Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Down on the Street

 Jalopnik has a regular feature called Down On The Street, where old cars on the streets of Alameda, an island in San Francisco bay, are photographed. It just reached its 150th vehicle. Each of these little photo essays has loads of reference, whether for particular vehicles or just weathering and realistic damage.

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GAZ 51 hot rod

 Oh those crazy Russians. The GAZ 51 was a Russian workhorse during teh Second World War. Now one of them is being turned into a custom pickup.

Model Wheels do a GAZ 51 in 1:72nd, if you want to emulate the project.

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Japanese kit nostalgia

 Old Japanese models, depicting a variety of odd and fantastic subjects. Lots of Star Wars rip offs and transforming robots as well as stuff licenced from old school anime. For the automotive modeller I think 1:24th Sumo wrestlers or 1:25th lemonade stand would be great diorama additions.

(I tried translating teh page, but somehow that meant I lost the images, which are the main joy of it.)

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Saturday, December 01, 2007

A miniature air force for Christmas

 The Tate Modern gallery's Christmas tree is this year adorned with models of all the fighter planes currently in service, 122 in total.

[Fiona Banner], known for her huge text descriptions of war films, has made what appears to be traditional kit models of all the world's 122 fighter planes, after a considerable amount of research to discover exactly which planes are in service, not something many countries like to boast about.

Some models are commercially available, others do not exist in kit form, so she had to create them from scratch, and as the more anoraky small visitors will undoubtedly clock immediately, she has chosen not to give any of them insignia or any markings of nationality.


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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Building a big Mosquito

 Heritage Aviation models has a picture story of one customer's build of a 1:24th scale Mosquito.

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Take Manhattan

 These Warhammer players have created a huge Manhattan-like gaming environment in someone's apartment.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Lazy Weathering

 In an effort to clear his workspace so he can get round to making some train models, Dan thought of a really simple, and lazy, way to simulate flood damage on a car model.

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Monday, November 05, 2007

Race Track Replicas

 Race Track Replicas sell replicas of banger racing cars from the 60s to the present in 1:43rd, 1:24th and 1:18th scales.

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Mk 1 Zephyr Zodiac reference pictures

 I've got a 1:76th Ford Zephyr Zodiac Mk 1 model from Classix that may become another Small Scale Custom project. So I'm looking for reference pictures.

Zephyr Zodiac and Consul Convention 1999.

Image from the Cotswold Classic Car Club

A V8 Mk1

No Zephyrs here, but some quite mad Capris and Cortinas.

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Coop goes to the So-Cal Speed Shop

 Coop has a gallery up on Flickr from a visit to one of the most famous customising companies in the world- So-Cal Speed Shop L.A. Open House, 11/3/07

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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Hot Wheels concept cars

 Mattel have announced a line of Hot Wheels cars designed by carmakers. The first batch were unveiled at the recent SEMA show.

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