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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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“Nature Creates Its Own Perfection”

Posted August 15, 2012 9:00 AM by dstrohl

It seems one of the big trends in model cars - particularly in putting together model car kits - is adding rust and patina to them to make them look as though they've been abandoned or left to rot in a junkyard for a couple decades. In fact, model builder John Findra has built a business out of creating and selling such models, and Etsy TV recently caught up with John to get his thoughts on why he "ruins" his models.

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08/16/2012 12:03 AM

Beautiful, hand rendered, captured moments here.

I'm partial to cars with patina. So long as they're good goers.

There's nothing like driving a rough looking "Sleeper" to give you a feeling of smug, unstated superiority over the polished show ponies.

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08/16/2012 8:15 AM

Most excellent workmanship!

There are a lot of guys and gals in our local IPMS chapter that build car, truck, and armor models this way, with lots of rust, wear and tear, and a great deal of dilapidation. They've been doing so for many years. It just looks right and is more realistic!

Although I don't necessarily build automobile models I do build armor and large (1/32 scale primarily) military aircraft models.Each and every one of them is "weathered" or so signs of heavy use in the field. It's fairly easy to do this with VERY careful application of pastel chalks, water colors and oil paints......

This blog was neat!

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