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After the finishing the chassis arose a problem. The factory had no experienced staff and workshop for building such a great body of a car. Ettores solution: he bought a Packard Torpedo and mounted the body parts on the Bugatti chassis. Ettore was driven the car criss-cross the european countries one year long. It was a realy enduring test and a good occassion onto the publicity. I had a problem with build bodies and the series production of the models too. At least I was lucky to find a company to vacuumform the body parts and an other one for making photoetching of small metal parts windscreen frames, steering wheel, bars for controlling the carburator, dashboard, the side panels of engine compartment, the parts of elephant figure, etc. I airbrushed the models with an automotiv lacquer Neolux, 80% black and 20% transparent blue. It made a deep and cold night black what I liked so much.

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It is very nice !!! I like it better than the 1:1 GT.

Ettore Bugatti want to build a never seen luxury car for kings and monarches of the word. The chassis was mounted with a 14.7 litre engine and with 4 different bodies to show for monarches and the pope in the following years. Bugatti planed to build 25 units but at least there was only 6 chassis built. By the other hand there was all 25 engines produced. The unecessary engines were built in rail-buses of the french railway company. Inspired by the Napoleon Coupe kit and a nicely detailed fire truck by Marx in 1:87 seen on a toys exhibiton I belived I can build Royale chassis in my scale 1:75. First I prepared the blueprints and reduced to scale. In the mean time I had in my mind already to build all body variants so I made master pieces for casting the parts with resin. I used a two component epoxy putty for casting. The other parts are made of different wires and thin sheet copper and polistyrene. Bugatti fans be tuned - I shall post the different models on weekly base.

Here is a picture from the bottom side.

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The Ferrari California was introduced in Paris Motor Show 2008. In opinion of some enthusiasts it isn`t a realy Ferrari it has only 8 cylinder. On the other hand there are a lot of technical solutions came from F-1 and the car gives a fine mixture of sportiness, luxury and comfort. The model was built from a Revell kit. The engine is full wired and plumbed and the enterieur is detailed with scratch built safety belts, ignition key with Ferrari keyholder, navigation-screen picture and highlighted the switches.

The model is in 1:24 scale and it`s a curbside one. I highlighted the bottom of car by some painting only. (sorry, it seemed I can`t attach any photo here) The really "frog eyed" car was the Austin-Healy Sprite.

„Handsome on the boulvard, speedy on the open road „ read the brochure for the TR 2 in the USA in 1954. The car was a success in Europe soon but the success was realy big in USA. The production was hardly able to satisfy the claims. The model was built from a Gunze Sangyo kit nearly OOB. There was altered the screenwiper to lay on „glas”, the dashboard covered with oak micro-veneer, some switches are added and doors are opened. I changed the construction of door hinges – so is the door move more similar to the real one.

Many thanks for the nice comments.

Many thanks for nice comments and informations. In some weeks I can begin to post the models of my Bugatti Royale variants in 1:75 scale

The car was introduced on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the company. There were built only 349. The model was built from a Revell kit. The kit came to the shop shelves on the same day as the car was introduced. Revell worked on kit parallel with the factory works on the real car ! So the instuction sheet is entiteld as „FERRARI F-130” The kit is originally with Hardtop but I want to have a Barchetta for sunny days – so I scratchbuilt the necessary element and rollbars.

There is a diecast Bugatti Veyron 1:24 made by Speedy in China since about a year. It is rather cheaper as the mentioned 160 USD and available on Ebay at 1- 2 Seller. The model is nice, the quality is about Maisto but a bit expensiver.

Dragline: The kit is made by Heller. Thanks for nice comment.

The 365 GTB 4 was introduced officialy in 1968 after the victory 1-2-3 at Daytona 24 hours race in 1967. In the era of mid-engined sportcars as „modern” built Enzo Ferrari a front-engined car that was „the best sports car in the world” declared Road & Track in its first road test. I built the model from a Fujimi kit. The engine compartment is wired and plumbed. The side window is cuted out for better visibility of the enterieur.

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The little roadster winns one of the greatest race in Germany in the same year and was followed by more than two hundred other victories including the Le Mans 24 hours in 1939 in its category. The model was built from a Heller kit. It is OOB only the dashbord had to be scratchbuilt because I lost the original plastic piece. But then I completed the dashboard with all of switches and instruments.

This Grand Sport was designed by Jean Bugatti with his typical sweeping fender and a tilted windscreen an early effort to streamline a car. The model was built from a Heller kit. I wired and plumbed the engine and made foldable the hood. I didn`t prepared hinges a plastic tape is enough flexible.

Many thanks for info and link. I checked the site - fantastic - highest professionality ! If I see such models I see how much could/should I be better in modeling - but I`m not. (sorry for poor english)

sjordan2: sorry I didn`t built this kit but I have the Weinberger (Victoria) Cabriolet and the Berline Double Voyage in 1:24 scale on my shelves. They are waiting since more years. I have still not enough fortitude for such great projekts.

Harry: ... microscope ? No and yes ! No microscope used of course but I work under a magnifier integrated in a lamp. (my eyes are not the old ones – they are old soon) As Charlie asked for more pictures of the small model I have a question: I made all of the eleven body variations of Bugatti Royale in the same scale ever built by different coachbuilders. Do you mean I should post them all here in this forum ? All together in one post (would be nearly 100 photos) or separatelly with short story ? BTW you can check out my earlier models 1960 – 1992 in this scale at www.planetdiecast – log in – Site Map – Catalog – Famous Toymakers – search for Janos Velics.

The serie T 41 was built for kings but no one bought one of tham. The Napoleon coupes body was built by Weimann for the Bugatti family on the shortened chassis of the prototype after that the original was destroyed in an accident by Ettore Bugatti. The model was built from an Italeri kit. I made the hood removable to show the engine and covered the dashboard with mahagony veneer. I painted this car with an automotiv lacquer. The last two photos are showing the 1:24 model with its little brother scale 1: 75 built from about 150 parts - all scratchbuilt.

Many thanks for the nice comments.

Many thanks for nice comments.

The M1 was projected with racing in groupe 5 in mind. According the regulations have been built not less than 400 pc and so would be the BMW M1 the first mass produced mid-engine car. It was not a successful racecar but a normal car, but normal at a higher speed than other cars said Mr Neerpasch the father of the project. It was my first model built from a plastic ESCI - kit. I got it as a gift with glue but there was no modeling store in our neighbourhood. So I painted it with a normal lacquer mixt with some gold metal powder.