Bugatti Fan

Used it on clear plastic parts many times. If you have deeper scratches, best rub them out with fine wet n dry used set to get out the scratches. While part will look cloudy but the toothpaste will polish it out. Have tried T cut as we!l.

Jim, the reply you got about removing some over spray from your glasses was quite rude. Hopefully the new management over there take a more enlightened view to such questions. As I said in my last post, any forum is only as good as who manages it at any given time. Unfortunately things like that makes it a hard act to put right for a more reasonable guy who has to pick up the baton.

As a retired engineer, building model cars satisfies both my artistic leanings and my appreciation of the aesthetics of classic vehicles that I could not afford for real.

We need different forums and they all have their pros and cons depending on who ever is managing at any given time. There are some questions being asked on this thread that should really be directed at Scale Auto for answers.

Looks like Tim has his ear to the ground with regard to American company projects, so besides my observations about world markets, these firms should be able to satisfy the desire for US auto related subjects. More power to their elbow to give modellers more diversity.

An earlier post mentioned the troubles at Revell USA and their previous owner before the German arm bought them out. The American market in auto kits as I see it has been in its heyday mainly Muscle Cars, Rods, Customs and NASCAR that have been supplied for many years by Revell and AMT in the main, and tended to be a bit parochial as the US was their main key outlet for these kits. However things have moved on and the Germans look more at a world wide market, so F1 cars, rally cars and exotics like Ferraris and Lamborghinis tend to take the new tooling orders. That is not to say that American subjects will be ignored, but just given lower priority for new tooling in future. Look at the offerings of Revell GMBH, Italeri, Tamiya, Hasegawa, Heller, Aoshima, Fujimi, Belkits, Ebbro et al to see where they see their markets. Also their main scale of preference is 1/24th as opposed to 1/25th. Revell it must be remembered get their bread and butter from Aircraft and Military subjects. Airfix, Tamiya and other manufacturers have issued very large scale aircraft kits frequently because there is a market for them. When was the last time we saw a 1/16th or 1/12th scale car kit released? (And I am not talking about Model Hiro kits that only modellers with fat wallets can afford.)

Maybe complaining directly to Shapeways will be the way to go about resolving this problem by sending the product back for analysis. Don't know if they are a cottage industry or not, but they should replace faulty goods regardless. If you are not planning on returning the parts perhaps spraying a coat of rattle can automotive primer might help seal the surface. MB I believe make a nice range of styrene figure kits in 1/24th scale, worth a look at as an alternative.

I can get Scale Auto and Fine Scale Modeler regularly off the shelf here in the uk. The SA forum has less traffic than this one, granted, but I tend to browse both in any case. They have new editorship from what I can gather. New ideas and outlook and their moderators seem to be a bit more relaxed than before.

It is really a matter of trying some until you find a brand that you get on with. Lots of pros and cons for each. Zero paints from Hiroboy I have found to be good. They spray on matte, so need a gloss clear goto ish off.

If you want to see a big bucks multi medium GT40 kit that is in preparations a look at Creative Miniature Associates website.

As another thought, those who use Windows have a facility to remove cookies and history at the end of each browsing session.

I suggest you guys find search engines like duck duck go that do not track you. They do not reveal your ip address to any site where you search Do not know if it wil! stop pop ups on sites like this one that can just be ignored.

Don't see MCM in the UK. Used to subscribe until 2016. How are the current moves to get the magazine back on schedule faring?

There was another resin kit of the P100. It was a limited run resin kit done by Les Coolper in the UK. The sca!e was 1/43rd to be comparable with car models in that popular kit and collector scale. I think it was issued in the 80's. Going further back to the 70's I reviewed a 1/72nd scale injection moulded limited run out by Matt Hargreaves in 1/72nd scale for Scale Models magazine in the UK.

Brian C, every once in a while it does good to break away from what you normally model, go out of your comfort zone and pick up new techniques on the journey. You have done a lovely job on your Millenium Falcon.

Duke, I appreciate what you say about the Lego Chiron. As a retired engineer I can see the educational benefit of the kit and mentioned that it was a brilliant concept in itself but disappointed overall as a model to me. Other posters have argued that Lego were probably not aiming for a true replica and are probably correct. Personally I think that Lego could have gone that extra mile and made the body look more realistic. As far as the educational side goes, this kit price wise does not appear to be aimed at kids.i

I looked at the Lego link in an earlier post at their Bugatti Chiron site out of real interest only to be disappointed. Technically it is brilliant, but I would have expected the bodywork to be smooth like the real car on such a huge model. It just looks like Lego and toy like to me, so I will not be in the market for one. Airfix managed to use the Lego like build concept on their 1/24 scale Bugatti quick build kit quite successfully. Admittedly there are less than 40 parts on their kit but at least the body looks good. It has its drawbacks as it is aimed at kids to click together in half an hour and play with. It is a pity they did not make it a proper snap kit like Revell and Lindberg with full interior detail

Perhaps figures added would enhance the diorama. but not all modellers find figure painting techniques easy. If you are good at it, great. But if not. best left alone lest the figures look doll like.

This is a very old thread now, and a lot has happened since 2014 both to the magazine and model shops generally. Model shops are disappearing fast both in the US and the UK. The magazine?.....Well that has gotten its own set of problems since 2014, so we will just have to wait and see what happens long term.

Very nice! Captures the French atmosphere very well in this little diorama, both car and building.

And the Stones keep rolling along!!!!!! Must have out survived just about every other rock group with most of their original members still performing.Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts. Bill Wyman the original bass guitarist (known as the Ghost and played a Vox Phantom Bass Guitar) is still around with another group that he formed after leaving the Stones. Ronnie Wood has been with them a long time now having joined them from the Small Faces after the sad demise of Brian Jones, one of the original members.

Does anybody know where all the old Pyro moulds went to? Have they been acquired by any company with a view to reissuing them? They had quite a substantial range of car kits way back, mostly in 1/32nd scale and a limited few in 1/24th scale.

Scapa Flow is located in the Orkneys. Famous for the German fleet being scuttled there after WW1, and the battleship Royal Oak sunk there by a UBoat during WW2 and lies there as a war grave. The Shetlands are another group of islands lying further North.

Constructive criticism is OK as long as it is done appropriately and one should not be detracted from doing so for fear of political correctness.

They will probably never hit the road. Most likely be trailered to shows or locked away as accruing investments by the super rich. Why the factory is having 1920's replicas made is anyones guess. Looks like a prestige exercise whereby the building will be farmed out to specialist engine, chassis and coach builders. Cannot see them being built at Crewe alongside normal production models.