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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.

There is a company named Squires in Bognor Regis, Sussex, UK who acquired all the South Eastern (ex Wills) Finecast ranges a couple of years back. Those kits might still be available from their new owners, so check out their website. oWills Finecast made a range of very detailed car kits in white metal back in the 60's. I have their Type 59 Bugatti to build. The company bought out Auto Kits in the late 60's early 70's and added those kits into their itinerary. The Auto Kits range were mainly kerb side kits without engine details.

Can remember Bill Wyman playing a Vox Phantom Bass Guitar in the Rolling Stones early days. And of course Paul McCartney sticking with his old Hofner Fiddle Bass. Hofner made some nice guitars but not sure if they ever made solid electrics like Fender or Gibson. Hofner made a very nice semi acoustic electric guitar named a Verithin. There was another German company Framus who made acoustic electrics too. The British Burns guitars were very nicely built instruments. I think that their guitar was named a Vibratone or something similar. They also made a guitar named the Bison where they had some sort of marketing tie up with the UK group The Shadows. Very famous over here in the early 60's. I think that they may have had some success in the US with their early instrumentals Apache and FBI.

Over here in the 60's there was a company named Burns who made really good guitars. However lots of UK group members opted for Fenders and Gibsons over the Burns. A bit unfortunate as the Burns guitars were fine instruments back in the day. I used to play drums in a group back in the day, and stuck with my excellent UK made Premier Drum kit. Ludwig, Gretch, Rogers and Slingerland were the favoured finely made Stateside drum kits I can remember from back then and the German Sonor and Trixon brands.

Greg DVD players are pretty cheap these days. Was the best way to go.

Steve. What a novel idea for a model with your personal connection having built the full sized thing way back. There were quite a number of replica and other odd buggies and kit cars with fibre glass bodies using VW running gear back in the day. Do you know of the whereabouts of the full size car you built back then? Would be interesting to know if it is still about. Your model is very good, besides having created something unique.

Nice classic built to follow.

I think that there was a build article with photos of the real car as reference in a copy of Scale Auto some time before it's closure.

Nice novelty item. It brought to mind a company named OCCRE who make more serious wooden kits of trams in 1/24th scale.

I went to look on their site today and a notice with a red bar on it appeared on the right hand side of my screen saying on the red bar that Model Motorcars had closed. Their site is still accessible to go onto and look around but obviously not sure what is going on given what I saw? Does any one on here know anything for sure and can confirm that they are still trading ? I have been eying up some Mercedes bits for a Pocher kit I have had languishing at home from long before my retirement. Seeing that has made me a bit cautious.

Will there be a black Dodge Charger following this build ?

Ditto all previous accolades Bill !

Plenty of food for thought and demos about detailing interiors in the A4 Garage videos on Youtube.

I was unaware of AITM not being around any more. Like many cottage industries, so dependent on an individual keeping it going. The company made some really nice resin parts, so hopefully the moulds might be bought by someone.

Thanks for the further suggestions Gary and Peter.

Nice further progress on the London Taxi. Chromework looks good now applied. The overall black finish on your cab looks really good too David. Now that someone has already done a London Cab, I am surprised that no kit manufacturer has ever produced that other iconic taxi, the Checker Cab to my knowledge. Maybe someone has done one as a 3D printed kit? I have a feeling that Franklyn Mint or someone similar may have produced a Checker Cab in 1/24th scale as a fully built die cast model.

Getting the Christmas decorations up at last ! Steve. I hope you enjoyed seeing your grand daughter singing in a choir at York Minster on Friday last. What a lovely setting. It's a wonderful cathedral having visited it in the past. You can only look in awe at the craftsmanship considering how many hundreds of years ago it was built using rudimentary tools.

Thank you for the feedback guys. Your suggestions will be a great help.

For British modellers. I have been looking at Rustins finishing products on line. They appear to have something similar in their range that might be worth checking out.

I am about to try printing my own decals. Already have a few sheets of decal paper and will be using an ink jet printer. Apart from knowing that white cannot be reproduced, I would like to benefit from the experience of those who have already printed their own in the past. Things like it they need to be sealed, products used etc. Any info would be very helpful to avoid any pitfalls. Thanks.

Another really lovely classic scale model car from Jurgen, having got over the 'Hellerisms'.

Erik, those two 1/8th scale E type kits looked very different to me way back when they passed through my hands. So if what you are telling me is correct than I therefore stand corrected. It would be interesting to see photographs of each kits parts layout to see what is common between the two kits and what has been tooled differently.

Nice period car build.