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I have been interested in the building aspect of model making. I love building dirty trucks that look used. Show trucks are great to look at but built-to-look used is what does it for me. I've been building trucks since 2011. Before that I've been building modern military vehicles since 2002. Must say that truck building is fun and nicer on the eyes, if you old chaps know what I mean.

The Down-Graded Ukrainian 6447 5247H Titan Trailer with The FUG 2.5Ton Forklift

I posted the first mods of this build sometime ago. Now. I have redesigned it by removing the tractor and keeping it as a trailer. I removed the original two single ramps at the back and replaced it with a scratch built single wide ramp. I [...]

Sky Bike

This is a model I kit-bashed about 90% out of Tamiya bike parts and 10% scratch built. The design was inspired by a short film, called 'Leviathan', that I saw on Youtube some years back.

Red Lightening Anti-Gravity Bike

Yes, it s another scifi bike. Not much to write, just that, I used a Tamiya 1/12 race bike.

Hydraulic Jack

Another weathering test subject. This time a simple hydraulic jack. What do you guys think? What I used to weather: Tamiya Black Panel Line solution Tamiya Brown Panel Line solution Mig Black and Light Rust pigments Another odd brand [...]

Mon/Jet Bike

This is something I have been working on, for the last couple of days. I started of with a 1/12 Yamaha race bike from Tamiya. I kept most of the original details but modified and scratch built some to fit the theme. The model is resting on [...]

Container Trailer

I decided to make the container trailer, from one of my diorama a single display, thus dismantling the previous one. I've attached the front loader and added a few details and re-did the trailer making the front board shorter as it was [...]

Older military theme builds

Here are thress 1/35 scale models that I have built. The Stryker ATGM and the LAV III were heavily modified and scratch built using the Trumper Styker kits as the basis. At the time I built them, there were no kit availble of these [...]

The Ukrainian 6447 5247H Titan Trailer with The FUG 2.5Ton Forklift

This is basically a 'What-if' project like the other project I did with the M915 Trumpeter kit and burnt-out excavator. The basic kit is the Takom Ukrainian KrAZ-6446 Tractor with MAZ/ChMZAP-5247G Semi-Trailer. I had shorten the chassi of [...]

Hasbro 'Treadspeeder' to Hover Vehicle Toy Transformation

This is the Hasbro tread speeder, that I modified to a desert speeder instead. I sawed off the treads, the toy-like missile launcher and it's mechanism, and other parts that I didn't want and replaced the opened areas with plasti-card and [...]

What - is this an engine?!!!!

From a simple toy model engine, to an almost believable working engine. The photo in the top left corner is the original excavator which is scale 1/24 - 1/25.