weathering

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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1956 Ford Sunliner – Glenn Fireball Roberts – Weathered

November 10, 2012
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So, I think this is it. I’ve finished the 1956 Ford Fairlane Sunliner driven by Glenn Fireball Roberts. The weathering is done, I’ve added the ropes holding the hood and the trunk lid and finished some details. All in all, I’m happy with the car. Some  other details I’ve added are the brakets holding the […]

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57 Black Widow Weathering Done and 56 Sunliner Fireball Roberts Decals Done

October 26, 2012
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This is the final lap, ladies and gentlemen! I’ve finally finished the weathering on the 57 Black Widow. One important detail on this build is the driver’s door. It has suffered a small racing crash and I tried to add some fresh scratching there. I actually painted over the paint and the decal. Another option would […]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [6] – Engine details [video]

October 21, 2012
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We are slowly approaching the end of this project. Beeing it a 1/16 scale model I decided to add as much detail to the engine as possible. The first thing you’ll normally do is search for images online. Of course that’s always a great resource. But sometimes I just couldn’t find THE picture I was […]

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57 Chevy Black Widow Stock Car – Decals on and some weathering tests

October 12, 2012
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I’ve been working again on the Black Widow. It doesn’t seem like much work has been done, but if you see in detail, there is indeed some progress compared to the last post about the Black Widow. I’ve placed all the chromed parts and trims. Not only that, I’ve been working on the decals as […]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [5] – Weathering [video]

October 5, 2012
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I’ll be very happy when this project is finished and I’ll never aloud it again for a project to delay that much. It’s no fun anymore. As I already told you, I started this project when I was 17 years old. In the meanwhile I’m 35 and I’m still working on this one. 99% of […]

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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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Wiking’s Hanomag K55 crawler tractor 1/25 scale [#5 weathering] [video]

July 15, 2012
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Hello guys, it is so far. The Hanomag K55 is done! I hope you like the result. I’ve built the hitch from scratch, added a few pipes and cables and -of course- some serious weathering. Check the video for more details on the weathering effects that I’ve used on this one (lots of dry brush […]

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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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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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AMT 55 Chevy Pickup – Street Machine Beater

November 4, 2011
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The first time I saw this kit was a real long time ago. My brother and I were still teenagers. We had picked the kit in one of our favorites stores back then. At home, we were really amazed about it. My brother built that one pretty much the same as shown on the box. […]

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64 Mustang Convertible Tripplet Project & some building tips

July 10, 2011
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  So, I’ve started this projet yesterday. It is about building three “almost” identical Mustangs. This project is based on the 64 1/2 Mustang Kit from Revell Monogram (I wrote a review on this kit a while ago). While building this kit, I realized some things that you may want to pay attention to. Generally, […]

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57 Ford Fairlane 500 Junker – Some Building Tips

June 25, 2011
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Those who have been following us for a while now may know this build. In this post, I want to give you some new insights of this junk model car – so if I already told you about it, it is still worth it to read this post! The scale model was inspired by a […]

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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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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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