Bugatti Fan

This discussion unfortunately was getting a little out of hand to make Michael step in. I would bet that if you two guys met face to face you would be having this discussion a bit more cordially over a couple of beers and the tone might have been a bit different. I'm sure that there was no malice deliberately intended between you both, but sometimes the printed word can come across a bit harsh when we feel a bit passionate about things. Can we get back to discussing the nail powder chrome?

Brought back memories of those old DC comics from school days. Nice memory lane model as that comic Batmobile looked a bit generic, so a good choice of donor kit to make it from

C1 Polishing Powder. One of the best products I have found for simulating chrome. It is applied generally with a cotton wool bud or a small pad over a Gloss or Matt paint depending on the final effect you want. It polishes up brilliantly and the great thing is it is more robust when handled, unlike most of the airbrushed finishes out there unless sealed. Incidentally, C1 is a UK company and have a very nice range of resin transkits on their website that look to be of very good quality.

Painted figures will be more difficult to source than unpainted, especially civilian figures in 1/24th scale. Jimmy Flintstone, Tamiya's Campus Friends, Italeri's Truck Figures come to mind as some unpainted. There is a German company Preiser who make sets of civilian figures that could be used and have a good variety o types in their ranges. Another source could be companies that supply architectural miniatures. HTH. There was a small range of figures by UK company Tyresmoke back in the 70's. Long gone but maybe occasionally may come up on Ebay? Look at Pegaso and Andrea's 80mms figures ranges as the scale is compatible.

Not aware of a Montego car in the States.I Being on this side of the pond the MG Austin Montego came to mind when I saw the thread header.

Try replicating that Maharajah's Rolls Royce in model form. What a challenge that would be! They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That probably accounts for the Loads of Money But No Taste Did You See Me? brigade who get cars made with the most gaudy paint and trim imaginable.I The Mercedes Maybach in the video looks tasteful on the outside but the interior looks like something out of a cartoon. Tasteless and Tacky in the extreme.

It's the Model Like A Pro book that I sort of recollected.

Italeri have announced a new Bugatti Type 35B kit in 1/12 scale for later ?n this year 2022. For those like me who can only dream about the MFH Kit, this one will be much more affordable!

Nice model. Didn't you write a car modelling book a few years back?

Nice!

Nice bit of innovative design and lovely model.

Thanks Bob.

Nice model. Does the kit allow it to be built stock also?

You're right about the auto correct Pete. It's a bit annoying at times but quite amusing when it changes what you have typed into some random word that is totally irrelevant. Back to the Holloway House product. Has anybody used it like the old Klear and can comment?

Dick Dastardly..........I'm convinced that the character has been made to look like English Actor Terry Thomas!

Model making as opposed to model building. And doing it in 1/24th scale.....Fabulous!

This is looking better and better Mark. A last GSL overall winner perhaps?

A cool looking VW.

Thanks for the historical background on Pressed Steel Fisher Matt. I worked for a company named Prestcold for nine years that was a subsidiary of Pressed Steel Fisher. I got the Fisher bit wrong and your post jogged my memory about the Fisher Ludlow connection from all those years ago.

A number of years ago in the UK there was a company named Pressed Steel Fisher that produced car bodies at Cowley near Oxford. Seeing the name Fisher in it suggests a connection to Fisher in the USA. It stood next door to the Morris Car Factory. Both have since been acquired by BMW and now produce the new Minis.

We all like our specialist materials, but HL I guess like any other business does not like to have very slow moving items being money tied up in stock that does not shift. If it gets discounted to clear it, then buy it while you can.

I guess that they have all long gone. Maybe some resin caster might see the cult following of these kits and do copies, or maybe scan them to make 3D printed parts? A guy in Australia did resins of the old Monogram Uncertain T and made moulds using original kit parts as patterns.

Anybody know what happened to the Renwall Revivals moulds? Did Revell acquire them originally along with other Renwall moulds and it so, were they sold on to someone else like Atlantis?

Thanks guys. Sounds like HL is similar to our Hobbycraft in a number of respects. Our stores do not well furniture or decorating materials, just craft, art and Bobby stuff.

I keep seeing Hobby Lobby being referred to. Is it a general craft store that stocks various crafters items, artists supplies and model making stuff? I sort of picture of as being similar to a group of shops in the UK named Hobbycraft. They stock a limited range of kits, paints and modelling tools as part of their general crafts and hobbies merchandise.I Mark's post about local meeting him half way. I can see where he is coming from with his own viewpoint, not wanting to pay 5 bucks over the odds. However, one has to consider the overheads that a LMS has. Rent, business rates, salaries, utility bills, money tied up in stock until it sells and so on. So every kit delivered to your door from a possibly semi automated warehouse is just another nail in the coffin that is (was) a local hobby shop.