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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – cabin floor [5]

May 10, 2014
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One more step in this project. As you’ve seen in my previous posts, I’ve been adding a lot of details on this kit. After opening the doors and making door panels, there is one more thing to fix: the cabin floor. The kit’s cabin floor is far from representing the original, so there were many […]

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Vintage gas station turned into a junkyard in Bernardo Larroude, La Pampa, Argentina

April 25, 2014
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During my recent holidays in Argentina we went to visit our grandma on the countryside. On the way we made a short stop to take some pictures of this vintage gas station turned into a junkyard (desarmadero), tire repair shop (gomería) and garage (taller). As it’s normal in Argentina, I’ve found an interesting mix of […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – hood details [4]

April 11, 2014
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On this post I want to show you how I improved the hood details. I first saw this kind of hood structure details at scale models my bro Iggy did. I instantly got  hooked on “hood detailing”. Although this details will be difficult to see in the finished model, I wanted to do it anyway. […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – door panels [3]

March 8, 2014
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Holidays are over, it’s time to continue with my ’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside project. I’ve been working on the doors lately. After scratch building the door jambs, I decided to improve the truck bed as it was an easy and fast job. Now I’ll show how I made the door panels. After cutting the door […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – bed fenders [2]

January 31, 2014
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Here is the second step of improving this ’64 Chevy Pickup kit from Revell. After checking many pictures of the real thing online, I decided I had to improve the bed fenders as well. The original bed looked too toyish to me. The pics speak for themselves. A very easy process with a huge visual […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – doors [1]

January 13, 2014
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After a break of several weeks, I’m back. This time with a new (sub)project which will be part of the farm diorama I’m working on. This is going to be an old farm pickup, based on a ’64 Chevy C10 Pickup Fleetside in 1:25 scale from Revell. I decided to improve many things on this kit, […]

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The Ford Falcon in Argentina – Lots of survivors still around.

December 16, 2012
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The Ford Falcon was one of the most successful cars in the argentine car history, and that can be clearly seen on the streets. With 466,796 units made it was one of the most produced cars in Argentina. The car was produced from 1962 to 1991, a total of 19 years.  Six restyling were made […]

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Junkyard “The Child” (Desarmadero El Nene) in Urdinarrain Entre Ríos, Argentina

December 13, 2012
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Last week I went to one of the most unique junkyards in Argentina. A junkyard called “The child” (desarmadero el nene). This junkyard is located in Urdinarrain in the province of Entre Rios, only 280 km away from Buenos Aires. The owner, Oscar, is a very friendly guy with a deep passion for classic cars, […]

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1937 Ford Pickup – Rat Rod

January 10, 2012
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A few months ago I went to Bottrop Kustom Kulture in Germany with a group of friends of Trashers Club (The Netherlands). On the way to the show I made a few videos. Here you have Skip’s 1937 Ford Pickup Rat rod. A damn cool thing! Enjoy it!

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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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Junk car pics from ModelJunkyard’s friends

October 9, 2011
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Having a blog is great! You start having contact with people you would never have the opportunity to meet other way. I’m surfing here and there and that’s how I sometimes find cool stuff from like minded people. Other times it’s the other way around. Other people find us. Well, here are 2 guys I met […]

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