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Michael. Does your dentist drive a Ferrari by any chance?

How about a laugh ? Yep. That's the one Bill ! John. Quite philosophical and I guess what you are saying is that the thread got locked as a result of misuse ?

Minor irk ! Didn't there used to be a 'Funnies' thread on here to post jokes on ? if so, what happened to it ? Deleted ? Locked ?

This build has shown just what can be done with that old Autokits white metal kit that dates back to the sixties. Many of those very old white metal kits get overlooked a bit with the plethora of resin kits out there that became more popular as a manufacturing medium for car kits. The Autokits range does have some very interesting 1/24th scale classic cars in its range, as does the Wills Finecast range, both being absorbed into the South Eastern (ex Wills) Finecast company many years back. A company named Squires in Bognor Regis, Sussex, UK has acquired the ranges fairly recently and are now still available from them as far as this writer is aware.

Happy New Year to all our readers (and writers) !

Wishful thinking. Mk1 Jaguar E Type Convertible in 1/12th scale. By Tamiya no less. Dream on !!!

The late Gerald Wingrove's books The Complete Car Modeller 1 and 2 have been mentioned on this forum before. The CCM books are specifically about passing his techniques on for others to benefit from. But there are two others that I would like to make people aware of. The Model Cars of Gerald Wingrove, a large coffee table book with mainly photos of his models he made up to a certain point in his career. Not much text in this book, being more of a photographic tour de force of his completed works. The Art of The Aufomobile in Miniature by Gerald and Phyllis Wingrove. A much later publication, again chock full of photographs but this time supported by much more text about the original cars and about the models themselves. I have both, and can say that the latter has more in the way of information about each model. As Gerald tends to be associated with car modelling, he was also a proficient ship modeller too! I'm fact his first book was about building a ship model that was published by Model and Allied Publications. 'Not a lot of people know that!' To quote a well known Michael Cane phrase. He built a huge shipyard diorama that is the centre piece at Bucklers Hard Nautical Museum in Hampshire UK that was commissioned by the late Lord Montague of Beaulieu. The shipwrights cottages and slipways are still there to see adjacent to the museum itself. The diorama is absolutely breathtaking, having visited it some years back.

Bob has summed it all up quite eloquently in the first sentence of his last post.

I think that Bill put something up about stupid internet questions and answers some time back. Someone asked on a Q&A site named Quorum I think. 'Why do the British speak English, an American language?' You just could not make it up! Whoever asked that question must be lacking a bit in the geography department !

I have seen a number of the late Cherry Hill's wonderful model engineering masterpieces over the years at the British Model Engineering and Modelling Exhibition. Her models are exquisite and finished to a very high standard, even more so as she excelled in making her models to a smaller scale than most model engineers work in, a number of which are now on permanent display at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in london. There is a book about her work named Cherry's Model Engines, published by Crowood Press in the UK.

Some people unfortunately get a bit too wound up about things that in the wider picture are really quite trivial and unimportant.

Gerald Wingrove used to make hardwood bucks in the shapes he wanted to form metal over. Usually thin copper or brass sheet and annealing during the tin bashing process to counteract the work hardening that took place. I would suggest looking out Gerald Wingrove's Complete Car Modeller Books 1 and 2. Out of print now so EBay will probably be the best source, although Amazon just might be worth a look.

Thanks for the further responses guys. Another comment that Rich's post made me think about. Museums unfortunately sometimes sell off items they consider of no further use to them. Another example of this is the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu here in the UK. The late Lord Montague commissioned models from established professional car modeller Rex Hays and also gave Gerald Wingrove his first museum commission to build a collection of 1/20th scale kerb side models for a themed display. A point came however when whilst changes were being made to the museum displays it was decided that the models had become surplus to requirements and sold off.

Brizio. My little 500 was a fun car to drive back in the day. Extremely basic as you know and very cheap to run. Eventually sold it on as it was becoming a rust bucket which was a shame. Unfortunately Fiats back then used to rot like a vampire doused in holy water ! Had I hung on to it and got it restored it would now be quite a valuable little cult classic. I ran the car for about 3 years in all.

