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Nice to hear two top notch modeller's mutual admiration and informative discussion on here.. I will have to remember the 'Persistence wears down resistance bit of philosophy that Tim placed in his post. Good to remember when things go pear shaped on a model build, and it happens to all of us whether experienced or relatively new to modelling whatever we make. My son bought me a wood kit of Titanic's lifeboat that I am currently building. Certainly taxing my modelling skills working in a different medium altogether. Certainly testing my persistence doing a clinker built boat and learning to shape and bend wood planking. Enjoying the challenge of being well out of my comfort zone though with this one!

That is a very advanced conversion you are doing Andrew.. I like your humorous response to my post. By the way, did you look on the C1 website to have a look at the Sebring MGC transkits?

Interesting project Paul. I was unaware that Ford were using the Zephyr name pre war. The first Fords using the Zephyr and Zodiac names that I became aware of were made in Dagenham in the UK back in the 50's and 60's. But logically on reflection the names would have had US origins before. Did Ford US ever make a Zodiac model pre war?

Could be right Bill! Like the father's day card Richard. Keep the one horse, mule, donkey, ox power vehicle pics coming guys!

I quite like looking at the one horsepower, one oxpower vehicle pictures being posted. Inpiration. My next year's entry into civilian vehicles at IPMS Scalemodelworld at Telford next year perhaps?

C1 models in the UK make a very nice transkit based on the Aoshima MGB kit to convert it to the MGC cars that ran at Sebring.

This model will probably make best of show at the very last GSL. Superb work Mark!

I had to laugh! Shell keep pushing an advert on UK TV about how they claim to be at the forefront in developing 'clean' energy for general use and more charging points for electric cars being set up all around the country. Despite all this our energy prices are going through the roof, our government have not invested in enough nuclear power stations that were heralded as being able to supply plentiful and cheap electricity. A target has been set to replace all fossil fuel driven cars to be replaced by currently over expensive electric cars. Aren't wind turbines supposed to produce clean and CHEAP electricity? Oh well! Maybe one day they will learn when the national grid fails and all the lights go out and everyone stranded when they cannot charge up their electric cars. Producing thousands of power hungry EV's before the national grid has been boosted with more power stations is madness.

Sounds like there was no plot to the latest 2022 Batman movie judging by your comment Rusty. This kit conversion is really interesting to follow and I will be looking forward to seeing the finished article.

Bill, now that would be a fun thing to build and place in a model contest!

Rob, thanks for showing the origin of The Barman from what must have been the very first Batman comic. The chart you placed in the thread showing the evolution of the bat logo was very informative. The camp Adam West Batman TV series was a bit of a joke, and I expect it was meant to be. The movies have gradually moved the character back to being a fearsome adversary. I wonder if there is a good book available showing the evolution of the Batman, his cars and gadgets from the comics and the movies. Out of all the super heroes, the Batman has always been my favourite since I was a kid way back in the 50's. Never lost his appeal. The clips I have seen of the new 2022 movie look to be portraying the Barman at his most sinister to date! I have deviated a bit from this model build that I will be following with interest.

So, E scooters, or at least the concept is not new at all looking at Greg's picture of the girl on the motorised skateboard. 1950's?

Lovely model of an unusual subject.

Interesting bit of feedback about Horold Allnut Rob. The first Batman comics I used to read had the bat sign logo on his chest as just a black bat shape on the grey of his costume. Not sure when the bat sign on a yellow oval began to be used, The later movie versions of Batman's costume from the Michael Keaton era onwards really started to look sinister.

Donald Sutherland as 'Oddball' in KH. Great movie character. a sort of WW2 Hippy. Wasn't 'Negative Waves. I keep getting Negative Waves!' one of his catch phrases?

Maybe MCM might look at a CD Rom of the first 20 years of the magazine like Kalmbach did with Scale Auto. Or maybe an archive on the internet perhaps? Many of us for not start to take the magazine until it was a number of years in.

Fun build in the making. will be following this one. I remember my grandkids having some bathtub liquid in a container looking like that particular Batmobile. The Batman movies intrigue me with all the different car designs as where would Bruce Wayne get them designed and built? You never see a team of covert designers and engineers who would be needed to make them. The only exception was one series of movies where Wayne Industries had developed a prototype military vehicle that became the Batmobile in them.

Days of Thunder,..........nice bit of fantasy watching! Dropping a gear doing over a hundred and the gearbox not exploding? Sheer movie hokum!

This has got the makings of a super model in the making and will be following this one. Steve mentioned that he wished Tamiya did this subject in 1/24th scale. That would have been nice. I think that either Le Mans Miniatures or Renaissance kitted it in resin in 1/24th.

Thanks for coming back with your reply Walid. The wheels. Yes I can see why you made them to take the kit tyres. Maybe drawing up another correct set of narrower ones complete with the tyres on them might be worth a look at. The wheels and tyres can be painted. As for the windscreen, yes I agree it may well be correct for the convertible version. It is a pity that it looks like a compromise was made on the coupe and just does not look correct. Gunze made an E Type out some time back. Cannot remember if they did a roadster, a convertible or both. I am surprised that Tamiya have never done the E Type. They did a Mk2 Saloon a while back. Nice kit. I think that Tamiya would do a good job of the E Type and not compromise on accuracy between a coupe and roadster.

A really nice model build of the Tijuana Taxi and the diorama setting is just brilliant. The base edging if stained and polished and a nameplate added would finish off the diorama beautifully.

Agree with Khier about the roofline. The windscreen looks a bit low, but there is not much that can be done about it apart from attempting a major kitbash using the more accurate Heller kit. The 3D printed wheels look very nice. The Revell wheels look a bit wide when you look at pictures of the real thing with wires that are of that era. Has this been taken into account on the 3D ones as there was only a side view in an earlier post? Naming the CAD platform that we can free download the wheels from would not be against the forum rules as far as I can see. It is not as though you are trying to sell them on here, but offering other modellers a generous gift to use.

Very nice diorama of a typical untidy workshop. Plenty of atmosphere about the place with all the incidental bits and pieces. Who makes the figures? Not seen them in the UK.

This model looks fabulous. 3D printing is certainly revolutionising scale modelling in all its genres as you don't have to compromise on any detail. A mainstream kit manufacturer however, might have to make compromises due to their production processes. Those looking for a plastic kit in though in 1/8th scale of a Lotus 72 brings to mind that someone (Entex maybe) made one some years ago, but i could be mistaken. Pocher has announced a new kit for release this year.

The Micro Drill breakages a number of you guys mentioned are probably tungsten carbide drill bits for printed circuit board drilling. They are extreme!y hard and brittle as they are designed to go into a machine that applies true vertical pressure, and made from tungsten carbide as PCB material is abrasive. The slightest side pressure will cause small diameter bits to break very easily. For modelling, small drill bits made from carbon steel are more robust used in a pin vice.