The Bugsport Avanti

[slusher]

Cool and unique..

[ewetwo]

This is awesome Manuel.

 

[Phirewriter]

I have to say I'm generally not a fan of many of the photoshopped anti-gravity versions of classic/modern classic cars seen on the interwebs lately, but... Your build really looks great!! Nicely done!!

[papajohn97]

Very cool build! I bet the Int’l UFO Museum in Rosewell, NM would love to have this build in one of there displays. A+ for both originality and execution.

[Koellefornia Kid]

Wow, that is awesome! Very nicely done! If recall right, there were other Studebakers flying around in Bugsport (Hawks, Starlights...). Are you planning some more?

[mr moto]

4 hours ago, Koellefornia Kid said:

Wow, that is awesome! Very nicely done! If recall right, there were other Studebakers flying around in Bugsport (Hawks, Starlights...). Are you planning some more?

I'd love to do some more but it's not likely. If it happens it would be a '53 Starliner since, like the Avanti, there's a good quality easily available kit to build the nucleus of it. Anything else would be way more complicated.

I already have a couple of major Studebaker projects ('56 Golden Hawk and '62 GT Hawk) on a back burner for when I feel motivated enough - don't want to complicate things any more.

[A modeler named mike]

Very unique build. You nailed it and your driver tops it off. 

[Sonorandog]

Very cool, I love it!  Great job.

[customsrus]

On 4/19/2021 at 10:49 PM, lordairgtar said:

Pretty darned interesting.

 

That’s what I was thinking. Definitely outside the box 

[Slotto]

Love it!

[mr moto]

Thanks, guys! It's always strange when one of these old threads pops back up again but much appreciated.

In the meantime, that '56 Golden Hawk project that I mentioned has come to pass. It's lurking back in this section of the forum somewhere. The '62 GT Hawk is still waiting.

 

Edited October 30, 2023 by mr moto

[Kah puts]

Love the folly 🚀

[Bugatti Fan]

Is that the Mekon driving that car?

[mr moto]

29 minutes ago, Bugatti Fan said:

Is that the Mekon driving that car?

It looks like it! I was not familiar with "the Mekon" so I had to Google it. Pegasus must have modeled their UFO pilot after him. Here's the kit that it came from (photographed with appropriate background).

 

Edited October 31, 2023 by mr moto

[Bugatti Fan]

The Mekon.  Most Americans and many younger generation Brits would not know of this character.

To explain, the Mekon was the leader of the Treens, adversaries of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future that was a comic strip that featured in The Eagle, a very popular UK boys comic back in the Fifties. British modellers of a certain age would be likely to have fond memories of that comic. One of its features each week that I really looked forward to was a superb cutaway drawing of a different subject across the top half of the middle pages.