An update. I mentioned in an earlier post about the late Gerald Wingrove having bequeathed a number of his models to the Transport Museum on Clydeside in Glasgow. I have an unconfirmed piece of information that they kept the 'Falls of Clyde' windjammer ship model parts to put on display but very quickly disposed of the car models by auction. It this is so then the opportunity for folks to see Gerald's fantastic car models has now been denied. Disappointing news to say the least and if true, I feel disrespectful to that great modeller who left the models to them in good faith to be displayed for people to enjoy. The least they could have done is let another museum have the models on long term loan instead of just selling them off.

Nice looking motor. Will be following this build.

Interesting project Brizio. Reminds me of the little car I used to own back in the 70's. I will have to look out the Tamiya one that has been released again and model my old car. Should not be too difficult to change it to RHD. Or maybe go big with the 1/12th scale Italeri kit that I think has the option of building it in either Right or Left hand drive.

It only clear or ready chromed parts could be 3D printed ?? Or am I missing a new development?

This is a hobby is it not? So each to their own. Live and let live. If someone wants to turn out models in quick succession on YouTube and get lots of followers as a result, I guess that is what motivates them. If they are happy making them and people are happy watching them, so be it. In my last post I mentioned that the 'Henry' builder will possibly turn out many models of indifferent quality. But as long as they are happy with what they are doing, so what? I stated that A4 Garage is more my style for viewing, and probably many more like me might prefer to watch more advanced builds by other experienced model makers too. What I am getting at on here is that we all have choices as to what we view or not. HPI guy has been getting a lot of criticism on here. But one has to remember that his videos are actively encouraging people to take up this amazing hobby of ours. Yes, he might take short cuts on his video builds, but if he encourages people to take up the hobby it can only be for the good. One has to remember that we were all rank beginners at one point. Many of us learned by trial and error and the odd magazine article back in the days before YouTube. So if his videos get people really interested in Auto Modelling and save them a lot of grief starting out, at some point they will become more advanced and then seek to go beyond what they learned from watching his videos. There is a saying 'From little acorns mighty oaks do grow.'. HPI Guy just might well be sowing the seeds to grow our future advanced model builders !

Was not really aware of Belkits 1 per year new kit output, having not taken that much notice James. I can only hope that someone else may pick up the baton in that case with regard to a Lotus Cortina Mk1 in 1/24th scale. It just surprises me that no one has ever done one in 1/24th scale injected plastic before. Apart from the 1/32nd scale Airfix kit from way back there is nothing else. Might be too much to dream that Italeri might make one in 1/12th scale! One can live in hope !

I saw all the shots of the Stratos parts at IPMS UK Scale Modelworld at Telford in November. They looked really good. A friend of mine built their Integrale and spoke highly of it. Every reason to think the Fulvia will be just as good. Now, how about that Lotus Cortina Mk1 road and rally car in 1/12th scale Italeri?

The resin Lotus Cortina Mk1 is the only one I know of that may still be available from Rod and Ian Knott 's model motor museum that Les just mentioned in his last post. There was another Mk1 kit in resin from about twenty years back I'm guessing that was of South African origin. Could be tempting for Belkits to do perhaps with some lobbying. Getting back to the Fulvia, maybe also lobbying Belkits might be the way to go unless of course Italeri decide to make a 1/24th scale kit as well as their 1/12th scale kit in the future.

There are those 'Henry' model builders (as in Henry Ford) where quantity is the objective on Youtube. OOB is fine for many, but putting a model together in about a week inevitably compromises the build quality. A4 Garage is more my style, concentrating on high build quality and super detailing.

The late Mick Green a well known UK group guitarist never appeared to play anything else but his old Telecaster from the Sixties onwards. He played in various groups but best known as part of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates in the early days, went on to play for Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, one of the Liverpool Groups, and eventually returning to the Pirates. To see him playing look out the Pirates playing Reading Festival 1978 doing Shakin All Over.

I'll settle for drinking the beer! Lol Seriously though this is quite an interesting thread.