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12 hours ago, Bernard Kron said:
Your WIP threads are always a treat to follow. They show the care, skill and expertise that yields such fine results. They are at once instructive and inspirational for many of us. Hoping to see more from your bench in 2021. All the best!
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.
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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)
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A real nice selection, the quality of your builds are just superb.
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6 hours ago, GLMFAA1 said:
Let me help John. It is not IMC but ICM from Czechoslovakia. They have variants of the model T with the latest being the speedster. Word of caution is that the fenders depicted in the box art are not in the kit. The kit has standard fenders.
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.
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Welcome aboard James, hope you enjoy it here....
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Another cracking build, Superb.....
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Superb builds, quality over quantity wins every time.
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Very nice and varied builds.
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18 hours ago, Bullybeef said:
Love the inari silver on the GTi
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.
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4 hours ago, espo said:
They're all great looking builds. I have threatened to build one of these Tractors, now I have too.
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.
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7 hours ago, Rob Hall said:
Would love to see a Lotus Cortina
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Very nice builds.
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That's a very nice selection you've built there, I just wish I could build them that quickly.
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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.
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Superb build, as you say, it's a very nice kit to put together
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These two arrived this morning, separately, the E Type was supplied by Revell UK for a review build for the Scale Modelling Now magazine.
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3 hours ago, 1930fordpickup said:
Thank you
So these are just like the Bug and the Porsche 911, the same for decades.
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.
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7 hours ago, 1930fordpickup said:
For the not so into VW folks, what year or years is this bus anyway?
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.
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On 12/18/2020 at 4:00 AM, stitchdup said:
I dont mind the revell snappers, i've built a few of the tractors and hey turned out decent. I'm hoping revell will do a a version with the low indicators, longer grille and rounded bumpers too or someone in the aftermarket comes out with those parts
Hopefully that's why Revell have moulded the front panel separately
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17 minutes ago, mrmike said:
I do have to admit that this kit is an excellent kit! So far, everything goes where it should except for the issue that I had with the engine and the drive shafts.
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.
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Oh good, another easy one....
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10 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:
Also the Camper seems to have evaporated if you didn't get one in Europe the instant they were released. We haven't gotten them yet in the U.S., and neither has the rest of the world for that matter.
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.
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7 minutes ago, Rob Hall said:
Maybe they will do a 15-window bus,
Pretty easy to achieve by using the panel van roof panel on the Samba body
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On 12/16/2020 at 3:26 PM, DonW said:
Easy for some I suppose, maybe not all! ?
Pretty easy one, as you say Don, but it's like everything, you either know it or you don't.
What did you get today? (Model Car Related Items)
in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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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.....