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Trip Down Memory Lane
Topic Started: Oct 10 2009, 02:43 PM (197 Views)
DamnCranky666	Oct 10 2009, 02:43 PM Post #1
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Memories of the things we left behind . . . LOL! Hey, folks how about remeniscing about those builds you had fond memories of building . . . or watching someone else build . . . Since I started this I might as well take my own medicine: Although this was a total failure, I sure had a lot of fun building and playing with the componets . . . and you guys walked me through a lot of the steps. I still have it up on the shelves . . . It was the beginning of the madness for me, of building, of trying to take better pics . . . and really loving the act of it all . . . Sometimes we lose sight of that aspect of buiding: the FUN parts.



Bryan_M	Oct 10 2009, 02:46 PM Post #2
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	thats great cranky!! bryan



DamnCranky666	Oct 10 2009, 02:50 PM Post #3
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Well, how about you take the trip down memory lane, buddy?



Bryan_M	Oct 10 2009, 02:51 PM Post #4
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	DamnCranky666 Oct 10 2009, 02:50 PM Well, how about you take the trip down memory lane, buddy? yea, gimme a minute...........im eating my chicken!! LOL bryan



DamnCranky666	Oct 10 2009, 02:57 PM Post #5
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Yeah, there's a memory right there. You and those chicken wings last year. Every time we heard you were eating you were eating chicken wings! LOL!



Bryan_M	Oct 10 2009, 03:09 PM Post #6
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	ok buddy.........this is the first dio i ever completed, i cant remember how long it has been since i built this....its been a couple years now... it was also the first time i ever did a heavily rusted vehicle........ this one is the first diorama that i ever started on!! needless to say, its still not finished. i had no clue what i was doing with this thing but you guys all helped me out..........im pretty sure i started this one in `06. this one needs alot of love to be finished, i made alot of mistakes, but they can be fixed..... one day i will finish it.......the gravel nees pulled off of it, its too damn big, nothing is weathered corectly.........im not happy with it, but it could be finshed..........one day! bryan



DamnCranky666	Oct 10 2009, 03:12 PM Post #7
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Those are cool, buddy. Yeah, it only seems like it was yesterday with many builds.



Bryan_M	Oct 10 2009, 03:19 PM Post #8
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	DamnCranky666 Oct 10 2009, 03:12 PM Those are cool, buddy. Yeah, it only seems like it was yesterday with many builds. yea cranky, time goes by so damn fast! one day i will finish that gas staion diorama, who knows when, but it will get done. i have 2 huge sheets of the siding thats on the gas station still here too, i think it was like 20 bucks a sheet! but the sheets are really big, like 2 feet by 3 feet or something like that........its gonna come in handy for something, thats for sure! bryan



DamnCranky666	Oct 11 2009, 11:21 AM Post #9
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Hum, nobody else wants to take the trip down memory lane, eh?



eshaver	Oct 11 2009, 11:57 AM Post #10
Junior Member Posts: 73 Group: Members Member #1,273 Joined: July 24, 2009	I must say , my hat is off to ya guys ! The 1958 Impala is so real ............. wow 1 Ive seen so many of these 1-1 Impalas rust the same way too ! G M did a lousy job of ever building these cars . Meanwhile the dragstrip is an outstanding piece as well ! I can't make a desision as to whats a favorite , please don't make me cause I kike them both ! Ed Shaver



Mercman	Oct 11 2009, 12:00 PM Post #11
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,708 Group: Members Member #482 Joined: November 25, 2006	Okay V here's one I remember doing. This was the first Merc I ever chopped. It took me 6 months to build, as I wanted to make sure the putty didn't shrink. I used the article on chopping roofs by Tim Boyd in the old SAE mag. Every contest I entered this one in for 2 years it always brought home the gold. Today my daughter is the caretaker of it, as she got it when I divided up my collection between her, and her brother. This Merc was a Crusin USA kit that George Barris designed for AMT. Pic was at the St.Paul World of Wheels show. Her brother got this one, as he was just little when I built it. This one also brought home the gold in every show I entered it in. I remember the day I bought the kit at the local LHS. There was a young kid in there looking at kits also. I opened the box, and took out just the stuff I needed, and gave him the rest. He thought he hit Christmas in June. All I took was the body, and chassis parts. It's a Revell 55 Chevy kit. Okay one more here's a pic of what a JC Whitney ad did back in HS. I saw this ad in their catalog one day for car club jackets and a idea was born. Ten years later when the club disbanded we had 10 grand in tools, a 2 car garage, and money in the bank. This is the car I drove at the local dirt track our 2nd year racing. We ran 2 cars this year. This one was driven by our Assistant Pastor of our church who was a club advisor.



