Anybody here do any model car building? It used to be a hobby of mine as a teen, then I forgot about them for a long time, but my girlfriend got me some model sets 2 years ago for Christmas and I've been back on building, but now I've been moving away from box stock builds. I mostly build 1/24 and 1/25 scale. I made this truck to look like my old Chevy I had.
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Lol, I own that exact truck....... it's my wife's baby she absolutely loves that thing -
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I was never really into model cars, but model planes and warships. I moved into flying model planes and managed to crash most of them really early on. The waste of hard work on my poor flying skill disinterested me fast. I think the last car I did was a Porsche, or perhaps the Chevy Luv with the boat and trailer kit.Comment
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A bit dirty at the moment but here is mine
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oh man, thats just classic truck right there...
back when trucks were purely utility vehicles.
not like the new stuff being built.
i used to build model cars many years ago as a kid with my father. It stopped when i got older. I tried to pick it back up again and bought a bomber plane. i did everything. every button on the pilots jacket, every seatbelt clasp and buckle, and everything else i could paint. i went nuts with it. took forever but was fun. UNTIL i put the top half on the plane and everything was covered. there were tiny windows up front but that was it. you couldn't see anything...
i was furious. finished it, put it down, and left it. haven't touched a model since.
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I tend to do alot of detail that nobody will ever see, but I know it's there -
A suggestion for next time - find some connection points and add some small magnets if possible for the canopy. That's how I do a lot of the vehicle builds if I decide to show the interior. That way it's removable to show off all your hard work!
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I used to do them here and there. I have a few in various states in boxes and gave a bunch away when we bought our house and moved.
Off the top of my head I started a toyota pickup basically as a scale version of where I wanted mine to go. A 67 coronet clone of my HS shop teachers drag car. And a 50 merc I actually did a chop on. That was the first time I tried actually filling and "body working" a model.
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I have a 32 Ford that I actually cut the doors out and put on hinges. I'm also half done with a Meng Rubicon kit that I am making match my real Jeep, besides the hemi swap I did on the model version. Most of my projects get underhood wiring, spark plug wires, and custom headers that I make from silver solder.
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dang, i should have done something like that.Comment
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I built them as a kid a lot of models (planes, boats, sailing ships, cars and trucks). When I was still in the Navy and a geographically bachelor (married living away from my family because of orders) I built car models to help pass the time in my barracks room when in port. It was cheap, occupied mind and hands and help pass the time. I threw them all away about 6 years ago before a major move. Tried to give them away but could find no takers. I wish I had at least kept the 1967 Jaguar E-type.
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