Bugatti Fan

Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre Close your eyes to this and you can imagine yourself travelling through space. Having liked the original album from day one that had Richard Burton doing the narration, I watched Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War Of The Worlds roadshow on TV recently this time with with Liam Neeson narrating. Stunning! To anyone visiting London there is a War Of The Worlds Experience Centre well worth looking out! Also Convoy by C W McCall. Tune and lyrics good interspersed with the CB radio speak.

Likewise Acrylics over any enamels will blister eventually. The oil based enamels take ages (and I mean ages) to dry out thoroughly. Could be months to degauss out properly. Acrylic over the top of enamel is effectively placing an airtight plastic seal on the paint that is trying to leach out. Mind you, this phenomenon could be used to good effect in an abandoned car diorama for example.

Beautiful model. I just love models of old small commercials that look as though they have been around the block a bit!

1/24th scale is more widely popular generally world wide, so was 1/20th the odd scale mentioned?

White spirit is plenty good enough for brush cleaning. Cheap to buy in quantity at DIY and hardware stores.

You could try some Tamiya thinners to match the paint and see if that works. If it remains lumpy best to discard and replace.

Their Bugatti Royale is a 1/24th scale kit as was their Chrysler Atlantic kit. Both quite nice. Having not acquired any other Lindberg car kits, what was the odd scale they chose?

Lindberg's Bugatti Royale kit looks a reasonably good kit from in its day, having one that I have yet to build. The company started I think back on the 50's. I can remember when I was still at school saving up my pennies for their B17G bomber kit. Not sure what the scale was. Maybe 1/48th? Anyway it looked big to me at the time. Two of their sailing ship kits I can remember as being really nice were the French Frigate La Flore and their Wappen Von Hamburg. The same kits were marketed as 'pirate' ships when re issued down the years.

How about writing a book about Airbrush History Ishmael? I was under the impression that Paasche were the originators of the airbrush. Obviously not by reading your last post.

Management Speak, don't you just love it? Expressions like 'Blue sky thinking!' being used at meetings. I can understand that one if I were an airline pilot maybe. Other expressions I find annoying. 'Enjoy!........... Enjoy what? 'Missing you already!' when you leave a fast food joint and other crass meaningless expressions. Radio DJ's saying 'Love You' when someone phones in and the conversation ends and they don't know the caller from Adam.

Tooling floats from one manufacturer to another. Same kits appear under different labels. I am sure that Aoshima's MGB kit has been marketed under the Revell name for example, as did Lindberg's Bugatti Royale kit. Brands get either get absorbed into others or 'badge engineered' by a holding company who buy out the businesses, or simply reintroduced under a new brand name altogether like Atlantis or Polar Lights. The kit industry will always be in a state of flux. Even two of the biggest players, Airfix and Revell have been bought out numerous times over the years.

This just gets better to follow!

By the breakaway company in the States taking out a Trademark on the Alclad name looks to have really made life problematical for the originator UK company it would appear. Just goes to show there is no sentiment in business. A salutary wake up call to any business to trade mark their product name immediately to avoid hostile but legal practice.

That would explain things! Thanks for the feedback Jim and Dusty.

I tried stretching a hexagonal clear plastic Biro pen body once thinking of making scale nuts. It stretched ok but the plastic proved to be brittle to cut and just splintered. It was worth a try as an experiment. Maybe non clear hexagonal pen bodies plastic may work better. As shown by Steve and Russell, stretched sprue though has many uses. Plenty of it left over after our kit builds. Sprue has many uses. Round section with the outer mould seam removed and the ends drilled out can make good simulated tube loads for truck and pick-up models.

Not sure where Alclad originated whether it be the UK or USA. From what I understand there were two Alclads that I believed were the same trading company one on each side of the Atlantic. I heard somewhere that the US company was separate and copyrighted the Alclad name, and as a result the UK one had to change theirs to another. If this is correct, perhaps someone else posting on here might have an accurate answer to this and what the current status of the UK company is?

I enjoy seeing projects like this taking shape. Older commercial vehicles have quite a bit of character about them.

Very nice model. It is one of those kits that I aspire to, but now go for extremely high prices on ebay. If I could get hold of an abandoned build at reasonable cost for restoration might be the way for me!

Donato, that's a very nice Cord model you made. Pyro did an Auburn Speedster that would make a nice companion to it in 1/24th scale. Kurt, the Tom Mix Cord book looks interesting. Got the Author's name from your picture. Could you put some info on here about the publisher of the book and the ISBN number?

Lovely model and we'll presented.

So many different choices. That could be the root of the problem these days. As the market becomes more competitive some businesses will unfortunately and regrettably for their staff fall by the wayside. It is a question of market share enabling sustainability. Back in the 80's when Humbrol was the market leader in the UK a company named Gloy brought out a huge range of enamel paints as a direct competitor. Humbrol enamel paints were already firmly entrenched as the main supplier to model shops. As soon as Gloy came onto the scene Humbrol rapidly increased their ranges so Gloy could not get a foothold in their territory so to speak. Modellers had it great paint wise for about 2 years. As soon as Humbrol saw off Gloy's challenge, needless to say their ranges began to be reduced. Since then things have changed a lot with finishing products, and to quote a late UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from way back 'You never had it so good'.

Nice model now I could see the pictures. Internal lighting most effective.

Renwall Revivals Virgil Exner Bugatti is the one kit I have been seeking for a long while. Even a badly built, bits missing one would be OK for restoration. Would like to build it and let the Bugatti Trust Museum here in the UK have it for permanent display.

Hosting site problems probably. Cannot see them either. I think you can load pics directly onto this forum and 'cut out the middle man'.

Rumours and speculation can be very damaging. Dusty's comment appeared a bit dismissive. Yes there are plenty of replacements. But one has to remember that if any company ceases trading a number of people lose their livelihoods as a result. I sincerely hope that this is not the case with Alclad who have been around for a while and one of the pioneer companies in that field. Maybe Alclad should be contacted directly to confirm their current status?