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Agreed!

Your MGC is coming on well Matt. I downloaded the instruction sheet from C1 some time ago and from what I could see it looks a very impressive transkit. So I will be following your thread with interest.

Looking good so far Chris!

Best bonding adhesive for white metal or die cast is epoxy from my own experience. A bit messy to use it not careful and needs support whist setting. Looking forward to following your build Justin. That GS kit looks to be one of the best Ferrari kits around. Matt Bacon's tips about the photo etched grille will save you a lot of aggravation I would imagine. Reminds me that I have a Fujimi Enthusist Kit Ferrari Daytona to build that has been in my stash for years that I ought to see about building!

Mike, yes it was a true story. Anthony Hopkins was playing the part of Bert Munro from Invercargill in New Zealand. He actually made it to Bonneville to compete, and made further trips during later years. What I liked about the film was his never give up attitude that was an ingrained part of his character besides being a genuine sort of guy. The parts where he came across a motel in Los Angeles with a transvestite receptionist that he got on well with after their amusing first meeting, and the second hand car salesman were a treat to watch. Everyone seemed to warm to him on his road trip to Bonneville. It anyone watches the film, the car he drives in New Zealand looks like an old 1950's Vauxhall Velox.

I watched a movie on TV catchup a few weeks ago named 'The World's Fastest Indian'. t was quite a heart warming film about an eccentric old guy played by well known actor Anthony Hopkins living in his old workshop shed in New Zealand and building up an old Indian Motorcycle to attempt the world speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats. It was a nice movie that built on the character being motivated and having to fund himself to travel half way around the world. He worked his passage on a freight ship, and coped with not being street wise in LA whilst on his journey. Anthony Hopkins also played the part of the late Donald Campbell in a TV production about attempting the World Water Speed Record at Coniston Water in the early 60's.

Pascal, I have really enjoyed following your build of the Type 35. 1/20th is quite a nice scale being just that much bigger than 1/24th for adding details etc. I like the model as you built it with just a hint of exhaust stain on the bodywork for that extra bit of realism. Interesting to see that you have a 1/12th scale kit to build as well as another in 1/20th. I am looking forward to the Italeri 1/12th scale T35 being released and will certainly be going for one of those. A bit more affordable for me than the MFH kits much as I would love to build one. It will be interesting to see how good the kit is when it is released. I have been looking at the photos of the 1/12th scale MFH kit on Hiroboy's website and the details in the kit are incredible, so hopefully the Italeri plastic kit will be well detailed too.

The very first post asked if anyone has used C1 Metalliser. No one actually answered that question in this thread. C1 is a polishing powder and it works really well. The effect will differ depending on what colour primer or gloss is used as the base coat. Have a look in the thread Can We See Some Scratchbuilt Things. My Napier Railton was done with C1 Metalliser Powder over a rattle can silver. Once buffed it handles reasonably well. I have used Alclad, AK and other air brushed metallisers. Good products but more delicate to handle unless sealed.

This will be intertesting!

There was a book by Noel C Hackney published by Patrick Stephens in the UK dedicated to building, detailing and rigging the Airfix kit of the Mayflower that should be good for the Revell one as well. There were two other books by the same author and publisher for the Airfix Victory and Cutty Sark kits.I They were published back in the 70's so a trawl of the web for second hand books on EBay etc may find one. I have all three excellent books. Patrick Stephens also published a number of very similar books dedicated to super detailing some of the 1/24th scale aircraft kits by Airfix at that time.

Nice model of an unusual subject. The Schwinn brand name reminds me of the ads that appeared in American comics back in the 50's when I was at school. Those cruiser styled bikes looked so cool compared to our boring old British bikes at the time. Apart from putting cow horn shaped handlebars on them, there was nothing else we could do to make our boring bikes look cool! Of course all that changed in the 80's when the BMX bikes hit the market, and Raleigh, besides making BMX bikes brought out their Grifter bike and their Chopper bikes.

Thanks for your replies Vince and Charles. I suspected that Jordan was long gone. I think that they had a nice range of vehicles, and from what .I can remember if the two kits sold on that they were very well moulded and detailed considering their physical size. Vince, your little truck kit. 1/160 th scale. Surprised at how well detailed it is as so much smaller than the Jordan kits.

