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Airfix 1/12th scale Blower Bentley


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G'day all I don't post on forums much these days but thought I'd show my latest finish model. It's about 60% scratch built. The biggest amount of work involved was the brass wire wheels and replacing pretty much all of the chassis in brass as well as the kits parts were just to delicate to hold the weight of the added detail.

Sean

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Superb. One of the best I've seen with proper "accurizing" and addition of missing parts. Do you have a front view of the finished model?

It's this what James Bond drove in the early books? Very nice model.

Scott

No, he drove a Blower Bentley closer to this with a fixed canvas top

(though described as having a dull gray skin like an elephant, which I take to mean primer).

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Beautiful!!! Always nice to see one of these, especially when built to such a high standard


No, he drove a Blower Bentley closer to this with a fixed canvas top

(though described as having a dull gray skin like an elephant, which I take to mean primer).

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Wouldn't have been primer. Possibly a reference to faded paint (the car would have been more than 20 years old at its first outing in Casino Royale), but much more likely to have been a fabric body, which is also how the Le Mans VdP body on this model is constructed. More info on Weymann fabric bodywork here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weymann_Fabric_Bodies

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