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All of the Scale Auto Forum and gallery were deleted when the magazine ceased publication a few years back. I think that Kalmbach were selling CD roms with all the back issues on them. Kalmbach Publishing Company has been sold on including any titles they printed like Fine Scale Modeler.

In the grand scheme of things all the expensive cars that were lost become insignificant. The most precious thing to be saved was people's lives under these circumstances ! It is also very regrettable though that family memorabilia like photographs and so on once lost are irretrieveable.

Interesting post Rob, mentioning a number of those old truck and car movies that tend to get forgotten about. As well as Haken's reference about having info to share on trucks in more memorable movies and TV series. Thanks to those guys who further complimented my own build, that now in hindsight is proportionally incorrect, but at least I think I got the feel of the subject way back in the 80's when I had a go at making this model. With the advent of much more information on the subject and Haken's kind offer to share information about it will enable model makers to replicate the vehicle much better than I have done. The Juggernaut from Death Race looks a bit interesting. Anyone done that one ?

Had another look today. This will be really interesting to see when completed.

Looking good this classic build.

Cool project Bill. I have a Pyro Auburn Speedster and this thread is giving me some ideas !

Nice looking car and nice model modification too ! I think that I read somewhere that the bodies for these were made at the Pressed Steel Fisher works in Oxford UK. Anyone remember when Roger Moore played Simon Templar 'The Saint' driving one in the old UK tv series ? The car was white, with the registration number plate ST1.

A mean machine if ever there was one. Nice work Brian. Is it the Burago 1/18th die cast used as the donor model? Great thing about an old kit or model, you can let your imagination run wild !

Not a die cast but there was a trader at IPMS UK Scale Modelworld at Telford last year selling 3D printed kits of this subject in 1/24th scale.

Not a lot !

Not a lot !

Bach's Tocatta being given some welly on a big cathedral pipe organ !

Super Bowl looks like a form of Rugby but played in armour to me !

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Maybe time to get 'The Donald' on postal service case. !! Lol. Our UK post office is gradually going from already bad to a darned site worse. We have First Class letter post that one has to pay a premium rate stamp for, and a Second Claxs that should in theory take longer. The whole thing is a joke! No matter what you pay there is no guarantee what will get where first. Our post office delivers more advertising junk mail to us than proper mail.

There are many products that black washes can be made from. A number having already been described on here. Revell's Aquacolour has not been mentioned yet. They include some shades of black too and thin well with water. Getting away from washes, their Anthracite shade is really good for simulating the look of rubber mats in car models. Back to washes again, I have also used thinned artists acrylics from their various black shades and Paynes Grey. Some artists acrylics are available in liquid form in small bottles, presumably for airbrush work. Come to think of it artists waterproof inks could be used as a wash for filling in on grilles etc. Proprietary dedicated washes can work out to be quite expensive when compared to making up some of your own. This applies to colour washes for other stuff too like weathering for example. Acrylics dry quite quickly, so going over the high spots with a cotton wool straight after should work to remove any unwanted excess.

Another nice one taking shape here Matt.

Could not agree more Ace. I was an apprentice back in the 60's at a pump manufacturer. No NC or CNC machines back then. The most valuable thing I learned from that experience was getting a 'feel' for how different metals machined as we used to work on Stainless, Mild Steel, Gun Metal, Cast Iron, Aluminium, Brass and White Metal Lined Bearings. No substitute for using manually operated lathes, mills, borers and drills first off that will give invaluable experience to those young engineers before being let loose on CNC equipment. Nowadays I have a small lathe, bench drill, toggle press and milling machine for my model making. Enjoy using all to make stuff. Having used 3D CAD before retiring I have no desire to sit at a PC knocking out designs to be made on a 3D printer. Don't get me wrong as I admire the things that can be made by that process and the programmer's skills in designing them. Call me old fashioned, but I like the actual 'feel' of physically working in metals, woods and plastics and get more satisfaction model making the old school way.

Must admit I am a bit sceptical. But then again have not had any personal paranormal experiences of seen aliens or UFO's either.

Back in the 70's I was taught to program numerically controlled sheet metal punching and nibbling machines. Thinking back one had to be able to develop sheet metal parts from drawings of already formed up components into the flat. Work out the tool paths using offsets to the tool centre lines using trigonometry. Once that was done the program for the m machine had to be written in machine code and finally typed on a machine that punched the codes into either paper or Mylar one inch side tape. Now a machine program can be produced directly from a 3D CAD file and run through a processor to develop the part, and produce a program in code for the relevant CNC machine. Certainly takes all the slog of developing and code programming away. Shortly before retiring I worked in a local high school that had some small CNC lathes and milling machines. The screen always showed the lines of machine code being worked at the top. Often the students would ask what it was and when I explained to them what the M and G codes actually meant and did gave them a better appreciation of what the computer was doing for them. They were amazed when I explained to them how NC machines were all programmed in code many years before and how I did it for a living back then.

You obviously don't watch 'Help, my house is haunted', watch programmes on TV about aliens or the unexplained Slusher, so would you really feel comfortable about staying alone overnight in a building generally known to be haunted by a malevolent presence ?

Very impressive duo Thomas !

Really taking shape now.

Nice to see models of standard small commercials that have been around the block a bit. Very nice build here. Captures the clapped out look well.

Ace just about sums it all up ! Good quality skilled craftsmen and women gain their skills through years of practice, dedication and the right attitude. Seen it all. The know it all guys fresh out of university who may have a degree and still wet behind the ears who over value themselves, when in reality they are just starting out in the real world but still don't have the intelligence to realise that !