Bugatti Fan

Magazines have moved on with the advent of digital photography enabling them to be more graphic than back in the old days when photography was film based, limiting the amount of pictures that could be submitted. Also, the hobby has moved on with a plethora of after market and finishing products an the advent of highly detailed kits like MFH manufsctures.

Probably right Dave. It might not be worth the effort in the long term for little return. Ref the museum and copyright issues if it tried to make old scanned available. Could be a problem if selling them, but would this apply if it were an accessible free to use resource? Cannot see it being a problem if they are simply scanning them to archive as many of those old magazines were printed on newspaper and deteriorating as the years go by and eventually will be lost. Many of the old magazines and the companies that published them don't exist any more so not sure if copyright infringement would still apply unless the titles were bought out years ago and filed for future use by unknown parties.

Hope to can locate what you are looking for as it's a bit of a long shot. You may have to resort to an alternative kit. Revell's looks to be the most easily available, but the roof line looks a bit odd on their coupe version. Heller and Gunze come to mind as two others. I think that the Gunze one was marketed for a time under the Airfix label. I don't think that Tamiya ever kitted the E Type, more's the pity, and surprised that they never did ! SMTS did a roadster in 1/24th as a ?limited run white metal kit that is quite comp!ex.

Most die casts I come across appear to be in 1/43rd, 1/24th or 1/18th scale. Are there any 1/12th scale die casts around and who makes them? The only one I came across a number of years back was a Ferrari 250 by Revell.

Don't get many sudden departures like this one part way through a thread. None of the responses to Kacj's posts looked to be negative and her land cruiser was taking shape well. Cannot understand why she has suddenly decided to leave. Pity to lose her from the forum, and hopefully she will be back.

It would be nice if all the old issues were digitised and down loadable. Mammoth task I would imagine, but maybe someone out there who has magazines from the first issue might have done so? Scale Auto from what I can remember offered all their back issues from issue 1 on CD Rom to buy ? I think perhaps the International Model Car Builders Museum in Sandy Utah is in the process of collating and digitizing complete sets of all the older car modelling magazines.

Nice model of an unusual subject from an often neglected era model wiser.

A Bugatti EB 110. I was hallucinating !

Not a lot !

Not a lot!

I have loads of them having worked for a PCB manufacturer in the pasf. They take quite a bit of getting used to because of their brittleness when used by model makers free hsnd or in a pin vice. They were designed to be used vertically to drill into very abrasive maferial, hence being made from tungsten carbide.

Looks interesting to have a bit of fun with this kit. I have seen Jay Leno's zero engined Bentley on tv.

Remember though it using PCB board drill bits that they are made from tungsten carbide and the slightest side pressure can break them.

I think that all this really comes down to personal preference influenced by how easy or difficult one finds either a single action or double action airbrush in use. Many of us will have a bias one way or the other, whilst others get on with both types. There is no right or wrong in the choice of airbrush provided the right choice is made considering its main use. Those who have double action airbrushes with a back stop fitted as well probably find it a useful feature for limiting paint flow.

Not seen this Pyro kit in a long while. Airfix also did one in 1/32nd scale too and must have been one of their very earliest kits from around the late 50's.

I'm trying to get my head around this build going by the engine swap. Is is some sort of custom being built?

Is Vancouver your home city Dan? Very impressed with it. Nice city in a beautiful location. Visited a few years back to do a Rockies coach tour that did a large loop taking in Jasper and Banff that took in the inland passage on the ferry to Vancouver Island and down to Victoria, another very impressive city.

'Looks like there's a storm coming.' Quote....Old man at filling station in closing scene of the Terminator.

It might be easier for you to simply change the title Don

Hi Alan. I live in the UK. Please send a PM with your email address. I do have a number of kit parts left over that you would be more than welcome to have.

Lovely build from that very old Pyro kit. Their table top classics was a nice range of kits made back in the 60's I think.

Nice to see those old Pyro classics being built to this standard. Interesting thread to follow.

Er? What happened to the Ford Tudor?

As far as fine airbrushes go I have a very old Badger 100 XF that I bought back in the 70's. It is quite well worn as the separate side cup now fits loosely into the hole in the shell. It has been a lovely little airbrush to use but not sure if spares are still available as it is such an old instrument now, or whether it would be worth shipping to Badger from the UK for a complete refurbishment and seeing if Badger has compatible spares to convert it to gravity feed. I would be very interesting to find out if any one else on here has done it. In the meantime I am seriously contemplating buying a Harder and Steenbeck gravity feed airbrush. There was a trader named Little Tools who used to do the shows in the UK who had some on demo to try out. I was very impressed at the quality of those airbrushes and how they felt in use when I tried them out. So I can imagine that Trevor is more than happy with his H&S.

Each to their own with regard to buying ready made small detailing parts to use or making them your self. Some regard making things yourself as 'cheap'. I personally disagree with that sentiment as making things your self is more challenging than buying off the shelf accessories, and some builders like to push their own boundaries by making rather than buying things designed and made by someone else. However, I have no axe to grind with whatever the individual decides to use on their models whether bought out or self made items. If either looks right it really matters not one jot as both approaches are just a means to an end. As far as contests go, I have yet to see a judge using a microscope to differentiate home made from bought out detail parts.