Bugatti Fan

I seem to remember seeing this car as a permanent exhibit in the Science Museum in London. Nice model!

So often movies 'based' on novels fall short of the mark by deviating too much from the book. Jurassic Park was a good example of this having read the book 2 years before the movie came out. I can think of many more.

Being the only auto modeller in a room full of aeroplane modellers forever after going through the pearly gates.

Wheels are looking really good. No substitute for real wire being used to make the spokes for realism. 3D printing the rims comes into its own for producing locations for each spoke.

Back in the sixties all the big name groups did the big ballrooms over here in the UK and we could get up close to all our favourites. The Marquee Club in London was big at the time. We also had a pokey little coffee bar named The 2 I's in Soho, just off Picadilly Circus that was reckoned to be the birthplace of British rock n roll. The coffee bar has gone but there is a plaque on the building indicating where it was. Many well known British rock stars started there as 'Tin Pan Alley' where all the London music agents offices were was literally just around the corner. It was the place to be discovered, allegedly. Of course the other venue everyone knows about is the Cavern Club, sadly demolished to make way for a Liverpool Subway System. The current Cavern Club in Liverpool is actually a copy as the city realised it could have potential as a nostalgic tourist attraction. Have been to all three during their heyday back in the sixties and saw many performers just before they hit worldwide fame. My most memorable concert was seeing the Beatles live just as they were beginning to get big. There has always been a big Elvis Presley fan following over here in the UK. I felt that they were always badly let down as he never appeared live in the UK. In fact the only time he actually stepped onto British soil was when he was returning to the USA after his military service in Germany, and the plane he was travelling in stopped for an hour or two to refuel at Prestwick Airport in Scotland.

Those polished wooden boats...........Pure class!

A very nicely built period truck.

A really lovely model build of this old British sports car. For those who do not know, Louis a number of years back was awarded Overall IPMS UK National Champion for one of his fantastic wartime dioramas that are now on permanent display at the Malta Air Museum.

Those old Studebakers had very advanced styling back then. Dare I say more European looking considering it was built in the chrome and fins era. This Custom build looks interesting. Even built stock it would also look good.

There is a lot of satisfaction to be had from renovating a badly built kit. Progress looks good on this.

Thomas, there may be some kits out there, but possibly mainly in white metal and in 1/43rd scale. There were/are? quite a number of UK based cottage industries making 1/43rd scale kits. Try looking at Abingdon Classics as a start point.I There was a series of ready built die cast models, the Vanguards series that featured some of the more common UK cars from the sixties era.

Back in the 1960's Wolseley did not actually make convertibles. The picture depicts a car that would have been converted from a saloon by a specialist like Tickford. The car shown has been done really well by whoever converted it. The actual car shown was derived from a Wolseley saloon that was part of a series of badge engineered cars all based on the same Farina styled body. The basic saloons were the Austin Cambridge and Morris Oxford. There was also a Riley version and an MG Magnette version that were purportedly just a bit more sporty. The Wolseley was a bit more luxurious with walnut dash and leather interior. All four cylinder cars of about 1500 to 1600 cc. I actually owned a Wolseley 6/110 that was bigger car with a 3 litre straight six engine. Beautifully appointed with Burr Walnut dashboard and fully leather upholstered interior . My particular Wolseley was nicknamed the poor man's Rolls along with the similar bodied Vanden Plas 3 litre. Its lesser sibling was the Austin Westminster, again 6 cylinder 3 litre but with plain interior with vinyl seats. There was also a Vanden Plas Princess 4 litre R that was about at the same time. It had a Rolls Royce engine, and was designed at the outset to be a stand alone luxury motor with different body styling.

Nice models of a basic run about car instead of all the racers and exotic motors Chuck and Zack. Les Budge mentioned that it might ha ave been based on the Morris Marina. When the Marina was in production during the 70's British Motor Corporation and Leyland Motors became British Leyland. The new company for a while had two bosses, George Turnbull and Lord Stokes. Turnbull was approached by the Koreans to be involved in the setting up of car production in that country,and left the UK to take up the appointment. So the new Korean car possibly had a number of features taken from the Marina under Turnbull's influence. Airfix made a 1/32nd scale kit of the Marina Saloon car way back. Not sure if if the Airfix kit depicted the original Marina or the one that had the Ital restyling. The kits are a bit rare these days as I am not sure if Airfix ever reissued it.

Nice build summary Mark. I followed your Lola build that eventually may have contained some Tamiya parts. Lol.

