 2011

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

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

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

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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