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| Just another Autowreckers Project. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 17 2011, 03:42 PM (2,582 Views) | |
| Jim | May 17 2011, 03:42 PM Post #1 |
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May as well start with a towtruck..![]() ![]() ![]() Now a drive out in the country to see what this place looks like. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our plow and car pusher. ![]() ![]() This is something i doubt you will see in any other wrecking yard. Not sure what it is supposed to be but in my wifes imagination it is a crusher machine for something l.o.l. She tore apart a music box that stopped working and found this neat stuff. She sprayed it with a rust colour paint . ![]() Scrap copper in a barrel another idea she seen at my son-in-laws real autowreckers . This fine wire was a toy train engine at one time. ![]() There is a lumber yard next door another on going project . Some is plastic 1:87 scale lumber the larger stuff is craft sticks glued together one at a time .She says they are 6x6 or 8x8 logs in her scale they could be anything. l.o.l. ![]() We also sell fixer uppers . ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well that is what it looks like so far .I think the lumber yard will be going out of business soon. Or maybe it is expanding and the autowreckers are closing .With my wife i never know what she will dream up next. I suggested taking all the little cars to the real autowreckers and put them through the crusher.She still has a couple of thousand but that suggestion was ignored . I dont get it she asks me for advice on how to do a project then ignores me. Her playroom is starting to look like a storage unit l.o.l. That is another story and pictures will prove i am right. I know she has some i just cant find them .l.o.l. The two little trees are Burrs painted green .Took a long time to train the dog to bring them home on her fur.. ![]() |
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| Swifty | May 17 2011, 05:58 PM Post #2 |
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Nice work on the yard, and also the lumberyard! Seems like the right mix of properties to have next to one another, also. Side note- junkyards become addicting quickly and can overrun an otherwise normal diorama. |
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| bunkerjim | May 17 2011, 08:26 PM Post #3 |
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I don't know Swifty, I think some of these photos are looking too nice.. |
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| craftymore | May 17 2011, 10:25 PM Post #4 |
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I see some sweet derby bait in those pics. The 'scrap' copper is a unique touch . . . hope thieves didn't steal it from abandoned homes! lol Really liking the spare bumpers and tires laying around too. Cool yard. |
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| bob8748 | May 18 2011, 12:04 AM Post #5 |
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I am totally lovin this! Not just the cars but the background as well. There is so much to look at it took me a while. Great job! We are getting a lot of well made junkyards here. And yes... it is addicting "but a lot of fun!". I'd like to steal (read that borrow) some of your ideas if you dont mind. Heck, I'm running out of room already though. By the way, your wife does awesome work! She's a keeper!!!
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| Swifty | May 18 2011, 12:08 AM Post #6 |
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Exactly what I said earlier: ![]()
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| STUTZ | May 18 2011, 12:39 AM Post #7 |
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Nice dioramas Jim! Donna said I should start a junkyard diorama because I have a lot of junk.
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| bob8748 | May 18 2011, 01:25 AM Post #8 |
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I thought a junkyard was a normal diorama...lol. Its been the best one I've played with ![]() |
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| bob8748 | May 18 2011, 01:31 AM Post #9 |
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Can I nominate the photo just under "A drive out in the country" for the next pic of the month? Fantastic!!! |
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| Jim | May 18 2011, 09:50 AM Post #10 |
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Swifty cars have taken over our house let alone a diorama. On the plus side our last move Pearl dumped 2000 hotwheels and 500 johnny lightning cars all still in the blisterpacks to a charity at Christmas. Over a 100 dolls and a couple hundred teddy bears gone .So she stopped collecting JUNK l.o.l. I made her a playroom and it still has too much stuff. Crafty she has a ton of beaters that she might repaint some day . l.o.l. Bunkerjim You can see her little fake homemade trees and the background is our backyard where we use to live. Pearl aims the camera takes 3 pictures keeps the best one . I bought her tripods she never uses them . Bob your work has sure got a lot better you are getting the water and weed and grass thing right. Steal ideas yes in fact our dog invites people to steal junk from the playroom evey kid who visits has to take a box of cars or the dog wont let them leave. Ideas are a must share thing . A junkyard is for people with a real problem they cant part with those little cars .So it makes it look like they are not interested in keeping them anymore. See i took the cars out of that old box full of beaters now they are not sitting in