![]() Previously stocked in 0.5mm, natural cardboard has been added to the USA Catalog in 1.3mm thickness because customers were requesting a thicker cardboard option while still having an economical price point. And thanks for taking the time to look.Everything you need to know about prototyping your product ideas.Īnd since the natural cardboard is made from recycled paper and Taskboard is made from 100% sustainable forestry wood, you can give a nod to the environment while creating something super cool. I'll try to post more as time allows but for now, enjoy! Don't forget that clicking on these photos takes you to a larger image. All of this fits into a 4 inch square viewing area and the box is 3 1/2 inches deep.Īgain, this is only a small portion of what I've finished the last few months. Not too much to say about it except that if it ever comes out of the barn the owner will see it built finished and weathered the same all around. The vehicle is the 1929 Model A woody wagon. When dry it hardened and was easy to glue on the wall. the paint made the lichen limp so I spread it out on a piece of glass the way I wanted it to crawl up the wall. It was sprayed dark brown and while still wet, dipped in tea leaves. We're lucky here to have a lichen that grows on the trunks of trees called "old man's beard" that I used for the ivy. The hinges I made from paper wrapped around a small steel pin on the end. The wood above and the doors are red birch veneer. Then I dry brushed the whole thing with a dirty white followed by some touch up with some colored pencils. I then scribed the stones with a dental pick and washed them with a light brown. ![]() Cut a hole for a door and plastered what was surrounding the hole. I had some architectural taskboard that I glued on a piece of 1/4 " plywood. Well that didn't satisfy my diorama urges enough I suppose because I went right into this one that is featured at the top of this posting. The fence is wood and the junk all around is from the parts boxes. The truck is a cast metal kit of the 1920 (?) Kleiber from On Track. I resorted to the old peanut butter jar lid and built this stand alone desktop variety diorama of an old junker in the back corner of a boneyard. This next project was a compulsion to do some diorama work. This has turned into one of my favorite builds. Went again with trying to convey a working but not dilapidated truck with the weathering. I copied the bed on the truck in the photo and must say it's lines are perfectly suited to the AA. The base model is the Jordan Products Ford Model AA 1 1/2 ton truck that I scratch built the bed and tow unit for. These trucks were available world wide so they manage to capture the interest of those from just about everywhere. The next magazine article was again inspired by a photo given to me by Alberto of a Model AA wrecker that was seen in Spain. Finished it off by weathering it for a working but not abused rig. ![]() This was an easy build but yielded a really unique model. The only other change from the kit is a scratch built fuel tank. The most obvious of them is the flat bed which is actually the floor of the body that comes with the Roco model that has had it's wooden sides cut off. The model is of course the Roco piece that has had a few modifications aside from the wheel replacement. It is of a Zis-5 believe it or not and apparently some of these were pressed into rail service and saw action throughout Europe. The first piece is modeled from a photo of a real rail work car sent me by the very talented Spanish modeler Alberto Herrera. ![]() These folks are mostly interested in European prototypes so my options are limited as to subject matter. I've had the opportunity to write a few articles for the Spanish model railroad magazine Maquatren that feature my truck builds. There have been so many in fact that I'm only going to show a small portion of all that I built. This has been a blessing to some degree in that I've been cranking out lots of models. But the knee is feeling great and whenever my company says so, I'm back to work. In fact I have not been back to work and here it is the end of May. I had to have knee surgery in February so things slowed down considerably as I have been recuperating.
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