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A wish rather than an announcement. I would like to see the definitive E Type kit in plastic. 1/12th scale and of course by Tamiya ! The only thing that surprises me is that they have note done one already, even in 1/24th.

That will be the day when someone actually makes the 'Holy Grail' for car modellers. Realistic chrome paint that can be airbrushed and go off dry as hard as nails. No one has achieved it so far, and wonder if it will ever happen. It's a pain in the butt having to handle sprayed chromes with kid gloves after they have dried.

There is a book named How to Make Scale Models in Brass published by Schiffer. HTH

Good progress Justin. Those 3D printed wheels really improve the appearance. I noticed the the rear wheels appear to be wider than the fronts. Unusual for a road car of that era.

Alberto mentioned that this product does not need a base coat gloss black like others, thus saving the cost of the base coat. I would probably use a gloss black base cost with it anyway, and guess that many others might too. It was also mentioned by another poster that companies like to keep their costs down, so only producing this stuff in aerosol form has got to be much more expensive than producing it in bottled form? Someone else mentioned that it can be decanted to use in an airbrush. Yes of course it can. But how inconvenient having to go through the faff of doing this. Lastly, is the Revell Chrome more durable when handled compared to other 'chrome' finishes ? If not I cannot see any advantage in using it.

Heard it is good but costs an arm and a leg. Will they produce this stuff for airbrush use I wonder ? The aerosol creates a lot of wasted overspray I would imagine !

That Mitre cutter of Joe's looks like a very neat tool for cropping flat wood and plastic strip and quite adaptable with the angular adjustment. I agree with Pete's comments about usage though. A saw would be better on materials with a thicker cross section.

Nice model taking shape. Those old Studes are clean looking motors.

Sacrilege ! Shocking ! Disrespectful ! Irreverent build of that classic Cord ! Having said all that, doesn't it look fantastic though. !!!! Brilliant conceptual build ! Will look great when finished.

Apart from a Ford logo an oval tank might not be too difficult to scratch build. In 1/8th scale you may be able to use a piece of small plastic drain pipe cut to length and compress it to the oval shape required. A small length of square or rectangular wood moulding could be used as an insert to compress the plastic tube to and form the shape. Drill a couple of very small counter sunk holes to take small wood screws top and bottom so the screw heads are below the surface and when screwed to the wooden insert use some filler to make good the surface. Or place the screw holes where the two bands are shown in the photo Ace put up placing the bands on afterwards to hide the screw heads.

Welcome Richard, I think this post needs to be in Car Kits News And Reviews as it is new product information and will get more views in there probably. It might also be an idea also to set up a link?

Really nice model. I can remember watching The Persuaders way back on UK TV. The casting of Tony Curtis and Roger Moore as the two main characters was masterful. Curtis playing the self made millionaire ex US Navy guy and Roger Moore as the quintessential English aristocrat Lord Brett Sinclair. I found it quite funny when Curtis kept referring to Moore sarcastically as 'My Liege' in the series! Cannot remember what car Roger Moore drove in the series though.

Ditto all previous comments ! Superb model !

Nice project. That Alfa was a splendid little car back in its day. Lovely body style. Just right with no fussy details. Got to drive one when current all those years ago. Quite an experience!

Should be a very interesting semi scratching to follow. Nice looking car.

Local Hobby Shops come and go. Currently more going than coming unfortunately due to on line shopping. The family run hobby shop numbers world wide are slowly declining unfortunately. I used to enjoy my Saturday afternoon trip to my LHS that was a sort of informal meeting place for like minded folk as well as buying our kits and bits. But like Dave said, maintaining a current list on this forum would be problematical as it not only needs someone to physically enter and delete information, but would rely entirely on feedback from all over the place. Would I think to inform this forum if a local hobby shop closed, moved or opened? Probably not like most others when it happens. Personally, I feel that a list would quickly become unviable as this particular area would be so changeable given a feedback reliance.

Good to hear ! Scale Motorsports stuff has always been of good quality. Hope they come over and do Telford like the old company. Let's hope someone like Matt also revives Motobitz on this side of the pond too!

Good suggestions already made. Another avenue might be look at plated wheels on toy cars that might be suitable.

I guess you like this Alfa Helmut ! Joking apart, this is an interesting project and a little bit different to the norm. Nice model(s) taking shape here.

Olfa products are designed primarily for artwork cutting rather than model making. Tamiya might well have the tool and blades marketed under licence using their own brand name as a model making tool. If your blade handle or blade is marked Olfa I suggest that you look towards art suppliers where you might have better luck finding an identical replacement. Alternatively, why not contact Olfa directly to find out if that blade is actually discontinued. It may not be, and could be that just Tamiya have stopped marketing it under licence. if all this fails there are plenty of alternative blades and handles on the market. It's not as though they are expensive being such a basic tool.

Said it in your last line Harry. ref Quality. You only get what you pay for. Don't know why anyone would cheapskate on blades when buying, as good quality blades are relatively inexpensive anyway, especially if bought in larger pack sizes.

A good idea from Greg to enable the slots to be narrowed for 90 degree cuts. I have a similar mitre box and will use this idea with a twist. Instead of cutting narrow strips to fit into the grooves in the base I will be cutting some pieces of MDF or Plywood to fit between the outer parts of the mitre box making a flat sacrificial base within.

Thanks for that info Matt. Would be interesting to see what happens to their product in the future, if anything does.

Don't know why the business closed Pete. No explanation was given on the closure notice that I read. But I did hear something about a year ago about them losing their principal designer who made their moulds. Whether it was true or just conjecture at the time is anyone's guess, but maybe there was something in it? Who knows? I went onto their site to look at their wire wheels oddly enough to buy some Jag wheels like yourself when I discovered that they had closed. Like I said, hopefully someone will buy out the tooling, 3D files and so forth and start producing from them again.

Real shame that the ship will end up as a sunken wreck to make an artificial reef. America has enough billionaires to have rescued this ship and made it into a museum ship and hotel like the Queen Mary. Even more so as the ship is American built and bears the name of the United States.