Bugatti Fan

To give great happiness to a dear friend in his last days with one of your excellent models is priceless Louis.

The badge looks so much better now that you have moved it Francois. It was worth taking the time to correct it and hopefully you are happier with it too despite the extra work to do it. The hood hinges are interesting seeing how you are making them. I was a bit lazy and used miniature piano hinges from a dolls house supplier on a couple of my models.

Steve Scott. A bit of a controversial character down the years apparently. Is the Uncertain T his one and only claim to fame? Not heard of any other rods credited to him like Barris or Roth. If so he appears to have acquired some sort of a deity status for making just the one car. Maybe Monogram's short lived production of the Uncerain T kit has given rise to all the discussions and speculation on here. It is interesting that the car has been rediscovered as it has developed a bit of a cult status. Despite all this hype Scott's creation at such an early age has to be admired. Not sure what it's present owner will do with the car, but hopefully will be sympathetically restored to original look. There are many other good show rods out there worth looking out that have been kit subjects.

Bill, that reminds me that I have a Pocher Mercedes kit complete and off bits from one of their Rolls Royce Kits that a chassis could be built from but would need to scratch build their own body work on it. They both need to go as I don't know what I am hanging on to them for. The only Pocher that I would really be interested in is their Bugatti to build.I Your mention of having a Pocher in your stash reminded me!

Nice model. The Avanti body styling looked quite futuristic back in the day.

Lovely Model Pierre.

Thanks for the feedback about the Revell Chrome Francois. I wondered how durable it would be when handled. Most chromes like Alclad AK etc all seem to me to be easy to damage with handling. The radiator cap you made has worked out very well.

The kit stash conundrum. When it needs to be disposed of. Half built or started kits..........mostly worthless to sell on. But could be donated to ex military veterans organisations to finish building them as therapy. Intact kits......worth something depending on age, condition, rarity etc. BUT, does whoever needs to clear all this stuff know how to dispose and capitalise on it? Traders will usually be interested in buying collections to sell on, and often the easiest way to dispose of complete stashes, but not the most profitable way to dispose of them. Sometimes we just get to a point where 'stuff' has to go, before lumbering someone else with having to do it eventually.

Once you have finished the radiator shell, will you be using the new Revell Chrome spray? If so, I would be very interested to know what you think of it. You certainly got some very good definition on the replacement badge you printed. You might even have a little marketing opportunity from builders of the Airfix kit wishing to correct their kit radiator shells either supplying just replacement badges or complete 3D printed radiator shells with the badge on the correct place. Looking forward to seeing the completely finished radiator assembly when fitted to your model.

The badge now looks so much better moved up into the new position Francois. I know it was extra work I was suggesting to move it, but would like to think that you will be happier with it and think it worth it yourself in the end.

The Fiat 500 will be a good re release. It would be good if someone were to make a 3D printed transkit to make the GAMINE version.

Someone in Australia did a resin kit of the Uncertain T. Not sure if developed from pictures or straight copies of the kit parts. Of course nowadays it would probably be easy to 3D print as it is so angular.

Best movie I ever saw that kept to the book was 'Day of the Jackal' written by Frederick Forsythe that was made in the 1960's starring English actor Edward Fox as the cold assassin. It was a superb film full of atmosphere about an assassination attempt on President De Gaulle in France and kept closely to the book. Far, far better than that abomination of a film 'Jackal' with Bruce Willis playing the lead that was very loosely based (and I mean very loosely) on a similar theme, different time, place and victim. Frederick Forsythe has written a number of really good novels. I read 'Cobra' recently about a clandestine operation being set up to destroy many of the world wide narcotics cartels together. A brilliant read that would make a really good techno thriller. If only Peter Jackman, Ridley Scott, or someone similar could pick this one up!

Depends on what you are buying kits for; If you buy the bare minimum of kits and actually built them then you are a purist builder. If the intention is to actually build them but it would be a lifetime impossibility due to the amassed kits outstripping your lifespan you are a builder/collector by default. If just collecting kits with no intention of building them but eyeing them up as a future investment when the kits become rare you are purely a collector. If just collecting models that are already built then you could be termed a cheque book modeller!

Good further progress being made on this model. I know that you may not be very keen to move the radiator badge, but it might be worth the trouble as it is a distinguishing feature on the car that draws the eye to it, and you have taken so much trouble to super detail just about everything else on the model. If you leave it, would you really be happy with it?

Tamiya never made a DB5. They would make a cracking good kit of it if they did. Matt Bacon's observations about the DB5 the other Aston Martin variants and the kits made interesting reading. Learnt quite a few things from that. The Airfix JB DB5 is 1/24th scale not 1/25th as I thought so I stand corrected!

As far as I can see, body wise the only obvious difference between a DB4 and a DB5 is the headlamp arrangement. Normal ones on the DB4 and recessed ones on the DB 5 with the clear shaped covers over them. The DB6 had a discreet boot (trunk) spoiler. Airfix did a DB6 shortly after doing their JB DB5. I think it was in 1/25th like their original JB car.

If anyone wants to make a stock DB5 it should not be too difficult to modify this kit with a bit of filling and rubbing down here and there. The protruding front revolving number plate holder on the bumper might be the most difficult thing to modify that I can see.

Very different!

Drill a hole through the foot and glue a piece of wire into it. You can hold the figure in a pin vice to rotate and position it. The wire in the figure's foot can then be used to secure the figure into a drilled hole in your display base.

From what I can remember the body was not a one piece moulding on that kit.

Nice wire wheels Francois. Very effective.

Look forward to following this one Louis.

Nice looking motor taking shape here.