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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.

A bit of a labour of love there Johnny, but looking good so far. Your model looks big on the bench. Is it the 1/12 Tamiya one? I think they may have done a rally version as well. Going down in scale, did Revell make a 1/24 or 1/25 scale kit way back? The 240Z was a nice looking car in its day, but from what I have heard they were rot boxes unfortunately.

A month later Noddy phones Big E How's my car coming along? Big E It's nearly there. Took a bit longer than I thought as I had to cut back the fenders to accommodate the bigger wheels and tyres. The hood needed cutting on the top for the blower Even got on to the UK DVLA and got you some personalised number plates! Noddy That sounds good Big E and look forward to seeing it soon! Big E I don't think you will be disappointed Noddy. See you in a few days!

Noddy Well Big E, what can you do for my car? Big E Noddy you will have to leave it to me. It will be a complete strip down and re build. Noddy Can you pimp it up with custom alloys, full interior and give it more grunt? Big E Yea! Sure Noddy. I sure will make your car look real cool! One thing though. Let's keep the colour scheme or no one will recognise it's your car! Noddy OK Big E but when you work on the interior, can I have brown leather instead of that old black stuff. Big E I have just the thing Noddy! Two nice brown leather custom seats and door panels to match!

There is a company in the UK named DeAgostini who market large scale kits like Eaglemoss in the US. I was tempted by the Jaguar E Type when it started to be released as a weekly parts purchase. Decided not to due to both the huge expense after buying the initial loss leader parts to tempt you into collecting, and the concern about what if the company suddenly stops trading and I am left with half a kit on my hands? If either company offers full kits to purchase, that would be the way to go, and use a credit card (not a debit card) to buy as it gives you protection to get your money back should things go badly wrong, and also you could spread the cost a bit if you want.

All will be revealed as we go along!

Primers can be a bit hit and miss unfortunately. Here in the UK there is an Auto Accessory outlet named Halfords, and I have found their own brand primers to be ok. I apply mist coats to start off and allow it to harden and continue gradually with more mist coats and allowing it to harden each time until I have built up to the finish required. This method allows the carrier chemical /thinner to evaporate off more quickly and lessen the chance of eating into the plastic as coats are bulit up gradually. Commercial rattle can primers are developed for automotive and general craft use so can be a bit strong on delicate plastic model parts. If in any doubt, and do not want your model to disintegrate like a vampire doused in holy water, then just stick to and use primers that are developed specifically for plastic models like the Tamiya brand

Noddy arives at Big E's Custom Shop. Big E. Yo! Noddy! What brings you here? Noddy. That Blyton woman who created me has left me stuck with this car. Any way to improve it? I asked her for a Fiat Gamine back in the Seventies but was ignored! Big E. Well lets see what we can do Noddy. Have a look at a few of my Custom Options.

Says Noddy. Man, this car is so frustrating! Enid B, my writer has left me driving this heap since 1948! I look around and see all the cool stuff other guys are driving Time to go and see my friend Big E (not allowed to call him Big Ears any more due to political correctness) and see what he can do for me.

Les, I expect you get to see the Northern Lights regularly in your neck of the woods in Scotland! Living about 25 miles north of London I have never seen that spectacular show of nature. Steve, what transmission will be going on to your Anglia? Most of the Anglia/Pops I have seen at shows over here in the UK have Jag rear suspension fitted.

Could not work out why Xingu blocked this thread in the first place, but pleased to see it has been reinstated.