Still another quarantine build! Bob Bruce this time.

Bob did any amazing kit-bash on Rick’s Pickles and turned it into P. Piper Pickle Co.  He replace the single story green office with a much more effective two-story building made with siding from another kit, The Cannery.  I think it came out muck better than the original.  This is a classic example of what you can do with Clever Models kits, once you have a couple to work with.

Here's a quarantine build By: Jerry Leads

Another great example of what can be done when a kit doesn’t quite do what you want it to.  Jerry modified Plant 2 by making it into a full rectangular building.  For those of you that may not know this kit, it is normally a triangle.  Jerry lengthened the short wall and squared up the roof.  I like this modification a lot.  Thanks for sharing.

Another build in progress. Something different this time.

I’m not sure if this one was started during the quarantine.  I think Weston has been working on this for a while.  Anyway, this is from Weston Rhoderizer and is his take on the Walthers, Vulcan Iron Works kit.  As you can see, he’s used many of our textures all over the place.  One really interesting point is that the boiler started out as our HOn30 Tank Car kit.  It’s really exciting for me to see how plastic model kits can be made so much better by adding paper.  Fantastic work Weston.

OK, so this has been a big month in Clever Models History.

Let’s see.  Let me list the major things that happened.

1) We’re on lockdown and going crazy.

2) We had a sale to help you not be so crazy.

3) I turned 70.  (I feel think like 20 and probably act like i’m 12.  I hope I grow up someday.)

4) I just got laid off from my day job.  Yea, you may wonder what am I doing still working at 70.  Can’t explaine it.  This layoff is because of the downturn in the economy and they say we will be back in 3 months.  So, the good news is I have some time to devote to THIS business.

5) A new FREEBIE has been posted.  This is a rework of our kit S-101 The Office Trailer.  But this time it is a DOUBLEWIDE, it’s yellow and has a new foundation instead of skirting and completly redone wooded stairs.

6) I just posted a new kit.  The Silver City Factory Flat.  It ends up being the third in the series.  Didn’t plan on there being a series, but the first two buildings are very popular so why not?

7) Like I asked for when I started the sale, you all have started sending in pix of what you have built during the lockdown.  I have posted two, so far.  Keep up the good work.