Hot Rods and Custom Stuff
This professional customising shop has build photos of many of its projects online. If you know how it’s done in real life you can better replicate it in scale.
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Reference
The Jalopy Journal
The Jalopy Journal is an online car magazine specialising in more traditional rods and customs. It also has a busy forum for you to dive into, so you shouldn’t be lacking inspiration.
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Post Apocalypse Camaro
I’m currently working on a 1960s Camaro to go with the Post Apocalypse Pony. If I find a 70s/80s version of the model maybe I can make it looks like this.
I’ve not put any bullet proof plating on the cars I’ve built so far, and that would be an obvious addition.
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Bondage knots
For reference, of course, bondage knots.
Vintage Racers in action
If, like me, you’ve got a couple of the reissued Airfix vintage car kits from a couple of years go these vintage racing pictures could giveyou some conversion ideas.
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Hot Rod 7s
I recently got, from Ebay, this kit of a BMW Dixi.
The Dixi was basically an Austin 7 made under licence in Germany. I’m thinking of turning it into a rod, so this post about hotrod Austin 7s was interesting. I may use some of the stuff available from Scale Link in 1:24th, which includes a Rover V8, the quintessential british rodding motor.
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Where old Fords go to die
Jalopnik has a big gallery of photos from a secret junkyard in the woods. Given enough left overs and abandoned projects you could make a diorama depicting an abandoned corner of a place like this.
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Russian train pictures
English Rusia has some very nice pictures of Russian trains and railways. I wonder if anyone’s built any Russia based layouts? Given the grand scale of the Russian network they’d probably have to be in one of the really small scales.
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Woodward Dream Cruise pictures
The Woodward Dream Cruise is a huge car meet. Jalopnik was there and they have lots of pictures- Hot rods, customs and muscle cars.
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Rotorcycle one man helicopter
Who wouldn’t want a turbine powered personal helicopter.
The future of a Soviet past
It would be neat to do a story where the Cold War spawned some of the madder things predicted and use resurgent Communists as the enemy for a change rather than the good old Nazis. So these illustrations from Communist pulp magazines make for neat reference.
Baikonur and St. Petersburg
English Russia keeps delivering the goods with cool photo collections. The Baikonur space launch facilities in Kazakhstan, as photographed by a visitor and the darker side of St. Petersburg.
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Model maths and scale jumping
Available from The Modeler’s Weapons Shop as a download for $3.99 is the Guide to Model Math and Scale Jumping.
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Soyuz on the train
io9 has pictures of a Soyuz rocket being hauled across the desert to its launch site by a diesel train. It might be hard to scale match a model of the rocket (or even find one, I couldn’t get a match for “Soyuz” at Hannants) and a Russian train, but think of the diorama possibilities.
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Rebuilding a Sherman tank
Jalopnik has pictures of one man’s project to rebuild a Sherman tank
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