Bugatti Fan

Andrew, I would imagine the 1/12th scale MFH Barchetta will be a stunning build that you are making as will Bill' s 1/24th scale FPP one

Didn't know about those two Bill. Thanks for the info. The FPP models !/24th scale one should be nice. I think they can supply sets of lovely real wire scale wheels as separate items as well. I can remember some of the Gowland Highway Pioneers series from way back but not the Barchetta. Seem t remember that series was in 1/32nd scale.

Thank you for the feed back and the link Rex.

Years ago just about all modelling magazines had good scale plans (yes plans) printed within them. Now the tendency is to print numerous photos and less words.

491 pages of irks against 223 pages of what pleased us today. Are most of us just getting a bit grumpy judging by the above stat?

Is CMA the company formed by Marshall Buck to make high end models and kits of classic cars still running? Their website appears to have simply vanished! I could only find a few references to them on auctioneers sites when CMA made models were being sold on by individuals. Last time I looked on their website was some time ago when it was up and running, and Marshall was developing a super detailed Ford GT40 multi medium kit in 1/12th scale at the time. I do not know whether it ever made it to market or not, but it looked as though it had the makings of being the very best GT40 scale model kit judging by the photos shown of a large number of parts made in development. I wonder if the prolific output by MFH kits has had an effect on CMA's market as there did not appear to be any clash in subject matter as far as I could see?

An interesting build of a classic sports racing car with aesthetic lines. It would be nice if a mainstream manufacturer like Revell would make one in plastic.I Besides MFH, I am almost certain that Marshall Buck of Creative Miniature Associates made a resin kit in a larger scale like 1/16th or 1/12th back in the 90's.

It would be nice if this magazine was obtainable off the shelf in the UK from WHSmith, the UK equivalent of your Barnes and Noble I think. I can get FSM regularly there and Scale Auto until it was axed.

Looks like the Scale Motorcars site is up and running again ok. Their admin got back to me to say that they that they did have some operating system problems to sort out

Nice Bugatti collection Rich. That Casadio Revivals 35B is not the easiest kit to build, as I have heard from other sources. Some of the other Revivals kits were reissued as purely plastic models I believe. I'm guessing that the 35B you built is the metal kit as I am unaware of this being redone just in plastic.

I would love to see your Bugatti section Rich?

Wouldn't it look good if you did have shelf room for it Rich?

There have been many takes on Charles DIckens novel A Christmas Carol that I have watched over the years. Some good, some not so good, some just trying to modernise the Scrooge story and some trying disastrously to turn it into comedy that are plain awful! Alistair Sym got the character of Scrooge nailed in that old black and white film from the 50's and no actor since has been ab!e to emulate his portrayal of the character since. Despite its age the vision of Jacob Marley's face appearing on Scrooge's door knocker and his chilling haunting calling of the name Scroooooooooge stays memorable.

There is a very old black and white film about Scrooge based on Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol that has to be the oldest and best for capturing the mood of this period story. It was made back in the 1950's in the UK by Tower Productions and starred Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern and George Cole, all very distinguished English actors in their day.

Very nice build and well worth the effort. There are not many kits in 1/24th scale of racing cars from the 50's. That old Merit Talbot Lago kit has certainly been around a bit via different manufacturers over the years. Back in the day this kit and the Alfetta that Merit made were described as superkits as they had rudimentary engine detailing included. The little Cooper was the only other Merit kit that I can remember having engine detail. The others in the series were as far as I can remember were kerb side models. They used to supply the clear plastic inserts for the wire wheels with a decal with the spoke pattern on them. Heller also did a Talbot Lago from about the same era that was from their own tooling, so probably a bit more detailed as a kit.

Unfortunately these days there is a general assumption that everyone either is wants to go digital or is already. How often do we get to hear the expressions 'You can see it online.' Or 'You can download the app.' Er, what happened to the E books that were supposed to kick paper publications the way of the Dodo? Cannot see any indication of books and paperbacks going into freefall, at least if my local bookshop is anything to go by!

You can add the Pocher kit cons to the list. High value items unfortunately attract scammers.

That's a very useful bit of information Jim. Thanks for sharing. The Scale Motorcars site is still down as of 9 am UK time this morning.

That is a very nice rendition of that iconic truck Mario I had a lot of fun building a model of the Duel Rig way back in the 80's and I wrote an article about it that appeared in the November 2015 edition of MCM. Number plates were hand painted at the time of my build, but I think I have have seen copies of the plates somewhere on the internet. Not sure if they were to download for printing or if someone has produced a set of decals for it.

You could be right there Pete. I tried accessing their site 8.30 UK time today, and a message came up to say that it is still down and being worked on.

Lovely models Rich. I expect that you will be looking out for the new Pocher one announced recently. That will be a beauty in 1/8th scale!

One of the best movies ever was Day of the Jackal based on Frederick Forsyths novel about an attempt to assassinate President de Gaulle. Brilliant and kept to the book. It was made back in the 1960's and starred Edward Fox playing the part of the assassin. Do not confuse it with the much more recent Jackal movie with Bruce Willis. The plot of this one was totally different and not a rehash of the original movie.

I tried to get into the Scale Motorcars website this morning (10 am UK Time). Message came up to say that their site has closed temporarily for a day or so in order that they can work on the source code for the site. I managed to message one of their administrators last Friday about the site difficulties of slowness and transmission error messages appearing. Perhaps my message and probably those from others had prompted them to take a look at sorting out the problems. Hopefully they will be able to quickly resolve them. As I have mentioned before, Scale Motorcars is an auto modelling site devoted to larger scale scratch built models and larger kits and conversions, and is really a complimentary site to this one rather than a competitor.

FSM might be a magazine publisher as well Pete, but a website is a website and judged on their performance as such, regardless of other commercial interests. I don't see any problems with this website as it has a magazine interest as well and ran efficiently whilst MCM had its publication problems, so I am not sure where you were coming from with the comparison you made between the FSM and Scale Motorcars websites.

If you think you have problems with the FSM website, try looking at the Scale Motorcars website!