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More Vintage Model Car Ads
Anglia105E replied to unclescott58's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Well Scott, I have to say these vintage scale model car advertisements really appeal to me. I was looking at the Hubley ones, as I have an original Hubley promo model in blue plastic (acetate) of the 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, which does not have the friction motor, but probably did originally. Apart from the ridiculous out of scale Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet (hood) mascot, this is a superb model. The body shell in particular is very accurate and well moulded. As we know, the Minicraft and Revell kits that followed later all have the crude representation of the 6.2 litre V8 engine in one piece, but then there are less than 30 pieces in those kits. I have replaced the V8 engine with a 4.9 litre 6-cylinder engine for my builds of this kit, which was fitted to the Silver Cloud I that was produced from 1955 to 1959. The Hubley version is still interesting and with quite a bit of work from a skilled model builder the car can be made to look much better. David -
Nice Mitsubishi build you got there Scott, and certainly in a diorama setting or an outdoor setup this scale model car would look realistic. David
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Thanks for the information David
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Very nice build Gabor, and does the Ferrari get it's strength from carbon fibre in the A-pillar ? ( the real car not the model ). David
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I like this build of yours a lot Brian, and I haven't see a GT40 in this colour before. My favourite colour scheme would be the Gulf blue and orange, but your black and yellow is just as good. Nice Fujimi kit and the first photo looks like the real car. David
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Welcome to this forum Rodrigo..... and I like your two cars, especially the orange one at the front. I build 1:24 scale Rolls-Royce cars and I did buy a Masterkit Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud which is made in Brazil. David ( from England )
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Just goes to show what could be done during those days before digital cameras...... and we have it so easy now. I remember buying a 24 or 36 exposure film, black & white or colour, loading it into the SLR camera, hoping that each shot would actually come out, never mind come out good, then taking the film in to Boots the Chemist, waiting two weeks for developing and finally collecting and paying for the 24 or 36 photographs. Quite often you would get maybe three good photos out of 36, if you were lucky. These days of course, we shoot as many photos as we like and upload them to the computer in seconds, and end up with hundreds of folders containing thousands of images. You can try for one exceptional shot of your diorama by taking 60 almost identical shots, or vary the angle and settings slightly and away you go ! David
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You've made an excellent start to the project and I like the pic of your Dad's brand new '70 Charger. Putting together a scale building is so interesting I find, and working out how you want everything to fit together realistically is the best part for sure. David
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You are doing a great job with this one Henry, and I am only just starting to put some plug lead wires into my Rolls-Royce engine for the first time in one year of scale model car building. Like you are finding, the wires are so small and also they do not bend easily in tight corners. For you in 1:12 scale it is difficult, so maybe I will find working in 1:24 scale even more difficult. The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud model has the HT leads coming out of the distributor cap horizontally and not vertically, which would have been easier, and then the leads go through protective tubes, three leads on each side before connecting to the six spark plugs. The coil lead has to go to the ignition coil which is mounted in the upside down position ( correct according to Rolls-Royce ). I am studying your setup closely on the '69 Camaro and taking note of your distributor cap and HT leads method of attaching the whole thing. The engine on your build is a tight fit, and this is also very true for the Rolls-Royce engine. Keep posting more photos and work in progress reports on your Camaro because I am following your build with interest. David
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Happy New Year to Henry in Indonesia, and many thanks for watching my work in progress. I am watching your topic on the '69 Camaro with interest. Also Happy New Year to Gary in Stafford VA, and following your suggestion I have been fortunate enough to place an order for a 1:24 Franklin Mint 1947 Bentley Mark VI Franay diecast motor car model on Ebay, which will be delivered to me one week from now. My offer was accepted eventually, and I did have to pay a bit more than I had intended but very pleased all the same. David
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Thanks for those suggestions Gary, and I haven't seen the Hachette Collection Traveller, is that 1:24 scale? The Franklin Mint Bentley is a model that I would like very much, but it is way too expensive over here on Ebay. Only one or two have come up for sale but the price is beyond what I can afford, especially when you factor in the shipping costs. I do have a BBurago Jaguar XK120 in maroon colour, and yes the owner of the two-seater Jaguar sports car could want to trade-in his motor car in for a family four seater Rolls-Royce ! There are actually a lot of Danbury Mint and Franklin Mint models coming up on Ebay, particularly the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, which some advertisements say is RARE..... but how can it be rare if there are more than ten on Ebay at any one time? Although I prefer to use plastic kits that I have built for this diorama, I am quite prepared to use diecast models from both Danbury Mint and Franklin Mint because they are so good. Some of them are priced low, and this usually means they are damaged, as these models are easily damaged if not handled carefully. Meanwhile, some are priced way too high, with sellers asking silly prices that cannot possibly be realistic or indeed justified. I have a Franklin Mint Phantom I, a Danbury Mint Phantom III, and a Franklin Mint Silver Cloud but I sure would love to get my hands on the Danbury Mint 1947 Bentley Mark VI Franay classic vintage model car. David
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57 yrs old, first model since I was 10 yrs old
