Iggy Perez

How to make doors open and close

December 30, 2010
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I made an ebook some time ago on request of one of your customers, showing how to make doors open and some more details too. The PDF is available for free to our newsletter subscribers. Subscribe to the newsletter for this, other free ebooks and discounts on our products! Besides showing how to make the door […]

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1965 Ford Galaxy 500

December 23, 2010
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This model car is based on a kit from AMT, scale 1/25. I bought this kit as part of a lot on ebay – it was partially built, but not really clean. So I had to first unbuilt it and put it again together as a junk model car. This car was built without the […]

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1950 Chevy Pick up – Featured on Underhaulin

December 19, 2010
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I built this junk model car while writing our book, Underhaulin’ – How to make a junk model car. I made pictures of the building process for the book, in which the steps are explained too. Here are some details of the finished model car. The front fender has rust holes behind the wheels. The […]

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How to make rust

December 10, 2010
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One important part of junk model cars is the rust. I use three different techniques for the different kinds of rust and weathering effects you may find on real junk cars. One of them is based on real rust powder that I make by myself.  You can use this rust to make the car look […]

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1940 Ford Coupe – The Beginning of Modeljunkyard

November 26, 2010
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This model car is one of my first two junk model cars, the other one is a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 with a missing rear end, which was used to make a sofa. Back then, I only used one single effect for rust: home made rust. I still use that technique, now combined with two other […]

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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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Restore wasted model cars

November 7, 2010
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Shoot! That painjob turned out a real mess! What to do now? Throw the model away, put it on ebay for a buck, finish it as-is and live with it? No way! Life is all about second chances! And so it is with model cars. The trick is called “caustic soda” also known as lye or […]

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