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That's a pity that the C1 polishing powder is discontinued as it really is good stuff. It was sold in a generous sized tub so mine will last for ages stlll. Perhaps they were simply not selling enough of it to keep it in production. It came in a box with a lint mask, latex gloves, little swab applicators and polishing pads. I don't know if the American product S&I Aluminium polishing powder is still available or not that is used in a similar fashion.

Really nice model taking shape there Andrew. Those old Barchettas are very attractive looking cars. I think that quite a number of years back Marshall Buck of CMA (Creative Miniature Associates) made a resin kit in a larger scale of either 1/16th or 1/12th scale. I went to a model car trade show that was held at the National Motorcycle Museum at Birmingham over here in the UK that must have been about 25 years ago. CMA had some products in a display and their Barchetta model was then current.

This will be one fantastic build, and the Tamiya kit has to be the very best starting point.

Ads can be irritating I know, but if they are funding this forum then I am prepared to let them be. If every user decided to use an ad blocker then where would we be? On pay to use forums that's where! A UK forum named Scale Models Forum used to be free to post and reply on. Not any more. Their newly introduced annual fee is reasonable at £10 per annum. But if every model making forum went over to pay to use, then the users will be forced to make choices about what ones are really important to them. If this were to happen there would be many forums that would fall by the wayside. So yes, I am prepared to put up with the adverts if it means keeping forums like this one solvent. Incidentally, on many other forums you cannot upload pictures directly as you can on this one without having to use a third party hosting site. We all know about the Tinypics and Photobucket debacles in the past.

Chad. Look up C1 Models website. It is a UK based company where the product will be expained. Also look in the thread in this forum 'Let's see some scratch built things. The bodywork on my Napier Railton in there was done with it. Besides the polishing powder C1 has a very nice range of resin trsnskits. The James Bond Spectre Land Rover transkits for the Revell kit look quite tasty!

Nice to restore something that did so well in competition in your formative years. I can remember those pulp paper magazines of old from the very few I got to see over here in England at the time. I expect that the Model Car Builders Museum is scanning what they have of them for future generations to refer to.

Very nice Daytona, and very well built from quite a complex kit. You get quite a lot in those Fujimi Enthusiast kit boxes if the Daytona Coupe I have yet to build is anything to go by. This model looks good in that black finish.

The debate about clear coating chrome. Any oil based clear will yellow after a time, but not so sure about acrylics. Trying to seal chromes similar to Alclad have ended in disaster for me so I do not use them any more. My C1 polishing powder applied to gloss black and buffed to a shine is the most durable chrome finish with regard to handling that I have used so far without a seal applied.

Now where were we? Oh yes. Rustoleum.

Thanks for the feedback Joe. That Alsa Chrome looks absolutely brilliant but at $169 for a 6oz a tad expensive.

Pick a tool up. Use it and lose it under all the other stuff you are working on. Frustrating when you have to search for it under all the other stuff scattered on the bench when needed a second time around! Sound familiar?I I have to tidy up my work bench after each daily session for the sake of my own sanity and cannot just leave it in a mess!

But, maybe that's what he likes doing if he has started other threads and not responded himself in any of them. Just looks in to see the responses. A forum voyeur perhaps?

Joe. Alsa Easy Chrome. Not heard of or seen that one over here in the UK. Is it an aerosol or bottled product aimed at the modelling or DIY craft market? Your comment about the video is true about many videos where the presenter just waffles on instead of cutting to the chase! They say very little but talk a lot on many I have watched. The opening the box ones are the worst in this respect.

That's interesting Tom. Many chemicals that were used daily way back turned out pretty evil stuff to be using without precautions. Read somewhere that blackened burnt toast is carcinogenic too!

I believe that Rod and Ian Knott who used to do the shows in the UK with their Motoring Museum In Miniature made resin kits of the Mk1 Lotus Cortina in 1/24th scale. Look on their museum website. A number of years ago peviously there was also a resin kit of South African origin of the Mk1.. I came across a 3D printed body kit for a Mk2 recently so at long last I can build a model of a car that I actually owned back in the 1970's. Body shape is similar to the very popular 1600E of the time.

Joe mentioned Magisculpt a very good product very popular with figure modellers. Some time ago there was an article that I read about dissolving sprue in CTC (Carbon Tetrachloride) to make a gloopy solution that could be sculpted onto figures. CTC is a liquid chemical that was used in those little refillable brass pump action fire extinguishers mostly fitted in commercial vehicles.

Both very nice. Reminds me of when I was a fire extinguisher service engineer back in the 60's with a Mini Van. A very basic vehicle to say the least. Slide back door windows and a cord pull to undo the doors from the inside. I might model my old van someday.

If you managed to locate new decals, why settle for an old paint job where the white has yellowed?

Nice wheel sets of very high quality. Does this maker sell direct or only via Ebay?

Apparently the chase lasted for about 2 hours. Why don't they do what Michael Caine does with the paps? Stop to allow them to take a!l the pictures they want provided they leave them alone afterwards. Maybe that's too easy?

Mathematical joke. In a village in deepest Africa there were three pregnant wives. One gave birth to a baby son laid on an antelope hide. The second gave birth to a baby son laid on a giraffe hide. The third gave birth to twin sons laid on a hippopotamus hide. Which goes to prove that the sum of the sons on the hippopotamus equals the sum of the sons on the other two hides!

Engineering Joke The Optimist said 'My glass is half full.' The Pessimist said 'My glass is half empty.' The Engineer said 'My glass is twice the size it needs to be.'

Is it me, or are more people now being too easily offended when none is intended and becoming way over sensitive?

Holy broken bones! So that's what it looked like before becoming the Batmobile! Nice model.

Some older kits may leave a bit to be desired, but sometimes the only game in town. And new kits will be welcomed by some and not by others. There is an old saying.. 'You can please some of the people some of the time, but you cannot please all the people all of the time!'