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This design was inspired by the '62 Corvette. Contours were created by dead-reckoning, no plans or diagrams. Body is one piece, hewn from scraps of 2"x3" studs from my basement rehab. Wheel wells crafted with forstner bits mounted in the drill press. Currently has one coat of raw linseed oil...

Number three in the Freaky Fords Blue Series. The more I look at this color combination the more I like it. I'm partial to blue any way. I think it works well with the flat black wheels. I really wanted to have white walls on these but I could not figure out how to do it and make them look good...

Another in the Hot Rod Freaky Ford series. A lavender and metallic purple paint scheme. The paint is Behr Oops paint form Home Depot I get for $0.50. When ever I'm in the store I walk by the paint department to see what they have. At first I grabbed everything but soon realized that I would wind...

This is the first set of these toy cars I made for ny grandson. There are a lot of firsts here. The first project I ever made from MDF and the first time I ever used acrylic craft paint on a toy. It was also my first painted toy. I got the MDF almost for free and wanted to see how well it would...

Body is made from MDF and painted with Home Depot Oops paint and an air brush. This was my firs try at making toys with MDF. I might use up what I have but I don't know that I'll ever use it again. The dust was terrible and this stuff soaks up paint like a sponge. That said with a lot of sanding...

I painted this toy car with a coat of rattle can automotive primer, Behr Oops house paint from Home Depot and a top coat of Rust-Oleum Triple Thick Glaze. I found the Rust-Oleum, Triple Thick Glaze difficult to apply and had to sand and respray it way to many times. However, if you want a glossy...

Hot Rod Freaky Ford 27 T Bucket in Lavender/Lilac. I don't know what the color is really called. It's oops paint from Home Depot. The color varies a lot depending on the lighting or your monitor. On some monitors it looks grey I'm told. I have two monitors and it looks different on both. But not...

The second one in the Halloween series of Hot Rod Freaky Fords is an Orange and Black '32 Ford Deuce Coupe. This color scheme really works well for the hot rods. However, I don't think I will be using this particular paint again. It took a lot of pain to get a good orange color. Since I like to...

This project started out with the idea to create cars to match an option wheel in one of my grandson's activity books. The six images and the corresponding cars are shown below. I started out giving him a single car. Then after several months I'd give him another one. Purple sedan Green coupe...

Ok, so I know he's still far too young to play with these but I couldn't resist getting started on making Norm Marshall's toys for Rocco. I found these to be pretty challenging with the bandsaw but I think I did ok. The Model T car is purple heart and cherry and the pickup is pine and cherry...

Here is a batch of cars made the other weekend for our kids to play with. A few of them went home with nephews, but these are the ones that have found a happy home here in our living room toybox. I really love this style, and keep making more and more of them. At least the kids in the family...

This is the last toy I finished as a continued learning curve. I did this one from a picture, simple sketch, not to scale, is it recognizable.??? Learn as you go along. How to shape the front of the fenders as they extend beyond the radiator. Bumpers, tried this idea and worked well, easy...

I was really excited when Dutchy made up these plans as I really like building these old cars. Made with walnut with oak trim. This was my third try at making spoke wheels. The blog starts here. Look here for Dutchy's plans.

Hellooo, This is my latest new creation, fresh from the press! If you want to see the full build video, go watch it on my YouTube channel. You can subscribe so you'll don't miss out on my new projects. I made one Defender with a mirror and one without. The one without will act as a toy, the...

Fastest hand plane in the world can your hear the sound? This post is simply to bring a smile. (Updated with new pictures). I were looking for a round over hand plane on my shelves of wooden planes and here I found this forgotten beautiful old fellow, don't even remember where I got it from...

Well here we go, my take on Dutchy's Morgan plans. I hadn't been in the shop for like 3 months so it was nice to get back to work and had a ball building the car. I added a major pain to the build making the spoke rims but seem like they will fit in just right for this car. The blog is here. It...

Hi everyone, I made a new toy/modelcar: an old Citroën Dyane out of 1979. If you want to see the video, you can check it out over here: Have fun!

Three years ago this month I bought the Toys and Joys plans for the 35 Ford # 46 and gave it a try but was out of lumber at the time so tried using pine. Boy was that a pain way to soft so would leave marks if bumped while working so have steered clear of it ever since. So this time I used oak...

Even though my wood-shop has no heater, and it's certainly cold enough to freeze mass amounts of water outside now, I just HAD to get out and do something in the shop. Something, anything. So I bundled up warm, and headed out to work in the cold. I sorted through the scrap bin for a length...

With my son still in cub scouts, this is my entry into the parents division. Not sure if I'm prouder of winning "Most Humorous" or winning the parents division.