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Post by tucky29 on Jan 9, 2009 15:49:36 GMT 10
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Post by cobber on Jan 9, 2009 16:11:26 GMT 10
G'day Tucky,
Good way to fill in time eh?
The gloss finish on that Sunliner is great... I bet you spent a bit of time achieving it.
What is the 'van made of ?
Cobber.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2009 16:47:38 GMT 10
 Onya Tucky ... They look great.  They might only be 1/25th scale but i bet they take just as long to make as what it takes to restore their full sized cousins. The upside is they dont take up anywhere as much room as the real McCoys. If ya get tired of working on them ..... just slip em back in the shoebox and put it in the cupboard. Gotta ask where ya got the 10ft high wall tiles in the background   Reddo
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Post by JBJ on Jan 9, 2009 18:54:33 GMT 10
Hi Greg,
Good to see something creative come out. Hope you & Noelene are running OK over there.
JBJ
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Post by humpty2 on Jan 9, 2009 19:41:31 GMT 10
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jan 9, 2009 20:25:39 GMT 10
G'day Tucky,
Another couple of nice additions to your collections. Love the Sunliner but the others are fantastic too.
How long does it take you to put one of your little vans together?
Don Ricardo
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Post by tucky29 on Jan 9, 2009 22:30:18 GMT 10
thanks everyone for the kind remarks.to answer some of your questions these vans can take a few days to build. i built the sunliner out of solid balsa wood so that i may be able to make a mould from it.reddo those 10ft tiles were a bitch to get to stay up long enough to take the pics. thanks jbj noelene & i are doing just fine at moment, we hope to catch up with you & sue and all the people on the site on our next trip. soon i hope
tucky
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Post by atouchofglass on Jan 10, 2009 7:18:17 GMT 10
Hey Tucky thanks everyone for the kind remarks.to answer some of your questions these vans can take a few days to build. i built the sunliner out of solid balsa wood so that i may be able to make a mould from it. tucky Hope you do make copies cause there are a few fibreglass nutters out there that would like to add a model Sunliner to their workshop/mantle piece.... Dare I ask..... is there an Olympic in the making? Might need to add some stabiliser bars to the Sunliner..... your car is sitting low in the back ;D ;D ;D Cheers Atog |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2011 23:21:52 GMT 10
as stated in the opening post of this thread, WA member Greg (tucky29) did some serious damage to his left hand with a bench grinder about a month before xmas  . So ........what do you do when you're stuck inside the house with a seriously incapacitated hand, and can't play with real toys in the shed   ........ya make model toys of course ;D ;D       .......nice model Greg ...... Mark |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2011 6:30:20 GMT 10
Not a bad öne handed effort. Great stuff Tucky. Reddo
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Post by cobber on Jan 13, 2011 7:52:14 GMT 10
Another good looking model Tucky, is it made from a solid block of Balsa wood? It should be in the thread Tucky's toys. How is the hand going mate ? Cobber. |
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Post by firefighter on Jan 13, 2011 10:33:29 GMT 10
 G,day Cobber I have taken your advise ...and moved replys 6/7 8/ 9 over to Tuckys toys G,day Tucky not a bad job for a one arm bandit ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D f/f ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by tucky29 on Jan 13, 2011 11:35:39 GMT 10
hi everyone,
thanks Mark for putting these photos up for me. the model is 1/24 scale and made from 8 pieces of 6mm thick balsa wood.it took a lot longer to build because i could not use my fingers on my left hand.the first photo is of my new tow car (1966 chevy impala) i had just finished repairing it when i cut my hand.i had sold my hotrod two months before buying the chev. im now waiting for my hand to come good so i can start restoring my 1948 chevy pickup.thanks for kind words.
tucky
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Post by MRFJ55 on Jan 13, 2011 18:59:08 GMT 10
HIYA TUCKY , HOW YOU GOING ? LOVE THE TOYS , WELL DONE . BLOODY GREAT PROPORTIONS ON ALL OF THEM . HOW DO YOU DO IT ..............................MEMORY ,PHOTOS,BROCHURES , PICTURES , SCALE OR JUST PURE FREESTYLE . WHAT EVER METHOD YOU USE IT SURE WORKS . BY THE WAY , I DONT KNOW IF I TOLD YOU ALREADY BUT I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOUR OLD SUNLINER IS SITTING HERE IN SYDNEY . I HAVE TRIED A COUPLE OF TIMES TO RAISE THE DEAD BUT CANT FIND THE OWNERS .IT HAS BEEN SITTING , NEGLECTED IN THE SAME SPOT IN THE FRONT YARD OF AN EXCLUSIVE SUBURB FOR ABOUT 3-4 YEARS . 8-)MAURIE
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Post by tucky29 on Jan 13, 2011 19:56:55 GMT 10
hi maurie,
i spoke to the owner of my old sunliner maybe 12 months ago when he had it for sale, so if your interested it is possibly still for sale. the way i reproduce these models is take i photo and put it on my computer so i can change the size till the size of wheel rim can be measured in mm (15 mm =15") 15" is the overall dia. of a 14" rim then transfer all dimensions of the van to paper or straight to the balsa, then start carving and sanding. my first two vans were freehand in my own design.
tucky
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