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| GothicCarsUrban's Junkyard | |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Oct 24 2014, 04:59 PM Post #76 |
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Still no crusher (may make this a yard where cars go out to large regional scrapyards like Schnitzer in Portland, on an M2 car hauler and 60s A100-style Dodge cabover tractor), but: Made "The Oasis", a crude structure made of junk, that junkyard workers can take cover from sun or rain, have garage band jam sessions on a mobile home roof "stage", grill, or do other stuff in, on breaks or off-shift ![]() '40 Caddy project car gets catapult ready for the weekend's Halloween Festival so it can throw pumpkins at the totaled Chevy van behind the catapult. ![]() Caddy being driven to the fenceline in hopes of finding a new owner: ![]() Needs tires, shocks, brake linings, muffler, steering box, maybe a little bit of wiring... ![]() ![]() The yard had to be made so Will Darnell could drive all around it wasting gas with the 500ci V8 instead of using the Honda Vamos junkyard buggy, S10 and Datsun 620 errand trucks or forklift, let alone *walk*. ![]() View in on an average day. Looks like Will Darnell is gonna enter the Monterey or Steamboat Springs vintage races with emphysema and a severe heart condition. ![]() Will Darnell's $50,000 ![]() |
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| GothicCarsUrban | May 29 2015, 01:51 AM Post #77 |
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Received a Walthers Cornerstone warehouse as a belated gift, and resurrected my junkyard. Getting some PiPs from Colin (W_Body_Geek), have a Breaking Bad Fleetwood Bounder on order, and am gonna make some wrecks, burnouts, homemade PiPs and cut-up cars out of Zylmex Dynawheels, Maistos, Summers, Tai Cheongs, early Welly, Yat Mings, etc., plus I need to get assorted other junk from the train section of the hobby shop along with more vegetation, cattle fencing and a 1/64 compatible pit bull, Rottweiler, Doberman, mastiff or German Shepherd junkyard dog figure, and work on the signage. So not nearly finished![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| pjedsel | May 29 2015, 09:35 AM Post #78 |
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I miss wandering around salvage/junk yards. Drove by one yesterday outside of Mandan, ND which brought back old memories much like your diorama does. Thanks Chris. |
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| GothicCarsUrban | May 29 2015, 09:51 AM Post #79 |
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You're welcome. This is only gonna get better & better. |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Apr 14 2016, 11:01 PM Post #80 |
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![]() Gonna get this vintage Ertl playset that I have on hold at my diecast store this weekend, am gonna build it and outfit the open bay with an M2 4-point lift, assorted junker cars and parts, Greenlight 1/64 tools, HO-scale diorama stuff, and eventually some stuff from Stangfreak's eBay store or website, will be combining this with a small papercraft building I have on hand and a good-size chunk of my current layout will be my new junkyard. Updates available as they come. I already have a no-name 1949 Buick Roadmaster coming from Hobie-wan that is playworn and will be added to my yard |
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| microbuss | Apr 15 2016, 08:30 AM Post #81 |
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I would of liked the school bus in the 1st pic on the 1st page still its too bad you don't find junkyards like this anymore
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| GothicCarsUrban | Apr 15 2016, 10:49 AM Post #82 |
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Definitely. The bus was traded to Gunn (longtime member here who doesn't post much anymore) for a couple of JL Boogie Vans years ago |
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| GothicCarsUrban | Apr 16 2016, 07:21 AM Post #83 |
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Found these diorama signs online, am gonna resize them, use most but not all, and print them at a place I have access to a printer at today when I get my building![]() Will start construction of my junkyard then |
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| avalanche man | Jun 5 2016, 04:15 AM Post #84 |
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avalanches rule
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reliant regal; is it tomber from cars2
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| GothicCarsUrban | Aug 13 2017, 06:47 AM Post #85 |
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Yes, it is. Will be updating with pics of my current junkyard in progress today. |
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| microbuss | Aug 13 2017, 08:53 AM Post #86 |
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there are quite a few vehicles I want to "steal" from the junkyard but cool stuffs anyway ![]() Mine will be like this but with my worst ones in there the funny signs I saw & want are "Yes! We're Closed" & "Sorry We're Open"
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| GothicCarsUrban | Aug 13 2017, 11:10 AM Post #87 |
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Thanks! |
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