MattP99 Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) Here is a 1/25 scale Revell 1949 mercury that I did recently. Headlights and street light are LED with scratch built background and street lamp. The phone booth is from Doozy. Posters are downloaded from the web and are all from 1972, as is the licence plate. The original plan was to do a replica of the Badlands film car, but it looked to dull in plain black Painted with Mostly MIG & Vallejo acrylics + hairspray/salt and Oil weathering. Edited July 5, 2020 by MattP99 Wrong info
Bucky Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 An amazing diorama! Weathering looks perfect, and the lighting is fantastic!
espo Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 Very gritty looking. Great looking build and diorama setting. I like the pictures in the dark with the lights on.
Phildaupho Posted July 6, 2020 Posted July 6, 2020 I really like the night time photos. Well done model and photography.
bamadon Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 That looks great in the diorama you created. The lighting is very real looking.
echo Posted July 9, 2020 Posted July 9, 2020 The model is nicely done and the diorama makes an awesome presentation, I liked the weathering on a traditional custom which is usually done in a gloss paint. It's a bit different which is nice to see. Great job all around.
MattP99 Posted July 10, 2020 Author Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) Thanks for all your great kind comments, what a brilliant welcome to this forum too Currently working on a 'similarly themed' diorama with a 1970 Hemi 'Cuda, street light and vehicle lights, so I shall of course put it on here when complete Edited July 10, 2020 by MattP99
doorsovdoon Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 Great diorama. Looks like something ominous is going on, with the phone off the hook and bonnet open, lights left on! Maybe he has info on the Kennedy assassination, or maybe witnessed Jimmy Hoffa being buried and got tailed! xD
MattP99 Posted July 10, 2020 Author Posted July 10, 2020 I should have put Hoffa's feet sticking out if the trunk ??
doorsovdoon Posted July 10, 2020 Posted July 10, 2020 5 hours ago, MattP99 said: I should have put Hoffa's feet sticking out if the trunk ?? ?
Grumpa Posted July 21, 2020 Posted July 21, 2020 This is fantastic Matt! The car, the atmosphere, the night shots! This could pass as a "3-D" version of art from Keith Weesner. Check him out and see what I mean! Really well done! Very, very cool!
MattP99 Posted July 21, 2020 Author Posted July 21, 2020 20 hours ago, Grumpa said: This is fantastic Matt! The car, the atmosphere, the night shots! This could pass as a "3-D" version of art from Keith Weesner. Check him out and see what I mean! Really well done! Very, very cool! Wow thank you so much I am working on a follow up so will hopefully post pics in he next few days or so
Husky1943 Posted July 21, 2020 Posted July 21, 2020 Matt, that is just fantastic! Love the car and REALLY love the diorama! All you forgot was the mountain of cigarette butts that accumulated by the pay phone!
Grumpa Posted July 22, 2020 Posted July 22, 2020 17 hours ago, MattP99 said: Wow thank you so much I am working on a follow up so will hopefully post pics in he next few days or so Matt. "Husky1943" mentioned some cigarette butts at the foot of the pay phone. Tiny pieces of 10 / 20 thousandths brass wire painted white with a little color on the ends really fools the eye. I've used this on some 1/4" scale figures and it's pretty convincing.
Modlbldr Posted July 22, 2020 Posted July 22, 2020 Matt, that is an amazing diorama. The leaves in the gutter and the oil stain in the night shots are extremely realistic. Very well done. Thanks for sharing. Later-
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