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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 21 2012, 12:48 AM (16,858 Views) | |
| GothicCarsUrban | Feb 21 2012, 12:48 AM Post #1 |
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Set up a junkyard today, with a modified "Pixar Cars" playset building, it is an interim junkyard until I get some work done on the house and have a special junkyard area set up (pending approval from my girlfriend). This yard has some interesting cars in it, with more to come as I find more. I lost a considerable amount of my collection, as well as numerous 1/18 and 1/24 diecasts and built plastic models, and a couple partially built Hubley diecast Model A Ford kits, to the elements after someone stored them outside during a stretch in jail and everything was destroyed. The school bus is slightly out of scale, but 1950s school busses were massive, and every junkyard has to have a school bus... ![]() ![]() ![]() (the Bugatti Veyron is a tip of the hat to the Veyron the exotic car dismantler in Texas drove into a salt marsh a couple years ago while talking on the phone to Arnold Schwartzenegger, then blamed on a pelican) ![]() Pardon the poor lighting, my house is almost 80 years old with oddly placed lights... ![]() |
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| Swifty | Feb 21 2012, 03:48 AM Post #2 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Great work! I see some treasures mixed in among the junkers. ![]() And I remember reading about the pelican incident on Jalopnik! |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Feb 21 2012, 06:29 AM Post #3 |
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Cool... among them, a Cunningham, two Cords, a Lancia Fulvia, a Trabant, a Porsche 914/6, with an armored car (Dunbar Armored Transit color scheme) and a DHL truck there on business. The Trabi is supposed to be the owner's personal car. Not listing the others so that others can have fun with my junkyard's pics... (as for knowing what carrier the armored car looks like, armored cars have been a fixation of mine longer than I can remember) |
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| bangerkid45 | Feb 21 2012, 12:52 PM Post #4 |
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Nice stuff! Is that the ERTL Maserati? Nice setup! |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Feb 21 2012, 01:03 PM Post #5 |
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Thanks! It is the Ertl Maserati, I found it in a yard-sale free box with no paint, specially mixed a facsimile of the classic Maserati Blue paint color, and detailed it a bit. Sure beats the Rocky Balboa tampos...
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| GeorgeT | Feb 21 2012, 02:29 PM Post #6 |
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In pic's 3 & 4, left of the STP Opel, Is that a MB Bedford Ambulance? If so worth restoring. |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Feb 21 2012, 03:25 PM Post #7 |
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Yes, it is... there are no back doors, and I have trouble with small things due to large, shaky, flexible hands, so it'll stay as-is... |
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| gunn | Feb 22 2012, 07:05 PM Post #8 |
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love the bus. if you ever deside to trade it or sell it let me know. |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Feb 22 2012, 07:47 PM Post #9 |
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Which bus? The school bus or one of the VWs? |
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| James | Feb 22 2012, 10:51 PM Post #10 |
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There are a lot of interesting castings in the junkyard here.... Good stuff |
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| JustDavid | Feb 22 2012, 11:04 PM Post #11 |
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The Maserati is a great car to have..and that school bus is awesome! |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Feb 22 2012, 11:35 PM Post #12 |
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Thanks again, folks! The bus was a great find, I love all old busses but have a huge soft spot for the old streamliner school busses like that one. The variety comes from trolling garage sales, antique stores and secondhand stores for them since 1995 and collecting since the 1980s. The Opel rally car and Dixie Challenger were two of my earliest finds, and the Bedford ambulance was one of the ones from the Lesney Matchbox bag I got as the best booby prize I ever won...
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| gunn | Feb 23 2012, 06:14 AM Post #13 |
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school bus i have alot of trades if you deside to let it go. who made it any idea?
