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This build is really getting busy now.

Thanks for the feedback guys. These things always look too good to be true. There was another indoor aerial device that was supposed to do the same over here in the UK. Apparently they were saying in their advert that all the streaming channels have to broadcast on air in the UK on a frequency or wavelength that is little known about by Joe public. According to the advertiser it is perfectly legal to watch in this way of you can access that frequency. Personally I do not believe any of it, and think it also sounds a bit hard to believe. The advertiser said that they pitched this device to four entrepreneurs on a UK tv programme named Dragons Den, who were very keen to invest in the company when they saw it. I did not see the programme but I guess that some UK readers of this forum might have and can remember it. Actually there is so much free to view stuff on TV in the UK that I find no reason to access any of the pay to view channels. Netflix and Disney are the only two that I could be tempted to as their monthly cost is reasonable. I do think that the sports pay to view channels are overly expensive!

Looks spot on as a replica, apart from those disc brakes already mentioned. Reminds me of the old Monogram kit I built many years ago.

Could be right Gary. We will see. In the meantime I will be interested in any other replies to this topic.

Saw an internet advertisement for the Evolution TV streaming device that it is claimed can access ALL streaming channels legally and for free. Apparently all you have to do is plug it into a USB port in the back of the TV, let it connect and away you go. Sounds really good, but is it? The device is priced in US dollars so possibly not available yet in the UK. Have any of you guys bought one and using it? Does it do all that is claimed, and simple to set up by just plugging it in? Opinions and user experiences please. Good device or just a con?

Phones I guess have their limitations but many allow quite close up photography. I try to compose an image at the taking stage to avoid cropping if I can. Phones with cameras these days are pretty good for taking pictures and very tempting because of their convenience and being a multi role device that you can stick in your pocket. My personal preference at shows is a prosumer compact camera as it gives me much more control at the taking stage and good quality images. Another thing about the camera is that it can be set for high of low resolution pictures. Low resolution is probably adequate to upload onto social media sites, but high resolution is the way to go for printing photos or for magazine publication. Very good prosumer cameras can be got for very reasonable prices second hand that are four of five years old and we'll worth a look.

Going off piste a bit here, but was there an organisation named the International Association of Automotive Modellers that I think was around in the 60's of 70's. Did they have a journal/newsletter? And what happened to them?

Alclad is like that, along with other 'plating' spray paints. Try Alclad's acrylic clear sealer on it after it has dried.

Hi Andrew I checked out that link. Rod and Ian's Lotus Cortina kit looks pretty good shape wise. Funnily enough I have bought that Esci/ Italeri Escort Rally car as a bits donor for my mark 2. My Mk 2 is a long way off even being started yet as I have a couple of other big projects on the go at present. Will be visiting Motobitz stand at Telford to order a set of wheels to store with it for now. Noel

Show rods are always intriguing by their concepts in design. This one looks really interesting to follow. It is a car so could have been placed in the normal auto WIP column.

Developing into a nice model of this good looking period Ferrari with your additional work Justin. Will you be replacing the kit wire wheels too?

Model Car Journal........Not heard of that one. When was it published? Was aware of the Model Car Science magazine that I think was published back in the 60's? Maybe some trans Atlantic old timers in the US could give us the low down on them and any other American Auto modelling magazines of the past. Scale Auto's demise is well known about, but what happened to Model Car Builder? I heard that Roy Sorenson just decided to call it a day and close the magazine. Ertl used to mail out a small news sheet called the Blueprinter every so often that I can remember.

Nice pair of Airfix oldies Matt. The figures reflect the 70's as you would expect from kits of that era. The Buggy driver's hairstyle moustache and neckerchief really look 'in period'.

As EMRE suggested, the Burago die cast has much to offer that does not stop at the interior. You could utilise the full underpinnings like chassis, floorpan, engine and wheels etc. Plus, all those parts are plastic, so should be easier to rework.

Andrew, is your Lotus Cortina kit the mark one made by Rod and Ian Knott from the Motor Museum in Miniature, or the one made in South Africa a number of years ago? Don't know the South African manufacturer's name unfortunately. Would like your opinion of your kit. I bought a Mk 2 Lotus Cortina body shell last year at IPMS UK SMW Telford, and would guess that the wheels Matt Bacon suggested would be good for that too, as I will be making a model of a car I once owned. Would need some hub caps to go with them. Now I have a Motobitz ref no for the wheels I can visit their stand at Telford this year and order a set and some hubcaps too.

My first cars did not have seat belts, but must admit feeling safer in later cars I had with belts fitted. From the outset UK seatbelts fitted across the lap and diagonally across the chest, even the pre inertia ones. I could never understand just lap belts being fitted and being expected to save anyone. Agreed they stopped one from being thrown through a windscreen, but not from being killed smacking your head against a steering wheel or metal dashboard back in the day. Oh well! The risk averse society we live in today makes me wonder how anything ever gets done!

Nice model! Looks a bit like a car from either the Munsters of the Addams Family.

Thanks for adding the Sand Draggin to my list Ken. I had a fee!ing that there was another kit. I seem to remember that Eldon's slogan was 'Just for the fun of it'. Also, weren't those kits re released under another maker's name a few years back?

Those old Indy front engined roadsters have been quite under represented in kit form down the years.

Very nice model. I can remember that nice little Eldon range. Besides the Invader... The Milk Truck, Bath Tub Buggy, Outhouse, Pink Panthermobile are the others I can remember.

Delightful model Louis. I have been following your Rolls Royce build too!

Very nice build. Fascinating following your techniques on this model Pierre.

A lot of those old companies like you say Pete have long gone. But those that still do exist probably have websites so easy to find on the web anyway just by searching with their company name. Mind you, looking at those old ads can be a real trip down memory lane for many of us 'old timers' in the hobby. Looking back does make one appreciate all the goodies that we take for granted that would have been pipe dreams back in the day!

Dave, thanks for the response and the very salient points you have made.I have many issues of Scale Models magazine that started in the late 60's. There has been a shift I agree as many folk can look up products on line these days, hence the drop off in magazine advertising. Also, letters to the editor has been replaced by on on line forums like this one. But the biggest shift magazine wise that I have noticed down the years is that many magazines tend to have gone more pictorial with less 'in depth' explanatory text generally. To a large part due to digital imaging taking over from the limitations of film photography both in cost to the modeller writing the article in the first place, and the publisher having to reproduce pictures from prints, slides or negatives. High resolution pictures can simply be sent on line and used directly in the page composition. There is that old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, but is it? If many of the captions are too brief something gets lost along the way in technique explanation. Dan brought up about needing the setting up of links to advertisers, zooming content and so on that would make it a bigger job than it needs to be. All I would want is just to be able to read the pages from back issues. For example, if you can read an advert, then anyone can go on line to follow it up. Why go to the trouble of making the thing top heavy by trying to be too sophisticated with totally unnecessary ad ons?

The Mekon. Most Americans and many younger generation Brits would not know of this character. To explain, the Mekon was the leader of the Treens, adversaries of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future that was a comic strip that featured in The Eagle, a very popular UK boys comic back in the Fifties. British modellers of a certain age would be likely to have fond memories of that comic. One of its features each week that I really looked forward to was a superb cutaway drawing of a different subject across the top half of the middle pages.