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The epitome of 'Street is Neat' ! Tasteful rodding of a nice looking classic commercial. Nice body colour and understated goodies fitted.

Have you bought this as a complete kit Bruce? Should be an incredibly detailed showpiece model when built.

Francois. Thanks for coming back and explaining the difference between the Inventor and Fusion 360 3D CAD programs as they are both Autodesk products.

Lovely model and beautifully finished. It has taken its styling cues from Bugatti alright. Evident are hints of the Bugatti Atlantic body style and the Bugatti Royale styled wheels. I had thought about getting this kit and doing a retro Bugatti Atlantic from it. A change of grille and engine to start.

Inventor! Yes I have heard of it. I believe it is produced by Autodesk like Fusion. Autodesk seem to be pushing Fusion 360. Is it a successor to Inventor, or another product they still market?

Adding thin aluminium to skin your 3D printed 'ash wood' frame looks very realistic. Can you create normal 2D engineering line drawings in 3rd angle projection from your 3D cad designs of the frame? I would imagine that you can in Fusion 360? The things that you and Nick Edwards in North Wales are doing with that elderly kit are incredible!

Nice looking car. Interesting project. Heller have brought out some really unusual car subjects in 1/24th scale to delight over the years. Some are a bit challenging to say the least and have what I refer to as Hellerisms. One example is their Delage where there is join right across the top of the rear wings. Totally unnecessary if the kit had been designed a big differently, and a real pain to correct even by an experienced modeller. Looking at the box contents of Hanjo's Talbot T26 looks to me to be more conventional as a kit, and should build up into a very nice model of this attractively styled car. I will be following this build.

Thanks for the info about the PE wires Dave!

If you look at the other kits in their JB releases, they look like re pops of previously released kits to.me, but the new DB5 will be very welcome.

James, I did not mention anything about these wheels being resin cast in my post. It would be impossible I agree to cast scale wire wheels by the normal resin casting method. I have heard in conversations about 3D printing about a resin based filament being better than another plastic filament. As you do 3D printing yourself, you will be infinitely more knowledgeable about this than just and end user like me. From my perspective just as a model maker, if 3D printed wire wheels and tubular items are liable to collapse, I have to ask what is the point of buying and fitting them to a model? It's not as though a plastic kit in 1/25th or 1/24th is in any way particularly heavy like a white metal kit, a solid resin kerb side kit or a diecast model. Even though 3D printed wire wheels in this scale have spokes that are approximately 0.3 mm in diameter I would have thought that the complete wheel would be reasonably strong when cured. Also considering that the weight distribution from the model is distributed through four points each wheel only had to be strong enough to take a quarter of the weight of the model. Maybe simply making the spokes themselves slightly larger would not detract from their scale appearance but strengthen them considerably. Even 0.1 mm added to each spoke multiplied by the number of spokes around the circumference of each would increase the strength of each whee!.

I have a couple of the Airfix Bugztti 35B kits in 1/32nd scale. Actually quite nice kits from back in the day. Airfix did a weird thing though with that particular kit. It has a beautifully detailed firewall but no engine. It is as if they intended to make the kit with an engine but stopped short when developing the kit. At first I thought it was a sprue missing but the second kit was the same. With an engine it could really be a nice model.

Interesting to see if Revell follow on in this Bond series with the V8 Vantage from the Timothy Dalton Bond films?

Yikes Bob! 105 bucks for a kerbside plastic kit of a Z4 in 1/24th scale. That's about 85 Sterling over here. I may be keen, but not that keen! At least you won yours in a club raffle. Lol. Joking apart, you have made a very nice job of it!

Nice interesting model project. Incidentally. Who makes the Photo Etched Wire Wheels?