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| GothicCarsUrban | Feb 23 2012, 09:29 AM Post #14 |
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There is just a round logo saying "NI China Made" on it with no other markings. It resembles an early 1950s Kenworth or later 1950s Gillig school bus, and the stop sign (on the left rear quarter panel) is missing. Not interested in letting it go at this time... |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Sep 12 2012, 06:58 PM Post #15 |
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This yard has been dismantled & replaced with a new, smaller one (same building, actually "wrecked" and mostly import diecasts, and portable too), I'm intending to expand it onto a larger (maybe 3-foot square) piece of Masonite and put simulated vegetation, real sticks as "logs", and real rocks, later.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A crusher of some kind and some 1/72 scale or Ertl figurines would be nice too, maybe a couple of Ertl or similar size bulls to "keep the grass down" and keep out unwanted visitors. |
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| harry | Sep 12 2012, 08:47 PM Post #16 |
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i think the grass makes an excellent cornfield! |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Sep 12 2012, 09:39 PM Post #17 |
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Agreed! Can anyone guess the junked cars? |
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| craftymore | Sep 12 2012, 09:44 PM Post #18 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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Cool yard and really like the building. MB World Cup car a Ford Focus are two possibilities for the crushed cars. |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Sep 12 2012, 10:12 PM Post #19 |
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Thanks! The building is a Disney/Pixar Cars playset piece that I adapted. If I can find appropriately sized miniature items, furniture & garage stuff and balsawood for the inside walls I will be taking a Dremel to the left side to make a workshop, using silver-painted, weathered corrugated cardboard as garage doors and using the remaining 2/3 as a trading post-type store.. the roof will still open too... That car is an MB World Cup Opel Calibra. |
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| Swifty | Sep 13 2012, 01:59 AM Post #20 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Nice work! Particularly like this one, as stated on dA:![]() Pic Of The Month nomination! I really need to get July's and August's polls up. |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Sep 13 2012, 02:44 AM Post #21 |
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Awesome, thanks! I will be collecting rocks, sticks and random pieces of junk metal too so I can add to it, if I have to make a crusher out of popsicle sticks, bottle caps and cardboard or wood, so be it... Eventually I will build walls and a floor inside the "Pixar Cars"-derived building from balsawood (as an insert), add items like furniture, garage stuff (and not nice modern stuff either, for the most part) and desert trading post-type stuff and make it as an insert to the building to go under the tilt-up roof, after cutting out the back wall under the Glidden sign with a Dremel and making fake corrugated tin doors. New signs will be made once my new computer is up & running with a printer (long story behind that) and I will replace the heavy cardboard it's on now with Masonite eventually, to where it covers the top of a cabinet I have the TV on now but will keep for diecast and random stuff storage in my next place (more cars too) I even have the idea of a Franklin stove made from an old nasal spray bottle with a drinking-straw "metal pipe chimney" to use inside... my Tomber-to-Bond Minicar project will live on as a forlorn Reliant Regal or Bond Minicar half-buried in a trash heap somewhere in this diorama's future since I partially melted the plastic chassis. |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Sep 13 2012, 02:47 PM Post #22 |
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Upgrade done! Still looking for minifigures, more cars and some 1/64 tools... real dirt and rock were used, and the diorama is on a table in the garage. ![]() ![]() Tomber/Bond Minicar's final resting place. The JL hearse is a temporary resident, not glued down, and can be dusted off. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| GothicCarsUrban | Sep 13 2012, 08:38 PM Post #23 |
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BTW I have named this yard in its final form... can a mod or admin change the thread name to "GothicCarsUrban's McKenzie River Salvage"? |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Sep 15 2012, 04:33 AM Post #24 |
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Decided not to go ahead with the thread name change other than that it should be "GothicCarsUrban's Junkyard" now. ![]() And new pics... ![]() ![]() |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Sep 15 2012, 08:39 AM Post #25 |
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The "Cars" building is no more. Broke when I removed it to make space and was damaged beyond repair when I tried fixing the roof, and am trying to locally source a smaller but suitable, crude, rustic or old-fashioned workshop-type building to go with the junky office. A nativity scene-type stable would be ideal, but good luck finding one in September... |
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