Bugatti Fan

An idea for the 3D printing guys perhaps ?

Does it matter one iota if 3D printer layer lines are called striations or not ? As far as I am concerned if someone understands that the term means layer lines, contour lines, call them what you will it makes no odds to me.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Just out of interest, a German company named Autograph did upgrade transkits for the Revell Ferrari. Engine upgrade kit and Borrani Wire Wheels to build up.

Would it be possible to try reloading your pictures directly from your PC to this site Mark? At least you have the option to do so on this site unlike a British site I also use on which it is necessary to use hosts. I am a UK user and Imgur has been made unusable this side of the pond whatever site Imgur has been used on. From what I have gathered from just reading your text, it appears that a good model is taking shape here.

If one is going to sell 3D printed items, the buyer rightly had an expectancy that the parts will be high quality. Period! Anyone selling stuff off a low grade printer or set a higher grade one to process stuff faster to keep costs down and compromising quality as a result will be doing themselves and their customers no favours whatsoever. In fact those guys will quickly find that their sales will be one offs as the word gets around not to use them. Like anything else, quality costs ! Fact of life !

Referring to the first line of my post, it would appear that you have some quite sophisticated machinery as you mentioned that you can set black and grey resin percentages to get the tyre colour looking realistic straight off the mechine.

3D printed items are so variable I suppose depending on so many factors. Machine, materisl, design etc. Those tyres are showing quite bad layering marks in my opinion. As you are stuck with them it might be best to smooth the outer tyre walls completely and use those decals suggested in an earlier post. These tyres aside when I see a number of 3D printed items on this forum, many have so many support pieces to be cut off and clean up the parts made afterwards that it looks like really hard work to me.

Nice looking motor Francois. Look forward to following this project. Your TR6 is a great subject ! The Triumph Stag was a nice looking motor too.

Magazines have moved on with the advent of digital photography enabling them to be more graphic than back in the old days when photography was film based, limiting the amount of pictures that could be submitted. Also, the hobby has moved on with a plethora of after market and finishing products an the advent of highly detailed kits like MFH manufsctures.

Probably right Dave. It might not be worth the effort in the long term for little return. Ref the museum and copyright issues if it tried to make old scanned available. Could be a problem if selling them, but would this apply if it were an accessible free to use resource? Cannot see it being a problem if they are simply scanning them to archive as many of those old magazines were printed on newspaper and deteriorating as the years go by and eventually will be lost. Many of the old magazines and the companies that published them don't exist any more so not sure if copyright infringement would still apply unless the titles were bought out years ago and filed for future use by unknown parties.

Hope to can locate what you are looking for as it's a bit of a long shot. You may have to resort to an alternative kit. Revell's looks to be the most easily available, but the roof line looks a bit odd on their coupe version. Heller and Gunze come to mind as two others. I think that the Gunze one was marketed for a time under the Airfix label. I don't think that Tamiya ever kitted the E Type, more's the pity, and surprised that they never did ! SMTS did a roadster in 1/24th as a ?limited run white metal kit that is quite comp!ex.

Most die casts I come across appear to be in 1/43rd, 1/24th or 1/18th scale. Are there any 1/12th scale die casts around and who makes them? The only one I came across a number of years back was a Ferrari 250 by Revell.

Don't get many sudden departures like this one part way through a thread. None of the responses to Kacj's posts looked to be negative and her land cruiser was taking shape well. Cannot understand why she has suddenly decided to leave. Pity to lose her from the forum, and hopefully she will be back.

It would be nice if all the old issues were digitised and down loadable. Mammoth task I would imagine, but maybe someone out there who has magazines from the first issue might have done so? Scale Auto from what I can remember offered all their back issues from issue 1 on CD Rom to buy ? I think perhaps the International Model Car Builders Museum in Sandy Utah is in the process of collating and digitizing complete sets of all the older car modelling magazines.

Nice model of an unusual subject from an often neglected era model wiser.

A Bugatti EB 110. I was hallucinating !

Not a lot !

Not a lot!

I have loads of them having worked for a PCB manufacturer in the pasf. They take quite a bit of getting used to because of their brittleness when used by model makers free hsnd or in a pin vice. They were designed to be used vertically to drill into very abrasive maferial, hence being made from tungsten carbide.

Looks interesting to have a bit of fun with this kit. I have seen Jay Leno's zero engined Bentley on tv.

Remember though it using PCB board drill bits that they are made from tungsten carbide and the slightest side pressure can break them.

I think that all this really comes down to personal preference influenced by how easy or difficult one finds either a single action or double action airbrush in use. Many of us will have a bias one way or the other, whilst others get on with both types. There is no right or wrong in the choice of airbrush provided the right choice is made considering its main use. Those who have double action airbrushes with a back stop fitted as well probably find it a useful feature for limiting paint flow.

Not seen this Pyro kit in a long while. Airfix also did one in 1/32nd scale too and must have been one of their very earliest kits from around the late 50's.

I'm trying to get my head around this build going by the engine swap. Is is some sort of custom being built?

Is Vancouver your home city Dan? Very impressed with it. Nice city in a beautiful location. Visited a few years back to do a Rockies coach tour that did a large loop taking in Jasper and Banff that took in the inland passage on the ferry to Vancouver Island and down to Victoria, another very impressive city.