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Maybe Matija Vasic can throw some light on this. From what I understand, the Yugo factory was bombed during the unrest in the former Yugoslavia (before the country was split up into different smaller nations) very shortly after its latest car model went into production. That effectively was the end of Yugo car production as far as I know. The revival of the Yugo name with the announcement of a new car is interesting. Was the original factory rebuilt or production moved (moving) to somewhere else? What market will they be pursuing? The bottom end like the old cars were aimed at, or going upwards at mid priced cars like the Ford Focus for example. My next door neighbour's son had one of the old style Yugo cars as his first set of wheels. Got rid of it asap claiming it was a pile of cheap garbage!

Nice build, and a bit different.

Certainly worth the effort of re pairng it Rich. Nice build.

Scale Auto was quite a good magazine until it's demise. Model Cars Magazine seemed to be a bit more stable when being produced by Golden Bell publishers. As it is a commercial magazine, not a club information print run maybe it now needs the strength of an established publisher to take it on. Who knows? Model Car Builder, again a good magazine but closed when the owner editor decided to retire and shut up shop. The new Auto Modeler Magazine is finding its feet right now, so it will be interesting to see how it turns out long term.

Jaguars as they always seem to get used by the bad guys ! LOL

Thanks for that link Thomas. I took another look at your model. It is really impressive !

Beautiful model Pierre.

Competent conversion. Looks really good. Will have to have another look at the FP Modelos website. Didn't know he did 1/12th scale transkits as well as his 1/24th scale kits. Well I'm confused. I looked on the FPP Website and could not find this trans kit being shown on it It obviously exists as Thomas shows the box for it in his original post and has done the kit conversion. So how did Thomas find out about the trans kit originally?

The most beautiful post war Alfa Romeo racing car. Will be following this MFH build with intetest. This will be a cracking good model when finished. Come on Italeri or Tamiya. Make for the majority of us an affordable one in 1/12 scale !!! Lol.

Who said Sacrilege ? Oh ! It's only a plastic kit after all ! But why no blown V8 up front ? Only joking ! Nice bit of fun modelling !

I don't know how I missed commenting on this build back in April 2024 Paddy ! My apologies ! So, belatedly, a beautifully built model. Very realistic looking wear and tear and on a very well presented scenic base.

Really interesting model taking shape here from what few pictures I could actually see on my tablet Unfortunately I discovered this thread quite a number of years on and could not open many of the pictures put in the earlier posts about this build on my tablet. Just put up the tiny picture symbol in the middle of a black rectangle. Looking at what pictures I could see indicates a really good eye for detail being carried over into this particular model.

You have chosen a good hobby to get involved with Mike.I Plenty of like minded folk on here willing to help wherever we can.

Rod Stewart has moved all his model railway layout back to England from the USA fairly recently. I read that many of the individual layout models were built by Rod in various hotel rooms whilst on tour instead of going out on the town. There is a model railway club in the UK where some yobs broke into their building and trashed their model railway layout. Rod got to hear about it and gave them a very generous donation towards getting it back together.

The video about epoxy adhesives relative strengths was very interesting viewing. However, for the sort of applications that most of us would be making on mainly static scale models I would guess that the strength of all the different epoxy adhesives shown would be far more than adequate for our needs. The bond really just comes down to the preparation. Making sure surfaces to be joined are clean, unpainted and the surface keyed to take the adhesive. An exception to the unpainted rule would be for the placement of small photo etched badges and logos etc. I have used many different brands of epoxy adhesives on my models going back many years including both big name brands and store name brands and never had any problems with either. Like I said before, 'It's all in the preparation'.

Dave. Thanks for the heads up about ownership of the forum. Sorry to hear that Greg's back injuries from a few years back are worsening now and still causing him serious health issues. Hope that he eventually recovers from all this pain and discomfort he has to bear. Harry Pristovnik's passing was a very sad loss as I can remember our personal emails shortly before he died. He sent me a copy of the book he self published 'The Evolution of the Automobile in Scale'. His print layout skills were just brilliant. I have a copy of Cranky's book 'Rats Rods n Rust' where the complete book layout was all Harry's work.

Wasn't aware of that James. Thanks for the heads up. Stumbled across the You Tube videos whilst off forum so will take a look.

I was under the impression that the forum was Dave Ambrose's baby as he appears to be the main man on here.

A number of Youtube videos are already up about this trade show.

The Unimat SL is the original machine they made way back in the early 70's that Aaron put the picture in his post of. And it could be utilised for other jobs with the appropriate accessories. In its own way quite unique using round bars instead of a cast bed. The Unimat 1 also pictured is similar to the one I own. I also have a Unimat 4 miniature lathe that is very different from the old original SL that is more like a proper engineering lathe with a machined cast iron bed to take the head and tailstock. Again adaptable with optional accessories albeit now quite expensive. The Unimat 4 was the last of the line of their miniature lathes having been discontinued some years back. The nearest thing to the later miniature Unimats 3 and 4 is the US made Sherline that is an excellent well built machine that is adaptable with optional accessories as the Unimats were back in the day I also have a Unimat 1 set that I bought a few years previously to the Unimat 4. It has its limitations, but is a very useful little modular unit. Plastics and wood are easily machined on it. It can turn soft grades of brass and aluminium, so quite a useful tool for those embarking on scratch building without costing an arm and a leg. Cannot comment on the Unimat 1 'knock offs' on EBay Aaron was referring to as I have had no reason to look. It would be interesting to hear any feedback about the 'knock offs' if anyone has bought and used any of these types of machine.

Really nice model build. Those wire wheels look really good. If the Fujimi Ferrari Daytona Coupe kit I have to build goes together as well as this kit I will be pleased.

What the heck? The can turned out to be free in the end as you did not have to return it and probably a replacement sent anyway. So look at it as a useable bonus spray paint Ferbz and enjoy using it !

Aaron, the Unimat you are referring to is probably one of the more up market miniature Unimats back in the day. An all metal lathe with milling attachment. The all metal Unimat lathes are discontinued having got to a Unimat 4 The Unimat 1 I am referring to is a modular machine where the working parts are bolted onto extrusions, and can be configured to make different machines from the basic unit set. Still currently available and a lot less expensive than a proper dedicated miniature lathe/mill.

Those were the days, when kids were sensible enough and trusted to use proper miniature power tools like the Mattel Powershop to work with! But there is hope for model makers wanting a versatile modular piece of kit that can be configured to make different miniature machine tools from the basic set, and can be added to with different optional accessories. It is named a UNIMAT 1. Have a look at their website to see the versatility of this little unit. It is obtainable from two stores that I know of in the UK with similar sounding names, Hobbies and Hobbys. In the USA I would suggest that Micro Mart may probably be the place to look.

Thanks for the links Steve. Interesting sites.