The Duke's Motor Pool

[Duke Maddog]

Welcome one and all to my “Motor Pool”.

Now that I have finally achieved my latest milestone of completed small scale vehicles, here are the pictures I promised you showing the entire collection. I wanted to set all these up like this to share with all my friends, take pics to record this for posterity, and mostly to be able to see how all of these look grouped together in one big group. Finally, after years of persistence and perseverance; I present to you my 700- piece small scale vehicle collection.

This collection took two trucks to transport it down to the Hall where I was going to display these for the two days of Hobby Day. I had everything packed in these boxes; here is how they all looked upon arrival at the Hall:

The first this I did was to unpack Dora since she was going to be the centerpiece of the whole collection. Then I placed all the rest of my German railroad models on the table beside her. These are all the German Railroad models I have completed:

Then the rest of the unpacking began…..


Finally, after three hours, I finished placing all my models on the tables. I grouped them by country, and the whole collection sat on four eight-foot-long tables placed side-by-side. I grouped them by country with the Germans on the back table. In a couple pics, you can see the magazine article picture of my whole collection when we first too a group shot of it several years ago. I apologize for the quality of these pics; I tried hard to make sure they were done as well as possible. Still, I think enough can be seen to enjoy the full scope of all this work.

Now for your edification, here are all 700 models set up on display:

There you have it. Enjoy!

Thanks for looking in everyone, I hope you enjoyed your tour of my "Motor Pool".

 

[centaur567]

Were gonna need a bigger boat. Nice work. Is that your lifetime build or what has survived over the yrs. Gary S.

 

[razordws]

That is just freaking awesome Duke!!!!!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Were gonna need a bigger boat. Nice work. Is that your lifetime build or what has survived over the yrs. Gary S.

Thanks Gary! This is my lifetime build; none were lost over the years. I have lost aircraft and some ships, but no armor or vehicles.

Thanks Razor! It was a blast!

 

[moon puppy]

So do you see a progression in your builds? Show your first vers your last Mark.

 

[Duke Maddog]

So do you see a progression in your builds? Show your first vers your last Mark.

Yes I have, as have others. I'm still not advancing as quickly as many here but I'm slowly making progress on my abilities. Most importantly, I'm having fun doing it.


Here's my first armor model built when I was 7:

It still has a bit of dust on it in that pic. It doesn't look that dusty now.

My 700th model:

It might not be a very fair comparison, given the difficulty this model gave me, but there it is.

The First and the (currently) Last.

 

[moon puppy]

It still has a bit of dust on it in that pic. It doesn't look that dusty now.

HA! My Honey tank got better with a layer of dust on it, it went from 2nd to 1st the two times I showed it.

Looks good Mark. Having fun is the key. :dude

 

[lupanzer]

Fantastic!...congratulations

Luiz.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks 'Pup. Yeah, sometimes some of mine do look better with the dust. Weathering can be a constant thing even after the model is finished. Still, I did take that pic some time ago when I only lightly dusted it and didn't do a thorough job. Congrats on the two awards too!

Thanks Luiz! Glad to see you stop in.

 

[centaur567]

Really nice collection. So how long ago were you 7? Just the other day I bet. For me it was 1957 and color TV was just coming out. ldguy Gary

 

[Duke Maddog]

For me it was 46 years. 1970. I was born in 1963.

 

[Dave wahl]

Duke, That motor pool looks fantastic. I knew that your Dora was big, but THAT monster is GINOTMOUS!!! I didn't realize that you had as many German trains as you are showing. Congrats again on passing the 700 mark,and try to get to the 1000 mark soon. How about a group picture with all your WWI vehicles in it. You should be able to get a decent shot, since I don't think there were that many models in your collection of WWI armor. Have a great day.

Dave

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Dave! I'm glad you got to see it. Yeah, I have quite a number of German trains; and I hope to get more if anyone ever releases them. Dora is indeed big; it fooled a lot of people who thought it was 1/35th scale. I had to set them straight. As for the WWI vehicles, I'll try but everything is still packed up inside the boxes and stacked up. It might be awhile. There are only about seven or eight vehicles from WWI anyway right now.

Thanks again Dave! It felt great setting them all up on one set of tables.