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It would be nice if C1 models sold that little PE fret with the MG badges as a separate item as well as included in their transkit. South Eastern (exWills) Finecast in the UK have made fully detailed white metal kits of the MGB. Am a bit surprised that no one else apart from Aoshima tooled up this car as a kit in plastic. The moulds have been peddled around a bit between various manufacturers.

Nicely executed model. The removable roof makes it more viewable to see all the little scratch built details.

Pete, I look forward to seeing them when you get the chance to reload the pictures. I am a latecomers to seeing your model, so could you refer me also to your build thread? Was it on this forum of another? Thanks! Peteski, personally I have no problem with old threads being resurrected. We tend to forget that when people come on to the forum, they tend to look for what interests them and not the date when the thread was created and react to it, hence the resurrections. Alternatively someone relatively new may not trawl all the threads before creating a new thread asking about or featuring something that has gone before. Sometimes it is good to put life back into an old thread, particularly if someone happens to be working on a model that is featured and wants some more advice.

Beautiful build Pete. Any chance of simply re loading the pictures directly from your PC and not through photo bucket? Photobucket do no one any favours by greying out a third of every picture, especially when of a super detailed model such as your Zero. Incidentally, Atesania Latina have just announced a ME109G in 1/16th scale similar sort of skeletal model.

The ads are irritating, but not as irritating as photo bucket's large grey band across every picture. Guys, you can load pictures directly into posts from your PC to avoid photobucket. What is the point in placing a picture on a site where at least a third is greyed out when you go to look at it?

Heller kits. All the ones I have built in the past have had their own shall we say, 'challenges'. Maybe their latest are better? Mike, that old Jag E Type that you are building appears to be fraught with problems that you are diligently overcoming. I don't know what your religion is, but I admire your faith in persevering to make a good job of it! By the time you have finished you can take some satisfaction in making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

The aircraft guys have panel lines to work to generally so BMF is probably a good option for them. But a car body with seamless compound curves over swathes of bodywork could prove very difficult to achieve with foil.

I am still using an old version of this named Kleer. And yes it still works well!

Don't bother with BMF. After priming spray the entire body with a craft chrome aerosol spray and leave it to dry thoroughly. This will be a hell of a lot easier than trying to get BMF to go around any compound curves. When dry buff it up gently with C1 Polishing Powder until the desired finish is obtained. Have a look in 'Can I see some scratch built things' in the WIP Model cars column and have a look at the pictures of my Napier Railton that was finished by this method, If this is the sort of finish you are looking for it worked OK for me. Hope this helps.

Intrigued by that little red and white bubble car in Eric's post. And what movie / TV show is it from?

What with the newish Belkits Mark 1 Escort Rally Cars as well as the old Esci Mark 2 kit as featured the Ford 60's and 70's Rally Cars are quite well represented. Motobitz in the UK can supply a number of alternative decals and resin parts for the Mk 1 kits. Many years ago there was a company named MRM in the UK that did the same for the Esci Mk 2 kits, now sadly defunct. The Cossack mens grooming sponsorship decals were one of their items. Would have been nice if someone had done a conversion kit to make it into an RS2000 road car.

Pat, I like your little teardrop shaped camped trailer. It looks deceptively easy as a project, but is a lot more difficult than it would appear!

MCM was great with the late Harry P's graphic and layout skills prevalent, and it was not just a job to him being an excellent auto modeller as well. If the revived MCM has another guy like Harry to plan the layouts, it should resemble the MCM we used to know.

The Tamiya VW Karmann Ghia model of yours looks a beauty! I had A Gunze one that looked good in the box but sold it on. As far as I am aware no one has done a Mk 2 of this car.

Guys, I get it, yes FSM has run some good auto modelling articles down through the years, and probably will continue to do so. I have enough copies to substantiate this, but I cannot see automotive articles taking up more of that magazine than they do already. As I have already said, FSM is a general modelling magazine that has to have balanced content to appeal to all genres of model making. If say 1/4 of that magazine was devoted in the future to automotive subjects in light of SA's closure, it would soon lose many subscribers and readers who are interested in other subjects. Just look at the number of stand alone aircraft and military modelling magazines that just keep going. That must be saying something about majority interests supporting them. I have seen at least 3 dedicated British auto modelling magazines come and go in the past, so what is that saying? I know that Automotive Modelling is much, much stronger in the US, and SA closing may be just what the new MCM revival needs right now as the timing accidentally could not be better for it to succeed! Let's see!

Andrew, thanks for the heads up about the dates of the final GSL in 2022. Bill, you have made a great job on the 'Headache Racks' on your truck model. Scratch building need not necessarily be complete builds, and even modest scratch built additions will give your own individuality to a model and develop skills to attempt more advanced things in the future. Claude, I must admit that I was a little surprised that numbers of tourists to your city were taken aback by the use of the French language. Just shows their lack of awareness that Quebec Province is primarily French speaking, and so many visitors to Quebec City or Montreal are unaware of this. I would imagine that as Canada is a Commonwealth Country they assume that just English is spoken being blissfully unaware that Canada is officially bilingual. One of my bucket list things to do will be a crossing on the Canadian Pacific, and also ride the Rocky Mountaneer Train. As big Arnie said in the Terminator, ' I'll be back!'

FSM is a general modelling magazine that has to cater for all genres. So I fear that the automotive content from S.A. will not be given any precedent over anything else in that magazine. It is a fact of life that there is more modelling interest in aircraft and military than cars generally, much as though I and many of us would wish otherwise. Just don't hold your breath! Best just wait and see how MCM gets up and running again.

Claude, I think that the final GSL may be a couple of years away still, but best to check. Not sure if I would be able to make it, much as I would like to. A few years back I was on a cruise from Boston to Halifax and other Eastern Seaboard locations that went up the St. Laurence (Lawrence?) Seaway and spent a day looking around a part of your beautiful city. I was very impressed. Certainly could see the French influence having been to France many times. I would like to have spent much longer in Quebec. Perhaps I will return again someday! Last time I visited Canada was to the West coast and did a two week coach tour out of Vancouver inland to Banff in the Rockies and across to sail the inland passage down to Victoria on Vancouver Island. Both Vancouver and Victoria were also nice cities to visit. However I have still to visit Montreal and Toronto! I have to say that I do like Canada from what I have seen already.

Heard that the next GSL will be the last!

Thanks Tom. Thought it looked familiar having built one about 40 years ago! Also, thanks for your reply Glenn.

Did Lindberg use the old Pyro moulds for this? Or is it a different kit altogether?

One cool model Claude!

Ah, well! Model Car Builder is an alternative supplemental publication until Model Cars Magazine gets going again. Pity that neither have ever been sold over the counter here in the UK.

There are some crazy guys about, that is for sure. Cannot understand building a house around cars? Most people would have settled for a double garage, or simply build an extension like a car showroom. At least the cars could be driven out without a demolition job required..

Have seen magazine 'absorption' many times over, and the absorbed magazine content has always dwindled to just an occasional article amongst the rest.