DonW

Oh yes, I'd forgotten this one. Read it as a teenager, very powerful.

What set them apart from the other American V8 powered European GTs such as the later Bristols, the Jensen CV8 and Interceptor and the AC 428 was that all 99 or so GKs except one had a manual gearbox.

Yes, I suspect the same thing is on the 1:1 with the wing on the trunk. It's still a good model, I always enjoy seeing your work!

It's good. Worth putting more time into the stance, and the wing would cause the back to lift and slow the car down at that angle. It needs to be lower at the front edge so the air passing over pushes it downwards. Cheers, -Don.

On balance maybe most Supergroups weren't as good as the sum of their parts. For me, Jack Bruce was diminished by the other two idiots in the Cream. And as for the Wilburys... They were all individually far better than that. The Firm is another example in my opinion. ELP are on the other side of the coin. And Bad Company. Steve, BCC aren't too shabby! I'd never heard of them. Cheers, -Don.

Yep! but they began as a bunch of working lads from the Midlands. None of them were famous before Sabbath. So not a SuperGroup. Tony Iommi's book Iron Man is worth a read, if you haven't read it. Cheers, -Don.

Great as he is, I don't think even Ozzy can be described as a group!?

Well done. It looks like the bonnet opens, does it have an engine?

I've noticed that music critics and journos will praise unknown bands to the skies, then when they make it big and become well known the same bands become irrelevant dinosaurs. And I forgot one of my all time top ten, Led Zeppelin II - oh, and Led Zep I. But I can't decide which ones to replace from the ten below! Which tells you something about 'top' lists. My own current top ten - pretty much constant over the years. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles Dark Side of the Moon - Floyd No Sleep 'til Hammersmith - Motorhead Space Ritual - Hawkwind Blood on the Tracks - Dylan We sold our Soul for Rock and Roll - Sabbath Sticky Fingers - The Stones Uriah Heep Live - the Heep Electric Ladyand - Hendrix The White Room - The KLF So we chime on at least one, Snake! I didn't look at the Rolling Stone list, it would probably make me cross. Mr Young's Live Rust is the eleventh.

I can just see this cruising the one way system round Aberdare town centre. Not sure if it would get round the roundabouts in one go! Very nicely done.

Which guy?

Yes please!

I'm interested to see how you tackle the headers.

For those wearying of seeing the same name winning GP after GP, here's where things didn't go so well, in the Grand Prix in Czechoslovakia: 'Such was Hamilton's amazing speed, he even started to catch the race leader, but his luck ran out when at speed his waterproof cape blew up into his face. Moments later he lost control and the little J4 rolled several times...' OK so this was not the same Hamilton, this was Hugh Hamilton in the 1932 Byrno Grand Prix. How times have changed.... Me, I still love F1 even though it is now far safer.

For me the movie imagery and the music work so powerfully together. But we seem to be getting just a tad off topic. ?

Oh yes the old UOP Shadow. And now I look closer, the sketches of the 'T' do seem to show a similar large front wing, mostly chopped off by the edge of the image, so that makes it more sensible, if that's the right word for a fad T F1 car!

Fair enough. I can't help feeling that the rod with those tiny front wheels and huge rears with all that power and weight in the back just looks as though it would go straight on at any corner as soon as you touched the loud pedal! But please ignore me as I'm just an old curmudgeon!☺️

One thing strikes me as odd about the Porsche kit - it's got pretty exotic induction with its six trumpets, but the silencer (muffler) and tailpipe look a bit tame. Maybe just a big bore tailpipe would suit it better. Otherwise, yes it is a lovely thing.

As famously owned by TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) who owned 8, although he was killed on number 7 before number 8 was delivered. Apart from number 1, they were all called George, either after King George or George Brough. Lovely model.

What scale is the beer?

It will be interesting to see what evolves!

It's your model but I know which car I prefer.?

Agreed, and in my view the effort you posted gets it slightly wrong, just a bit too hunched, Spoiled also by the Mickey Mouse headlights and the chrome wire wheels - I never got why people decided that these were in any way a good idea as chroming only makes the spokes weaker. Strong enough to drive in and out of the garage, on and off the trailer and onto the parade ground.?

Especially as part of the score to Easy Rider!

I forgot the Orwell books. Really powerful stuff, last one I re-read was Down and Out in Paris and London. Also Steppenwolf, by Hesse of course. But Algy was an early hero, and Nancy Blackett a true heroine! Cheers, -Don.