Junkman

They are expensive enough as is. In the beginning, I also was a tad miffed they didn't make them in 1/24, but meanwhile 1/18 is the fastest growing segment in my collection, mainly because I'm sick and tired of the ever revolving 1/25 reissue merry-go-round for the past forty years.

#6 - a Fiat 500 - I skipped again because I have them in many an iteration already. But then it became interesting again. #7 was this Renault 4L Parisienne: My mom had one of these when I was still a little one. #8 was this Panhard Dyna Z: Yes, them's the taillights on the rear wings fenders.

The American line was just a "test" and comprises of only four models. Anyway, in the Series I'm showing here, I skipped #s 2 and 3, a Renault 8 Gordini and a 2CV Chaleston respectively, simply on the grounds that I have the Welly ones. So next in line was #4, a Simca Aronde P60. #5 was the Peugeot 404.

This has been ongoing since 2016. It's a partwork in 1/24. I don't have all of them, just the ones I like. They started it with this DS 23 Pallas: Sadly all models come with this vast array of waste paper.

This is made from the first set of tooling. They have meanwhile released completely new ones and I thus wouldn't recommend this model. It can do Citroen suspension aerobics:

If I (attempt to) look at my latest opticians bill, I should flog that 1/18 chod and start doing 1/8 scale.

I got the van in 'Motobecane' livery: Consequently I needed the Mobylette, which was made by Motobecane. Size comparison with the 1/24 (in reality 1/26) Welly diecast:

Quite a nice model I helped with a bit of BMF. BUT: So I had one of my usual We Don't Do Black Interiors Here™ attacks. And now look:

If I put that retail price through the inflation calculator, it translates into $13.47 in 2019 money. Shows what a blatant ripoff model kits became.

Yeah, the nicer the model, the more opaque the box. I only have about 130 or so 1/18s in total, but yes, they take up quite some real estate. Are you people interested in them? Would you like me to show you more of them?

IMO it actually does quite a good job approximating 1965 Nassau Blue Poly. They currently have them at Costco for 15 quid a toss and I might go for one, then doing the interior prototypically correct. Yes, mine became a mild custom after someone at Maisto had the brilliant idea to have a batch painted that colour. I even removed the emblems. They were that tampo printed nonsense and I rather have none than those. Consequently it proved me with the artistic licence to do the interior like I want it and not having to clone what's correct. I was toying with the idea to swap the wheels, but currently find them way too pretty. This may change in future, since I think they would look ace on a (mild custom) Bburago '57. A while ago I asked MCG whether they would do etch sets in 1/18 but although they'd be technically well capable of doing so, they are busy enough as is. Maistos are incredible value for money. They just need to be brought to life. It's all there, but usually everything is just black plastic, so you can't really appreciate the effort that went into them. For example, the 'vette dash has all the control lights and indicator arrows replicated.

Not only do I have it, I even have a pic from when I acquired it.

However, we don't do black interiors here. Ergo: Some masking was required. And some aerobrushing. And a lot more aerobrusing and molotoving and all that sort of rot. But it paid off. Big time.

I just couldn't resist. I'm the Junkman after all. It came with a bloody WARNING, of all things rotten! But just look at this lethally dangerous weapon of mass destruction the possession of which will likely get me arrested soon.

Yeah, but you are an absolute genius when it comes to applying that stuff. I'm confident I'm fist handed enough to bugger this up royally.

50 years before the wall came down? That was 1939.

Which parts for the '66 hearse?

Let me know what you are looking for, I have some leftover Johan items.

There was nothing inherently wrong with that bloody car. Jessi Combs herself set a record with it in 2013 achieving a top speed of over 440 mph. Since then there has been continuous development including lots and lots of test runs. These cars aren't rolled off a trailer and driven pedal to the metal. Every record attempt is preceded by a series of run ups.

I wonder on which legal grounds they are going to be made street legal. Although the targeted income group is above the law anyway.

One of the inherent issues with SR attempts ending in fatalities is that it is likely impossible to tell what exactly happened. The one who could tell can't tell anything anymore and there are no black boxes like in aviation. Although every incident was carefully investigated, as you would, few of these investigations yielded decisive conclusions. For example, to this day nobody can tell what went wrong on Coniston Water on that fateful day in 1967, despite the remains of the boat have meanwhile been recovered and carefully examined.

People claimed in water speed record attempts include Sir Henry Seagrave, Vic Halliwell (riding engineer), 1930 John Cobb, 1952 Mario Verga, 1954 Donald Campbell, 1967 Lee Taylor, 1980 Craig Arfons, 1989

Jessi Combs is the latest in a line including Roberto Barsanti, 1921 J. G. Parry-Thomas, 1927 Frank Lockhart, 1928 Lee Bible, 1929 Janos Somariba, 1933 Windman, Nathan 1934 Eric Fernihough, 1938 Bernd Rosemeyer, 1938 Nicholas Schlegel, 1947 Wayne Cass, 1948 Tom Glover, 1948 Robert Fadave, 1949 Floyd Fancher, 1949 Rulon McGregor, 1949 Jackson Pendleton, 1949 Wilbert Werder, 1949 Bob Robinson, 1950 Ken Bigelow, 1951 Renato Magi, 1951 Cornelius Wynja, 1951 Harvey Haller, 1953 Elwyn Williams, 1954 John Donaldson, 1955 Charles Sproul, 1955 Jim Johnson, 1957 Athol Graham, 1960 Robert Funk, 1962 Glenn Leasher, 1962 Charles Bennett, 1964 Jack Stewart, 1968 "Geezer" Emick, 1969 Bob Herda, 1969 Larry Lubinsky, 1969 Noel Black, 1970 Jim Buckmaster, 1972 Tommy Watts, 1980 Pete Dean, 1984 Vaifro Meo, 1984 Sonny Arnett, 1995 Bruce Johnston, 1998 Nolan White, 2002 John Beckett, 2005 Johan Jacobs, 2006 Dave Owen, 2008 Cliff Gullett, 2008 Barry Bryant, 2009 Guy Lombardi, 2009 Gerald Deneau, 2012 Jerry Lyons, 2012 Bill Warner, 2013 Tony Foster, 2014 Sam Wheeler, 2016 Tim Partridge, 2018 And that's only the ones I logged. Yes, one could say I have an obsession with speed record attempts.