Sunday 31 August 2008

Nothing like a good blog...



...to inspire a build. Bob's gorgeous 5 window, featured below, inspired me to put some primer and filler to plastic and crack on with a brown primered 5 window that I've been planning for quite some time now.

Rain stops play, but soon as I work out how to improve the weather I got a nice matt chocolate brown acrylic, a Nailhead and an AMT five window kit that need to meet...

JB

Kudos / Kudos



Bob Black's full of surprises. Not only his stunning builds, which we've featured before and will no doubt feature again, but for being a real nice guy.

Bob wrote an awesome blog on OUR blog, and also on AutoModelling. Check it out:

"In my position as one of the most active model enthusiasts for online modeling, I have
keen senses to recognize another modeler that is taking extra strides. Now, don't get me
wrong! This is not a put down to anyone, whatsoever. I just have to hand it to James "the
Flame" , Administrator for the automodelling.com forum. This guy has shown nothing but
respect to each member of his forum, including myself. When I first joined the forum a
few months ago, I just wanted to see what I was missing out on. To my surprise, I was
treated like a star by James and all the members I encountered. I was really honored to
be added to the galleries and to be "blogged" on his site! I didn't ask for any of that,
didn't even think it would happen...but it did and that makes me proud of myself and to be
a member! I am old fashioned when it comes to respect and to me, a little goes a long
way! Aside that, I wanted to say James does an awesome job on the forum. I see that he
is a busy guy like myself, taking a lot of time out to help anyone and everyone with little or
no profit for self other than "self satisfaction". These days it's very hard to come by an
individual like James. As many forums and groups there are out there on the big WWW,
do yourself a favor and join automodelling.com to experience a group of lively modelers
with the spirit of the hobby from all perspectives. Thank you James for your hard work
and dedication to the hobby and for always making those you don't know very well feel at
home! My user name is rodburner on most all forums, so say hello if ya' join up!"

I couldnt think of a better way to repay the favour Bob did by simultaneously promoting AutoModelling and warming my heart beyond measure, than linking back to him. Check out his site here and that gorgeous Deuce 5 window build show above here. Thanks Bob!

JB

Friday 29 August 2008

Amazing Aleks



Here's a builder who's work I've been saving for a little while now, but I finally got myself together enough to share it today. I've been struggling for a few weeks to think of a fitting description to best present the work of German Model Cars Mag board member Aleks and I've killed a LOT of time on his site trying to work out which incredible build to feature as the header pic for this blog.

There's a Fiat 500 with a brass tube frame and a scratchbuilt V2 hemi. A killer lime coloured soapbox derby racer. A Revell Smart car with machined rims. A streamlined slat flats car, and dozens more all worthy of space and their own write ups here. That amazing T that I eventually settled on was picked for my love of the old school hot rod and for it's excellent demonstration of the kind of multimedia build that Aleks enjoys. But its by no means the only one. They're not even all cars, theres an incredible compresor, and little scale metal tools scattered around some of the pics. SOOOO much inspiration.

So much in fact, that evry time I went to check out Alek's site to find out some more about him, I got lost in the gorgeous shots of his projects and sidetracked for hours. Truely a craftsman, truely a master, and truely inspirational.

Check it out

JB

Sunday 17 August 2008

Caddy



It takes me a lifetime to finish a box-stock kit, perfectly moulded in virgin white plastic, so heaven only knows what I was thinking taking on this old resto project.

The adjectives 'rare, 'old' and 'cheap' probably swung it I think. Thanks Arc!

JB