Tunnel/Tree-Stand Project

Barb · Post by **Barb** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:53 pm

Healey 36,

I think your display is great but I particularly loved your step by step pictures as you did the build. This is the kind of thing that inspires me to drop everything and run to my craft table! Thank you very much for the inspiration and for the time and effort you put into sharing your creation.

And just curious... does your "pen name" arise from a love of sports cars?

Barb Healy

healey36 · Post by **healey36** » Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:30 pm

Hi Barb,

Thanks for the kind words. Howard had suggested a few pics; I just took it a bit further. It was a fun project. Hope folks like yourself get inspired to build/craft some stuff. I look forward to seeing others' projects and displays as I draw inspiration from them as well.

Yes, the username draws from the love of roadsters in all forms, going back to high school. Many have passed through here over the last 40+ years...currently we have a 1967 Austin Healey Sprite (and a 2001 BMW Z3):

Wish they got out more...

Paul

Post by **Lee** » Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:42 pm

Paul,
This is extraordinary!!!!
Well done!

I also love the car as well. My love is early 60's Mopars. I have a 1960 Valiant V200 and a 1963 Imperial Crown.

Regards,
Lee

healey36 · Post by **healey36** » Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:48 pm

It was a fun project, Lee; wish I'd done a bit more design work before I started - I might have been able to head off a few of the problems I ended up with. I'm gonna make another one eventually (if not this year, certainly next). This one went into the bin after the holidays, so at a minimum, I gotta build another to keep the wife happy.

I remember the early 1960s Plymouth Valiant well...it has that blister on the boot-lid that looks like a spare tire. I often wondered if that was actually part of the design for the spare's storage, or just a decoration in the sheet-metal, kind of an homage to the days when spare tires were carried at the back for all to see. Now, the Imperials were just lovely automobiles. We had a neighbor when I was a kid that was a huge Chrysler/Plymouth fan and I recall his lust for an Imperial. Unfortunately, he was a rather frugal college professor, so he never fulfilled that dream. I think a Plymouth Fury was about as far up the food-chain he ever got. He did eventually get a first-gen base Plymouth Duster, though, which was a really neat car.

Anyway, I'm a sucker for a two-seat rag-top. Wish I had more space in the garage.

Paul

healey36 · Post by **healey36** » Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:47 am

I had posted a similar recap of this project over on one of the toy train forums, and a few folks expressed disappointment that I hadn't built the revised version in time for Christmas 2024. I think some folks were interested in seeing how I change it up (or possibly how I foul it up, again, lol). Anyway, apologies to any that await Rev. 2. There are a lot of irons in the fire at the moment, but as soon as workbench space opens up, we'll get going on this. There were components of the first I now wish I'd hung onto, but I didn't, so a fresh start is required. Not a problem.

Post by **Howard** » Sat Jan 11, 2025 11:37 am

Paul...

We're waiting...patiently waiting...

As a matter of fact...I for one would like to see the tree stands that other forum members use...especially older, vintage ones...antiques...etc...I'm pretty sure they're out there...I've seen one that a forum member uses with a feather tree...I would like to copy it...it's on my list...somewhere...

Howard...