Bugatti Fan

I have used those thin nylon plastic pieces with a tee shaped end to them from new clothing tags. I leave the tee on the end and it acts as a good stop when the straight thin round part is fed through a drilled hope to suit from under a wing and epoxied into place underneath.

Magazines 'absorbed' into others very quickly fade into oblivion. SA into FSM , no exception. Seen it happen a number of times down the years. Been a number of hobby magazines that I have seen disappear also. Understand Model Car Builder is now closing. SA and MCB, that's two auto modelling mags going within about a year.

Thanks for your reply Pico. I came across your T41 Bugatti thread yesterday. Andrew, I liked your tongue in cheek humorous reply about you being a medium or Ime stopping random folks in Atlanta! Incidentally, is your Delage in 1/24th scale? I was contemplating my next scratch build and was looking on the web for ERA racing cars to look out the famous car 'Romulus'. Came across a Delage ERA that has beautiful lines. It is in the Mullin Auto Museum on your side of the pond. Might go for that one instead to model. Let's see! Thought you might be interested at taking a peek at it.

Revell has released some ex Renwall kits of other subjects I believe, so maybe they have the moulds? These Revival kits are so rare now. Maybe someone will take off from original kit parts and retro kit them in resin or maybe 3D print new kits. I have been seeking a glue bomb of the Bugatti to restore and give to the Bugatti Trust Museum here in the UK . So if any of you guys can help, please message me.

I do envy you guys in the States where car modelling has devoted shows and clubs. We had a dedicated auto modelling show named Automodellismo here in the UK but it only ran for about 3 years and sort of fizzled out about a couple of years before covid hit. It was a very small show in a village hall. The organisers were hoping it would grow, but attendance was generally poor. Auto modelling is in itself very popular in the UK and modellers here tend to belong to local general model clubs and local IPMS meetings. There are a number of auto modelling groups within IPMS UK who display at IPMS UK Scalemodelworld Show at Telford every year, and judging by the diversity of models displayed the hobby is in good health over here. It's just that there seems to be no impetus to form a national auto modelling association.I Considering that many cottage industry auto modelling kit manufacturers formed here it is surprising. I guess that there is just much more interest generally in auto modelling in the States to support dedicated clubs and shows.

This is a really fascinating build. Nice to see very old classic racing cars being modelled to this sort of standard. Incidentally, who is Peco Elgin who I see is mentioned. Does he produce kits in resin / white metal? How does one get in touch with him? A mention was made about a Duesenberg model he has made. Any pics on this forum?

Bill, your Volvo P1800 coupe. Are you planning to build the Saint's car from the TV series that the late Roger Moore starred in?

A very interesting build. Those MFH kits are certainly giving advanced model car builders something to get their teeth into, and this is no exception. Pascal is really making an excellent job of this model and by sharing his techniques on here is of great benefit to other builders. I find it incredible how MFH are so prolific and can turn out such a number of diverse highly detailed kits in the time scales they do.

Fascinating build Mark. That old Tamiya Lola is a good base for the super detailing you are doing to it. Looking great!

Jason, I reckon you will do the Bugatti justice when you get it and do your build, particularly as you have an example close to hand. Some years ago I made a scratch built Type 59 that I wrote about in MCM in 1/16th scale. To me the T59 has beautiful lines set off with those racially spiked wheels. Look forward to the Italeri T35 when it is released as it is much more affordable to me than the MFH one much as I would have loved to build their one!

It you dip coat the excess has to be wicked off, and the product levels off well. I used this method on a clear resin cockpit canopy for the Fisher kit of the Bugatti racing aeroplane and it dried to a high gloss. Beautiful finish when dry. Many of you guys out there have your own tried and trusted clear coating preferences. It is all down to experimentation at the end of the day to find what method and or product that suits you best. I tend to use automotive acrylic spray aerosol colours and clear that in the main work for me. When I airbrush I use Zero paints and clear automotive acrylic from an aerosol.

I love looking at art and appreciate all the different forms of painting and illustrating. However, when I look at computer generated illustrations, no matter how good, they seem to lack that indefinable something that can only really be accomplished by hand with conventional artists materials. Computers seem to lose something along the way. Maybe it loses the subtleties of an artist's style somehow. Not that I don't appreciate the skills needed to generate computer art. It's just that to me something always seems missing when I see computer generated pictures, compared to sketches and paintings done by hand. What do other readers think?

Back in the 70's when I played regular local football (soccer to our American friends) our team manager used to pick me and some team mates up in one of these. That smell of Connoly leather in the car is unforgettable. I made a model of his car and gave it to him shortly after.

Have Atlantis got the moulds for the Eldon kits? Outhouse, Pink Panthermobile, Milk Truck, Invader, Bath Tub Buggy plus any others I cannot remember.

