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Here in the UK I run an ECO Renault Captur Diesel 1.5, It does 54 MPG round town and 63MPG on a long run. After 3 years from new they have to have an MOT certificate of road worthiness, brakes/steering/no rust/good tyres and brakes. But also an exhaust check for Co2 emissions, due to amount of filters in the exhaust and throughout the turbo engine it registers on the government test equipment Zero Emissions! So we don't pay what is called Road Fund Tax each year. It's now 8 years old and done 65000 miles so as we are in our 70's this will be our last car, and as most say on here EV's are just too expensive, and as yet the government haven't rated EV's for Road Fund Tax, but as they make Billions of Pounds from this tax on combustion engines they can't afford to loose that all of us changing to EV's, interesting! Also they stopped any further research on Hydrogen vehicles that only emit water from the exhaust as across all government departments there was no agreement of what taxes to charge us for using them!

Yes like here in the UK as a pensioner it's not the place to get a bargain anymore, some USA kits are over £100!

Thanks guys, yes they both have engines. Nice kits.

I've laid up the Bronco decals, once I've sealed them with clear coat I can finish off the swage line round the body. And placed the buggy on the trailer..

It's really looking good, I've built a few WRC cars of various sizes, this is a particularly good kit. These are Ford Focus in Ken Block decals 1/24 and 1/43 scale.. Some decals are aftermarket others are my own printed decals.

I also notice that ebay now has numerous categories for model cars, when I used to just go to 'Auction' for car(automobile) kits there are so many more areas to search. I am also reluctant to use ebay for selling stuff as they are expensive now on charges taking a higher percentage each time I try to sell! I don't deal with Amazon here in the UK because of their expensive shipping regime.

Many questions here in the UK haven't been answered by government who want us to change to EV in the next 20 years (I shall be 93!). They talk about getting rid of what is possibly our last coal mine and coal powered power stations. Recently they were talking about shutting one of only three or so Nuclear Power stations because it's old fashioned. It's new Nuclear Power stations we need if we are to go electric only! People will come home from work (those who don't work from home already) plug in their cars and have no energy left to light their houses or cook a meal! Adversely we have a new company about 20 miles away that have already changed road cars from fuel to electric, Jaguar E Type (the car the Harry and Meghan used after their wedding) Porches both 911 and 356. The 356 is twice as fast, faster! Also Buses, trucks, taxi's and small city delivery vans etc. They all have something we don't personally like that's automatic gearboxes or a variant of it. But change we are going to do to save the Earth for our future generations, like it or not!

Thanks Ray, I've found the old Scale Equipment identical buggy that I bought years ago and am going to give it a refurb. as the new kit has two sets of buggy decals, I'll also give it a paint update. And it's plastic not resin as I first thought, but that was about 15 years ago!

Nearly finished the buggy..

We have UPS here alongside numerous others. UPS are the only courier here that can't give a time slot to deliver and can't collect at all.

Some more on the above kit build.. Test fitting the plastic wheels/tyres. The pins they mount on don't capture them so after sand on tyres and centres painted they will need to be glued on. I have had to do the same with the Bronco as again the method of mounting those wheels/tyres are by metal pins through the backing plates but they are not tight and fall off, so I've glued those as well.

This looks really great! On my visits to Le Mans, the Corvettes are always the loudest of all. Stood on the banking half way round the 9 mile circuit you could hear them coming, when it was directly in front of you and even louder watching it pull away down the Mulsanne straight!

Absolutely SUPERB!

Some more on the above kit..

Thanks Frank & David G.

I bought a number of Heller kits and was on their forum, but as I couldn't speak French is was blocked! Our problem here is in the UK although Heller is in France/Holland most van kits are in excess of £40 plus shipping, OR buy them from various UK web shops at the higher price of perhaps £45! As a pensioner that's too much.

The Revell kit here is one I'm starting to build, but... I knew I'd seen this Sandman somewhere else! I bought a resin kit from Scale Equipment years ago and this is it! Now doesn't this look similar!

I have today started painting said kit.. I have also started to build the Bronco engine.

Great colour Yellow! Next time I get one of these kits, that colour comes first!

Thanks Daniel, I'll give it a try. I still can't understand why we can't have three sets of wheels and proper rubber tyres.

Thanks guys.

No Claude the wheels are one of those custom packs. I took the chrome off with oven cleaner, painted them grey and just wiped the Molotow chrome pen around the rims.

I'm thinking of building this next.. So I've bought it into the kitchen to wash it. Not having opened the box since buying it in June I noticed straight away that only the Bronco has separate rubber tyres! The wheels/tyres for both the buggy and the trailer are all complete plastic mouldings, so having to paint the wheels that are combined with the tyres is very disappointing!

Thanks guys, I think my weathering is slowly improving!

My pleasure James, I'd very much like to see it when your done!