hemi Cuda landsape - Update

[geezerman]

Mercman's post reminded me of this one.
Car was a glue bomb I picked up at a car swap meet. It was so far messed up, I just took it further. Weathered it and planted it



Started with some Florida swamp Maple seedlings. Wasn't too happy with the way they were growing the first year, so I replanted with some smaller leaved Chinese Elms.





Elm foliage is starting to fill out some more and the iron content in my well water is nicely rusting the model more.
I ought to take a new updated foto.

[smartresins]

Thats pretty cool! Jody

[mastermodeler]

That's sharp, Clay. More quality work from ya.
Alex

[ronr]

Cool Build! Nice way to salvage a glue bomb.

[donnie]

I wonder if you could do this with real plants? Might be pretty neat. Donnie

[geezerman]

Jan 5, 2010 15:47:23 GMT -6 donnie said:

I wonder if you could do this with real plants? Might be pretty neat. Donnie

Now there's an idea !!!

[dogfish7]

Yeh..... junk Bonsais ;D

[geezerman]

I'm just getting my plants around for spring.
This lives outdoors, so while the canopy is filling out, the elements are attacking the model just as it would on a real junker. Only instead of rusting more, I may need to touch up some areas with paint. The bumper plating that I had weathered is wearing off.

[zbuckster]

Now you got me thinking that a die cast body would be better. It would weather better than the plastic.

[dogfish7]

Really like your Bonsai Clay Wish I had half your imagination