How about a scale vehicle thread

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Bob,here's my version of a Ford crewcab,did this about 10 years ago but lost the windows to it before I even finished it wall1.I plan to redo it once I am retired and the first thing will be the roof.

Never thought of shortening one but now you've got me thinking I need a few more of these to mess with :eek:

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Kevinkrey said:
NICE WORK Shaygetz! I want the blue one!. I want to pick one up and fit a plow on it.
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You mean like this?:mrgreen:

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Just letting the glue dry out before I paint it. It's just bits and pieces from my scrap box. Got a little carried away and put clearance staffs on the outside in brass wire. My LPBs'll feel like their cars won't get dinged up by some yahoo this winter now.

Thank you Catt for allowing me to feel like I had an original modeling idea until 6/6/08 @ 11:26pm.:mrgreen: Really thought I was on to something here...sigh... Nice work :thumb:
 
shaygetz said:
You mean like this?:mrgreen:

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Just letting the glue dry out before I paint it. It's just bits and pieces from my scrap box. Got a little carried away and put clearance staffs on the outside in brass wire. My LPBs'll feel like their cars won't get dinged up by some yahoo this winter now.

Thank you Catt for allowing me to feel like I had an original modeling idea until 6/6/08 @ 11:26pm.:mrgreen: Really thought I was on to something here...sigh... Nice work :thumb:
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WOW! Can i have some more info on how you made the plow?
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Kevinkrey said:
WOW! Can i have some more info on how you made the plow?
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Thank you for the kind words. It really is just cobbled bits and pieces from my scrap box. The blade is hand curled styrene reinforced with a bit of T channel. I added a scraper blade of the same styrene about 1/16" wide. The hitch is a porch post from an N scale house. The lift is half a window frame, a sawhorse leg, a piece of 1/16" square styrene and two headlights made from rounded pieces of casting sprue. The clearance staffs are bits of bent brass wire.

I'll take a couple pictures so you can see how it went together.
 
Here's a Liebherr derrick I picked up for a buck at the train show this weekend...

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There for awhile last year you could get 1:87 vans at Wally World 'til they pushed them out. The Dodges looked great as they were but the Fords were left with dorky looking rims. I swapped one set with a Reel Rides "Dazed and Confused" Chevy pickup, the other I swapped with a Malibu Classics Shelby Cobra that hit the floor...

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The Wally-World Mailbu Volvo make-over.

Still have to touch up, decal the box.
As with my tradition lately with these Wally-World cheapies, I've been adding drivers, and opening windows. This one also has a an assistant driver.
 

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How about a scale vehicle thread ?

Yes , some really NICE vehicles . Now for something completely different (Apoligies to Monty Python)
How about some junky stuff? In S scale .
 

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Hah!! Thought in meant BAD junky --not Junkyard junky -- right?

Here are a few closer shots of some of them. They are mostly Hot Wheels Cars.
The model A pick up was made from a sedan, like the red one next to the deuce roadster, the bed was made from pieces of a radio vacuum tube grid.
The what I hope you recognize as a Cord is two VW front halves back to back ( Hot Wheels did not make a Cord then) the tan sedan is also made from a VW.
The Ford convert was not a HW, one thing interesting about it is that it is obviously a fire victim , however the perfect " fire bluing" of the grill was an accident-- I had not figured out how to portray that effect, one day I had it in the car --on the dashboard-- to show it to a friend. When I got it to show him, the SUN had done the grill for me!! The burned out seats are more vacuum tube stuff. The heat warped hood was done with an overlay of aluminum foil . since my cutoff date for my modeling is about 1950 , I needed a reason for the new ford convert to be in a junkyard & I did not want it rolled up in a ball totaled, Soooooo the Local Ford dealer's showroom burned down!
I have not bothered to display these for years, mostly because I got tired of non-Modelers supposing all it took to make them look this way was to beat them with a hammer!!
 

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When I was a boy, I liked playing in the dirt. Now that I am older I still do but not so much with hotwheels. One day my wife was digging in the garden and found an old matchbox that was left behind. It looked a little like what you have there. Not as good and took a lot longer but none the less the dirt over time aged it to perfection. Those are very nice and it makes me think of a really good place I could use something just like that. :thumb:
 
Here are a few more --- if anyone wants a closer look at some of them , just holler.
I plan on building --one day -- a S scale diorama of a junkyard, some where I have a small box full of parts for it -- a bunch of early Ford
( flathead type) transmissions, made from pop rivets mostly , some with full gearsets that actually turn. Also a bunch of Banjo type Ford differentials , & axle housings-- more pop rivets ( countersunk type --- you old guys that hot rodded can picture that --Right? )
Engine blocks & all kinds of stuff to stack here & there in a muddy ,rutted , puddled with water, oil & grease stained yard with car carcasses all helter skelter about & an old refrigerator truck sitting , doors open ,stuffed full of drive shafts, some transmissions, a couple of dash boards, perhaps a fender or two. A tar paper shack or perhaps a rotting cabbose for an office.
I recently bought 6 or 8 Yat Ming 1/64 pickup trucks of the 30's & 40's , a Studebaker truck, A Hudson pickup & others with the intent of adding to this motley crew -- BUT the DURN things are just SO NICE I can't screw myself up to take a Hamm--- er--er --- Dremel to 'Em!
 

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COMBAT said:
When I was a boy, I liked playing in the dirt. Now that I am older I still do but not so much with hotwheels. One day my wife was digging in the garden and found an old matchbox that was left behind. It looked a little like what you have there. Not as good and took a lot longer but none the less the dirt over time aged it to perfection. Those are very nice and it makes me think of a really good place I could use something just like that. :thumb:
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Some of the grime on these is a result of that same process --age -- sitting as long as they have the dust has coated them & I just leave it there -- easier than cleaning it off & then trying to "Paint it back on." :-P
 
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