A UK company named C1 Models make a resin MGB trans kit to convert the Aoshims kit into the coupe. It may possibly be the one you may have in mind. From all accounts it is very good and certainly looks good on their website. I am not aware of any one else making one.I The Aoshima MGB went out under the Revell banner too under licence for a while. They also make a Sebring MGC kit that looks really good. Matt Bacon has put his build of it on the Britmodeller website I think or possibly on here. It makes up into a really nice model going.by his build. They also have some really tasty Land Rover conversion stuff and the James Bond 'Spectre' Land Rovers. Saw one built up one at IPMS UK's Scale Modelworld show recently. Really impressive. On the BMC model front I think Pyro made a Triumph GT6 kit ages ago back in the 60's of 70's. Don't know if it was good, had of indifferent. Someone did a white metal Triumph Spitfire in 1/24th scale but maker unknown to me. There is a company named Abingdon Classics that make numerous British sports car kits in 1/43rd scale and a few odd kits in 1/24th scale. Another UK company South Eastern Finecast made 1/24th scale MGB kits that were fully detailed. A UK company named Squires has acquired the South Eastern Finecast and the Autokits ranges that are 1/24th scale white metal kits.

Inspired by Fabrizio's 1/24th scale model of Janis Joplin's Porsche 356C Cabrio, I thought that I would have a go at making a model of it from the Revell 1/16th scale kit. My model is hand painted using a combination of Artists Acrylics, Revell's own Aqua Colour paints and a set of 0.7 mm tipped Posca Acrylic Paint Pens over a white matt primer. A number of coats of Acrylic Clear Gloss was sprayed on to build up and level off the paint. I had to make and fit some chrome body trims and also scratch build the luggage rack. Dashboard was modified slightly to add another instrument as per the Joplin car. References were multiple pictures downloaded from various internet sites. My model being in a bigger scale, I thought it would be less of a strain on my eyes, and having finished it I have a much better appreciation of Fabrizio's incredible model painting skills as his model is very much smaller than mine. (And unlike me, he converted his from a coupe kit !!!) Hope you like the pictures of my particular efforts.

The choice of colour you made looks good on the car with the black hard top. Gives it quite a subtle more classy look than a bright colour. My personal preference would be to see chrome wire wheels fitted, but then I have always had a soft spot for wire wheels on sports cars anyway! The stock TR4 is a nice looking sports car in its own right and I prefer its looks over the MGB. (Reminds me I must look out for that old Airfix 1/32nd scale kit!) Not that I dislike the MGB (in its old chrome bumper form that is). Those MGB's were made to look hideous trying to conform to US regulations with the rubber bumpers and higher ground clearance.

'But will be interested to see what colour it will be when finished.' Thanks for the nudge. Must have had to save and break away from my previous post for some reason and forgot to get back and complete it.

Kurt. You could scratch build an engine block. As most of the visible detailing would be top end it shouldn't be too difficult to achieve. Have a go using some photographic references. Scratch building is not as daunting as it might at first seem, and an engine might be an ideal introduction to it. The worst you can do is waste a bit of plastic or wood, but probably it will work out alright and you will have developed some new found skills along the way and not be too dependant on after market stuff. If it goes a bit pear shaped, so what? It is only some of your time. I have done 3 scratch builds so far and sometimes I have had to remake stuff that went wrong but what I learnt from it is that it can be done with a bit of perseverance. Before attempting them I built, detailed and converted kits like most of us.

Gary. A Squib is an old fashioned British term for a loud banger firework. Should put the term Damp Squib into some sort of context for you.

Jim Drew's Bugatti. Was it converted from the Italeri kit? Looks really nice and produced a unique model as a result.

Incredible build almost coming to completion. Really been interesting to follow. Not much Airfix left in it I would guess judging by all the 3D printed work going into this model!

Lovely build of this classic front engined Ferrari especially with the extra detailing being added. Those older Italeri kits have good potential as can be seen on this build.

Your Gullwing really coming on well Bruce. Was it originally an Eagle Moss kit? Agora had a display/sales stand at IPMS UK Scale Modelworld Show at Telford UK in November. Got to look at a range of their models for real. The Bond DB5 was the centrepiece, but I really liked the AC Cobra that they had on display. Very impressive in 1/8th scale.

Bill, I guess that Quora question by whoever asked it was made in either ignorance or arrogance that you shared with us. Obviously you could see the irony in it so we could all have a good laugh at it. As Quora is a question and answer site it would be interesting to see how it was answered. Hopefully not by someone with the same level of ignorance!