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We had a metallic Blue Avantime here recently!

Carl say Happy Birthday to your nephew from me.

Thanks Carl. I've just ordered 2 of the Tamiya T14 Sky Blue rattle cans!

For my 76th Birthday on the 17th (St Patricks Day), I shall decal it as an acquaintance No.2 Will Hoy who I knew in the day. 11.03.24 Update Tamiya sky blue rattle cans delivered today.

Brilliant! We have thousands here in the UK, I mean real ones!

We don't use mobile phones and recently the Open Reach manhole across the road cut off our landline! Absolute bliss! No scammer phone calls who refuse to leave a message with their phone number! Only our two sons have our phone numbers when we do switch on our mobiles once a week!

Two companies here in the UK recently gone down in the EV business, one tried building trucks/vans, due to little or no customers. The country wide charging infrastructure is no good. A recent survey announced that in an area of London where the parliament is has more street chargers than the rest of the country combined and government want us to buy EV's without sufficient chargers to keep them running. We are two and a half hours from the coast, my small diesel does up to 60 mpg, in an EV I would have to stop at least twice to re-charge and take twice as long to get there! All Energy costs have risen so electricity can be dearer than petrol/diesel in some area's.

Super colour. A guy down the road who races an MGA has various racing people staying over from time to time. One has the factory blue of the Alpine, very similar to the original plastic bodied rally version.

Neat!

Superb!

Thanks Jeff, Yes what else will I come across, opening old kit boxes?

Whilst in the throes of packing for our soon to be house move, I found in an old ice cream tub an Airfix 1/32 Ford Escort in a plastic bag, In basic grey plastic. So to break up the packing schedule I decided over a couple of days to build it. I had printed out the instructions of a previous build some years ago. In the days of my race/airfield marshalling at the Silverstone Racing Circuit some 5 miles away, about 40 years ago there was a saloon car class designated 'Super Saloons'. This was using a base saloon shell on a spaceframe chassis with whatever V8 engine/gearbox you could fit. I found alongside this kit a modified Escort MK1 shell duly modified with plasticard by me some 30+ years ago! I am now looking for a 1/32 kit of an F! car for the wheels and suspension to fit a scratch chassis! I therefore look forward to my move, building another garden cabin and continuing model making, having started when I was 8 years old and 76 next month!

Brilliant Sidewinder!

WOW! Wicked truck!

Superb! Just as I rode one in the 1960's!

Superb! Great rear wheels as well as everything else!

Yes Les, brilliant stuff,

Thanks guys.

Still looking great! I see your using my favourites- coffee sticks!

Very nice to see and follow!

Super job going on here! We had the same problem with our youngest son's road Beetle, with the front end wound right down and what shocks to put on. We solved it but I couldn't drive it as it was solid, without any up or down travel, but he loved it! He also chose different diameter front and rear tyres!

Cheers David.

Thanks Carl.

Pretty poor for me..