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Itsy bitsy brass: The artistry of Danny Downs

Written by webmin

If you haven’t yet noticed, scratchbuilders choose their subjects carefully, making sure they’re sufficiently obscure to have never previously been modeled in scale form, yet are not so obscure to be impossible to research. Danny Downs seems to be rather proficient at toeing that line, judging from the vehicles he’s selected for his own scratchbuilding […]

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Tagged Austin Western, Diamond T, Hobart Weldmobile, model cars, Pak-Age Car, scratchbuilding, service and fleet vehicles, street sweeper, trucks and Jeeps, White  
 

Petit Prix petition

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Herb Miska, whose incredible scratchbuilt models inspired the recent posts on the scratchbuilt Pierce-Arrow dump truck and MacDonald low-loader, recently emailed us with a request. See, he’s been working on a 1/18th model of the 1914 Mercedes Grand Prix racer, but has hit a brick wall in his research on the car: He has yet […]

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Tagged automobilia, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix, model cars, racing, scratchbuilding  
 

The littlest biggest Pierce

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Gene Herman, inspired by the recent post about Herb Miska’s great scratchbuilt models, recently sent us this story on another amazing scratchbuilder who chose to replicate a Pierce-Arrow dump truck. Gene writes: I feel very lucky to count amongst my friends a GENIUS scratchbuilder named Charlie Rowley. The quality of his work is good as […]

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Tagged automobilia, Charlie Rowley, Golden Age of Trucking Museum, museums and collections, Pierce-Arrow, Pierce-Arrow dump truck, scratchbuilding, service and fleet vehicles, trucks and Jeeps  
 

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