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The first reply may be 15 years late in coming Declan, but the guy looking might still be looking! The Jensen Interceptor is one gorgeous 70's car. British Made, Italian Styled and US Grunt! If I came up on the National Lottery a fully restored one of these would be on my list! Getting back to models I think that there is a 1/18th scale model that someone has done.

John, I had a look at the Don't Look Up and The Hunt trailers on the links. Both look interesting. Bill, I liked the original Italian Job movie. One of the amusing scenes was the traffic jam in Turin with all the frustrated drivers horn blowing. Particularly the guy sat on the fold back roof of his Fiat 500 reading a paper with his foot on the horn! The Minis driving through the sewer system was filmed here in England when Coventry City was having a complete sewage tunnel system being built.

John, I have never watched The Hunt. Land, sea of air movie? Unless Don't Look Up is the Battle of Britain film renamed I have not seen that one either. You mentioned the Hunt and Don't Look Up as being political? I think that all war movies are political only as much that they serve to show generally what happens when politics fails.

Venom asked 'Does it taste the same?' Joe explained very well about the Czech version and how the same beer is marketed under a different name in the US. It tastes completely different to the US Bud beer that we are all familiar with.

The Kellner Coupe I agree has lovely coach work and quite rakish, really suiting the car generally. My own favourite is the Weinberger bodied car that Charles Chayne rescued from a New York scrap yard when the engine block froze and cracked. The car was originally painted black with a yellow body trim line and edging around the wings. Chayne had the car painted cream and changed the wheels to have trims with the EB logo on them and other non original extras. This car is on display in a US motor museum and was kitted by Lindberg originally in its present guise. If I were to build the Lindberg (Revell) kit I would take some wheels and tyres from one of the Italeri kits to reconfigure the kit back to how Weinberger originally finished it. Gerald Wingrove's Complete Car Modeller 2 book is devoted to modelling this particular car.

Riley, as I miss interpreted your humour, it is I who should apologise. Les, actually I forgot all about Asda being acquired by Wal Mart for a time. Thanks for the reminder! So I have shopped at Wal-Mart in around about way without realising it for some time now. Talking of branding, Scotch Whisky is spelt without an e before the y. All others I believe have to be spelt whiskey.

Riley, it was very easy to pick out a part of my quote about cheese to give a very biased view. Why not put it into context by quoting all of it? I am aware that Americans generally are a bit more discerning about what they eat and where they shop, so please do not play on suggesting that I stereotype your fellow citizens.I Incidentally, I do enjoy a Big Mac or a Hot Dog occasionally like most. If Wal-Mart was all over the UK, I would shop there too probably!

To those fans of Budweiser (The King of Beers?). Did you know that there is another Budweiser beer brewed in the Czech Republic? Same name but totally different beer and independent brewery. The regular US Bud that we all know is brewed under licence by one of the big breweries here in the UK, and probably in big breweries world wide. Craft beers have certainly made an impact in the US in both variety and quality. How about cheeses? In the UK and Europe we have many different cheeses to tempt our palate. What is happening in the US? Does cheese making seem to be developing in the US? I got the impression that the only sort of cheese made on your side of the pond was the Kraft type cheese squares used mainly in burgers. Hopefully I will be proved wrong!

John Myrick was lamenting the loss of the Uncertain T. The original tooling may be long gone, but I believe someone is casting a kit in resin in Australia?

Looks like you Americans are catching on at long last to making good craft beers from micro brewers. A number of years ago it appeared to be just Bud, Coors, Miller and Schlitz that seemed to be on offer. Over here within the UK and Eire we have many well established regional brewers, but also quite a number of micro breweries are coming on stream too. I don't have a specific favourite as I like to try out different beers. Belgium is also renowned for their quality beers as well as Germany. I also have a penchant for a good Single Malt Scotch Whisky. Cardhu is one of my favourites as a smooth whisky, and Laphroaig if I fancy a more full on smoky, peaty flavour. To be sipped and savoured not tipped down one's throat!

Still seeking one!

Delightful work transforming that old Vincent motor cycle kit. I think it was from Matchbox originally. The old Airfix BMW R69 kit could.make a nice compliment to this one. Not sure if it is to the same scale of not. Have not seen one for a number of years.

Rob has put the details up. Having bought this book, it is the best reference material I have ever seen about this car. I would suggest it is more than a coffee table book for anyone contemplating modelling the car.

Plastic card should be easy enough to fashion ignition wire management looms from. Following on from suggestions made above I scribe a faint line where my centre line will be then carefully mark the equally spaced hole positions required. Using a fine point like a needle in a pin vice accurately dot each position to make a mark to follow on with the drilling. Once satisfied that I have a series of holes both dead in line and equally spaced I then trim the plastic card to shape around them, making sure my cut edges are parallel to the holes.

Recently published a new book devoted to just the JB DB5. A big tome full of information, history, photos and drawings. A must have for Bond enthusiasts and modellers. Simply the best reference source book about this particular iconic car.

A very nice model, and very well executed. Looking at the photo with the DB5, Lotus and BMW Z3 makes a nice little JB collection. I think in one of the Brosnan movies a BMW 5 series featured as a Bond car, but have not ever seen a model in 1/24th scale. For anyone seeking to make a JB DB5 there is a new book that hit the bookshelves recently It is titled simply titled James Bond's Aston Martin DB5. It is quite a big heavy tome devoted to this car with plenty of good research by the author about the original car, clones, studio drawings for some of the gadgetry, lots of info about the movies and excellent photos. A real tour de force about this iconic vehicle devoted only to the DB5 and to my mind the best reference so far available. A must have for Bond enthusiasts and modellers alike.

There is a guy named Nick in North Wales developing transkits for the old Airfix big Bentley kit. He has a presence on the Britmodeller where you can see the 3D printed stuff he is developing for this kit, He has a website Unobtainium for selling, but you will see more of what he is developing on Britmodeller.

Thanks for coming back Bill. De Agostini seem to be the main part work seller here in the UK. I must admit that I have always been reticent to commit to part work buying in case the company concerned goes belly up! So I have steered away from it. The James Bond DB5 was sold in this way a few years back, and must admit I was tempted. Have seen one built up by a friend at IPMS Telford show and must say it is impressive! Incidentally there is a new book that was published just before Christmas that is devoted to the James Bond DB5. I treated myself to it. Brilliant book! Loads of studio information, pictures and drawings within.

Lovely model! Was it a complete kit, or a part work series build? Either way, a most impressive model. An impressive amalgamation of a British Sports Car being given American grunt!

Greg, I think your splitting problem on your muffler may be an application problem. Any liquid solvent cement evaporates very fast. It may have been that it was starting to go off before you could get the tube halves together, plus the fact that you said that you were trying to drill it on the cemented seam line, its weakest point if this were so.

Deserter seems an odd choice of vehicle name. It put me in mind of a TV comedy sketch that I saw years ago. A young boy was opening his birthday present to find his Action Man box empty. 'Dad, there's nothing in the box!'. Dad replied 'It's an Action Man Deserter son!'

That old Lola kit makes up into a really impressive model. This one is looking really good.

Nice model. Back in the days of cigarette advertising this was by far the most striking racing car colour scheme.

Surprised that Greg reckons that Plastruct's Plastic Weld liquid cement to be weak. I have been using it for years with no problems. It is my go to liquid cement as it bonds different plastics as well as styrene. The other product I get through a lot of is Revell Contacts as my other to go cement.

Is your Austin Healey Sprite made from the little 1/32 scale Airfix kit or is it made in 1/24th scale by someone else? Didn't Gunze make one of these in kit form? Correct me if I am wrong.