Toys?

[Not A Duster]

....no jester....not those kind of toys...

Anyone else afflicted with this disease? It's one of those things that got out of hand. "Specially after family found out I like the things - makes for easy Nodda Christmas/Birthday gifts.

Got any pictures of your toyboxes? I'd like to see them.

 

[Fishy]

Nice collection! I have the same affliction but, mine are nowhere near as cool as yours!

 

[69.5CUDA]

2000 or so hotwheels....unopened ones that is....i think last count there was 1000+ on the walls in fishys room

 

[6pkrunner]

Yup got the same affliction Nodda, but got no good shots of any toys - may try to get some tonight, but its packing up night to get ready for the last trip of the year tomorrow.

 

[restoman]

Yes, I suffer the same affliction.
1/24 scale models, some diecasts, loads of 1/64 cars and trucks, plenty of Nascar collectibles (BIG Petty/Earnhardt fan here), some vintage Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, carrying cases, etc.
No good pics of any right now. Most are stashed away while we re-do most of the mainfloor of this old shack, and the ones that are still visible are kinda dusty (and a REAL bitch to clean ).

You've got some nice stuff there nodda. Nice cabinets too.

 

[dodgedifferent2]

I may have a picture of them on this computer somewhere.

i used to have approx 100 unopened boxes of 1:18 scale mopars, hot rods ... i since sold them off to finance some legal adventures ....

 

[69.5CUDA]

3 tools for cleaning them..compressed air a "blush" brush(softer the better) and a small model paint brush for when you cant get in with the blush brush

anyone remember the "stow-n-go" hotwheels playsets?..im missing 1..and it was a special mail in only one(course i have 95% of my childhood toys lol..thanx mom!).....then theres my slotcar issues.......high emphasis on "trucking" aka tyco us-1..i think im missing of the "stations" and a small handfull of the trucks...of everything they ever made.....ive even got the uber rare "gray" trucking RR crossings

 

[dodgechargerfan]

I'm overrun with the toys. I have some pics of my office that I'll post later today.
I won't pull out the boxes and boxes that I have stored away. :doh:

I picked up a couple of the HotWheels Supper Rally Case last year - ya know the carrying cases that look like a Torq Thrust (I guess) wheel...

 

[65furyIII]

A couple pics of some of mine. I have always had them all on display, haven't added any for awhile, and they have been neglected a bit too.

 

[restoman]

Some not-so-great pics of some of my once-treasured collection.
Jammed into any available space, they're really, really dusty now.

Most of the larger ones here are models that I've built. What a way to treat something so labour intensive, huh?
The room these are in is piled high with stuff from the rest of the house while we finish drywalling. Frigging dust gets everywhere!

 

[giowest]

awesome collections all. I take a few shots of the ones I keep out but there's way more in storage in the garage.

 

[6pkrunner]

Didn't get any shots of the toy room in the house yet, but here's some of a toy project I took on for the three trips out at sea for the year. Its a 1:36.66669 scale recreation of Donald MacKay's fifth clipper ship the Flying Fish. His prior ship the Flying Cloud still holds the canvas driven record for a trip from New York to San Francisco - 89 days.

I got some plans off of eGouge last year and managed to get copies of supposedly the blueprints from a fellow in Norway. There was a Norwegian shipbuilding apprentice in MacKay's shipyard during the construction of Flying Fish (1851) who went back to Norway after his apprenticeship - but who knows. The plans are great and show much more detail than the 1953 wooden ship plans I got from eGouge, so they are used for the basis. I rescaled them to this oddball scale which gives the hull a length of 72 inches. This was to allow my failing eyesight and arthritic hands have a little reprieve. I want to put every boom, line and block on her as she would appear carrying every inch of canvas on her. The size helps with that. The down side is that its going to be friggin' huge. The main yard with the studding sail booms set will be 46.5 inches. The top of the mainmast above the deck is 59.5 inches. So its big

I used 3/8 inch plywood as the basis for the keel and bulkheads as they would be strong and they are also completely hidden when the thing is done. The ship I am building this on has no woodworking shop like the other ships I was on while building these things so all the raw materials had to be lined up ahead of the trips. So at the end of the May trip it looked like this

As I had no planks with me to start the hull planking, I did a rough cut on the masts

There was no progress on the second trip as the planks didn't arrive. A coworker bandsawed up some pine planks to 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches. But this would have to be rebandsawed to 1/4 x 1/8 to be the proper scale for the ship. So while I was off on trip two they were recut.

This last trip was a marathon of planking and my hands are not thanking me for it at all. However from deck to keel she's planked.

and as it now sits.

 

[71dusterman]

Great work and patience.

 

[69.5CUDA]

always ave admired ship and plane builders for there patience.....if you want i can probably hook you up with a good place to get scale blocks and rigging supplys that are actualy metal and rather high quality(but not crazy expensive either) and other nautical metal tidbits..even lighting

i hope your going to RC it cause it would be cool to see it sail

 

[thrashingcows]

6PK...Wow is all I can say!!! :2thumbs:

 

[restoman]

Nice work!