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Francois, I think that besides the models, you and Nick could get a book printed of all your Bentley 3D renders!

The car the kit depicts I think is in either the Henry Ford Museum of the Cord, Auburn, Duesenberg museum. But the current Cream colour with Dark Green lining was not the car's original colour scheme. The car was originally Black with the lining done in Yellow when the body was fitted by the Weinberger Coachwork company in Munich. If anyone is contemplating making a model of the car as originally supplied the wheels will need to be changed by using a set from one of the Itsaleri kits plus other minor modifications.

Nice model from quite an elderly kit, and very well presented too. This Lindberg kit was also released by Revell some time ago it anyone is looking for this kit.

I was at work here in England when this tragedy unfolded on UK TV. Work stopped as we were trying to take in the enormity of the situation. About three years before the event I was a visitor to New York. I took some pictures of the 2 buildings through a glass arched canopy by the Hudson River. One of our national newspapers showed an aerial view of the site after the rubble was cleared. It was very poignant to me as the canopy where I took the pictures from was still standing.

A really lovely model Louis. One of the best builds I have seen of this model car kit. I have seen some others built up at shows and in 1/12 th scale it makes an awesome beast of a model!

Very nice to see some vintage Rollers being built and will be following this thread.

A good kit to cut n shut to make the Uncertain T now the Monogram one is long gone. Looks like the AMT kit has pretty much all the basics for such a conversion.

Nice model. I have been following the build. Like I said in the WIP, all it needs now is a figure of Josephine Jobert! DIP is quite good entertainment for a murder mystery series and the mindset of the detectives now they crack each case is good script writing and keeping the viewer guessing until the end of each case. Nice balance that keeps the series light hearted with the chatacters..

This model is coming along nicely. Looks like a nice kit to build. Back in the 70's my boss had a 911 Targa in that unusual shade of yellow. Anyone know that colour specification?

Another excellent model from the Tomasz classic car stable! I like the way in which the model was photographed too.

The body covering appears to be a bit of a dilemma still. There has been a number of suggestions on here, so it will be interesting to see what Francois finally does to replicate it.

Lovely model taking shape here. Reminds me of a British made car the Ford Corsair that must have taken some of the front end styling cues from the T bird.

Those were the days in the 50's 60's and 70's. BIG American cars with lots of chrome gilding the lily! Took the kids across the pond to do the usual Disney thing in Florida, and was a bit disappointed to see very few big old Yank Tanks on the roads and most cars seen were a bit smaller and more European in styling. I guess globalisation and standardisation in the car industry was moving on at a pace back then. However, the trucks did not disappoint, as I could get to see many well known names that were never sold in the UK

At the moment I would be looking for a hybrid rather than a fully electric car. At the moment the infrastructure for recharging EV's in the UK is a complete and utter mess! I am not sure whether our national grid will eventually cope with the demand being made on it without more nuclear power stations being commissioned. Despite the green lobby, the practicality is that wind turbines and solar panels at present just will not cope as our government in their infinite wisdom are chasing net zero atmospheric pollution. I do not disagree with what they are trying to achieve, far from it. It is the ridiculously short time scale they are trying to do it in. Unfortunately politicians are not engineers and scientists who take a more realistic view of the massive challenges involved. Too many EV's being churned out and not enough chargers country wide. We have many small houses in the UK that front straight onto the pavement (sidewalk) so home chargers with a cable trailing across a pedestrian walk way would be just downright dangerous.

Coming together really well.

I have a friend who gets to bed early every night. It's going home again in the small hours every night that messes him up!

After Mr Obsessive's experience still a bit wary of buying by the part series method. If I went for it I would certainly use a credit rather than a debit card as a safeguard to reclaim any money.

Loved watching the show. Brilliant model! Only one thing missing. A 1/24th scale figure of Josephine Jobert!

Nursery Rhyme Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. The little boy laughed to see such fun, and the dish ran away with the spoon! Was the writer of this on LSD of something?

Nursery Rhyme. Little Miss Muffet day on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey, when along came a spider who sat down beside her. So she trod on it!

I always thought the Wrath of Khan was a Star Trek Movie. Many outer London motorists will disagree due to ULEZ.

That old Studebaker had lovely bodywork and very European in style at the time on the chrome and find era. A lovely model with innovative use of two tone scheme.

Interesting subject build taking shape here. Being a Lancia made me think about the brand name not being sold in the UK for quite a number of yearx. One particular model of theirs got incredibly bad press as basically it had rust issues so bad that it was quoted in the motoring press as being like a vampire doused in holy water! Lancia I believe pulled out of UK sales because of the bar press it got. Since then I am sure that Lancia have upped their game and quality is as good as any other car today. I read somewhere that it did make it to the UK under the guise of being a Chrysler Ypsolon small car. Only few seemed to be sold though. Maybe someone could verify this?

This has the makings of being very impressive finished model. 1/12th is a nice scale to work in. What colour have you in mind to finish it in?

Proficiency in 3D CAD (computer aided design) is a must for projects like this as basically it is designing your own plastic kit, and the CNC (computer numerically controlled) 3D printing machine making them for you. 3D printing allows for hollows and undercuts to be made that are Impossible by normal methods to be done in one go. The drawback is the learning curve one has to go through to get proficient with any 3D CAD program. Naturally those who use it full time on industry have a flying start having got proficient and their company covering their initial training costs Strength will probably be a real trade off compared to an engineered scratch built model made by more traditional machining and hand skills in metal and wood etc.I Either method can produce really lovely models however. Just different skills needed!