Bugatti Fan

Well, It it can still seat 4 and has a useable rear luggage space I guess it could be termed practical?

The power to weight ratio seems reasonably good on this car. Understatement of the year !

Gorgeous looking car, but I wouldn't be wanting to go over any speed bumps or hit any potholes in it !

The model maker aimed tools and sundries market in many cases is often just a stack overpriced items that can be bought elsewhere at a fraction of the price. Previous posters have already outlined many good alternatives to model maker aimed products so I won't be repeating any of it here.. There are special model making tools that are of course worth their weight in gold as far a model making goes. But with a bit of lateral thinking in many instances there are alternatives to be had that are just as good and a lot less expensive.

Further to my last post, after coming back onto the forum after a number of hours, found that Jurgen already has the Convoy Micro Bus covered as a work in progress.

Brilliant project Jurgen. Watched the Convoy film on TV recently. The chartreuse micro bus. Looks like an old school bus. Does anyone make a kit of one of those buses in 1/25th scale. Or will some enterprising 3D printer design and make it?

Perry, have you thought about contacting Marsha!l Buck himself at CMA? Although the models were built many years ago he might still have a few odds and ends tucked away that might just be some of the bits missing from your acquisition. For what you picked it up for must have been the bargain of a lifetime, so restored it will become a valuable asset to you. It intrigues me why when one buys such an expensive model it is not mounted permanently in a display case to avoid damage.

Thanks for putting the GT 40 box art pictures up Ace. . A good memory jogger for me. It was the kit from the top left hand box top shown that was the one I built. I quite liked the IMC box art with the subject shown against that creamy coloured background.

Many thanks for the feedback guys. I had a feeling that they did that one classic, but was unaware that they did a couple version. Nice box art for both kits. Interesting that Union/Testors reissue them. Did Monogram also do a 48 Ford but from their own tooling ? I can sort of remember building one of the IMC Ford GT 40 kits from way back when current.

Did IMC make a 1940's Ford Convertible? I seem to remember it was a standard classic road car.

Absolutely lovely mode!. Brought back memories of when I owned a standard Mk1 many years ago.

Lovely looking classic car.thread I have been following this thread and it makes a nice change from all those customised and rodded models that dominate on this forum.

Way, way back in the 60's and 70's I can remember seeing a die cast kit of a small Alfa Romeo Giuliia saloon car in a model shop (remember them?) window. Not sure of the scale but it might have been 1/24th or 1/20th scale. I believe the kit was of Italian origin, but not a Protar or Casadio kit. I think that the kit was around for a very short time back the before disappearing into oblivion. Does anyone reading this have one of those kits, or a recollection of who might have made them?

I was brought up using manually operated capstan and centre lathes, milling machines, drilling machines, shapers and so forth as an engineering apprentice. Saw NC and CNC machines gradually being brought into the workplace and adapted to using them over the years. One thing it taught me was by using manually operated machines one got a 'feel' for the materials being used and the limits a machine could be pushed to. Letting people loose on very expensive CNC machines who don't have any experience of using machines manually is very risky, particularly when they are convinced that they do not need that experience. Definitely agree with Ace on this issue. The video made interesting viewing. I can remember a time when just about every machine shop small and large had at least one Bridgeport milling machine !

Am I imagining it ? I seem to remember feedback being asked for in relation to possible changes to made to the format of this forum but cannot find the thread.