the closet anymore. l.o.l. We also have a used car lot of course a great way to display cars when you have every variation of the same car you can make it 1968 for example mustangs cougars torinos Geez ..Johnny Lightning.. Hotwheels . I dont collect cars anymore or trains I have no space to put them. Ray say hi to Donna and she is right .You have too much junk l.o.l. You need a store diorama a flea market would be perfect . Then i could send Pearl over to rent a hundred tables that might be enough space for her junk.l.o.l. Well dioramas are one of the best ways to display whatever . At least a junkyard you dont have to dust those little cars. I watch Pearl dusting buildings and cars every now and then and i think geez am i glad i dont have a model railroad anymore. My diorama is our yard. So far 850 feet of paths wandering along the creek and into the woods. |
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| Jim | May 18 2011, 10:09 AM Post #11 |
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Bob you are right she is KEEPER not one day has ever gone by that she dont do something funny .The music box that she could not throw out till she found a use for those little parts in a diorama. She sees a little rocking horse at a yard sale and lugs it home and it sits by the creek with a flower pot on it. I think collecting no matter what it is makes a person a lot more fun to know . |
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| JustDavid | May 18 2011, 08:04 PM Post #12 |
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The mobile home trailer is very cool. Would you be willing to share details on it? Scale? Brand? Thank you for sharing your great pcs. |
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| Swifty | May 19 2011, 12:41 AM Post #13 |
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Yes you can! And I will go add it in!
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| Jim | May 19 2011, 01:18 PM Post #14 |
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Swifty you guys are easily amused l.o.l. JustDavid..... The trailer is 1/87 scale most of the buildings my wife uses are. It has no name on the base . Stuff like this can sometimes be found at model railroad shows . There are a lot of the guys that have left the hobby . The trailer was a 25 cent junk box find l.o.l. It is from the 1980s |
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| Jim | Jun 17 2011, 07:42 AM Post #15 |
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Things are moved around a bit . The primered M2 Mercury that is cut up was one of those clear plastic cars. ![]() The pickup trucks boxes that were cut up were Yatming . There is still more cars to be added and cut up. ![]() ![]() ![]() I collect very few cars the Merc my wife found and is trying to get the old merc look. like a real one i had. l.o.l. well of course imagination helps. ![]() I rented this old gas station. Just to work on project cars. As you can see i have been a bad influence on my wife she looks at old pictures i was tossing out and thinks they are neat ..It was blown up in 1980 in a movie The kidnapping of the president. A movie made in Toronto,Ontario. ![]() |
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| Swifty | Jun 17 2011, 10:36 AM Post #16 |
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I like that old garage too, and sad to think it got blown up for a movie. Especially a movie I've never even heard of. Nice new additions to the yard, too! |
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| Jim | Jun 17 2011, 12:36 PM Post #17 |
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The place had been abandoned for awhile when i rented it. The underground gas tanks were rusted and leaking into the ground so the owner told me .Also said dont drink the well water. l.o.l. The cost to remove the tanks and toxic soil was more than the place was worth. It had a 3 bedroom apartment upstairs and a swimming pool behind the garage. For me it was perfect just to work on cars on the weekend it was a 50 mile drive from where i lived at the time. The movie was Hal Holbrook, Wiliam Shantner, and Van Johnson, It was a very poor movie about an American president kidnapped by terrorist i watched about 3 minutes of it and the part where they had a shootout with cops and the gas station got blown up . Boring movie White Rose gas stations were taken over by Shell and a lot of them closed and were abandoned or sold real cheap if it was a owner operated deal .I bought a gas station a month later 2 bay ,tanks and gas pumps had already been removed . Only about 5 miles from where i lived. At 1980 prices 30,000 was very cheap for a garage and a acre of land in a small town. I sure didnt lose money on it wheh i sold it 10 years later.l.o.l.It was bulldozed and a Paint store was built there. |
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| Jim | Jun 24 2011, 12:37 PM Post #18 |
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![]() She tried to paint the back fender like the real Merc of course the hotwheels is a different colour.First she removed the horrible white flames the little car had with carb cleaner then added the primer and a wash of rust paint. I dont like green the real Merc was repainted midnight blue.
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| Swifty | Jun 24 2011, 10:41 PM Post #19 |
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Nice job on beating up that Mercury a bit! |
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| SSChevyman | Jun 24 2011, 11:25 PM Post #20 |
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I am enjoying that for sure!!! |
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