Bugatti Fan

Search functions no matter what website or forum you are on usually throw up a lot of dross to wade through. It is just the nature of the beast. I think that we will just have to say goodbye to Modelhaus for good as I cannot see anyone taking what would be a very big commitment on!

3 of mine, complete scratch builds. Bugatti Type 59 Hispano Suiza H6C Brooklands Napier Railton

I like Eddie's Mk1 Ford Classic Capri WIP model. .My brother's first car way back in the 60's was a Classic saloon. There was another guy that used to cruise around Reading UK, my home town, in a white Capri GT like the one Eddie is modelling.

Pat, the picture of Purdey's TR7 brought back a few memories. A mate of mine had a yellow one. Joanna, a national treasure. I have been watching the travelogue programmes she has been presenting on TV recently, that included some of the filming cock ups. What I like about her is although she has a very posh upper class English accent, she is very down to earth, and does not take herself too seriously whilst being very professional. Her role in Absolutely Fabulous as the over the top older retired model is a classic in self deprecation where she really takes the mickey out of herself and her previous profession as a model back in the 60's 70's era. She is one of the very few celebrities that I would actually like to meet.

I have a feeling that a TR7 may have been done by Revell as Purdey's TR7 from the Avengers TV series. Joanna Lumley was playing the part of Purdey I believe. Not sure about the Airfix one being an own tool, or it they used someone else's under licence at the time. Airfix have issued a number of different car kits under licence down the years in 1/25 and 1/24 scales.

As Atlantis have acquired the Renwall moulds, I wonder if the Virgil Exner 1960,s design versions of the Packard, Bugatti, Duesenberg, Mercer Cobra, and the rest of that small series of moulds still exist? It would be nice to see these reissued it Atlantis have them. As far as I can remember they were only issued once.

I would guess that this was done to streamline this website a bit as larger scale models do not tend to feature a lot compared to the majority interest in the usual 1/25 and 1/24 majority scales on here. The Scalemotorcars website appears to be much more orientated to the larger scale builder however.

Hopefully, as Scale Auto has announced it is ceasing in October 2020, if MCM can get itself sorted out big time, there will be a gap to fill. Besides yourself, who is the new team getting the magazine back on track? Model Car Builder appears to be the only dedicated car modelling magazine to compete with when SA goes.

Could be right Jim. I expect DeAgostini have offices all over. Did a quick calculation of the cost of the Jag E Type in the UK built from the part series.............Approximately £900.00 Sterling.

DeAgostini is a UK company that specialises in large scale model kits either complete or as a part series. There is an equivalent company Eaglemoss in the USA I believe doing much the same thing.

Good link. Many of the drawings are from the old British Model Cars magazine from the sixties. Other drawings were MAP drawings sold individually at the time. I think that a company in the UK named Trapped Publications now has them.

Used to be one parked up regularly a few streets away. Will be interested in seeing the progress on this model. It must be the car equivalent of putting the multi camouflage paint job on a Saab Viggen Aircraft only much brighter!

Orange Hauler. That was the one Steve. Thanks for the feedback! Surprising what extra information about a subject that fellow modeller have also shared on this thread about the real car.

Thought it was Tom. Thanks for your feedback!

Patience appears to be the key as suggested as each mist coat he allowed to dry out thoroughly before the next layer goes on. Sound advice by a number of posters on this thread.

This thread is very interesting, but appears to concentrate only on the effects of various primers on polystyrene plastic. I would surmise that some of the so called hot primers would probably be perfectly ok on other materials like resins, metal and wood for example.

Question........The Lindberg Auburn Speedster, was that originally a Pyro kit? Can remember building the Pyro one many years ago.

Looking good so far and will be following this build. Nice subject as I like the rounded body styling that was prevalent just before the fins and chrome era.

Guido, The Futurista, that was the model I made all those years ago. The picture of the period box art was a nice thing you put up to share, so thanks for that. Glenn, $50 for a kit back in the sixties? As tennis star John McEnroe once said ' You can not be serious!'

Thanks for the feedback guys. I seem to remember looking at American auto mags at about the time when many 240's were on the road and seeing a number of ads for retro engine fits and tuning gear.

