caapa Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 The damaged Weimann coupe was dismantled and only the chassis was saved. It was shortened 30 cm and Weimann built the wonderfull Napoleon Coupe body on it based on the design of Jean Bugatti. The Bugatti family used the car till 1963. I made the upholstery by self made decals. I could reproduce the pattern based on photos made by my son in the Musée National de l'Automobile in Mulhouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDO Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Very nice, but why the unusual scale? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle potts Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I've done a couple models in 1/87 scale, believe me I know what a challenge they can be. You did a very nice job with this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62rebel Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 impressive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caapa Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Hi Lee,this scale goes back nearly a half century. I was an auto fan but that time was no Matchbox or similar available in Hungary. So I began to curve my auto models from wood. Later I was a draughtsman and there was used scale-rouler with more scales. As I used pins for the axels the 25 mm lenght of tham was perfect for the 1:75 models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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