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Tag: diorama

  • Early Works, We All Start Somewhere.

    Seven early models, showing varying degrees of success:) The purple Superbird is a favorite, the paint came out really nice on that one. The blue/silver Cuda was another milestone when it was made, I had figured out where to purchase some sponsor and livery decals, in talking with the person I bought them from, I…

  • The Last Outpost, Stay Off My Lawn!

    A diorama created originally to show of customs. The theme was a steampunk styled outpost in the wasteland. These dioramas change over time,. This particular scene has had a lot of grass and greeery added. The outpost model was made from a shack model, adapted for my needs. The shack owner has his pet alligator…

  • The Iron Horse and His Toothy Friend

    The Iron Horse decals are not my designs, I got these off the internet as a test for the White Ink printer I use to make water slide decals. The white ink printer worked, so this test has stuck around as a moment when the way I created custom decals changed forever. For those that…

  • Hotwheels Toy Fair Exclusive Porsche.

    I don’t share much from my collection here, but this one deserves a little time. For the diehards, you’ll recognize this as a pretty hard to find price. Is going up for auction soon, it is too expensive to keep around. Ironically I won this, not for a custom or diagrams contest, but for winning…

  • Oriental Dragon Gasser

    I Have no memory of taking these pics! The diorama and car are separated by about five years, so I would have needed to dig the diorama out of storage to take these pics…weird. The design on the Gasser is about half Ai generated. I use Ai to make initial designs, then draw over the…

  • Using Gold Vinyl On Customs

    So this one is an experiment that probably has potential. The goal was to cut gold vinyl (the same stuff you would wrap on real cars) to simulate a gold mirror finish on selected parts of the design. The concept was solid, but in the end the process just took too long and had too…

  • Bat Wings! Really They Are There

    After binge listening to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, I came up with a brilliant design, that is still stuck in my head as it didn’t quite make it to realization in this piece. The goal was a horned skull on the top, and bat wings that transitioned from the skull down to the side…

  • Extreme Exhaust.

    I think this is a Chevelle, made many years back. For a while I was infatuated with complicated, or at least overly engineered exhaust systems. Pretty sure this setup with be a danger to anyone bumping up against this ridiculous design. But I like ridiculous things, so I like this one.

  • Hippo Habitat Diorama

    Can you find the hippo in the send image? He is in there somewhere.

  • Dioramas