Seb Perez

Texaco Gas Station photo shooting in Switzerland [1st location]

August 23, 2011
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As you have already seen in our previous posts, we have been working on a gas station diorama and went out to shoot cool pictures of it surrounded by the great landscapes of Switzerland. Well, here you have a few pictures of our first location. We choose a quite valley with a few houses, various […]

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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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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [4] – Engine details

August 8, 2011
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Last week I continued adding a few details to the engine. After painting I started wiring the engine and detailing the carburetor. The easiest way to attach the cables was to drill little holes on the distributor and the engine block. I used an old telephone wire to do the wire. For the black plugs […]

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Old Texaco Gas Station – 1:25 scale model [1]

July 16, 2011
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A few days ago I started working on a new model project, this time an old Texaco Gas Station in 1:25 scale. I’m a huge fan of old/retro gas stations and everything related to it. I think I have one of the biggest photography collection related to gas stations, gas pumps, oil cans, metal signs, […]

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Classic cars, customs, hotrods, ratrods & beaters for GTA San Andreas and Vice City

July 5, 2011
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I must admit I’m not a big fan of computer games. I rarely play games and I have no idea what’s new today (please feel free to share with us new cool games in the comments). Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is in the meanwhile a quite old game but it’s one of my favorites, […]

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Bottrop Kustom Kulture 2011 – A few pics

June 20, 2011
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Last Saturday I was at Bottrop Kustom Kulture 2011 (Germany) together with Trashers C.C. (from The Netherlands). I found lots of great cars and cool people from everywhere around Europe, even from Spain… there might be a deep crisis there, but there are always a few Euro’s left to fill up the V8 tank and […]

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Bottrop Kustom Kulture – See you there tomorrow

June 17, 2011
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We’ll be tomorrow at Bottrop Kustom Kulture in Bottrop, Germany. One of the coolest custom culture events in Europe. You better watch their official teaser to get the feeling… See you there! Bottrop Kustom Kulture 2011 – Teaser from The Pixeleye on Vimeo.

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Coolest reality show ever! Desert Car Kings on Discovery Channel

June 5, 2011
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On our ModelJunkyard blog we want to share with you not only model car related stuff, but our complete passion and lifestyle, what we do every day, things that we find here and there that we enjoy and know you, our readers, will like, like this new Discovery Channel reality show: “Desert Car Kings” Today on […]

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1963 Ford F100 Pick up – junked

May 15, 2011
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This time I want to share with you this pictures of this ’63 Ford F100 Pickup I found one in the middle of nowhere. This one is a good example where we get our inspiration from…  ..enjoy the pics!      

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One of my favorite books ever: Diamonds In The Rust

May 7, 2011
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In order to understand this story you have to travel back in time and space. Do you remember the 80s? Without internet the world was huge. Finding like minded people or hobby related items was not that easy. Specially if your hobby is that strange as junkyard art. I’ll never forget the day I found […]

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Model Junkyard on Rat Rod Magazine

May 1, 2011
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Our junk model car hobby made it into a great magazine again. This time: “Rat Rod Magazine” from USA. Rat Rod magazine is a great publication featuring cool low budget rat rods and rat rod scene related articles. A few months ago I was googling for rat rod pictures and so I found the Rat […]

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Patagonian desert flower – 1976 Ford Falcon – Junk car

March 31, 2011
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A few years ago I was traveling through Argentina, crossing the patagonian desert on my way to Bariloche just when I came across this great desert flower and I had to hit the brakes for a photo session. What you see here was once a 1976 Ford Falcon more or less like the one in the […]

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Tokheim 39 – Gas Pump scratch build scale model

March 24, 2011
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I don’t know why I always had a fascination for gas pumps, specially old and rusted ones. I originally wanted to build a 1:1 scale replica, but not having enough time and tools to do it, the project was frozen. Many years later, when starting our junkyard diorama project, I decided I must had a gas […]

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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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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [3] – Engine compartment

February 18, 2011
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The engine compartment of this kit was a real mess. As it is a relatively big scale (1/16) I just couldn’t live with that. I decided to make it complete new. I searched for real pictures of a real ’57 Chevy Bel Air’s engine compartment. I found a few nice pictures. I took the firewall’s […]

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1/24 Junkyard diorama project

February 4, 2011
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As you might already have realized by now, we are really passionate about junk cars, junkyards and everything that looks old and rusty. One of our greatest dreams is to own a junkyard full of great classic cars… but how do you do that when you live and work in a big city and you […]

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The ModelJunkyard-Page on Facebook

February 2, 2011
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We started a Facebook page in order to create a bigger community of real and model junk car fans. On this page you’ll get all the news from ModelJunkyard and you’ll also be able to share your projects (models or real) with us and other ModelJunkyard’s friends. Feel free to join the group and invite other […]

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1972 Ford F-100 pickup, junked -real-

January 26, 2011
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This is one of our favorite pickups ever as we also learned to drive (at age 12!) in a pick up like this. We told you about one of our grandpa’s junkyard. Well, the other grandpa used to drive a 1972 Ford F-100 pickup like this one on the picture, but in perfect condition (a […]

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Seb’s -real- 1955 Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria [1]

January 13, 2011
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Some people say you’ll never forget your first love…  and I must admit, that’s right! My favorite car was -and still is- the ’57 Chevy Bel Air BUT…  the ’55 Vicky was my first car. I’ll never forget that hot summer. It was just a few days after my 15th birthday. My uncle had bought […]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [2] – Further Progress

January 2, 2011
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I kept on working on the 1957 Chevrolet. On this video you can see some more scratch built details, such as the inside of the hood, which was almost completely built on plastic. The bolts holding the rear suspension to the differential and rear axle were pretty unclean on the original model, so I made […]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [1] – High Detail

December 4, 2010
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This build is based on a pretty old kit from ESCI – ERTL. Although the scale of 1/16 is pretty big, this model doesn’t have much details out of the box. So I had to do a lot of scratch building to make many things by myself so the model would look more realistic. This […]

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Why do we love junk cars?

November 1, 2010
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As children we used to play in our grandfather’s junkyard and collect rusty pieces from the greatest classic cars. We used to take them home to restore them, to exhibit them in our bedroom or just to collect them. Living in an apartment in the downtown area of a big city, it was just not […]

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