Tapani

Yes indeed. Please find me in FB or email me in raurata at yahoo dot com

PhilX, you already know it by now from my e-mail reply, but if someone else is interested, it is a Fiat 508 Balilla Sport.

Absolutely not. Ford was a little (and cheap) car compared to Lincoln, The two shared no parts. (well, perhaps stuff like spark plugs... ) I made the whole thing as trans kit for Monogram Continental, and to complete the model you will need almost everything from that kit, chassis, axles, interior, especially engine, a V12 not V8, chrome... Besides, the Zephyr is in 1/24, not 1/25. If you saw these two models side by side you would get it immediately. Better yet, very many Monogram Continentals have broken windshield posts, so you will not be sorry to waste the body!

Hello all, I have now shipped all orders I got at NNL. The last ones were left to be shipped last Sunday. As I promised free shipping for the people who paid at the show, they were sent in Economy mail, which really isn't much slower than Priority mail. (and I'm not THAT nice a guy that I would offer tracked shipping for free...) Thank you for your patience, I hope you like what you get. If there are problems or questions, please feel free to contact me directly. You'll find my e-mail under Air-Trax page on this forum. I'm in Facebook too.

The thick part of the casting will be hidden in the trunk... I didn't make it any thinner in my build. It's hiding in there... I admit, I can't cast Lego-style click-click-quality stuff, but I am trying my best. And is that even the idea, really? Must leave something for the builder to fix to keep it interesting, huh? Anyway, Thank you all for your nice comments!

Don't you all have a couple of unbuilt or kid built Monogram Continentals in the closet?

Maybe you are wrong PhilX... 1941 Continental 125in, 1941 Zephyr 125in. The first generation Zephyr may have had 3in shorter wb, but as the Conti was based on Zephyr, they used the same chassis. However, you are not totally wrong, because the Conti had longer hood and front fenders. It also was lower, achieved by slicing a piece away at waist line. So, they also moved the windshield back, lowered the seats and used the same steering wheel shaft, that automatically moved rearwards, as it was tilted into a lower angle. This is what I reckon they did anyway to achieve the "Mustangesque" proportions nearly 25 years before Mustang.

Great.

Empinut? What happened? I was, for some reason, interested in that topic, too...

There's a Jag type rear end in all Jaguar E-type kits. The Gunze Hi-tech has photo etched metal sub-frame "box" and white metal parts for the axle and struts assembly. Airfix released this kit, too. Gunze No-tech version has a very simple substitute for this made out of two separate parts. Heller E-types has a nice multi-part assembly, but the Revell's kit, that is the only 1/25 of these, is probably something you don't want anyone to see under your rod. I haven't seen what the Hasegawa XJ-12 has. The Revell 26 Tudor/sedan delivery has an independent rear axle that could be Jaguar.

Yes, it is. WIll need a Tamiya Typ 1 Karmann Ghia for donor.

The Typ 34 Karmann Ghia was introduced in 1961, soooo.... Tor Henning, du skall skriva mig e-post, I'll make you a great offer, min venn!

The photo etch sheet actually has the Cordoba scripts...

You can order from me, raurata(at)yahoo(dot)com. Juha said just today it needs a '71 Duster for donor kit.

Tom is a great guy: reliable, sharing his great knowledge with fellow resin casters etc, what I've seen of his models they're also just great. Castings are well done, original products. What else can I say, I can only recommend him and his products in every way.

So do I, but hey... ...To answer your question, I'm probably trying to sell you a model kit!

Michael, (and all the other guys,) It is just about the only way to order! My addy is raurata(at)yahoo(dot)com. The near future releases also include a Jaguar mk10, Peugeot 404, Alfa Romeo 1900 CSS, and Ferrari 250 GTE. Tapani

That's the idea. I have the measurements and drawings...

Oh... I thought I saw some Isabella Rosselini in her...

Sorry, I must congratulate you for your very sharp eye. The figurine's body was put together from Preiser's "Eva"- series female parts, but the head really is a man's head from Tamiya's rally mechanics set, whose chin I made smaller for more feminine look. This must be the thing that confused you, isn't it?

That is the reason this project was standing on the shelf for several years... how to make wicker seats... Then, this spring everything was suddenly clear to me. I even had had the materials at home for quite a while. I used Eduard photo etched 1/700 scale ship railing that I shaped over a frame made of thin soldering wire, using the kit's seat as guideline. The PE railing makes the structure rigid enough, while the frame is flexible enough to allow the seat to be shaped and adjusted even after installing in its place. The PE railing was folded so that it has two layers and I stressed and rolled it a bit to get the layers between eachother to create a woven appearance. I painted the seats with Tamiya sand color and Tamiya clear yellow on it.

Actually it's a plastic figurine. By the way, wearing a bikini top is to my knowledge not very popular amongst so called normal men anywhere in the world either. On the other hand I have also seen commercially resin cast "woman" figurines, and they all seem to be at least triple-D and wearing so revealing clothes that they are more naked than dressed and at least half of them would certainly get arrested if they were real persons met in a public place, so I understand that telling the sex of a figurine who is modelled after a normally equipped and normally dressed person may be difficult for the unexperienced. So I hope I could give you a satisfactory answer to your question. It would be interesting to know what it was that made you doubt, as you are the first one of the several people who have seen this model to ask this question...

Hello there, I'm just curious if I can add photos straight from my own computer. So far it seems it's only a thumbnail that I can add. Anyway this is something I recently finished. If I can get this working, there will be more pics and text... http://images56.fotki.com/v1600/photos/1/1665281/8734357/jolly5-vi.jpg <a href="http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/82_181/93_176/jolly5986.jpg"'>http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/82_181/93_176/jolly5986.jpg" title="FREE Fotki Image Hosting"> <img src="http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/82_181/93_176/jolly5986.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/82_181/93_176/jolly5986.jpg