Tim, I am sure that you will make a really good replica from the Burago to models you have.

Tim, you have made a lovely job of improving the Franklin Mint model. Incidentally, Pyro made a plastic kit in 1/32nd scale back in the 60's I think.I Burago made a die cast model of a Bugatti Coupe in 1/24th scale from the same era with a different body style.

A really nice build! It shows what can be done with a Heller car kit! Those Heller car kits are a bit challenging. They do some really odd things on some of their kits. The Delage kit I built some years ago had a join right across the top of the rear wings. It really made it difficult to correct, fill and smooth it out to hide where the join was. I would imagine most of those Delage kits got built with that unsightly join line showing. It was really poor kit design by Heller, that was a pity considering the unusual car subjects they kitted.

Nice diorama capturing the moment well. Vehicle and base very convincing, and the figures also well painted.

In response to one of my past posts I got a quite nasty PM from someone making assumptions about me, my opinions, and my modelling ability. Worse still, was that person criticised someone else's modelling ability in the message to me. I replied politely to each point he made, and also referred him to contact the other person that he was criticising directly if he had anything to say about them. Did not hear any more. To be honest I could not be bothered to report it, as I did not want the guy to get a moderator on his back and get a warning over it. I unwittingly fell foul of a moderator some years ago and got a questionable warning. Been a bit more careful since, but the warning still sits there 'ad infinitum'. My only grouse I that if a warning is given, I feel that t should be deemed 'spent' after a set period of time and deleted.

Thanks for coming back on that kit John. It's surprising how one can miss or forget seeing a kit from all those years ago. I followed your Bentley build with great interest some time back. Very informative detailing techniques shown.

Not sure what to recommend book wise as there are so many horror movies out there already. The Psycho Slashers and Zombie movies are more of the same each time one comes out.......BORING! Stephen King is reckoned to be the master of the horror story, book wise. Might be worth looking up his titles and subject matter of each book. Christine the demonic car is one of his I believe. Maybe look up other horror story writers on the web? Of course, not to be forgotten, there are the two old classics Dracula by Bram Stoker, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley that may be worth a visit. I have two books each containing the works of H.G.Wells and Jules Verne. Not strictly horror but more turn of the century 1800's to 1900's science fiction that have a sprinkling of horror stories within them like The Invisible Man. Jeckyll and Hyde, and the Mysterious Island. Both album books are really good reads if you are into Victorian/Edwardian Sci fi.

This discussion is getting to the point of nit picking and splitting hairs over descriptions. I would suggest remove the words ' Model Trucks' from both of the WIP headings. Replace with just 'Light Commercial Vehicles. Pickup Trucks and Vans' 'Heavy Commercial Vehicles, Big Rigs and Equipment. Changing those two headings alone may clarify things a bit. SUV's (sport utility vehicles) and MPV's (multi purpose vehicles) in reality are just another form of car to most of us, so I feel should really be in WIP Model Cars. Personally I would like to see Custom Vehicles in a separate slot as well as Motor Cycles, but unlikely as it would create new headings. But maybe the headings do need to be expanded a bit?

Maybe a bit of lateral thinking here, but it might be worth either looking at the model railroad fraternity, or actual engineering or electronics suppliers for tiny nuts and bolts as opposed to being locked into looking at just model auto offerings.I A web search should find either.

Nice to see very small scale models being built. Not seen one of these before. What make is this model kit? I remember having two tiny plastic kits made by Jordan of an Ahrens Fox Pumper and Mack Ladder Chief. Not heard of Jordan in a long while. Do they still make kits? They may have possibly been N Gauge but cannot remember as I parted with them many years ago.

No doubt you will work your usual magic on this one John! Will be following this thread. That is one kit I have not seen over here in the UK. Is it a brand new kit from Revell?

I believe in living dangerously. I disagree with my wife occassionally!

I liked the Revell Ford Anglia 'Skippers Crittur' and the 'Simple Simon' Pie Van. Not the best kits but I just like them!