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Although Ettore Bugatti was born Italian he started and built all of his cars in France. This is a depiction of a fictional retired EB110. Living near the Silverstone Circuit in the UK, when they have classic car meetings, there are people who drive to the meetings in racing cars that have been converted to road cars after their racing careers are over........ this one I've registered in Italy. You can see that the body and paint have seen better days but the chassis and engine are still capable of high speeds......

Thanks Wayne, yes the Miyazaki Animes are great!

Yes fantastic work on the decals on this BMW Z4 GT3. I built an earlier model from Fujimi that just had the BMW logo's and body stripes, nice kit.

Yes Jim, not a big job, just fancied building something else while the paint/gloss clear dried on a Bugatti.

Another plane>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thanks Jake. We don't discriminate here in the UK, if it fits, it fits no matter what make!

Thanks guys. Yes Tony we had the same results. Some gt and lower formula gays were making silly comments about the 250 Karts until they were beaten hollow by a significant margin, and not believing that the Karts could pull away in corners. Althought the others had much wider tyres and thought they had an advantage and get a faster lap they were sadly disapointed!

Thanks guys for your comments. The fairings look OK on the boxtop, I just didn't fancy putting them on! We don't use them on the smaller engined Karts.

Here's the boxtop.....

Yes I wish when we went racing they had some sort of pads to save the bruises!

Thanks for your comments. Well unclescott58, that's how they are, still racing in this form and although now 68, I've driven some of these about 5 years ago, on an indoor track. Yes mine had the fuel tank on the left with the engine on the right and when you get up the next day you have a large size bruise under your left arm/elbow where the tank bounced up and down on the concrete surface. And yes the right arm, right side was very warm. I did circuit marshalling at Silverstone Circuit about 5 miles away for nearly 30 years, and whilst there the world championship of karts came to us each year. A friend of the family who has lived in the USA for some years now, had a 250cc watercooled kart with a fully faired body, and coming through the start/finish straight with others of the same were topping 150 mph, in the top class karts! All the juniors here start at 5 or 6 years old with a 50cc engine looking identical to this, and through the age groups go up to 175cc (I think) which was the karts Hamilton and Rosberg (F1 drivers now) raced at 10 years old. Fantastic sport!

This took me a few days and I rattle can sprayed the frame Copper instead of the Black as suggested.

Thanks Marc.

Superb, I love Flintstone Resins!

Thanks guys.

Just finished on the WIP thread..............

The last four pics to finish this one off....................

Thanks Marc. Yes you've got it, an old truck needing a new PU bed, to bring it back into service.

Yes Mike your right on both counts, but I build as I see, I'm not bothered about scales or ages of vehicles. If real I would buy one that's why I model to see what I would like to build if it was real. Although as a 1:1 I can't buy one here in the UK. Artwork on cab and chrome interior to pickup bed and some sort of net to stop things falling out................... The tape on the screen, when sprayed with dullcoate will give the impression of one wiper working. My own jury is out on the paint/artwork on the cab, it might well change on Monday! I've got Practice 3 and Qualifying for the F1 Spanish GP tomorrow and the race on Sunday to see first before I venture out into my cabin again.

Thanks guys, so three more pics.......... Firstly the wheels are on..................... Secondly the dually bed is built, using also filler panels over the wheel arches.. and thirdly a test fit of the bed on the chassis...........

Bought for around £1 from my favourite ebay UK, this was an already started and abandoned build. As it seemed to be hand painted with a few Mickey Mouse decals I got the oven cleaner to it! It came without wheels/ytres/engine and a few other bits. So as I had it handy I'm rebuiding it as a duallie, after finding 6 tyres from my bins. After cleaning up! I rebuilt the cab I made inner wings for the duallies................. I test fitted the rear deck......... And have plastic bottle tops to make wider inner tubs if I need to................

I finished building the SG38 today. The difference between this and the GR9 is the main wing comes in two halves and the tailplane is squared off. I hope to lay up both sets of decals (what there are) in the next few days.

Thanks Ace-Garageguy, for your comments and info. The S6B is a favourite of mine too and as far as Porco goes I have it with English voice over saved on my Sky box (satellite TV recorder) and watch it on a regular basis! I like as your picture shows, where he lives on a beach in the sun, although he needs to start up the plane and fly out of his hideout to shop! I think the woman on the front of the magazine he's snoozing under is his love! She has a restuarant and bar where all of the sky pirates meet up, on it's own island nearby! Oh Tony is Macchi is no more, the SMER kit is such a poor kit that after working on it for 5 days (fit problems/poor instructions/soft plastic/didn't like the paint) it was still nowhere right so I put it in the recycling bin that went yesterday! In fact I'm selling all of my aircraft kits, 20+ due to poor quality and poor instructions.

Thanks for that Bill, interesting to see the flag on the tailfin! As it seems to have an all enveloping body it may well be a later model.

Yes mine as with the Citroen HY van is very soft.