Bugatti Fan

Getting away from the western I used as an example, I quite like the Jason Statham action movies, the Rambos, Mission Impossible, The Expendables and of course the Bond Movies. Also watched a TV series named Lioness recently about a female CIA operative infiltrated into a drug cartel starting Zoe Saldana.

Oh! That sort of Cat ! Not a Grader, Backhoe Loader or Bulldozer !

Much as I admire the engineering that goes into a Veyron, Chiron or any other hypercar I just cannot see the point in them apart from being trinkets of the mega wealtty who buy them li!e toys to lay forgotten in Saudi and Dubaii car parks gathering dust when their novelty wears off. Regarding VW buying the Bugatti name, I guess that they do OK from those supercars, but a few years back they made a very good luxury saloon, the Pnaeton. If they had badged it as a Bugatti, I reckon they could have made a killing in the upper executive saloon car market dominated by Mercedes and BMW for example.

I prefer the shoot outs from those old spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood. More subtlety than most of the Wham Bam thank you Mam stuff churned out by the movie indusrtry. Closing scene from one of those with Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eligh Wallach. I liked the build up of tension where they were waiting for the music from a watch that belonged to the murdered daughter of the Colonel (Lee Van Cleef) to take his revenge.

That Tamiya Jeep YJ kit has not been made in a long while. I think that someone did a set of JP decals for it in the past but cannot be absolutely sure about this.

It should be a believable alternative to the Ford Rangers used in the film, Michael Crichton actually described the tour vehicles as being Toyota Land Cruisers in his Jurassic Park novel. So technically the model featured by the OP is correct to the book description. A very good model it is too ! The JP films 1 2 and 3 although technically brilliant were a hotch potch of parts extracted from Jurassic Park and the Lost World novels. I too like the OP read the original JP at least 2 years before the first film was released. Lots of artistic licence used as for instance a Dilophosaurus actually did not have an extending frill like a frilled lizard. The book actually describes in graphic detail how Nedry watched his intestines being pulled out whilst being eaten alive. Of course the film was toned down to suit a less than restricted target audience and promote the spin off after sales stuff.

Thanks for your support DJMar. Not sure why Mike Scally took exception to my post referring to IPMS for aircraft finishing information. Fact is that organisation is a world wide general modelling society and has far more of a wealth of aircraft modelling expertise within its ranks. Incidentally, I have never experienced anyone in IPMS kicking off when the Automotive class photos from their Nationals are all posted on this site! We are all 'Model Makers' irrespective of genre. It does not pay to be either insular or disingenuous when folk offer help.

A thought ater my last post. The guy working on the anchor chain picture reminded me of a very famous picture featuring anchor chain. It was of the renowned Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel standing in front of the gigantic chains of his ship the Great Eastern whilst it was being built.

Gt Britain...... The cradle of the Industrial Revolution. Well, back in Victorian time it was !

In a word 'British' !

Over 1000 bucks for a lump of resin ? Ha, Ha! Demonic demented laughter Ha Ha, Ha Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh ! Imagine the echo trailing off in the distance. LOL

Very nice build of the classic mini. It was a car that turned out to be classless back in the 60's. Everybody seemed to have a mini in some form from aristocrats, celebrities and the public in general. It.just might b the one car that due to its popularity production of the mini carried on for longer than its planned replacement the Metro.

Amazing what you guys are doing to those elderly white metal kits dating back to the sixties.

Really nice model taking shape. That BMW is a beautiful looking car from that era regardless of the Elvis connection. 3D Cad skills evident here to make better replacement parts and extra detail parts by 3D printing.

IPMS is full of 'Wingy Thingy' guys with lots of aircraft finishing experience too.

Lovely model Joe. Shows what can be done with a bit of ingenuity!

A very nice model of this classic motor.

An idea for the 3D printing guys perhaps ?

Does it matter one iota if 3D printer layer lines are called striations or not ? As far as I am concerned if someone understands that the term means layer lines, contour lines, call them what you will it makes no odds to me.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Just out of interest, a German company named Autograph did upgrade transkits for the Revell Ferrari. Engine upgrade kit and Borrani Wire Wheels to build up.

Would it be possible to try reloading your pictures directly from your PC to this site Mark? At least you have the option to do so on this site unlike a British site I also use on which it is necessary to use hosts. I am a UK user and Imgur has been made unusable this side of the pond whatever site Imgur has been used on. From what I have gathered from just reading your text, it appears that a good model is taking shape here.

If one is going to sell 3D printed items, the buyer rightly had an expectancy that the parts will be high quality. Period! Anyone selling stuff off a low grade printer or set a higher grade one to process stuff faster to keep costs down and compromising quality as a result will be doing themselves and their customers no favours whatsoever. In fact those guys will quickly find that their sales will be one offs as the word gets around not to use them. Like anything else, quality costs ! Fact of life !

Referring to the first line of my post, it would appear that you have some quite sophisticated machinery as you mentioned that you can set black and grey resin percentages to get the tyre colour looking realistic straight off the mechine.

3D printed items are so variable I suppose depending on so many factors. Machine, materisl, design etc. Those tyres are showing quite bad layering marks in my opinion. As you are stuck with them it might be best to smooth the outer tyre walls completely and use those decals suggested in an earlier post. These tyres aside when I see a number of 3D printed items on this forum, many have so many support pieces to be cut off and clean up the parts made afterwards that it looks like really hard work to me.

Nice looking motor Francois. Look forward to following this project. Your TR6 is a great subject ! The Triumph Stag was a nice looking motor too.