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Almost there Francois! Great model making that you have been sharing with us. Nice to see your cooperation with Nick sharing 3D files as well. Two brilliant modellers working together. The jig you are making for doing engine turned patterns sounds very interesting and will be looking out for that.

Yoda. 'Patience to must have.' Joking apart David. Not an easy problem to overcome, but I am sure you will find a way !

Thanks Jeff, Carl and Dann

This is really coming together well. Old larger scale classics are quite appealing and a refreshing change from all the modern stuff.

Shetland is quite a ferry crossing from the Orkneys !

Bruce. The re spray of yours looks really good (and also appeared to be necessary). Looking at an earlier post of yours, as supplied the pre painted silver of the doors, hood and trunk looks way off and too light compared with the main body colour. I would have expected tighter quality control of the paint match of the parts considering the cost of these model kits.

Holy broken bones Batman ! Nice to see a model of the actual car that sired the Adam West Batmobile from the 1960's TV. This model is coming on well. It is always interesting to see American concept car models from that era.I I can remember building a 3 wheeled concept car model with a VW engine by Monogram way back and I think a Pontiac that Revell re released a few years ago.

Really interesting build taking shape here. Besides the two trans kits you are using, will you also be using any after market items from Model Motorcars who I believe also supply upgrade parts for the old Pocher kits?

Probably would not hurt to try the C1 powder. Will save you a lot of work I would imagine. If it doesn't work for you then it is still a useful thing to have in your finishing armoury. You need to follow your own instinct on what way to go forward. As the slats are straight another alternative may be to use Bare Meal Foil, but could be a bit fiddly to apply.

Thank you guys for your complimentary replies. Appreciated.

David, the other chrome powder I was trying to think of was by Usci Van Der Rosen. I think that's how it's spelt. I have seen them at Telford. They do wood grain decals too. ref C1's powder Emodels appears to have it in stock when I looked this morning. About £13.

That is disappointing. Have you tried C1 direct? I think that there is another similar metalliser powder out there that I am sure that I have seen advertised but cannot remember the name. Try a net trawl and see what pops up.

Try some C1 Polishing Powder on the radiator slats. Easily applied with a cotton wool bud. Just dip in the powder and tap off the excess from the bud. Then use it by drawing along each slat as though dry brushing.

What you see in the picture you posted Les are I think real full size cars ! All very arty whoever designed the display. But how is one expected to view an exhibit properly when it is 20 and 40 feet up on a wall shelf well above your head? I can see no elevated walkways in the picture to enable closer viewing. A museum design disaster. They should have built a complete upper floor so people can look around the exhibits properly. There is plenty of space for an upper floor as far as I can see. That's the problem when an arty architect is contracted who has not got a clue that visitors (especially enthusiasts) wish to look all around exhibits at the same level and up close. Gerald Wingrove' s models are of classics like the Blower Bentley, Bugatti Royale and Duesenberg SJ to name a few. If they were on display they would be in a dedicated display case I would think.

Hi Rich, I had the great pleasure of meeting Gerald Wingrove s number of times and visiting his first workshop. A genuine man who took great pleasure in showing and explaining about his work After he retired to Spain we exchanged emails now and again. He is sadly missed. He had a number of finished models and was working on a sectional model of The Falls of Clyde ship when he passed away. His models, finished and part finished were bequeathed to the Clyde Transport Museum in Glasgow. I don't know if his work has been placed on display or currently in storage.

Top notch detailing Louis. Your Bentley is an inspiration to those who would like to emulate what you have done on what is now quite an elderly kit. It just goes to show what can be done with that old Bentley using it as the basis for a highly detailed model.

I think that one of two books were published about Fred Dibnah about the time his TV series was aired. Not many like him any more !

That is a very nice model of Fred Dibnah's Land Rover Fabrizio. Surprised to learn that a TD5 engine is not made in 1/24th scale by any after market supplier. I watched a lot of Fred Dibnah's series on UK TV. He was well into running steam powered lorries, traction engines and road rollers He was a real character with a very dry sense of humour. Sadly missed.

Some years ago I acquired a Bandai Bugatti Royale kit in 1/16th scale. A fellow modeller I know said 'You can have this old kit if you think you can do something with it! It's a bit of a wreck as the body work has sustained bad damage in the box.' So I took it home and it languished for about 10 years under a bench in my workshop. Last year I was looking for a project that would be a bit different from the norm when I came across some photos of a chassis for Gerald Wingroves T41 in his book The Complete Car Modeller 2. Being a bit intrigued by this and having copies of his T41 drawings I thought that building just a chassis model might be a challenge being a little different and found some more pictures of his T41 chassis models on the internet. On looking at the kit parts, the chassis was very, very basic to say the least, but having said that I had to remember that most of it would be hidden when the kit bodywork was fitted. However, the basics were there so I knew that there would be a fair amount of scratch building a lot of detail that simply was not there. Upon examination of the Wingrove drawings I utilised as many of the kit parts as possible and added as much to my model from the drawings even though some compromises were in order.

Lovely little sports car model.

Fabrizio, I know you do not really want to use a trans kit, but I think that C1 Models sells a dimpled hood as a separate item made specifically to fit the Revell kit. I take it that the dimple in the hood you refer to is a recess to take a spare wheel? A bit of information for other Land Rover modellers, besides the normal Land Rover after market items, C1 makes 3 brilliant trans kits to make versions of the black Spectre Land Rovers.

Some of the haunting theme music from the Titanic film.

Looking at the pictures in Pierre's last post only goes to prove the gross stupidity of many on line sellers just sticking a kit into a plastic bag and sending it. Even worse I got a kit sent to me bought from Amazon and all they did was stick their delivery label straight onto the kit box and deliver it. Fortunately it arrived relatively unscathed. Guess the delivery driver might have been a fellow modeller? But it could have been a lot worse. Many of you think the US postal service sucks? The UK post office recently has had enough troubles of its own to contend with it late too.

Interesting builds. For anyone into Land Rovers there are 2 UK resin aftermarket makers of stuff for the Revell kit. C1 Models and Motobitz.

The Jorvik Museum in York has a detailed account of the incident !