55 Nomad crushed

Bob Hall
I just gotta know, what generated this project ? Death of a Nomad sad, so sad !

Tim Heimer
Tim Allen! LOL! They never killed the Nomad! Hollywood tricks! They killed a station wagon and a mocked up car! People actually complained to the show because they thought they killed a Nomad. I have pics of all 3 cars used and you can see the difference! I am doing this for the owner of my local Hobby shop.

Bob Hall
Just curious, I've seen the episode plenty,pretty funny,hooah !

Patrick Hagelstein
I always liked the series. Curious about this project. As for the show, I'll take a seat. 🙂

Danny Meer
I saw this episode and even for a mock up car I would love to have it sitting in my garage lol.
Great job so far on replicating the dmg 🙂

Stefan Schacht
very nice so far, i take a seat.

Tim Heimer
Yes it is Hans! I just finished the I beam, Now I wish I hadn't started all these cars! All of this body work and sanding on these things is starting to wear out my shoulder! I should've stuck to computer games! LOl

Bob Hall
"I don't think so, Tim" LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To quote Al !

Patrick Hagelstein
😄 Cool! 👍

Tim Heimer
Good one Bob! LOL!!!

Munkyslut
You should get an electric sander for Xmas before your arms fail haaaaha !!!!
Amazing piece of work Tim 😉

Spanjaard
wow, impressive

Tim Heimer
Too late Munky I get a prosthetic arm on Tuesday! LOL! JK. Seriously I hope to have it painted in the next few days as well as the F&F charger.

Bob Hall
I can see it now "Go Go Gadget sander hand"

Tim Heimer
LOL! Bob

Tim Heimer
Thank you Lode. Now I have to learn how make a wreck with a show room shine on it! LOL

Ben M
omg this is a fun idea

Peter Hardy
Is that the right year model Tim?

Tim Heimer
Peter they used a mocked up station wagon to look like a Nomad and crushed it instead of the Nomad. People screamed at the show about crushing the real one, which they did not crush. They did 2 mock ups, I'll post the pics. Now I'm reversing it and turning a Nomad into a mock up which has been challenging.

Peter Hardy
People will scream in reverse!

Tim Heimer
LOL! Yes I'm the one killing a Nomad! But fear not, I liked and bought it for myself to redeem myself for what I did to the 1st kit! LOL, I'll be building a blue one.

Donald Dickson II
I know it was not real. I knew in my heart and soul then that they could not possibly have actually killed a Nomad like that. Even so, my soul screamed a bit when I saw the episode. You have brought back that feeling for a second sir! LOL

You gotta tell us how you managed to do that damage! Looks great.

Tim Heimer
Thank you Don! I'm glad to hear it looks that good. I dropped an I beam on it. LOl! Heat gun and a metal level and very slowly!

Donald Dickson II
Gotcha. It really looks like it had a 3 ton I beam dropped on it. LOL

Tim Heimer
I hoping to complete it by Friday. A lot of sanding and buffing!

Dominik Weitzer
How cool is that?!?

Slavo Hazucha
Now I want to watch some of Home improvement again... So many truths and gems of life wisdom hidden in there... Great model and behind the scenes research Tim - you have it covered from all angles 👍

Tim Heimer
I agree Slavo, this is a lot of hidden wisdom in those shows! Go figure, as Bob pointed out my name is perfect for this project! LOL I'm not showing some pics of this at this time because the guy knows I'm here and I don't want to spoil it ! But soon!

Munkyslut
I've never seen that Tool Time episode Tim, I better check it out on YouTube

Munkyslut
Ahh nice one Bob!!!

Tim Heimer
Ah. Just smashing!

Christian W
No way! That is a awesome idea and wip 😮k:

Tim Heimer
And it should be competed with pics in 2-3 days!

Tim Heimer
James and all interested.....I have completed this project!! 1st one this year! What I have learned from this?? It's hard to make bent parts fit together! LOL! This was an experience! I just wish I was 100% happy with it. I hope you enjoy it. Tks

Mark Boots
This is great Tim!

Donald Dickson II
Tim, not sure what there is to not be happy with. That is flipping awesome sir! Love it!

Tim Heimer
I thank you much guys for the kind words, as I said, it was a learning experience.

Munkyslut
That will take some beating, but Tim is the automotive scratch build king tho so I expected nothing less 😉
Epic work once again mate 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Wow! Look at picture 38! Tim, do you need to tell us something about your Dragstar addiction? You can open up here, we're in a safe place.

Dominik Weitzer
Outstanding! And in my opinion, there is nothing to worry about. It is an a w e s o m e result!

Christian W
And I've learned as well as you did. It's an awesome project with a pretty good result!

Tim Heimer
I thank you all for the uplifting comments! Munky, I'm no king, just a scalenut like the rest of you. Patrick, My autographed die cast collection is barely shown, we have Indy cars, nascars and a lot of drag cars, 403 cars displayed in my basement! Don't know how much more open I can get without taking pics of them all! LOL!

