Bugatti Fan

The Renwall Revivals series of the Virgil Exner Classics Redesigned in 1/25th scale. The Pyro car kits....nice 1/32 scale range.

Wasn't aware of that one Tim.....Had a quick look at their website and looks an interesting magazine.

If the guy in question is such a good truck modeller, maybe he should put his abilities to more better use like writing articles for Truck Model World Magazine, Scale Auto or MCM instead of wasting his time and every body else's by trolling under different pseudonyms. A bit like the saddo at the end of a bar muttering into his beer about how the world is against him instead of doing something positive.

A beautiful build. Trumpeter has certainly chosen well with this subject in this scale. The only other GT 40 kit in preparation that I am aware of in this scale is a multi medium kit by Creative Miniature Associates. Do not know if Model Factory Hiro is doing anything similar.

Heard a rumour about the GSL show competition in Salt Lake City being phased out. Any truth in this?

Has any body made a resin body and 7 spoke wheels to retro fit either the Revell or Heller Bugatti EB110 to convert it to the SS version?

99 per cent of all kit boxes are inherently weak, and shipped to retailers from the factory / distributor in suitable packaging. It is when re sellers and retailers ship odd kits that the problems generally arise. We all have some idea of how parcels are handled either by post or courier and need to pack accordingly. It is not rocket science.

Quite right Bill, I whole heartedly agree with you that leaner run companies can do well in a tough environment, where layers of middle management have been stripped away. In a former life I was a production engineer, so understand what you are saying.

Thanks for that Richard, it looks like the Daniel Creations were aimed at the model kit market. Seen some Barris and Roth creations in kit form by Revell and Eldon but not sure if any were done by Monogram. Mark, thanks for the feedback on the BHE, was unaware that two had been built! I forgot about Darryl Starbird. Did he create the Custom 3 wheeled Volkswagen that was kitted by Monogram? Cannot remember its name.

I have a very old article cut out from Model Car Science about building and weathering the car kit built as per the original in the TV series.

Built the Tijuana Taxi first time around, but would like to build it again with the benefit of 40 years more experience. Was the Boot Hill Express a Daniel creation that made it to being built full size?

re Moebius, an Interesting observation there Bill, but I do not think that they run the sort of quantities that Revell, Airfix and Tamiya do, and from what I have seen they cater for more of a niche subject market than the big mainstream boys. Nice to see that they are running profitably in a tough market.

Sad to see this happen to that nice Delahaye? The event organisers probably have good insurance that will cover this, unless the company is proved negligent and a payout refused. Restorers have repaired / restored much worse! What about the classic sports/racing cars that get pranged at classic race meets? They have to be repaired at the owners expense. At the end of the day it is just a car (albeit a rare expensive one) and can be re built, but to get this into perspective, it could have been a lot worse, so hopefully no one got killed or injured in the accident.

Trouble with a holding company like Hobbico and Amerang for example, if they go down all the individua! firms they own get dragged down with them. Revell have been owned by a number of holding companies in the past! If they are viable they get bought out. If not they close. This thread about If I Ran Revell has really been more about a kit wish list than running Revell actually when it comes down to it. I stand by what I said that Revell know their market better than most of us and they probably sell more aircraft, afv, ships and star wars kits than cars and trucks. Wishing for obscure subjects from a mainstream manufacturer is a pipe dream best left to the cottage industry resin casters.

After all these years I am sure that Revell know better than 99 percent of us how to run their business! I think that this thread is really more about what people would like Revell to make rather than how to run a business!

Dave I wish I could find a basket case Renwall Virgil Exner Bugatti. Been looking for one to restore/renovate and give to the Bugatti Trust Museum here in the UK. Seen mint kits on ebay….way too expensive for a pensioner like me.

Hmmmm? There is a bit of a joke that goes around over here in the UK that someone ought to inform Microsoft that there is no such thing as US English. Microsoft (bless them) refer to English English as European English. Perhaps they do not know where our language actually emanated from!

Revell might be able to email an instruction sheet?

Greg, your picture got me to thinking? Any more pictures of this special vehicle conversion? One Ebbro Citroen DS kit, One Cobra Kit, some Evergreen and Plastruct Sheet and Extrusions, some 1/32nd or 1/43rd scale Wheels and VOILA!

Only serious collectors are willing enough to shell out ridiculous amounts of cash for old plastic kits that in all probability will never be built, and end up in landfill after their demise! Serious .modellers on the other hand will either wait for the reissue, or actually enjoy getting and building that perceived rare kit and doing what the kit was designed for!

It was vinyl tyres against polystyrene kit parts that I had problems with. Cannot comment on baggies.

The AC Cobra started off as the AC Ace sports car built in Thames Ditton, Surrey just South of London in the UK. Carroll Shelby had chassis and bodies shipped to the USA, stuck V8 engines into them and this the Cobra was born. The earlier models did not have the flared out wheel arches and wide wheels depicted in most kits. I have a very early Cobra kit that was released back in the 60s by the now defunct Frog company with the Ace body style, that I think was made under licence from AMT. There is I think someone out there making a resin transmit to make this old kit back into an A.C. ace.

With regard to long term storage. Vinyl can have an adverse chemical reaction both with itself and polystyrene plastic if left together for too long. Found out the hard way a number of years ago when I rummaged through my spares boxes to find a number of ruined tyres and parts that were laid against one another! Some of my vinyl tyres had even reacted against the insides of my little plastic drawer units. I now use plain white tissue paper wrapped around parts to separate them to act as a barrier against this reaction problem happening. If you have stuff stored away, best check it out! Polystyrene to polystyrene seems to be ok but it is the vinyl to vinyl and vinyl to polystyrene that caused the problem.

James Dyson's team who design their vacuum cleaners and other appliances first sketch and 3D model their concepts in card the traditional way before even looking at doing anything on computer. His reasoning is that his designers get a better feel for the product by physically modelling by hand first.

There are a lot of cheaply made Chinese made air brushes on the market. Best avoid these if serious use is contemplated. Best stick with established manufacturers of a quality product like Paasche, Badger, Harder and Steenbeck, Aerograph DeVilbiss or Iwata. All of these have proved their worth over the years having sold to the graphic design industry initially long before model makers started to use them. All these quality manufacturers have various types at prices to suit most. Cannot comment on Grex of Aztec having not used any of their products. There is an old adage ' You only get what you pay for' and this is very relevant in the air brush market!