Jim Whalen

Great hot rod Lee. I'm hoping to see it at Telford in a couple of weeks.

Fantastic fabrication work resulting in a different and striking build set off with excellent paint. I really like it!

NIce build of a C3 Corvette. I like the way you have replicated a specific car - down to the telephone on the console. Having grown up in Canada in the 70s and early 80s my first image when I think "Corvette" tends to be a C3. The rebuild you have done has definitely taken the model to a higher standard.

Nice build that really captures the time period it has been built to represent.

Nice Jaguar! Bill - the new Revell Jaguar E-types are 1962 (Series 1), you can tell this by the sunken footwells and aluminium trim on in the interior. The decal sheet has 1961 registration plates but they are incorrect.

Looking forward to it! I really enjoyed the last issue, it was great to have a new Model Cars Magazine to read. 🙂

Great job on the C8! I’m not sure about the Corvette as a mid-engined car but you have to admit it is a good car.

Nice build of the Jaguar Randy, up to your usual standard. I built a test shot of this kit for a magazine and, when doing my research found that the kit represents an E-type built between June and October 1962. Here's an excerpt from my article "Revell’s new kit sits between the Monogram kit and the Heller kit in the development of the E-type. Inspecting the chassis moulding reveals dished footwells and recessed bulkheads behind the seats, introduced in June 1962 to provide more room for taller occupants. Aluminium trim on the dashboard and centre console is present and the engraving suggests it has a dot pattern. In October 1962, this pattern on the aluminium trim was changed to a crosshatch design. This places the kit as a car built between June and October 1962". Revell provide an excellent decal sheet for the kit but, unfortunately, the year is wrong on the registration plates. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your cleanly built car models.

Here's my '32 pro-street pickup. I built it a few years ago so some people may have seen it before. It has a Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland resin cab and pickup bed, scratch-built chassis rails incorporating the suspension from the Revell Willys kit along with lots of extra details.

That's great!

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Hi, I had assumed the pieces you mentioned might still be on the chassis trees. You could get parts from the aftermarket, kit-bash or reclaim the parts from an old build that had met its demise in some way. One of the reasons I mentioned this kit was that you mentioned the idea of doing a grain truck.

Nice build! If you want to buy a new one, the Tyrone Malone's Kenworth Aerodyne 'Hide Out Truck' Transporter kit would fit the bill - just omit the race car hauler body. McLaren Models in Falkirk is a good place to buy AMT kits in the U.K., they have this kit on Page 8 of their AMT section for £39.99.

Nice build of the Model A - I really like what you've done with the roof.

I have been spraying with Zero paints for quite a while now. After having mixed results with their primer I have switched to Badger Stynylrez primer and have been successful with quite a few models now. It is important to do mist coats and build up the coats until you have an even coverage of your colour. The models pictured here have Stynylrez primer and Zero basecoats. Don't expect the base coat to be glossy and it may have a slight texture, these will be sorted by the clear coats (this is shown in the picture with the blue background of the C5 body shell). The VW van has their clearcoat lacquer and the Corvettes have their Diamond Finish 2-pack.

Nice conversion to a daycab - your colour scheme flows nicely through with either trailer attached as well.

The Coors trailer will be useful for me as I have an old White Freightliner big rig set that hasn't been opened yet and I'm confident the decals will have faded by know (like they have on a couple of other old kits I have). It looks like Round 2 have chosen some good kits to bring back out this year - the reworked International cabover will prove to be popular.

I like the advice about using a light coloured metallic close to the shade of the desired candy paint as a base coat - I'll give that a try.

Nice build of a Mk1 Cabriolet! The cabriolets didn't suffer from the same quality control problems as the VW Rabbits as they were all built in Germany. You still see them on the road today as they were built for a longer time than the MK1 hatchbacks.

Nice bunch of rods!

Nice MkII GTI, you still see quite a few of these around as their anti-corrosion was much better than the MkI. Your model looks sharp, thanks for putting the detailed pictures up - I have thought about getting one of these kits at some point so seeing these pictures was useful.

I built the E-type LHD because I had chosen Opalescent Silver Blue as the colour and Revell had decided that the U.K plates would go onto a test shot they had sent to someone else who was going to paint it British Racing Green so I was instructed by AMW to build it LHD with Euro plates. Had I been building it for myself it would have been RHD, even though the vast majority were exported.

I measured the windscreen on the new Revell kit and then consulted Jaguar drawings; the kit has a windscreen that is the right height for a roadster (it is 3mm too short on the model). It probably means that Revell are planning to release a roadster version of the kit. To fix the fault would require a lot of work on the roof, overall I'm happy with my model - apart from the windscreen height the rest of the kit makes it the best of a FHC E-type in 1/24 scale in my opinion. Here's a picture of the rolling chassis to back that opinion up:

Fantastic build benefiting from 1/25th scale fabrication skills. Well done!

Fantastic build! Lots of details and subtle weathering make it a standout model.