Interesting how a manufacturer can get a body shape inaccurate these days. It's not as if there were no examples of the real thing to measure or laser scan. I can understand previous owners wanting an accurate model of a car they own or have owned. However, to my eyes, what were Ford doing with this model? It must be the most un Mustang looking Mustang I have seen. No pony badges either? Before I get castigated, I am sure that the car performed well and owners were satisfied with its handling. Ford did the right thing later on with the Mustang a making it more appealing by retro styling it using key elements from the original 1960's car.

Giovanni, it is nice to see very well built models of older classic racing cars. Your Ferrari is a fine example that you are sharing on here. Congratulations on your beautiful model.

Lovely well built model. It was not before time that Revell replaced their old kit that dated back to the 60's. Funnily enough a few days ago I was at the Shuttleworth Collection Air Museum close to where I live in the UK and there was a black E Type Roadster in the visitors parking lot. Beautiful looking car to this day.

Dave, it's horses for courses as far as wrapping models for shipping goes, and as long as whatever method works it is OK whichever is used. As I generally make just for myself the extra cost involved with reinforcing the packaging to ship one model to a museum was acceptable. I can fully understand that if you ship large models on a regular basis then keeping the cost to a minimum is very important. It appears as though you might be running a business making and selling models so shipping costs have to be factored in to your pricing. If it works for you, fine!

Jason, your Mefistophele has turned out into a fantastic model. A kit that size is well worth the investment in time and effort with all the extra detailing. Following on from my last post on this thread, my prayers have been answered. Italeri are releasing a Bugatti Type 35B during 2022! Another thing happening on the big car kit scene is that some transkits for the big Airfix Bentley are in the pipeline by a UK modeller. His name is Nick and he has a thread on the Britmodeller website showing what is being developed. If you go on there look up Bentley may contain some Airfix for the details. He has his own website named Unobtainium.

Interesting technique for comparing. A thread with a dossier of these would need to be made up with captions about what one is more accurate to be useful to would be kit buyers. Mind you, if you have already invested in a kit and it looks about right, this becomes a bit academic really. Bill has made a good point about how differences in the measurement process of a prototype can vary from one manufacturer to another. Back when photography and tape measurement were the norm, I guess this is where discrepancies creep in. For example if an angle of a windshield was taken and about one of two degrees out it can make a lot of difference by having a knock on effect on the roof line and pillars on a model body. These days with laser scanning technology this should not happen in theory. But I have seen an odd review criticising something on a modern kit being wrong about a body, so who knows? Maybe an odd compromise has to be made to suit manufacturing, but with modern moulding technology I would imagine this should not be so in theory. If you have a kit, just build it and enjoy it if it looks about right.

Is any other manufacturer developing jars of something similar, just as good, and a quarter of the price? Molotov is very,very good but also very, very over priced for what it is and the quantity in this user's opinion.

Tony, that's life unfortunately. Manufacturers have a habit of releasing a model or product for a while before dropping it. So by the time a modeller writer obtains a kit, takes the necessary time to build, detail and paint a model, then write up an article, submit it to a magazine that may already have the next couple of issues material spoken for, then you can see why the process can appear a bit drawn out. One also has to remember that nearly all writers of magazine articles are not professional and make and write in their spare time that has to be fitted in with each of their own full time job, domestic and family commitments. Even if the model being written about is proving difficult to source, generally articles have plenty of worthwhile information, hints, tips and techniques within that can be used on other models.

My Customised 50th Anniversary of IPMS Austin A30 Van Model that appeared in a copy of MCM some time ago was shipped from the UK to the Model Car Builders Museum in Sandy Utah where it is now on display. I found a thick cardboard box with plenty of all around clearance for the model that was mounted on a base. Kitchen roll tissue went directly around the model plus bubble wrap. What I did to ensure the box strength was to line the sides and bottom with mdf or thin plywood, pack the model in the box with whatever was suitable. More bubble wrap, scrunched up newspaper, and expanded polystyrene nuggets etc. This made the model immovable in the middle of all the packaging used. A final packaging material layer was placed on top of the model and another sheet of MDF or thin plywood cut to fit snugly under box lid when closed and sealed. Yes, the MDF and Plywood adds expense to the package both in cost of material and adds to the carriage weight, but it makes a very tough inner layer to the cardboard box that is very resistant to shipping damage. Ideal for bigger models. On smaller stuff like a 1/24th scale car model for example the same principle can be applied when packing a smaller cardboard box but thick cardboard could be used to make an inner box liner instead of ply or MDF for extra protection.

Rex, you could well be right about the CMA kit. It has been under development for quite a while now. It MFH brought one out, and it is surprising that they have not done so already, then the CMA kit might not be realised and CMA would possibly sell their GT40s as built up models.

Daylight saving was introduced way back when for farmers I believe to take advantage of longer summer days. Right? Last summer I was driving at midnight and was blinded by the battery of LED spot lamps on the front of a combine harvester working in an adjacent field. Thought it was a landing UFO!