Miniture WWII Vehicles

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Hi everyone ,
I'm new here . I've always enjoyed making Knives . I thought some of you might get a kick out of these other things that I make.
The 1st. is a 1934 Ford Ambulance.
The other is a German Demag D7 Halftrack.
Both are 1/6 scale
Thanks for looking.
Hope you like them.

Mike
 
Mike,

Nice work! They look great. What did you make them from? Are these modified kits or did you just make them from scratch?

n2s
 
Nice work!

The outdoor shot is particularly good, with the right background you could easily think you were looking at an actual vehicle. :cool:
 
Thanks for the compliments.
The ambulance took about 20 hrs. total time.
The halftrack took much , much longer. It takes time keeping the grain angled for strenth while still to scale.
The halftrack was my prototype ,from which I made molds.
I make castings with P.V.C.
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20 hours! I would have guessed several hundred hours. It would take me longer then that to paint it.

n2s
 
mcswood said:
They're both scratch built from mostly wood.

Holy Moley!! That blows me away. I was impressed when I thought they were made from kits, but made from scratch...my hat is off to you.
 
beautiful work, would have taken me many a month to do a vehicle that even resembled what it was supposed to.
 
Paul Davidson said:
Holy Moley!! That blows me away. I was impressed when I thought they were made from kits, but made from scratch...my hat is off to you.


My sentiments exactly, amazing stuff, keep it up :)
 
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This is one of the halftracks that I'm working on now.
This one is mostly from molds of the 1st. They have working steering and full interiors.
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This was one of the 1st completely finished ones .The main frame was wood with most of the rest from castings. This one had full working suspension and was set up for radio control. I sold it before I had a chance to get a motor in it.
 
You should work in movies building models. I guess CGI is probably killing the model makers, but your models are easily as good as any the Hollywood fx people are doing.
 
There's no future in models. Like anything else they're easily copied by anyone that can make a mold. I've made tanks , cannons , trains and the like.
All 1/6 scale and bigger. It's hard to even recupe what you spend , let alone the time taken away ( from cutting the grass if my wife had her way ) from other needs.
I made knives long before I got involved in wood carvings , so now I'm getting back to the basics. The only problem with knifemaking is trying to stay original , and not copying the work of others . About the only knife catagory where none are concidered copies is the Bowie. That's allways been my faverite anyway . So thats what I've started to make . I won't take any more pics. of my knives till I get a better camera.
I'm in the middle of Omish country , so I have access to many blacksmithes for quality folded steels. That's all I use.
Big , heavy bowies that you only sharpen once. I couldn't ask for more.

Thanks,
Mike
 
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