DaveInTheHat	Oct 11 2009, 12:27 PM Post #12
Advanced Member In The Hat Posts: 2,160 Group: Members Member #386 Joined: August 20, 2006	This is a house that I made mostly out of sticks and stuff laying around. I built it around 1975. I scratch built this for my mom about 10 years ago. I built this one about 10 years ago too. I made it for my wife's sister.



khamilton	Oct 11 2009, 12:58 PM Post #13
Diorama Moderator Posts: 4,229 Group: Members Member #522 Joined: December 13, 2006	I really like that studio mouonted on a palette!



Mercman	Oct 11 2009, 01:00 PM Post #14
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,708 Group: Members Member #482 Joined: November 25, 2006	Speaking of trips down memory lane. I just received a e-mail from a old model building buddy of mine. I invited him to check out the board. this guys work is amazing. He does a lot of customs, and rods. Goes for Foxboro Kid, so if he shows up , make him fell welcome. Like I know that would never happen.



Mercman	Oct 11 2009, 01:02 PM Post #15
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,708 Group: Members Member #482 Joined: November 25, 2006	Dave I bet those are highly treasured by the receivers. Great job.



chester	Oct 11 2009, 03:57 PM Post #16
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,791 Group: Members Member #526 Joined: December 13, 2006	Wish I had photos of my first diorama, a dinosaur diorama in a shoebox back in 2nd grade. But I did this one quite a few years ago when I first got my digital camera.



Mike	Oct 11 2009, 04:10 PM Post #17
Member Posts: 355 Group: Members Member #535 Joined: December 16, 2006	My first diorama created for the PEANUT BUTTER LID DIORAMA CHALLENGED issued over at SA by Virgil. "The rogue cow" is still in my entertainment center some 3-4 years later.



DaveInTheHat	Oct 11 2009, 05:45 PM Post #18
Advanced Member In The Hat Posts: 2,160 Group: Members Member #386 Joined: August 20, 2006	I kinda have a "thing" about birdhouses. All my dioramas have birdhouses in them. These are about 1.5"=1'. I lost count on how many I made. It's a lot.



khamilton	Oct 11 2009, 08:05 PM Post #19
Diorama Moderator Posts: 4,229 Group: Members Member #522 Joined: December 13, 2006	WOW!! You've never pulled them out before, Dave. Those are really neat.



DamnCranky666	Oct 11 2009, 08:09 PM Post #20
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Ah, you guys are making my day here . . . boy, this thread is working its mage. Dave, those are great bird houses and builds . . . lordy, this is some nice work, you guys. Mike, I remember your PBL, and it still looks as wonderful and fresh as the day you built it. Thanks for the memories. Please keep 'em coming!!!



Lou	Oct 11 2009, 08:27 PM Post #21
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,798 Group: Members Member #622 Joined: February 15, 2007	Dave you aren't shitting around when it comes to building bird houses. They are great! How about a few in 'N" scale?



DaveInTheHat	Oct 11 2009, 09:06 PM Post #22
Advanced Member In The Hat Posts: 2,160 Group: Members Member #386 Joined: August 20, 2006	HO is as small as I got.



DamnCranky666	Oct 12 2009, 07:18 AM Post #23
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Oh, man, that's small! Wow. Any smaller and the birds would have to be specks!!! Can you imagine Z scale?



DamnCranky666	Oct 14 2009, 06:39 AM Post #24
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	All of this proves the point: we are one heck of an eclectic group of builders, which is what makes us one of the best forum groups!



Dan S	Oct 14 2009, 02:05 PM Post #25
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,216 Group: Members Member #607 Joined: January 31, 2007	I've been working on my truck shop dio for over 20 years now, but this is the first time I ever completed a dio and called it done, of course in response to the original PBL cpb I have redone most every model I owned that I didn't like the way it looked (that didn't get destroyed), so I don't have any of those old original builds that show how badly things used to be done. This is my oldest model that the body hasn't been repainted on, built in 1977, right after I graduated. I have cleaned up and repainted everything else on the model. It has wheels off a early 90s Cyclone. I polished up the body's paint, but it has it's original paint, Testors metallic blue.



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