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More 'Wingy Thingy' guys in IPMS. Failing Peteski and Stavanser' s good suggestions those guys in IPMS might be a further fallback.

It was suggested in an earlier post that Model Car Builders might be more reflective of how most of us do our modelling. There was a competitor magazine to MCM named Model Car Builder that stopped production when the owner editor simply decided he had enough and called it a day a short while ago. Best to run with Model Car Makers as proposed. The reason being that are all 'makers' regardless of whether we scratch build or make models from kits. Looking at the number of models shown with major or minor surgery to either convert or improve them suggests that most of us who frequent this forum hardly ever just do straight 'out of the box' builds anyway.

Thanks Dave. Had a quick look. Appears that the emodelcars.com domain is up for sale for 395 dollars.

I knew that Kris was an accomplished country artist but unaware that his band acted as the Friends of Jesus in the bus.

Dragline mentioned in his last post that Greg has a website for selling models. Not aware of it. What is it Greg'swebsite for selling models named ?I Direct buying and selling should be made available on the new website with suitable liability disclaimers that buyers and sellers have to adhere to.

I am OK with the advertising. Yes, I agree it might be annoying to some, but one needs to look at the wider picture. If it pays for the running of the site to enable free access to all, I can live with the very minor irritstion. Tiered subscriptions would only create an Us and Them situation depending on the depth of one's wallet.

As the new site develops maybe motor cycles could have its ow section instead of being buried in anything else.

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.