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One of my "Go to" suppliers of AMT kits here in the UK have just had these delivered, they only had 2 left, it was rude just to buy the one.....

Thank you for those kind words, there very much appreciated, I've got a few of the back-burner that will (hopefully) be finished in 2021, plus I've just took on a review build for a magazine, Revell's latest Jaguar E Type. One's i have on the back-burner 1/ AMT 57 Chevrolet Bel Air, which is 99% finished 2/ Revell 57 Chevrolet Bel Air sedan 3/ Tamiya Fiat 500f 4/ Heller Ferguson T20 tractor 5/ Heller Ferguson tractor FF-30 I'm hoping 2021 is also a busy year for me with my photography, Getty images are after more work from me before I retire in 2023.

The Ford model T was also manufactured here in England An assembly plant in an old Tram factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, was opened in 1911 employing 60 people to make the Model T and the company was reregistered as Henry Ford & Son, Ltd. This was the first Ford factory outside North America. At first the cars were assembled from imported chassis and mechanical parts with bodies sourced locally. Six thousand cars were produced in 1913 and the Model T became the country's biggest selling car with 30% of the market. In 1914 Britain's first moving assembly line for car production started with 21 cars an hour being built. After the First World War, the Trafford Park plant was extended, and in 1919, 41% of British registered cars were Fords (taken from Wikipedia)

A real nice selection, the quality of your builds are just superb.

I've got a few of these to build, the moulding looks very crisp, some parts are very small and some look a little fragile, one thing I've noticed is that some versions have the brass parts come plated and some are just bare plastic. The above version is also available from Revell Germany, the brass parts come in bare grey plastic, but you do get a nice set of decals for the gold pinstripes. On a side note, ICM kits are produced in the Ukraine, Czechoslovakia as a country no longer exists, since 1993 it was split into two, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Welcome aboard James, hope you enjoy it here....

Another cracking build, Superb.....

Superb builds, quality over quantity wins every time.

Very nice and varied builds.

Back in the 1980's until the mid 1990's I worked for Volkswagen-Audi, it was always one of my favourite colours, although strangely it was more popular in Germany than the UK on the GTI.

There not my usual subjects, but I was asked to build them for a magazine, and then I went out and bought the Heller Ferguson tractors, which are on the back-burner, you'll enjoy building either of the Revell tractors, the Deutz has 30 more parts that the Porsche has.

Very nice builds.

That's a very nice selection you've built there, I just wish I could build them that quickly.

Only managed to get 4 models finished in 2020, although I've got the AMT 57 Chevrolet Bel Air 99% finished and another 4 on the back-burner.

Superb build, as you say, it's a very nice kit to put together

These two arrived this morning, separately, the E Type was supplied by Revell UK for a review build for the Scale Modelling Now magazine.

In Europe and the U.S.A yes, there was a few other changes, engines and fuel injection, but nothing that you'd pick out on a model, the second generation T2 stopped production in Germany in 1979, so the face-lift model was only in production in Germany for 6 years.

As it has the front indicator lamps higher up beside the fresh air grille, it's a 1972 onwards T2,before '72 the lamps were much lower down on the front panel. There's other things that are different from the earlier model, squared off non wrap around bumpers and flared wheel arches.

Hopefully that's why Revell have moulded the front panel separately

Very strange with those parts, as I didn't find any issues with them when I built mine, I'm finding the parts fit on the later Revell kits perfect.

Oh good, another easy one....

Your correct in saying that the Camper seems to have disappeared, I bought one when they were first released, and last week I was asked if I could build one for a commission build, it took me ages on the Internet to track one down, even Revell in Germany have no stock. The Kombi should be available towards the end of April '21 It's strange that the van, and the Samba are still very easy to find out there.

Pretty easy to achieve by using the panel van roof panel on the Samba body

Pretty easy one, as you say Don, but it's like everything, you either know it or you don't.