Emre, I don't think that Atin intends to cross kit any Ferrari bits into the Royale. It was shown as a compsrison to show the gargantuan size of the Bugatti. Yes it definitely is the car in the Henry Ford Museum. The Lindberg kit (it has also been issued by Revell I believe somewhere down the line) has been around since the 60's/70's. The car was originally black with a yellow body trim and edges to the wings. It was originally bought by a Dr. Fuchs and had coach work made and fitted by Weinberger of Munich. Dr. Fuchs left Nazi Germany and the car found it's way to the USA via Shanghai. It eventually ended up in New York and was left almost derelict in a dealer's yard after the engine block froze and cracked. It was almost on the point of being scrapped when Charles Chayne a motor industrialist found and saved the car. He had it restored to how it appears today at the Ford Museum. Besides changing the body colour and interior trim, he guilded the Lily a bit with non original wheel trims, and other additional exterior accessories. The Lindberg kit as mentioned depicts the car as it is today. Those wishing to return it to original will need to rob an Italeri Royale of its wheels. Looking the Gerald Wingrove plans, the kit appears to have a rear inboard quarter elliptic spring that was fitted directly under the chassis member missing on each side.

Wheel distortion by the weight of a 1/24th scale plastic kit? Well that does surprise me considering the total weight is displaced through four points, and a plastic model is quite light in weight. I could understand it if the wheels were fitted to a white metal or solid resin kerbside kit being that much heavier. Pete in an earlier post was considering having the wheels plated. Would this process lead to the spokes looking a bit heavy and defeat the object of their scale appearance due to the build up on each spoke? I would guess that Alclad 2 or AK Interactive chrome might be a better option. Just paint the tyres first, mask off and spray the wheels themselves afterwards should yield the result desired. I guess that Motobitz made them in the way they did as the tyres and wheels in the kit are too wide. Saw some of the Motobitz wheels at Telford last year. They really look good. And they make them in 1/32nd and 1/43rd scales too.

Pleased to hear that you could get and know that Italeri can supply that very small bore tube. Your CAD renders of the handbrake system make it very clear how it all operates. I like the way that you are upgrading that old kit both by embracing new 3D Cad and Printing along with good old fashioned hand work.

Further to my last posts, another regular series comes to mind. Cannot remember what the actual cars were, but used to watch the old Highway Patrol series starring Broderick Crawford. But I can remember the closing statement at the end of every episode, 'Remember, it's not the car that kills, it's the driver!' Not a sitcom, but with cars of of that era, like the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud (I think) that Gene Barry drove around in Burke's Law.

Single strand wire from electronics suppliers may be a substitute that could be used. I have a number of coloured single strand wires taken from a piece of old telephone cable that are very useful as another source.

Lovely model of a motor that looked quite unusual and futuristic in its day.

This Caprice Taxi is really taking shape well and will really look the business when finished. I have been modelling since way back over 50 years but would never have thought to use 'Silly Putty' material as a flexible masking medium. Just shows. You live and you learn! Since my last post I have learnt that Franklyn Mint did a Checker Cab in 1/24th and a Chinese company Sun Star did one in 1/18th scale. Both die cast models.

David. What a coincidence. My late brother in law's first car was a maroon 105E also. Knowing that your first car was an Anglia 105E, thinking about it, if you are looking to make a model of your own first car look to Harry Potter. I am pretty sure that I saw a nice little 1/24th scale die cast of the one featured in one of two of the films advertised somewhere. Looks like it is a standard car so should be very easy to make yours from I would imagine. The Potter one is light blue from what I can remember, so a respray and possibly getting it apart to change the interior trim colour if necessary should not be too difficult. Incidentally, Motobitz make old style UK number plate decals for cars of that era.

Nice model build David. Apart from being a tribute to your Dad, it is nice to see a model of what must have been Ford 's best selling UK built car from the 1960's, and in the larger scale of 1/16th.

Nice model taking shape. Remember riding in one when visiting NYC a few years back. This thread got me thinking, has anyone ever kitted one of the iconic Checker Cabs?

There was an Australian making resin kits of this car in 1/24th scale I believe a few years back. He might be able to help with either information or a kit you can scale up from? Not sure if he produced drawings to make this kit or simply made moulds from the old Monogram kit parts. I seem to think that I have seen a photo of a large scale model made by someone, somewhere. Possibly on this or some other forum. Maybe seek out a New Zealand Rod and Custom club who might be able to track down the builder of the full size replica is another thought. Must have worked to some sort of plans I would think.