Bugatti Fan

Garden centres sell bags of fine granules to put around the tops of pots to deter slugs. The granules are a lot finer than old style cat litter.

Quality Verniers are made from precision machined quality steels, engraved and calibrated for accuracy by the manufacturer in a controlled environment, and are quite expensive. On the other hand, those cheapo versions are just made from mild steel stampings with no guarantee of accuracy. They are basically a 'near enough' measuring tool for casual users, probably knocked out on a power press in a back street workshop somewhere.

One should remember that outside calipers are designed to be an engineering measuring tool. I would certainly not misuse fine quality ones like Starrett or my Moore and Wright ones for this purpose as there would be the danger of misalignment to the pincer arms from using excess pressure. However, there are plenty of cheapo ones about where this would not matter so much that could be bought and utilised for this purpose if someone really wants to. Having said that, there are plenty of inexpensive clamps of various types on the market in any case.

That Bass Wood (sometimes referred to as Lime) is quite close grained, stains and polishes well too. And the great benefit is that it is readily available to model makers in sheet and strip, whereas the Pearwood and Holly veneers I suggested would be a little more difficult to source. Wooden ship model suppliers are a good source of strip woods of different types worth looking at.

I think the International Model Car Builders Museum are in the process of digitizing those old magazines. Hopefully all that information will be made available at some time. However, they probably rely on local volunteers to take on that task, so it may be some time yet.

You have to take your hat off to the guys who can repair such a mangled mess !

Nice car. A real classic. The red Volvo P1800 behind it in one photo looks interesting too.

Very informative thread you started here Ace. Thanks for sharing. Lots of good info for the vintage scratch builder/converter.

I can remember SA archiving all their magazine copies and selling them on CD. it may have been suggested that MCM do something similar in the past, but online access to past copies of the magazine via the forum is a thought. Provided of course that ALL copies of the magazine are still digitally archived. That would be worth a fee for access as many did not start to read the magazine until well after its production started.I Talking of archiving, I believe that the International Model Car Builders Museum in Sandy, Utah are pulling together complete sets of automotive model making magazines that are !omg gone from generous benefactors. It may be their intention long term to digitize all those old magazines for on line access.

Quite right Xingu. Let's stay on topic. Now, where were we before the the frivolity started ? Lol.

Nice member wind up posts Sid ! To qualify to use the forum would you frown on the Oxford English that I write in to be deemed incorrect regarding the spelling of many words as I don't type them in US English ? I'm English by the way ! There is a joke on this side of the pond that there is no such thing as US English. Why do Americans describe Oxford English as English European before some bright spark says it's because England is in Europe. Er, shouldn't this be in funnies ? LOL

Thanks for the information and the links Pete. There are so many clear plastics out there. It's just that I had not heard of the term Lay Film before though.

Very nice model taking shape here. Great looking car to make a model of. Don't get to see many Skylines in England. A bit of a rarity as they were not sold via Nissan dealerships here. The ones that are around are generally referred to as 'grey' imports that have been privately shipped.

Edge banding wood veneers from the various ones I have seen all have one problem. Wood grain that is way oversized for scale appearance. In 1/25th/1/24th scale The wood grain needs to be ultra fine to this type of application. Extremely close grained woods like Pear and Holly for example in veneers would be more to scale in appearance.

A question for Steve G. What is Lay Film ? Never heard of it over here in the UK.

When all the discussion is over and the changes are about to take place I guess that the forum will be off line for a short duration of 2 or 3 days to do the changes and check them ?

Nice painting Ken. I like your somewhat abstract approach where the emphasis is on colour and shape rather than what most artists do by almost sharp photographic replication in their paintings.

No Jose, IMO it would not look like an Edsel as the whole concept of the styling is Bugatti inspired and a Bugatti Atlantic styled radiator grill would not look out of place on this retro European styled car. The Edsel is just another typical American chrome and fins era Ford loaded with shiny bling ! I will be following Ismael's build doing his own particular customisation of his model that looks to be an interesting take on this car.

I'm a late comer to this thread Ace. Brilliant model I have to say.

Nice model taking shape here. You can definitely see the Bugatti Atlantic influence in the bodywork styling and the retro Bugatti T41 Royale styled wheels. It I were to obtain one of these I would be very tempted to turn it into an actual Bugatti concept car with horseshoe shaped radiator grille and other modifications.

In a word 'Superb' !

Nice project. The Constitution is well served in the model kit market with plastic kits and wooden life in different scales. No shortage of reference material either. This model will certainly be impressive when built in 1/96th scale.

Lovely motor cycle model.

Nice model. A friend of mine has also built one of these and it looks a really nice kit.

Very interesting project taking shape here.