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Gerald, the best way to deal with your co worker who tries to belittle you is next time they try it on ask that person ' Have you got an inferiority complex that makes you feel the need to belittle me as a result?' What they are doing is a form of bullying, and usually bullies are rank cowards and only pick on someone if they think they can get away with it. When faced off they generally back down.

Really nice classic Cord Anders. We all lose our modelling mojo now and again and generally come back to it. I also enjoyed looking at your Heller DS19 build a little while back. Monogram made a nice classic cars series back in the day. Besides the Cord I can remember a Duesenberg, Rolls Royce, Packard, Bugatti to name a few.

A very interesting model build.

Agreed Pete !

Nice model and upgrades to this Heller kit. Very impressive build. The old Merit one is nowhere near as good. It survived along with the Alfetta kit via SMER for ages, but think the moulds may have gone to Atlantis? However, I have seen both those old kits turned into very nice fully detailed models in the past, so the potential is there and they are relatively cheap kits to buy.

Looking better every time I check your thread Francois !

We live and learn all the time, and I have had a few disasters along the way in that learning process. I wish I had a pound or a dollar for each of my previous cock ups. It would buy me a Tamiya kit !

Steve, I think you missed the real point of my last post that was actually about the thread starting to become a little argumentative and stop it from getting a bit over heated. With regard to the term I used 'favourite adhesives' we all know what works for us individually. The OP has had a number of suggestions made on this thread that might prove useful from each of our own personal experiences.

I actually got to visit the Vasa museum in Stockholm a number of years ago. To see that preserved ship was a breath taking experience.

Another irk is overpaid celebrities and sports personalities often referred to as 'heroes' that are oh so full of their own self importance and would be utterly useless in a real crisis when the chips are down !

David. Using Acrylic based products over enamel might not be a good idea long term. Enamel takes ages to dry out thoroughly and although it looks and feels dry its solvent can still be leaching out into the atmosphere for a long time after you think it is dry. Acrylics effectively form a plastic airtight seal so there just might be a chance of blistering. This might be the cause of the curing problem you have been experiencing.

Guys, I can see how this conversation is going. We all have our favourite adhesives that we swear by for whatever reason. So please, it might be best at this point to just agree to differ ?

Irked by chrome paints not being resilient to handling. My holy grail would be a chrome spray on finish that goes off really hard !

The smaller Holloway House one is about £16 over here in the UK. I still have some Kleer left from ages ago and it was a lot less expensive. Even at £16 the Holloway House product is still a lot less expensive per milli litre than many dedicated modelling products that do the same thing Looking at the US Wal-Mart price, you Americans get it dead cheap to try out !

There are so many different adhesives out there. It is always a matter of selecting the right one for the job that you are happy witn. Most of us I guess will probably have a selection of different types at our disposal. Horses for courses as the saying goes !

The ship appearance with the long prow is similar to the Vasa in many respects so it must be from the same era. Nice model taking shape whatever the ship's name is. Working in wood is a totally different ball game in modelling, and quite challenging.

David, we all get build up around the top edge of a paint bottle or tinlet, so it is probably not generally a paint problem but how we clean and seal our paint bottles and tinlets after use that causes the problem. I am as guilty as anyone else at neglecting this aspect of paint use, so those filters would be a saviour as far as I am concerned.

Depends on how many identical ones you need to justify it Pete. RTV and all that is a bit pricey. If they all differ then using the plastic card would be more viable.

This is a very nice scale classic French car taking shape here. That Stingray body 1/25th scale instead of 1/24th being used as a comparison? It's just that it looks a bit too small compared to the 1/24th scale Talbot body so not really a proper scale comparison unfortunately. Heller have brought out a number of unusual classic car kits over the years that we should be pleased about. However, some of them have some quite quirky eccentric ways in which the kits were designed when it comes to building them. Their Delage kit for example has a joint right across the top of both the rear wheel arches. To me that is just bad kit design, and would be difficult enough for a very experienced modeller to rectify.

Neat little gizmo! Was unaware of this product. It will save lots of expensive paints getting thrown away and I will certainly be investing in some of these. So thanks for putting this thread up Greg.

If the die casts were toys rather than models then they were designed to be played with, hence the plastic that was used probably. We are modellers, right! Why not do some scratch building and copy those underside parts with plastic card instead. Thinking a bit laterally, it could be a neat way of solving this problem plus you can use the adhesives you already have!

What about Plastic Weld liquid cement by Plastruct? I find it a good all around adhesive for ABS, Polystyrene and Acrylics. I discovered it years ago when using some of the Plastruct ABS extrusions for industrial and architectural model makers that polystyrene adhesives would not work on. It is my 'go to' liquid cement for most of my modelling work. The plastic innards from die cast toys/models is usually a hard type of plastic that is less britt!e than polystyrene. Plastic Weld might be worth a try on it. The flexible polythene types of plastic as used for Tupperware tend to be resistant to any adhesives. I used to curse Airfix for moulding their figure sets in the stuff as they were just impossible to clean up mould lines from or cut up to adapt. As for painting, their flexibility made them pretty useless in that respect too.

Some of the newer digital cameras have a focus stacking firmware feature built in to the camera. So if anyone is in the market for a new camera this feature will be well worth looking for. Panasonic certainly has at least one camera with it, so I guess others might too.

Very nice build. The black finish looks good. Nice interior detailing too

You need to take this up with Mr.Hutchings the magazine owner Ryan