Anglia105E replied to Kevin Mack's topic in Welcome! Introduce Yourself
Welcome Kevin, and I know how you must be feeling about your first build in 47 years because my first build at the beginning of 2017 was my first since I was 13 years of age, and I reached 63 years old, so 50 years! Used to build loads of model car kits when I was a kid, buying them with saved up pocket money from the local store. Here in England there is a very nice 1:12 scale 1930 Airfix Bentley 4.5 litre supercharged, and I'm not sure if you can get this one in the United States, but it's anywhere between £100 GBP and £200 GBP ( US $ 135 -270 ). Maybe this one would be of more interest to you, and it's half the cost of the Bentley........ Revell 2811 Big 1:12th scale 69 Camaro Z-28 Chip Foose Custom Design David -
The Toyoda may be a step too far for me, but it was the only car from the 1930's, 1940's or 1950's that appears to be similar to the Austin FX3. Yet again, the FX3 taxi is one those that is available in 1:43 diecast, and finding the cars that I need for my Hooper & Co diorama in 1:24 scale is proving difficult. Two photos, one is FX3 taxi and one is Hooper Empress David
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Welcome Greg.... you have minus 29 and we are complaining here because it's minus 2..... what you have is REAL cold ! You should find this MCM forum really helpful, and I certainly do. There are so many members who will give you good comments and advice too. What helps me greatly is studying the photos of members' builds which has the effect of showing what can be achieved when you you put in the required effort and thought. David
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Peter... I had a look at the Swiss e * * y website but couldn't find your 1:32 Revell / AMT '56 Buick...... maybe I'm looking at the wrong Swiss auction site ! Something is telling me to buy this kit, and yet it makes no sense because I build 1:24 scale and non-American model cars...... but I do find it interesting. David
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You are doing the right thing Mickael to have another go, and by the looks of it your Cadillac is going to turn out fine. I returned to building scale model cars after 50 years, which I know sounds ridiculous, so only 2 years is probably the break you needed. I can see there's lots of chrome work involved with that '59 Eldorado and Bare Metal Foil is a wonderful material for the task. I have been using BMF for the past year now and only recently I decided to try the Molotow Liquid Chrome pens, not as a replacement for BMF but more as an alternative for certain smaller and more difficult areas. Like BMF, the LIquid Crome pen is a marvellous tool and I've already produced some excellent results with headlamp surrounds, windscreen surrounds and mouldings for doors and wings. The pen has a 1 mm tip and holds 4 ml of liquid chrome, it is re-fillable forom 30 ml refills and the product is not expensive. Easy to use and clean too. I build 1950's Rolls-Royce Silver Clouds mainly. David
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I agree with you, in that building kits is much more interesting than simply buying a fully assembled diecast model car. What is even more interesting is converting a plastic kit into a different version of what it is intended to be, which is what I did with the London Routemaster Bus by Revell, by converting it into an earlier type bus that fits into the 1950's period. My next conversion when I get the time to do it, will be converting a 1936 Tamiya Toyoda into a 1955 Austin FX3 London Taxi, because the only London Taxi available in kit form and diecast 1:24 is the FX4 taxi from 1958 onwards. Even the Revell taxi kit is out of scale, being slightly too large. David
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I have found that it takes me one month to build a 1:24 scale kit, and some builds have taken two months. The big red London bus has almost 400 parts and that one did run to two months. I consider myself a slow builder but I do try not to rush things, even when the enthusiasm takes hold! David
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I do get the nostalgia thing, and of course it would be wrong to compare the Corgi and Dinky model cars to what you can buy in 1:43 scale now. For example , they do a very nice Rolls-Royce Hooper Empress in 1:43 that I have tried to find in 1:24 without success, and the price is something like four or five times the cost of a 1:24 scale kit or even double the cost of a 1:24 Franklin Mint or Danbury Mint diecast on Ebay. If it wasn't for the high prices I would have built a 1:43 scale diorama, but I am happy with 1:24 David
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Really nice build, and what an excellent paint job. Although those wheels might appear to be a bit on the large side as others have pointed out, I think the size of this particular car seems to accomodate them without looking awkward. I never did order anything from Modelhaus, but that is only because I started building scale model cars only one year ago, after 50 years away from the hobby, and only tried resin body work around nine months ago. I do appreciate how difficult it is to achieve a high standard of resin casting from carefully produced moulds. David
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Peter.... I also have memories of this Buick Riviera, which I remember as being a Corgi diecast and gold in colour, but I don't remember the model car having those working lights.... ? Used to have a huge collection of Corgis and Dinkys, most of which were raced on a concrete pathway from the bottom of the back garden to the top of the front garden ( some through the gates onto the road ! ). David
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All of these models have very good paint finish, and I particularly like the green car with the black roof and white wall tyres. Congratulations.... a year of good builds for you! David
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Thanks for the comment MIke Wickland, and I have an original Hubley promo of the Silver Cloud in blue plastic which I am not painting. Also, I have the Minicraft version of the Rolls-Royce kit, the Revell version, the Masterkit version from Brazil, and a Franklin Mint die-cast version too. All of my 6.2 litre V8 engined models have been converted to the 4.9 litre straight six engine and I have produced a mould from a Revell master. The XGO 999 car in the photos has a resin cast body shell and a resin cast chassis also. Having produced a design for the six cylinder engine using CAD software, this has been produced for me as a 3D printed model by Shapeways, which is now undergoing moulding and casting. The first resin cast engine model will go into the UTU 486 car. David
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