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1/24 Heller Talbot Lago T26C Grand Prix
Bugatti Fan replied to kensar's topic in Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers
Nice model and upgrades to this Heller kit. Very impressive build. The old Merit one is nowhere near as good. It survived along with the Alfetta kit via SMER for ages, but think the moulds may have gone to Atlantis? However, I have seen both those old kits turned into very nice fully detailed models in the past, so the potential is there and they are relatively cheap kits to buy. -
Looking better every time I check your thread Francois !
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Looking For A Special Glue
Bugatti Fan replied to oldcarfan's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
Steve, I think you missed the real point of my last post that was actually about the thread starting to become a little argumentative and stop it from getting a bit over heated. With regard to the term I used 'favourite adhesives' we all know what works for us individually. The OP has had a number of suggestions made on this thread that might prove useful from each of our own personal experiences. -
Another irk is overpaid celebrities and sports personalities often referred to as 'heroes' that are oh so full of their own self importance and would be utterly useless in a real crisis when the chips are down !
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David. Using Acrylic based products over enamel might not be a good idea long term. Enamel takes ages to dry out thoroughly and although it looks and feels dry its solvent can still be leaching out into the atmosphere for a long time after you think it is dry. Acrylics effectively form a plastic airtight seal so there just might be a chance of blistering. This might be the cause of the curing problem you have been experiencing.
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Looking For A Special Glue
Bugatti Fan replied to oldcarfan's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
Guys, I can see how this conversation is going. We all have our favourite adhesives that we swear by for whatever reason. So please, it might be best at this point to just agree to differ ? -
Irked by chrome paints not being resilient to handling. My holy grail would be a chrome spray on finish that goes off really hard !
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The smaller Holloway House one is about £16 over here in the UK. I still have some Kleer left from ages ago and it was a lot less expensive. Even at £16 the Holloway House product is still a lot less expensive per milli litre than many dedicated modelling products that do the same thing Looking at the US Wal-Mart price, you Americans get it dead cheap to try out !
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Looking For A Special Glue
Bugatti Fan replied to oldcarfan's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
There are so many different adhesives out there. It is always a matter of selecting the right one for the job that you are happy witn. Most of us I guess will probably have a selection of different types at our disposal. Horses for courses as the saying goes ! -
David, we all get build up around the top edge of a paint bottle or tinlet, so it is probably not generally a paint problem but how we clean and seal our paint bottles and tinlets after use that causes the problem. I am as guilty as anyone else at neglecting this aspect of paint use, so those filters would be a saviour as far as I am concerned.
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Looking For A Special Glue
Bugatti Fan replied to oldcarfan's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
Depends on how many identical ones you need to justify it Pete. RTV and all that is a bit pricey. If they all differ then using the plastic card would be more viable. -
This is a very nice scale classic French car taking shape here. That Stingray body 1/25th scale instead of 1/24th being used as a comparison? It's just that it looks a bit too small compared to the 1/24th scale Talbot body so not really a proper scale comparison unfortunately. Heller have brought out a number of unusual classic car kits over the years that we should be pleased about. However, some of them have some quite quirky eccentric ways in which the kits were designed when it comes to building them. Their Delage kit for example has a joint right across the top of both the rear wheel arches. To me that is just bad kit design, and would be difficult enough for a very experienced modeller to rectify.
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Neat little gizmo! Was unaware of this product. It will save lots of expensive paints getting thrown away and I will certainly be investing in some of these. So thanks for putting this thread up Greg.
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Looking For A Special Glue
Bugatti Fan replied to oldcarfan's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
If the die casts were toys rather than models then they were designed to be played with, hence the plastic that was used probably. We are modellers, right! Why not do some scratch building and copy those underside parts with plastic card instead. Thinking a bit laterally, it could be a neat way of solving this problem plus you can use the adhesives you already have! -
Looking For A Special Glue
Bugatti Fan replied to oldcarfan's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
What about Plastic Weld liquid cement by Plastruct? I find it a good all around adhesive for ABS, Polystyrene and Acrylics. I discovered it years ago when using some of the Plastruct ABS extrusions for industrial and architectural model makers that polystyrene adhesives would not work on. It is my 'go to' liquid cement for most of my modelling work. The plastic innards from die cast toys/models is usually a hard type of plastic that is less britt!e than polystyrene. Plastic Weld might be worth a try on it. The flexible polythene types of plastic as used for Tupperware tend to be resistant to any adhesives. I used to curse Airfix for moulding their figure sets in the stuff as they were just impossible to clean up mould lines from or cut up to adapt. As for painting, their flexibility made them pretty useless in that respect too. -
Some of the newer digital cameras have a focus stacking firmware feature built in to the camera. So if anyone is in the market for a new camera this feature will be well worth looking for. Panasonic certainly has at least one camera with it, so I guess others might too.
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Very nice build. The black finish looks good. Nice interior detailing too
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Patents and copyrights. I would imagine a very expensive legal nightmare of you ever have to litigate to defend your intellectual rights on patents and copyright.
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What would YOU like to see as a model
Bugatti Fan replied to JeroenM3's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
The Checker Cab in the picture Jesse put up is such an iconic vehic!e that I am surprised that no one has ever made a kit of it. I think that there may be one of two die cast models about but not as kits. May be worth some cottage industry maker doing a resin kit? The Neon was marketed in the UK under the Chrysler brand name. A company I worked for had a couple as runabouts that I used to drive from time to time. The irony was that the TV ads hyped it as being the car that was built to satisfy Americans being the most demanding customers for the car! My driving experience was underwhelming to say the least and I thought that the styling was bland. -
The Official EBay Discussion Thread
Bugatti Fan replied to iamsuperdan's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
They rely on villages being short of an idiot. -
That's a lovely compact diorama with plenty going on.