1957 Chevy

Monument Valley Diorama – Roswell incident & Classic cars

November 8, 2014
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On my previous post I already shared with you some pictures about the making and delivery of the king-bed sized monument valley diorama. On this post I want to share with you more cool pictures of this very singular project. Monument Valley Diorama – The Roswell incident scenario One of HorizonHobby‘s request was to create some kind […]

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Grundig 3D TV – Scale model display case – Step 3: Barn find & American Pickers diorama

March 26, 2013
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This is the third and last step of the 3D TV display case project. As I already mentioned on my last post, I wanted to make a barn find and “American Pickers” diorama. American Pickers is one of my favorites TV shows, on History Channel. If you know that my grandpa used to be also […]

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Grundig 3D TV – Scale model display case – Step 2: Display interior and screen

March 23, 2013
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Here is the second step in the process of making a 3D TV scale model display case. This time is not about thinking “out of the box” but thinking about “the box inside the box”. I want to use the 3D TV to display other dioramas, so I decided to make interchangeable diorama boxes. After […]

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Grundig 3D TV – Scale model display case – Step 1: TV disassembly

March 11, 2013
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A while back I bought an old Grundig TV Super Color 1630 from 1976. I already knew what I wanted to do with it but I wanted to keep it secret. Here is the first part of the process, disassembling and cleaning the old television set. I’ve been reading online about dissembling old television sets and I learned […]

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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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57 Chevy Black Widow – Fuel Lines, Chasis and Interior

June 23, 2012
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Revell did a great job on this kit, but once you get started, you can see that there is so much more you can do while building the 57 Black Widow Stock Car. On the last post, I’ve shown you some home made details for the Fireball Robert’s Fairlane engine. I used the same details […]

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55, 56 & 57 Chevy Bel Air automotive paintings

April 21, 2012
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Last week I just finished this series of Chevy Bel Air paintings. The tri-chevys are among my favorite cars since I was a kid. Unluckily I’m not the only one…  and in the meanwhile the prices of this great Chevys are beyond most people’s reach. As you might notice by now I do not limit […]

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57 Chevrolet 150 – Black Widow Project – Building Tips, Facts and Questions

April 15, 2012
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I wrote a kit review about this Revell model some time ago. I really liked the kit right from the start. So, when my brother and discussed about our next project, an instruction DVD tutorial, I suggested to build this car in the racer stock car version. By the way, we will be filming this […]

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1/25 Revell – 1957 Chevy 150 Utility Sedan & BlackWidow Race Car

September 23, 2011
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This kit is labeled “Special Edition Series”. And in comparison with the average scale kit, this one is surely special. I wanted to buy since I first saw it! This kit features a 150 Chevy Utlity Sedan (which you can also build as the Black Widow Stock Car). The 150 Chevy Utility Sedan – also called Handyman […]

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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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Collector’s Kit: 54, 55 and 57 Chevy Revell HOTROD Series

April 8, 2011
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As the name tells you, you get three classic chevys in one box – now, if that isn’t already a good start!! And wait for the rest to come! Although you may not find this kit very often (it was made in 1985), I thought of making a review anyway – just because this kit […]

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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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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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