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Brilliant! I've just started building these, finished the first one! Very impressed at the kit quality.

Very Tasty!

Neat! I've looked at one of these kits for a long time, but done nothing. Our local tree surgeon has real one.

I'm glad I saved this little item after I got shot of photobucket. All plasticard except the wheels/tyres.

Cheers kilrathy10.

Ah you see Jim what you can spy out in the sticks!

Further to my previous post. Oven cleaner here in the UK seems to be in short supply, our local Tesco supermarket hasn't any and doesn't now when there will be any in. I went to my local small hardware store that sells my Plasti-Kote sprays and he said that Ammonia would do the job as oven cleaner has a high percentage of ammonia in it. I tried it yesterday but OUTSIDE! The fumes are shocking. Later in the day, not wanting to leave it outside for cats/wild animals or birds attempting to drink it. I tested it the fumes had gone so took it indoors, added very hot water and washing up liquid and after cooling down all the chrome coating had gone as has the slippery coating that oven cleaner leaves behind! Sorted! This morning I put back and fronts of chromed wire wheels from an Alfa Romeo kit in the plastic tub, lid off. The Alfa has gloss black wires in the 1:1 version!

When this magazine is re-launched will it be available in the UK? As a subscriber to Scale Auto for some years I need a printed automotive/model car magazine to look through/read on a regular basis. I've had the first Zinio version of the Finescale magazine and there are no auto/car articles in it as promised so have asked for my subscription to be returned as mine was up to December 2021 and really don't want or need a Military magazine at all.

Yes Bruce. I've started the engine, but through my research noticed that the heavily chromed wheels should be authentically in a black gloss finish. So they are going in the tub tomorrow or Monday to have some chrome stripper poured over them! 28/09 Update. My hardware shop owner had run out of the oven cleaner that I had previously used to strip chrome and said that he had bottles of neat Ammonia, and that the oven cleaner had a high percentage of Ammonia in it. So he said 'try it out' which I have, yes it smells really strong so I put the chrome parts in a used ice cream tub and put it outside with a thin coating of Ammonia. It stripped it in less than a day, so I poured hot soapy water over it all and a cold water rinse and hey presto no chrome and no awful smell! I have started to paint the wires with a coat of acrylic matt black today!

Thanks guys, yes I've just started an Alfa Romeo 1750 Zagato by funnily enough Heller!

Yes Dan, Super kits, my latest two Heller kits!

Thanks guys, yes very nice kits.

Thank you Claude. Definitely formidable, we!

Thanks Jonathan. yes nice kit too.

Built box stock and added decals from the Fourgon Type H (1947-51)... With the later Citroen Type H. At a nearby garage..

Well thanks guys. These are fantastic kits although snap ones, but with plenty of detail and character!

It looks just great. Back in the sixties we were 'Mods', so some of us had Vespa's and I and a number of others had Lambretta's. We would tune them, add a fuel injectors, short exhausts, and have the side panels chrome plated. Others had chromed front and/or rear wheel carriers and loads of spot lights. We would 'cruise' down to the coast (about three hours) at weekends and meet up with other groups/clubs from around the country.

Thanks guys. I'm looking for the Ducati bike next.

Superb! As an ex rally marshal I remember these!

Cheers Larry.

Absolutely fantastic. As a marshal at Silverstone on the unveiling of the Volvo 850 into the racing world with both the estate version and the saloon this is great tribute to that campaign of the 850 Volvo. Well Done

Thanks Bruce, yes it was a concept by Ford, but something about it's radical design stalled it ever going into production.

Thanks Rich.

Although a snap kit, it's still interesting. I've added decals from my collection to make a Le-Mans style factory stock racer.

Thanks guys, yes were never too old for LEGO!