In the summer of 2003 I built a 1:87 scale model of a Dübener Ei (a small caravan from the DDR) to be towed by one of my 2cv's in the same scale. I built this caravan out of paper, cardboard, metal wire, needles and pins and hobby glue. I painted the model using some cans of spray paint I found in our garage (grey paint to spray on rims and a can of normal black paint), a small can of Enamel paint I bought in a toy shop to paint curtains and i borrowed a CD writer to 'paint' small details like a keyhole or the rubbers around the windows. I also started building the same caravan in a 1:17 scale using the same materials plus clear plastic sheets for windows I got from a someone who wanted to throw it away. and something we call 'crêpe papier' in the Netherlands (a kind of paper) for the curtains. I will use a pin (see picture below) to make a tow-bar on one of my 1:17 2cv’s and I will use the pacaging of my medication (see second picture below) to make nice round tail lights on my caravan. Is there anyone else over here who also tries to use cheap materials that aren’t really designed for caravan (or car) modelling? And if so, can you give some examples?
I will use a pin like this to make a tow-bar. I will bend it in a different way.
I will use this kind of pacaging to make some nice tail lights. These are not the pills I take by the way. The pills I take are in a far nicer pacaging so they look more like tail lights.