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The NASCAR Race truck build

by Rick Schad on May 25, 2023 · in Automotive · 10 ≡

Good lord AMT makes horrible kits. I would never touch one of these kits if I wasn't paid to do so. I think drug use is rampant at the AMT factory. Anyhoo here is a 1/25th scale AMT NASCAR Raybestos race truck. Custom everything on this [...]

Porsche 911 GT2 1/24 Scale Tamiya.

by Rick Schad on March 24, 2023 · in Automotive · 8 ≡

Hello fellow model builders. Here is my latest build, the 1/24 Porsche 911 GT2 by Tamiya. I added custom wire details and of course lots of post race weathering. This little build took me about 20 hours. Great kit that practically builds [...]

My 1/12 scale GT-40

by Rick Schad on March 14, 2023 · in Automotive · 26 ≡

Here is my Trumpeter? 1/12 Scale GT-40! This kit was a lot of work with lots of scratch building involved, due to this kit was a toy in some form at one point. Kit on it's own is very simple so a lot of creativity is involved in getting [...]

The Concours d'Miniature 2023

by Rick Schad on March 14, 2023 · in News · 8 ≡

The Concours d’Miniature The Concours d’ Miniature is a first of it’s kind event solely created to celebrate the best model car builders in the world. Based on the great Concours d’Elegance’s of the world, the Concours [...]

Starting the 1/12 scale GT40

by Rick Schad on February 6, 2023 · in Automotive · 8 ≡

This is the start of the 1/12 scale Ford GT40, this kit from China has no brand name but I am fairly certain that this is a kit produced by Trumpeter. This kit from what I can tell was once a toy due to the chunky vinyl parts and oversized [...]

Stryker M1129 MCV-B Mortar Carrier US ARMY Scratch Built

by Aaron Bouma on December 20, 2021 · in Armor · 1 ≡

This is the 120mm Mortar Carrier version of the US Army Stryker system. Took a while to build but lots of learning, fun. This is about 1 foot long. little less than a foot wide. The Stryker is a derivative of the Canadian Army LAV-III [...]