Bugatti Fan

There was a trader 'Model Cars' at the IPMS UK Scale Modelworld show who has the Plymouth Valiant. Look on the IPMS UK website and they are on the SMW traders list with a website link.

Great Chartreuse Micro Bus Model Jurgen ! Goes well with the others in your Convoy builds collection. Only thing missing. The eleven long haired friends of Jesus ! LOL

Thanks for the feedback Dave. I guess that autonomy will now give you much more scope to develop the forum.

Who is/will become the actual full owner/CEO of the new Model Car Makers forum / website ? Has the emergence of another directly competitive printed automotive modelling magazine had any influence on the decision to break away ?

Nice Daytona model build from the film. Was the feature car from the film ever kitted. I guess some kind of concept car may have been used ?

Makes you think ! Every one of those junked care was someone's price and joy that used to get washed and polished at weekends.

0.5 mm dia is the smallest drill bit I have ever needed to use for my models. I have difficulty imagining where one would use tiny drill bits with smaller diameters than 0.5mm on plastic or resin models. Generally I prefer to use normal HSS drill bits than those extremely brittle tungsten carbide PCB bits as the sideways shear strength is better.

Looking good Ismael.

Hints of Bugatti Atlantic Body Style and the Royale style wheels makes a good combination. Very nice model of that concept car. The colour you chose suits it much better than Chrysler's gold. Excellent build.

Have a bit of fun when the Halloweeners knock on the door next year. When they say 'Trick or treat? Wait to see the confused look on their faces when you say 'I'll have a treat please!'

I find it a bit crass when a publisher axes a magazine then uses its title years on to produce a 'special'. It was inevitable that when SA was 'absorbed' into FSM the SA content would dwindle. Seen this so many times over the years when one magazine title gets amalgamated into another leading to its demise and eventually gets forgotten.

Ah ! Karens ! An often used pseudonym these days. I often wonder how that expression came into being ? There must be thousands of very nice women out there who happen to be named Karen who get really irritated about their name being used to describe a certain stereotype ! A very good friend of mine has a wife named (wait for it), Karen. Brilliant sense of humour who plays up to that derogatory expression. If someone winds her up I have heard her say 'You do realise that I'm a Karen ' just to see their reaction.

Self Checkouts After going through one ask if you can use the staff canteen. If you get refused say ' Doesn't having to do your job by scanning and putting my own shopping through a checkout qualify me as a member of staff? '

I have been following this build that has taken miniature model engineering to a whole new level. We all know how great the late Gerald Wingrove's models are in 1/15th scale. Having met him a few times in the past, if he were alive today I am absolutely sure that he would be congratulating you on your skills and for working in 1/24th scale ! As for the Maserati Birdcage, it must be about the most challenging car model that anyone could have chosen to scratch build. The late Manuel Olive Sans is the only other model engineer to have made one of these in a similar way as far as I am aware but in a much larger scale.

In Crichton's novel the tour vehicles were Toyota Land Cruisers. Spielberg used Explorers in the JP movie, so correct in depicting the film vehicles