Bob Hall
Sounds Like my Gun Collection numbers ! LOL !!!!

Patrick Hagelstein
😄

Chris Greathouse
Great result!

Tom ...
Excellent work. I think deforming plastic in a specific way is hard to do, unlike metal. And what a great idea for a build too. That's a fun one to have on the shelf.

Slavo Hazucha
Excellent work, I really like the way how you manage to distribute the absorbtion of impact & bending on the front grill 👍 Looks really convincing & real!

Tim Heimer
Much appreciated comments! This project was interrupted by Murphy's law several times that kept causing other issues, hence why I am not %100 happy with it. But the kind words have helped! Thank you! Tom, you are correct on bending plastic!, once you over due it it's gone! The Hobby shop I built it for will start having fun with it today since it's there today on display.

Spanjaard
it is excellent Tim

Chris Greathouse
Anyone notice? This is about the only hobby, where the more trashed/smashed/crashed/worn and rusty a project is, the more praise it gets. lol

Bob Hall
Bingo ! Yatzee !

Patrick Hagelstein
😄

Tim Heimer
LOL! Too true Chris!

Martin Oostrom
A bit late to this particular party. Tim, you really have outdone yourself. Great wrecking, great paint job and great presentation. You really are a toolman 😉

Tim Heimer
You're a funny man Martin! 🙂

Tim Heimer
O.k, so I was in the hobby shop where this resides and was paying for my stuff and the manager shakes his head to the right a few times, so I look over and one of his co-workers has opened the big glass case for a customer to take pictures of the 55. He then tells me jokingly that only the statue of liberty has had it's picture taken more. LOL! Still after 5months there he loves it! Too cool to still entertain with this.

Munkyslut
Quite rightly so......... an epic build deserves some public adoration 👍

Christian W
The funny Thing today for me: the day before yesterday a German broadcast was sending this Episode 🙂

Slavo Hazucha
I actually only watched the series in German voice acting - which was quite well assigned and translated IMHO - and hardly ever saw the original version - i guess it´s entertaining too 🙂 So much wisdom in the package - discovering new things that were so true every day of my married life... 😄

Tim the model is still great - I´d surely take a shot if I saw it in real life! 👍

Choppa Nutta
Haha what a mad project !!
I like it ! 😄
Nice build 🙂

Nigel Chapman
That's brilliant Tim, love the broken glass. I wonder if they realised how valuable a Nomad would become ?

Tim Heimer
Slavo you're so right, That show is great for the simple wisdom it has! Nigel when they did that episode people called and complained about crushing that car! In reality it was a mocked up car and not the Nomad. So when building this I had to walk a line of doing the mock up and the Nomad. So in reality I destroyed a Nomad to make this! LOL

Nigel Chapman
Thanks Tim that explains it

Bob Hall
You should get some pics of it at the shop, so we can see it's epic glory on display!

Munkyslut
Good call Bob 😉

Choppa Nutta
Hey Munkyslut, i think you win the internet for having the best name thus far !! 😄 😄 😄

I think Slavo might have mistaken you for me a while back😉

Slavo Hazucha
The worst thing in it was that I actually mistook you two by looking at the avatar icon...!!! Must have been quite "in shape" that night... 😄 😄

Bob Hall
Yeah ! The I.R. Baboon avatar completed the persona !

Choppa Nutta
HAha !! yeah what had you been smoking that night ?!?!? 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
Lacquer fumes??? 😉

Urban Gardini
Lacquer is good stuff...

Tim Heimer
Bob I'll be going there soon, so I'll take a pic and post it. You guys are the reason I call this place Scalenuts! LOL

Bob Hall
I wouldn't want it any other way ! Nuts is how we roll ! LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peter Hardy
Somebody call Me?

Spanjaard
proud to be nuts 😄 😄

Jay Dubya
Youtube Video
An old favourite!

Patrick Hagelstein
😄 😄 😄

Urban Gardini
ROFL

Tim Heimer
Too Funny! O.k guys The pics of the 55's permanent home are posted.

Bob Hall
Awesome ! Way to give Walt a Plug too ! LOL !!!!!!!!!!!

Nigel Chapman
Looks good. How did it end up in the store ?

Tim Heimer
Nigel, I had been bringing in my work for a few years. It started with the Jolly Rogers kits, AKA (The pirates of the Caribbean) when they 1st came out, he liked my work on them, then I brought in the 1/16th Dukes of Hazzard Charger and he loved that, and it spent about 6months there. One day last year I walked in and he said he had a project for me and brought out the Nomad kit and told me what he wanted done. So I accepted the challenge and worked with him asking what he envisioned and between the two of us what you see here is the outcome, so the car is his and I have a good friend that is quite helpful.

Nigel Chapman
Brilliant Tim. Any future projects yet ?

Tim Heimer
Apparently this inspired him to have a model contest for a TV or movie model contest, but because of all the crap happening it may not happen, other than that no. Bob Imho it isn't much a plug due to no one is really in my area.