Bugatti Fan

Mikr, I will have to look for one of these kits. In 48th scale it will be a fairly small model I guess about 6 or 7 inches long. Just out of interest, there is a Spanish company named OCCRE that make a multi medium kit of a SF Cable Car in 24th scale. It is part of a series of tram kits they make.

You are quite right Trevor. There is a big sense of satisfaction when you build a model having made every part yourself. It is both fun and frustration having to bin parts that you get wrong and have to remake, but very pleasing when you get them right!

Thanks for the feedback Trevor! I had a look at the site you recommended the T50 wheels certainly look good.

I seem to remember that they were the original manufacturers of a San Francisco Cable Car as well.

Scott, the coach I was on stopped off a couple of times right next to the Rocky Mountaineer train. One of my ambitions is to take the CP across Canada and also do the Rockies train. We will see!

Muncie, the Airfix Veyron Tyres are quite good. The wheels outer detailing is also very good except that the backs are hollow but not noticeable when the model is built. I took advantage of this to model disc brakes a!l round on it. I detailed up the interior myself but as another poster suggested a die cast might be cannibalised for this purpose.

Scott, I too have been drooling over that new MFH T35. £525 here in the UK.... Don't know what the Canadian Dollar price would be though, A few years back I did a 2 week coach tour in your neck of the woods out from Vancouver in a big loop to Jasper in the Rockies and back via the Inland Passage to Vancouver Island and had a little time in Victoria. You certainly live in a nice part of the world!

Bob, you have made a superb model from that old Casadio kit. I have your article in one of the Kalmbach specials and it makes very interesting reading. I can remember another of your articles in MCM some time ago when you did a super detailing job on the old Hubley Duesenberg SJ. Just Fantastic! My IPMS 50th Anniversary Austin A30 Custom Van was featured in the same issue I think. Nice to see some old classics super detailed, Don't know if you might have a copy, but there is an article of mine in an old 2013 copy (I think) of MCM about my scratch built Bugatti T59. Looking at your 'handle' BSteinIPMS I guess that you are a member of IPMS USA. I have been a UK IPMS member since way back in 1974. I am a good part of the way with a book I am writing about building model cars that hopefully will sit nicely between those on basic techniques and scratch building and would like to use some photos of your work. It is all a bit speculative at the moment as when it is finally finished it will be a matter of finding a suitable publisher!

Scott, I fell upon this thread recently, a few years on from when you started it, but must comment on what a lovely model you have built from that old Casadio kit.

What drives people to scratch build? In my case it was the reality that mainstream kit manufacturers would not risk tooling up the sort of subjects that interest me. So I had no alternative but to scratch build. So far I have built a Bugatti Type 59 in 1/16th scale, the Dubonnet Nieuport Astra Hispano Suiza ( the wooden planked one) in 1/12 scale, and have almost completed the Brooklands Napier Railton in 1/16 scale.

New categories paid out fairly logically. Personally I would like to see Motor Cycles given their own work bench and finished sections instead of being grouped with aircraft scisince fiction etc.

Aluminium foil or thin pewter sheet works quite well cut into strips and interwoven. Another thing that is a bit more scarce to find these days is the very soft foil from wine bottles that resembles soft lead in malleability. The nice thing about each of these is that they can be shaped easily to drape realistically. You can do this first and set the shape before painting.....less chance of the paint cracking when bent to shape.

Anyone know if resin wheels that are correct have been made for the Heller Airfix Type 50 Bugatti Kit. The ones supplied in the kit just do not look righr.

The car.....brilliant engineering. The watch..again brilliant engineering but......tasteless over expensive bling! No doubt far eastern copies will be available soon!

I seem to think that Monogram may have produced one as a show rod many years ago.

Hi! If Tom Kowalllik reads this please get in touch. When you were in the UK a number of years ago you had some built up Bugatti Models from me to take back home. Like to hear from you again.

A really lovely build. I have a Pocher Merc to build, so found your pictures very inspirational.

If you are into highly detailed larger scratch built models and larger scale kit building and detailing the Scalemotorcars site will be of interest. Many Pocher builds featured and engineered scratch builds as well as highly detailed kit builds and conversions. Well worth looking at as we!l as this site.

Scott that is one terrific model you built and shared the pics on here to see. MFH multi medium kits...………...Fabulous model kits, but boy are they expensive! They have just released a fully detailed Bugatti 35B in 1/12 scale...………...Right up my street if I can scrape the money together! It is £525.00 here in the UK Ron your yard sale find looks like the Burago die cast. I have one kicking around somewhere with a view to maybe detailing it up some time in the future. Gabriel, regarding RH drive cars, from my experience any LH drive cars gear shift patterns that I have driven in the UK are no different to RH drive. Just the steering wheel, and foot pedals are on the opposite side of the car. Effectively just using the standard gearbox with my right hand instead my left in a LH drive car that you are probably used to. No point in motor manufacturers making opposite handed gearboxes!

With the current international imposed lockdowns due to the C virus, my guess is that many of those back burner projects will be getting some after the household painting decorating and repairs get done.

Many years ago a friend of mine showed me a lot he had of a Ford 100E, a small British car I think I'm 1/24 scale. It was of American manufacture but I cannot remember who made the kit.. My late father had one of those little Fords and started to teach me to drive in it. So I would be intrigued to know who made the kit. Maybe Palmer of perhaps Pyro. I know that Purl made a Triumph Sports Coupe back in the day.

Agreed! . At least if I have to self isolate I can catch up with some of my model making!

Keyser, the Merit Bluebird kit dates back to the 1960's. The company that made Merit kits was J and R Randall, based in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England. I think that they may still be in existence but making other things than kits such as childrens toys and games.

Nice build of the Cutty Sark Ken. Have seen some of your plastic classic ship,builds as well as this wooden one. I believe that Artisania Latina have recently developed a plank on frame kit of the VASA as an instalment piece part build with the cooperation of the Vasa Museum.

Back in the day I can remember from the one or two copies of CAR MODEL that I managed to get over here in the UK was Don Emmons 'Detail For Real' articles. No photo etched or resin after market stuff about back in those days! The Uncertain T by Monogram was a new release back then and one of the magazines I had had a feature one car itself and a conversion article to make it into a customised milk truck.