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The first year we were in our house (1978) I didn't have car projects ready to work on so I played with some little stuff. I have always liked scale models. It is as easy to get lost in the detail as it is with the big stuff or other interests.
An older post shows Mike Hanson's project and some of mine.
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/59 ... 1454820917
A greater undertaking was Ed Roy's Simplex models that actually ran and all parts operated. My mind still boggles when I think about them.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/0 ... mplex.html
http://forums.aaca.org/topic/161797-191 ... miniature/
So many of us grew up in the era of model planes, trains and automobiles. Some of us still tinker with them.An older post shows Mike Hanson's project and some of mine.
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/59 ... 1454820917
A greater undertaking was Ed Roy's Simplex models that actually ran and all parts operated. My mind still boggles when I think about them.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/0 ... mplex.html
http://forums.aaca.org/topic/161797-191 ... miniature/
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Sweet!!
If I may, 20 years ago I slammed junk VCR parts, a spare Ertl flywheel and scraps together. Gotta love big gas engines.
If I could've gotten around to the slip rings, it would've at least generated electricity or turned the flywheel. It's a motor from the VCR.
I'm still a poor model maker and photographer but I guess I wanted to get my '29 21-32 into the background.
If I may, 20 years ago I slammed junk VCR parts, a spare Ertl flywheel and scraps together. Gotta love big gas engines.
If I could've gotten around to the slip rings, it would've at least generated electricity or turned the flywheel. It's a motor from the VCR.
I'm still a poor model maker and photographer but I guess I wanted to get my '29 21-32 into the background.
Since I lost my mind mind, I feel more liberated
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Pretty cool Duey. I sure had a lot of fun with these back in the day.
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I have friends who model long-gone historic scenes to amazing accuracy and detail.
With "tricky" photography, one can be fooled into thinking they are period photos. As
a kid, I enjoyed my hand at it too, but soon turned to full scale, restoring any number
of old things I found, including cars. While modeling is not for me anymore, many of
the same skills translate to any scale and I REALLY appreciate the historic research these
guys do to build a dead-on accurate replication of a 140-year-old scene.
With "tricky" photography, one can be fooled into thinking they are period photos. As
a kid, I enjoyed my hand at it too, but soon turned to full scale, restoring any number
of old things I found, including cars. While modeling is not for me anymore, many of
the same skills translate to any scale and I REALLY appreciate the historic research these
guys do to build a dead-on accurate replication of a 140-year-old scene.
More people are doing it today than ever before !
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Chuck Doan is one of those masters of dioramas.
https://public.fotki.com/ChuckDoan/mode ... 37c3e.html
https://public.fotki.com/ChuckDoan/mode ... 37c3e.html
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This miniature I made for my wife Joy for Christmas years ago. She is an artist. The table is copied from one we found in the dumpster behind a church. The overloaded wall socket is inspired by many safety meetings we attended at work. Paint tubes and cans were turned from steel and the brushes from wood.
The recent thread on turning wood on a metal lathe and the cannons reminded me of this.
Rich It's time to dust it carefully.
The recent thread on turning wood on a metal lathe and the cannons reminded me of this.
Rich It's time to dust it carefully.
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Jeff mentioned some of the great things on the OT site. This thread is one.
As far as I'm concerned, Edgar Roy was the master of miniatures. This AACA discussion shows he and many other model car projects.
https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341737-mo ... rs/page/6/ "Edgar Roy devoted much of the latter part of life and the best part of 30 years (and 23,000 hour) building a complete Model Line of the 1911 Simplex."
Also note vintagemotoring....
As far as I'm concerned, Edgar Roy was the master of miniatures. This AACA discussion shows he and many other model car projects.
https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341737-mo ... rs/page/6/ "Edgar Roy devoted much of the latter part of life and the best part of 30 years (and 23,000 hour) building a complete Model Line of the 1911 Simplex."
Also note vintagemotoring....
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Man I had to stop reading all the entry's on that link, cool stuff. This is about as close I get right now to miniature. Yes that is a Model T in a hermetical sealed bubble! LOL
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas!
1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
1948 Ford F2 pickup
1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
1948 Ford F2 pickup
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OK Mark, that's American Flyer track in the foreground and it looks like about a 1948 B&O Boxcar in the background! Hmmmmmm......
This shows my other hobby too, Theatre Organs. Sadly that neat leg lamp got knocked off a shelf accidentally last week and is now in many pieces. RATS.
This shows my other hobby too, Theatre Organs. Sadly that neat leg lamp got knocked off a shelf accidentally last week and is now in many pieces. RATS.
T'ake care,
David Dewey
David Dewey
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As so many of us have similar interest along the same lines I'm sure most of us have at least one broken leg lamp aroung the place. Perhaps we should start a thread on those.
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I DOUBLE DOG DARE YA !
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Ah wooed contibute to dis tred, bat my tung is stuck to a flagpore!
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1/6 scale Duesenberg. EVERYTHING works, including the hydraulic shock absorbers.
And yes, the engine runs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE9ZSjV8Ctk
And yes, the engine runs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE9ZSjV8Ctk
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That's amazing Jerry. I've seen T, A and V-8s that run but can't imagine that ability.
I thought I should include this in here even though I haven't touched it in years. http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/59 ... 1454820917
Mike Hanson's Horseless carriage is fabulous in it.
I thought I should include this in here even though I haven't touched it in years. http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/59 ... 1454820917
Mike Hanson's Horseless carriage is fabulous in it.
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Elvin Townsend, of the Bullet Speedster, showed me some of his miniatures and his cars of course.
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
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Rich,
Where do you find the time to do all the amazing stuff you do??? Are you 156 years old?
Where do you find the time to do all the amazing stuff you do??? Are you 156 years old?
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I'm almost halfway to 156, Jerry. A low threshold of boredom keeps me tinkering a lot.
I'm glad to see others doing similar things.
Wasn't it Elvin Townsend who made the aluminum monocle WS frames? I have one on my speedster.
Thanks.
Rich
I'm glad to see others doing similar things.
Wasn't it Elvin Townsend who made the aluminum monocle WS frames? I have one on my speedster.
Thanks.
Rich
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I dug the box of my Model S model out again today. Here are some more pictures of it. It is 1/12th scale. I had my fun out of it far before completion but the study of it was enormous satisfaction. Models tent to bounce around and disassemble. Dust and stains have taken their toll but it's fun to dig the box out and enjoy what's left.
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