new kid on the block!

well thanks to mannimal for the inspiration for the fuel tank...i looked at the kit on the web and decided that it could be built with some old cans!.

as i run the village bar we have tons of cans and that was the starting point, .
i chose not tho use the normal coke can as it would be too recognisable, but i cut 2 bottoms off two coke cans and cold welded (glue) them onto a pink fish can, to make it look more like a tank. i had to drink the energy drink and so i've been buzzing all day, dont know how they drink that stuff!

anyway, then the cradle was cut mdf, with 4 ikea shelf support legs screwed in, the barrel tapes are cardboard, tank lids are heads of wood bolts and other bits laying around my work bench. the petrol exit is a rawl plug and a bit of fake leather laces, heres a pic before painting, play spot the piece....
anyone whos ever bought an ikea cupboard will recognise those legs.!
so then the fun started, i masked off the ends and painted it all black, thinking it'd be a good idea...wrong ...it looked like a shiny black coke can....so i put on a layer of grey that i had.....which reacted with the black underneath ofcourse!!
so keeping calm at the edge if disaster i started rubbing around where the oil may spill from the tank, or where the tanker drivers walk to fill it... so the black came through but started to look ok. then i scratched some drips in and left it for a while. found some 30 year old transfers in an old scaley box and decorated the tank a bit (if completely incorrect shell logo). by then the grey had raised at the edges giving a really good rusty steel look! bargain!!..so with a bit of brown rust paint applied, here we have it..probably wouldn't pass health and safety regs but we are in a cave in spain after all.

hope you like it , i'm having fun

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coooollll !, to impress your daughter is a big deal, i realise....my girl (4) is kind of impressed and likes playing with the figures, and also is a very steady careful driver, but i can't say she's' into it'.....my boy (6) is very 'into it' i gave him a tube of expander foam and some steel and wood so he could make his own cave diarama with road and lake for his thunderbirds...it looked good and is still pride of place in the bedroom...also he tells his friends "don't touch its a model .not a toy"(important lesson!!!!).since then i see hes started thinking laterally and designing stuff without autoimatically jumping into the toy shop(even more important lesson!), the other day he suggested i should do a log fire with some balsa and a bit of red sweet wrapper....well i was impresssed!

so you feel like an alien...i know what you mean..my wife has no interest at all apart from she sees it makes me happy. keep working on them, all 4 of us are goiing to the monster truck show in barcelona on saturday, i'll tell you how the girls get on!....will be interesting to see embers comments!....cue ember.....

speak soon sig

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You SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I mean it in the nicest way possible). I may just paint my MDF all gray and give up now.

Wonderful, inventive, and with an artist's eye. Wow!

are you a fan of primus too ? its ok i understand the double negative!! cheers

Nice work Sig. I always enjoy watching your stuff & reading you threads. It looks great. Thanks for sharing here.

Regards.

QUOTE (rallyP @ 22 Oct 2009, 04:32) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>My daughter completely ignores my slot hobby. That sentence meant that maybe scenery making is acceptable. I love my daughters but sometimes I wished I had a boy just not to feel like an alien whenever I go to the garage or I look to the TV like a madman when Benfica or Portugal are playing. I NEED ANOTHER ALIEN IN THE HOUSE!! I can also come here and see what the other aliens are doing, which I do regularly.

QUOTE (sig @ 22 Oct 2009, 05:59) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>so you feel like an alien...i know what you mean..my wife has no interest at all apart from she sees it makes me happy. keep working on them, all 4 of us are goiing to the monster truck show in barcelona on saturday, i'll tell you how the girls get on!....will be interesting to see embers comments!....cue ember.....

I know I'm not normal. But, hey, I figure normal is well and truly overrated anyway. What do I care if I'm not supposed to like this stuff. I'm not the one missing out... right?!?

Cheers boys.
Embs

they are the same ! and i never knew it. .thanks for that lars

in the meantime i've been thinking about the film 'conair 'with nicholas cage!
wouldnt it be great to have a race around that b52 bone yard!, i'm looking for inspiration for track number 3, it needs to be flat as it'll be cut into the lid of this one, so i'm thinking desert...weeds and abandoned military aircraft.
i went to the model shop in barcelona today and it appears they dont do a b52 in 1:32...those things really were big, so might have to limit myself to fighters and helicopters, but plenty of excuse for rust and grime....right up my street!

so i found this link which i thought could be interesting as there are some amazing photos...its off thread...but it all ties in somewhere!

link=abandoned stuff

check out the russian migs and the red helicopter...great!

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That so cool

Now that idea about a "Plane Junkyard" sounds cool.
You could just make it like a tube(Tunnel) and dress it up as part of the body from the B52 or another large carrier like this:


and another:


....or part of the body a sharp hairpin and out on the wing

Great idea I'll be looking forward for this to develope and it really inspires me to finish of my Mining/Industial area.
Rust and grime rocks.

Check out another forum member called manitouguy, he has a blog and under Misc. Slot Stuff is a lot of old airplanes and other goodies.
theres many pages of "misc stuff" cheers
click here and be amazed

chips and dibs

thanks graham....maybe as you had the patince to build that enormous viaduct you'd be able to help me scratch-build part of a stratofortress at 1:32 scale detailed inside and out! .i like your idea lars (again), and it proves that planes really are big!. even a 1:32 spitfire or mustang just look tooo big for the track somehow (and there are hardly any kits!) has anyone mixed 1:48 planes with 1:32 cars and got away with it????????, is it passable as realistic (i know you can bend scale quite a lot with buildings etc) or will it look like toytown????

Happy to add to your education Sig. I feel like I've achieved something today.

Dig deep. He's a man who knows how to handle a car.

Happy viewing.
Embs