Junkman

I was actually thinking about growing some Bonzai corn and try to pop it in one of the dolls house pots of my daughter on an old Märklin dolls stove.

I did not understand how I can post the pictures here.

I'm not sure whether I should post a 1/20 scale build here, or in the Big Boys section. I leave it up to the moderators to move the thread if it is wrong here. I started this a while ago. It is currently stalling, because I sent off a number of parts to Bob Shebilske to have them gold plated. The gold plating supplied with the kit sucks. The wagon is entirely brush painted, like a real one would be: I attempted multicolour flocking. It's not perfect, but turned out better than I feared and actually looks ok: The kit-supplied rear tyres are way too skinny, they seem to be 1/25th scale: Hence I am trying to adapt a set from the Creepy T: One of the biggest challenges remaining, and one I haven't got a solution for yet, is how to make scale popcorn?

There were no 'factory' campers, but there were factory approved camper conversions. The company who made most of these must be Westfalia. Here is a website about an unrestored original one: http://www.ev1.pair.com/VW/SO44_1.html

I can relate to this logic.

Real.

Chop them, drop them, hop them!

You remember correctly. And if I remember right, someone out there makes a Daytona conversion in resin. @ elan: How many DOH kits can one own? Well, this makes it already two for me, and none of them will end up being a DOH.

Horizon Hobbies lists it for 34.49 http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=AMT752 What is going on?

Nobody really knows who made them. The magazine 'Quattroruote' commissioned them. Quattroruote is a member of the 'Fabbri' publishing house, so the models can be listed as 'Quattroruote' or 'Fabbri'. Best do both searches on Ebay and tick the 'worldwide' listings box.

You might be hard pressed to drive a 2010 Triumph, Yugo, or Simca. Are Fiats and Renaults still (or rather, again) sold in the US?

Even if this is the best car you have ever owned, there are better cars for the road.

In this case I have to wholeheartedly disagree. I have no idea how you look at it over there, but four out of the five pictured vehicles aren't cars at all where I am from.

I don't quite understand the topic. Is this about the worst made cars to ever hit the road? Or the worst cars which were made on the road? Or the worst made cars, which can still be found on the road? Or the worst made cars, which are on the road today? In any case, the worst made cars on the road are the ones made for off road use.

Entirely btw., this thread is useless if people don't state who the manufacturer of the models is. The above models can be found online when you search for "quattroruote 1/24" or "fabbri 1/24". The actual manufacturer is unknown in this case. I think these are all the models that wwere released in this series:

The following are models which were commissioned by the Italian car magazine 'Quattroruote'. Altogether 50 models were released over two years. Each model came with a hard bound book about the car it was modelled after. Needless to say that these filled some long time gaps in the European scene.

In a Rockford's Files episode, one of the thugs can actually be seen working on a model car, an AMT 'Snakebite'. He has an array of built models on a shelf next to his work bench. Since these old series were often filmed 'on location' in the homes of the film crew members, this may well have been the personal collection of this actor. For years I did 'kit spotting' when watching the Gerry Anderson 'Superanimation' stuff.

The kit is a total dog. Great job for what you had to work with. The colour is beautiful.

"Touring" Sedans, Greg. "Station Wagon" is soooo last century.

Any chance of seeing the kit and/or buildup eventually?

The kits can be traced back to the late Sixties. They were originally made by Gakken (Japan) and marketed in the US under the Entex banner. It is my understanding that the hot rod versions include newly tooled parts. The original Gakken/Entex kits never had these parts included. Not too long ago, they were also released in some kind of 'Gangbusters' versions, which I still try to obtain. that series included most of the A-bone variants, the V-16 Caddy Town car and the '28 Lincoln. Also in the original Gakken lineup was a Morgan three-wheeler, a MG TC and a Jaguar SS-100, which haven't seen the light of day in a long time.

Is it true that they are 1/20 scale?

I might order one and build it as an entry in the post apocalyptic build off section. Then again, my outlook on the future is far more rosy than what I see in there. Future. Heck, everything was better in ye goode olde dayse. Even the future was better back then.

Yeah, it's great. So did Vanden Plas use a similar system on the Blower Bentleys? Ans what about Skiff Labourdette?

It must be the weirdest contraption ever used in any form of motorsport.