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I've made some pretty weird models in my time


PeteJ

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I was going through sorting photos last night and realized that over the last 20 years or so, I have done some pretty weird models. I've done my fair share of "normal" models as well, but here are some of the strangers ones for your enjoyment.  

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Hi, Peter,

I would say you have quite an imagination.  I liked every one of these simply because you did not repeat yourself when building them.  Excellent quality and details.  Thanks for sharing.

Ed

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I'd label those more as "cool" than weird...And even if the subject matter isn't mainstream, I can see some quality skills being applied to them!

Personally, I occasionally build things like that for a "change of pace". I don't have nearly the range of different subjects as you, but do go off the deep end every so often....

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This is the submarine I built from an Airfix Boeing 737...we had a "same kit build" in the club. I built two of them, one as a 737, and the other as this....

Then there's my love for the old Revell Deals Wheels....just because I built them as a kid.

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It's all about having fun, no matter the subject!

 

GIL :cool:

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Gil, I love the old Dave Deal designs!  Never built them though.  As a kid, I did do a lot of Weirdo's though.  We really had a lot of strange stuff when I was growing up.  Do you remember the old Flap Jack model.  I still have one new in the box.  I really need to get around to building that one of these days.  

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Pete,

I particularly like the Blue Angel and the Eiffel Tower.  Since I build mostly for commission, my stuff is all over the landscape.  That's in spite of the fact that my first love is aircraft.

 

The 1/16 Jenny is fairly ordinary, although it took 450 hours.   

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The house took over 200 hours and is 100% scratchbuilt from sheet styrene.

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The 6' tall squeeze bottle is simply ten times larger than an original bottle. 

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As for the motorized toilet paper dispenser, it was a concept model that proved the concept wouldn't work. 

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Finally, the one that I have no photo of and definitely qualifies as weird.  Believe it or not, I was commissioned to build a working, full scale eyelash dye clip that a beautician had designed and was hoping to patent.  Spring loaded so that it would trap the eyelash and protect the eyelid, I had to test it on myself...not including the dye...to make sure it would work.  Amazingly, it actually did what it was designed for, but I have no idea whether or not the woman ever got a patent or produced the clip.

There's been other screwball stuff over the years.  If nothing else, it's kept things interesting.

 

 

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Wow, you did some outstanding and unique models Pete! Sensational work! I think I've seen the six-wheeled Marlboro car once. Gil, that submarine was a stroke of genius!

 

With all the models I've built in my life, I think I only have about three or four unique and different models. This first one was a modification of the Tirpitz into a "what-if" modern ship... complete with a helicopter deck!

 

Aside from that, all I have are the Japanese Zero egg plane I did for a one-hour build contest. And yes, I did finish that in one hour as you see it in the pic. My prize was a 1/32 scale Visible P-51 Mustang.

 

...and the rival set from the anime movie "Porco Rosso"  which isn't that unusual, except the Savoia S-21 never existed.

Other than that, there are these movie and TV cars along with two Tom Daniel's designs.  That's about the extend of my unusual models in my collection.

 

 

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My most unusually model I’ve built to date is this 1/35 scratchbuild:

A short write up here:

 http://www.arcair.com/Gal13/12001-12100/gal12076-Rabbit-Michaels/00.shtm

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