Chevy Van (yes, I used the horrible custom parts in the box, just because I could, they didn’t fit very well either, so yes, it should look this awful )
For all their faults (whatever they are) , everything you have made in the past two years has turned out better than I thought it would. Well done, and keep up the good work!
Yeah, I looked at my 2019 builds a while ago and realized that my improvments during this time are quite impressive. The 48 Chevy, the two Volvos, the Lotus and the Audi are on a level I thought I would never reach tbh… Not trying to brag, just being satisfied.
1969 Ford Galaxie. Far from the build that I am the most proud about, on the other hand built from an old kit with crude detailing and bad fit. Oh well, better one finished build in 2020 than none.
Good to see this topic alive again. Ever since I broght a 3D printer, my focus shifted from building models to design, print and paint 1/64 cars. Here are some of my favorites.
I got this Speedwagon from my father as a birthday gift in 1998, finished it in 1999, I have wanted to restore it for many years, and earlier this year I found the parts I needed so I tore it down and rebuilt it. Not 100% perfect but I wanted to keep as much of the original build as possible, so I am satisfied.
The title doesn’t say it has to be cars. This is by far my favorite model I’ve ever built. 140 cm tall Fallout 4 West Tek T-60 power armor. I took files for a solid statue, made it printable, and added articulations, printed, painted, and weathered it. It’s for free on Thingiverse, but you can buy the files on Cultis if you wanna support my works.
Looks like an old topic is getting revived. So I’ll jump on the bandwagon. I have a decent number of scale model kits at home, but barely build any. Mostly because I take my time to build them. And for some kits I just find it a waste to build them, I’d rather keep them original.
The last thing I did to this was using fake leather from an old wallet to put over the seats. Which looks nice, although the thickness of the material unfortunately makes the seat loose a lot of detail.
No I never intended this as a thread only for cars, and since this is offtopic anyway I guess it wont break any other rules either, so just post them all, whatever you build, is my opinion.
When searching Futuro Darko images for my own interpretation of it, I came across a paper model made by it’s creator, Krzysztof Nowak. Last time I’ve built something like this was some good 10 years ago. Nice project for some lazy evenings. You can download it here.
Mercedes 600 SEL. The brand is LEE, a terrible chinese ripoff of the Tamiya kit where nothing did fit, so it became a quick build with tinted windows, superglued bonnet and no suspension. The grille was missing so I replaced it with a SL grille and the wheels are some white metal aftermarket units, other than that pretty much out of the box. Paint is Nissan Dark purplish blue pearl and Mercedes Astralsilber.
I dug out my old garage diorama again. The base is a piece of MDF I sprayed with grey primer to make it look like concrete, a little too smooth maybe (I am almost a bit eager to try to see if I can make it look like splatter paint with some black and white and a worn out brush), the walls are plywood sprayed with white primer, I am satisfied there since the plywood gives them kind of a structure.
The radiator is a piece cut out from the camper from the 1965 El Camino by AMT, plumbing is copper wire and the thermostat is a piece of sprue. Fire extinguisher is, IIRC, from the Fujimi garage kit.
Both the barrel, the air compressor and the boombox is things I had lying around in the parts box (from unknow sources), as well as the rim the air hose is hung on. The hose itself is made from copper wire. I know that it looks a bit empty without a workbench.
The workbench needs a repair with new legs etc. (and the fact that it was damaged is why I lost interest in this diorama some years ago), as well as the vise that needs a new crank.
So why was it brought back from the dead? Well, I had a Volvo 760 body that was so brittle after some strong paint had crazed it, so it literally broke apart. Save what could be saved, my idea now is to build a Volvo couch for the garage dio, as the swede I am, it fits very well IMO Lol.
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