The Futurista. That was it Michael! Did Monogram make another Darryl Starbird show rod pick up named Orange Crate, as I think I built this model as well, way back when?

The day has come! Big E phones Noddy Hey Noddy, How ya doin? Noddy Hi Big E, nice to hear from you. How's the car coming along? Big E Well Noddy, you will be pleased to know that your ride is now finished, and you can come and collect it! Noddy That's great Big E, I will be along straight away for it! Big E Noddy, One thing! Your pimped up retro ride looks great, but there is just one thing. Noddy What's that Big E? Big E Get rid of that stupid hat with the bell on the end of it! THE END! OK, I expect some of you are wondering what all the Noddy story was about. He is a character created by an English children's book writer named Enid Blyton. The Noddy books have been made into children's TV programmes in the UK and possibly there is a US version. I happened on this damaged toy when I was clearing out some stuff out of my loft. It reminded me of the time when my now grown up kids were very little and can remember the old Corgi toy being played with, suffering numerous 'crashes' off the kitchen table at the time. I thought that I would have a little break from doing my scratch builds and have a bit of pure modelling fun without having to refer to anything and just let my imagination run a bit wild. The spares box offered up all the odd bits and pieces used like seats and wheels etc. I even had part of an old kit interior (possibly from an old Aurora 1/32 scale kit that has been in the box for 50 odd years) that I put to use on this model. The nice thing about doing an 'off the wall' project is to explore new techniques without chancing an expensive kit. I stripped the thing down completely and used oven cleaner to get all the old paint and chrome remnants to lift. A square aperture was cut into the hood for an upper part of a blower to poke through and all the wheel arches were cut back with a Dremel tool to accomodate the larger wheels and tyres. The trunk mounted spare wheel carrier was made from a turned piece of Perspex, After a good clean in detergent, auto primers were used. The body and fenders were simply air brushed with Humbrol Yellow and Revell Red gloss enamels, so nothing fancy there. The stripped chrome parts were sprayed with an aerosol craft chrome metallic finish, as were the alloy wheels and when dry buffed using C1 Polishing Powder. Seats and door panels were painted in a light brown matt acrylic and when dry given a coat of Van Dyke Brown waterproof drawing ink to give the leather sheen to the seats. The underpan/chassis was painted overall matt black. The original windscreen was masked off after polishing the clear part and the surround sprayed with the chrome. A old white metal 1/43rd scale Bentley gave me an instrument panel for the dashboard and the headlamps, rear and sidelamp, and also the folded down convertible cover. I made up some old style personalised UK number plates (NOD 1 Y) from black plastic card and Slaters plastic lettering. The blower top was sprayed in chrome and fitted.. Exhaust tail ends are from polished aluminium tubing and a photo etched steering wheel fitted. All in all the project was a bit of light relief, made from a mish mash of odd parts in different scales just for fun, and make not a true model but a bit of a caracature! The model is a bit grubby looking in the photos as I forgot to give it a bit of a clean up first.....But anyway, you get the general idea of the model! TONGUE IN CHEEK DISCLAIMER This writer takes no responsibility for any of your kids toys 'going missing' for similar projects! LOL NB I have also added a couple of pictures of my more serious scratch built stuff.

I wondered if the Uncertain T moulds had been scrapped Michael, so thanks for the update. Monogram had some other customs and show rods in their range in the Sixties. One that I can remember building was a very futuristic looking 3 wheeler powered by a VW engine. Cannot remember the name of the kit unfortunately. I expect the moulds for this have been scrapped as well.

Looking forward in later postings on here and seeing what infrastructure and team will be put into place to revive the magazine. I was going to register as a user with Facebook but they were asking for too much personal information, so like many others do not use it

I have an article about the Uncertain T that was printed in Model Car science way back in the Sixties when the Monogram kit first came out and was followed within by an article about converting it to a Milk Truck It makes you wonder why Monogram have never re released the Uncertain T after all this time. The Tijuana Taxi was all but forgotten about for forty years or more and suddenly re released 3 or 4 years back. Judging by the apparent clamour on this thread for an Uncertain T kit, maybe it would be better to bombard Revell/Monogram as they are now with requests, unless of course the moulds have been scrapped or are beyond repair.