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Thanks for sharing that Daniel. I will have a good read of it. There are so many paints, washes and tints out there now, it is incredible what is on offer. The Warhammer and Citadel acrylics for fantasy figures are good paints with large colour ranges I just remembered.

Talking of black paint, just recently I have been building a model car with a black interior. The overall interior tub as it were was primed in grey, and sprayed matt black, both automotive acrylics from aerosols. The rubber matting detail moulded into the floor was painted using Revel! Aqua Colour Anthracite that gave a good rubber mat effect. The black leather seats were primed and matt black painted. Then the raised detail on the seats and door panels were painted using again, Revell Aqua Colour, but this time Tar Black. An Aqua Colour normal Black was used to create a wash by thinning with water and run into all the creases in the seats and door panels. When dry the raised cushioning on the seats and panels were just gently rubbed with my finger end to impart a leather like sheen on them. Those Aqua Colours are quite good acrylics in my opinion. Going further with blacks, artists suppliers carry acrylics of different black shades such as ivory and lamp black. Paynes Grey is useful too being a very dark almost black grey shade. Mostly tube paints, but some come in liquid form and some of the Waterproof Acrylic Inks are worth looking at too. Amazing what artists suppliers hold that are useful to modeller with a bit of lateral thinking.

Unfortunately many hobby aimed pin vices are very cheaply made. I have some pin vices made by Eclipse, a UK company that I have been using constantly since bought way back in the 1970's. Good quality tools don't come cheap however. My advice for anyone looking to buy a pin vice is look up a proper engineers tool stockists for a quality item that will last.

Very nice model. Unusual subject! I think that Bandai or someone similar did a Bianchi kit in 1/16th scale some time back too.

Anybody know if the Renwall Revivals moulds still exist and who might have them? Would be nice to see those kits reissued by someone. As far as I can remember they only had one production run way back in the 60's. I fear that the moulds may have been scrapped long ago. Maybe some enterprising 3D printing programming expert might be able to work up some programs of those old Virgil Exner designs and bring those cars back again in kit form. Or alternatively some resin caster take copies from the original kits?

Some of the Heller car kits are a bit shall we say, challenging. On their Delage kit there is a join that has to be made right across the top of each rear wing. Cannot understand why they tooled it up in such a fashion. Weird! It will take a very experienced modeller to be able to fill and smooth it so that it will disappear when primed and sprayed. Hope this Delahaye kit is a bit more straight forward to build as it is a very nicely styled car.

Bill, thanks for coming back with the info on the Bugatti 251 kit and the very interesting link. I will have to keep a look out on eBay or elsewhere for one of these kits.

Bill, what is your impression of the FFP Modelos Bugatti 251 kit?I Looked on the FFP website but it is no longer listed.

I reckon it is because the wheels and the tyres in the Revell kit are both too wide, so it is logical to 3D print the correct tyres with the wheels as Motobitz have no way to mould vinyl tyres. Painting should not be too difficult. I would paint the tyres first then fine liquid mask them to the wheel rim and then spray the wheels themselves with your preferred chrome finish.

That was a caption that stuck in my mind down the years that was in an old Auto World Catalogue. So! Who is Rich Morgan? Where is he now? Is he still active as an Auto Modeller?

Thanks for the feedback Jim. I wonder if Rich Morgan is still around in car model making circles? It is just one of those odd things that stuck in the mind down the years. I will ask the question in Where's Waldo!

Most flash cars are owned by over rich posers rather than true enthusiast drivers.

Pyro. Now there's a blast from the past! Nice model T taking shape here. Where did all of the Pyro moulds to to?

We buy intending to build. Reality kicks in. We sell and generally make a loss! Joking apart, modellers of a certain age need to make a list of where best to dispose of stashes. All too often bereaved relatives who do not know the worth might just have it all dumped! Dealers don't pay top dollar but better to get something rather than nothing if it gets thrown into landfill.

Problem many have is over pricing second hand kits. I went to a local model show here in the UK and one guy hired a table and sold all his unwanted kits at knockdown prices. His mission was to get rid of a pile of stuff cluttering his place up. Table was cleared by the end of the day. A win win situation. He got rid of all his unwanted stuff and punters got a bargain or two (or three or four)!

Maybe this site needs to review its policy about buying and selling between individuals. Perhaps it could allow lists of kits and other modelling items for sale provided that there is a disclaimer of any responsibility on the forum 's part, and that any sales are done privately where forum users have to PM their personal email addresses to one another in order to negotiate on a personal level. Therefore any sales and purchases become purely private transactions made strictly off site between individuals, and the site will have absolutely no involvement in any disputes that may arise between said individuals.

C1 Polishing Powder over a Gloss Black is good, durable when buffed to a shine and you get plenty in a tub. The Revell product seems a bit pricey. I wonder if they will supply it in bottles for air brush use? A good hard reasonably priced chrome finish is a bit of a holy grail to most car modellers but someone might crack it one day, sooner rather than later.

There is a company named Motobitz in the UK who also make 3D printed wire wheels for the E Type in 1/24th and 1/32 nd scales.

Espo mentioned using automotive primer on resin especially. I tend to use aerosol acrylic automotive primer on all my models and find it works well on just about everything. Saves all the faff of keep setting up an airbrush or keep going from one modelling primer to another.

Really interesting thread. Model coming along nicely with good reference to details.

You did not mention it you thoroughly cleaned the resin body of any residue mould release agent and keyed it with fine wetndry or similar, washed it off and dried it beforehand. The fact that you stripped the paint job that went wrong forced a thorough clean up, so maybe that is why the next paint job went on OK. If you did all the proper clean up first time around it is a bit of a mystery as to why the paint job failed. Maybe there was some incompatibility with what was used? Acrylic over oil based paints like enamel and lacquers can lead to problems, but generally not the other way around as a rule. We all get paint failures at some time of other, and not always possibly know why!

Remember all those nice 1/32nd scale Classic Car kits by Pyro? They had quite a range back in the day. Did they go to Atlantis I wonder along with all the other Pyro kits for ships and other subjects? Also Pyro had the moulds from Impact, a small UK manufacturer who made a small range of four inter war aircraft .in 1/48th scale. Gloster Gladiator, Fairey Flycatcher, Hawker Fury and Bristol Bulldog that were all beautiful, very well detailed kits. I wonder if Atlantis has those too?

That Hobby Design kit looks the business!

Where do you get a scale model kit of one?