Bugatti Fan

A really superb build. Those wheels make all the difference. Just shows what can be done with those quite elderly kits. Airfix made a little Bugatti 35B to compliment the Alfa that was also a nice kit from that time.

Nice to see a vintage classic car for a change. Lovely build !

A title of one of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns just about sums up social media generally in very few words. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.

This flight of fantasy is really going places now!

You might know more about what happened to it Guido as you were a moderator on that site. Incidentally, out of curiosity who set up and owns the Scalemotorcars site? Any contact details?

Was it the Beastie Boys who hung VW badges around their necks and inadvertently caused a spate of VW badge thefts from cars all over the place?

Lovely model.Matt. Certainly captures the glitz of luxury American care of that era .

The car's 5 year mission, to seek out new model makers in new civilisations To boldly go where no model car has gone before ? Nice themed build !

To Facebook or not to Facebook ? That is the question ! Like most open unmoderated social media outlets, there is a lot of good stuff to look at on there but there is also an awful lot of dross too ! I have chosen not to use FB. You tube can be a media outlet that also suffers as I get the impression that there are a great many so called experts who are self opinionated mediocre model makers striving to get their viewing numbers up to a point that attracts commercial advertisers and therefore becomes a cash incentive for them to keep churning out average builds. Good stuff can unfortunately get lost in amongst the quagmire of average output. But at least with YouTube one does not have to sign up to look at anything on it like FB.I Quite happy using forums like this one !

Thanks for that link Les. I was not aware of the site you suggested. Looks really interesting. It shows much more of what went into Roger Zimmerman's Lincoln build than in the gallery of the site I mentioned. It's the sort of build feature that the old Scalemotorcars site was renowned for. Sadly missed !

It packed up about two years ago I think. The site was having some real problems. Very slow to access and use and just became irritating in the end. The whole thing just got screwed up in the end. It was a real shame it went as there were many good scratch build model makers contributions on it usually in larger scales and that was its strength as I used it as a complimentary site to this one. A good example is a Swiss scratch builder Roger Zimmerman'x Lincoln Continental build feature. If you have a look in the Model Motorcars Ltd website there are photos of Roger's build on their gallery on it along with with loads of other large scale stuff. The site is a commercial one and sells upgrade parts for the Pocher car kit ranges.

Nice imagineering ! Not sure what the Turin Tweaker would make of this one !

I have just a couple of very old Badgers that have served me well for goodness knows how many years. it's not so much what airbrush you have, but getting the nozzle and needle right for the viscosity of paint being used. I tend to whack on paint straight from aerosols too with OK results. Aight

Cheers Jason. Might well PM you when I start my build. Thanks for your kind offer. Noel

I can see where this is going guys. Respective points have now been made. Let's get back to discussing if a Large Scale section would be desirable or not.

Chill out Pete. People are people. We are all different. Some are very organised whilst others live in chaos. You cannot change them ! You can take a horse to water but cannot always make it drink ! No matter how much you try, you will not get folk to change how they use (or misuse) this forum no matter how much cajoling. Best not to get up tight about it and just accept the situation for what it is as it is not worth worrying about and just enjoy carrying on building our models.

No more than I can speak Gaelic Les !

Xingu has mentioned in his last post that big changes are in the pipe line. It will be interesting to see what they will be when the time comes. No.mention was made about any user consultation about any changes, so we will just have to see what happens. They will please some and not others as all these things do when they are instigated.

A fantastic build. Always liked the look of this racing car from the fifties. I have seen a number of posts describing your model as 'museum quality'. From what I have seen of museum models the vast majority that I have looked at fall well below the benchmark of Chris's model. Superb !

At the time Big Boys was absorbed the Scale Motorcars forum that tended to attract the large scale car modeller was active. That's probably why Big Boys did not attract that many posts. The Scale Motorcars forum has since gone as they were having all sorts of technical difficulties with running it. So just maybe reinstating Big Boys might be an idea, but cannot see it happening. Personally I think that Motor Bikes should have its own WIP and Under Glass sections instead of just being grouped into anything else. It might be more popular than having Big Boys back.

My next door neighbour fully restored an Austin 7 saloon that he still has. We went to a car show in it on a hot day a number of years back and he jokingly said 'I'll put the air conditioning on !'. At which he flipped the windscreen forward !

It's one thing having someone who either hates of dislikes your hobby. You know where you stand with them and can react accordingly. Eventually ! Just surprises me though how many let themselves get drawn into a situation like that in the first place. Love is blind etc. ?? As for passive disinterest, that's a difficult one as you just don't know what is going on in their minds. Better that than outright animosity towards what you do I suppose. Ace' s last post pretty much is right on the button with regard to having someone who has their own sense of security, their own creative interests and not needing through their own insecurity to be a look at me prima donna!

This has developed into a very interesting thread.

Marry any woman who dislikes your hobby no matter what interest you have is signing up to a life of misery.

The Dykes book would probably be worth a facsimile nostalgia reprinting !