A Bacon's Dozen: Matt's 12 for 2024

[Matt Bacon]

Started out with some 1/43's from Airfix, which some of you may have spotted in MCM this year...

McLaren 765LT, Airfix, 1/43

Lamborghini Huracan Evo, Airfix, 1/43

 

Land Rover Series 1, Airfix, 1/43

Aston Martin DB5, Airfix, 1/43

Audi eTron GT, Revell "Easy-Click", 1/24

BMW 1000RR, Lego, 1/5

AC 289 Sports MkIII, Monogram(ish), 1/24

Lotus Esprit, Fujimi, 1/24

And the year's big project -- a series of recreations of comic covers painted by artist Roy Cross built using Classic British Kits for a display paying tribute to his life and work.

1928 Delage, Auto Kits, 1/24

1958 Vanwall, Merit, 1/24

1961 Ferrari 156, Auto Kits, 1/24

1955 Mercedes W196, Merit, 1/24

There'll be a few more of these to come for 2025.

Until then, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

best,

M.

Edited December 22, 2024 by Matt Bacon

[bbowser]

Outstanding work on all, thanks for sharing!

[Plastheniker]

All twelve look great! My favourites are probably the Esprit and (hard to believe it is a 1/43 model) the DB 5.

[espo]

Beautiful paint and trim on these exotic cars. Like the well-used truck thrown in as well. 

[Claude Thibodeau]

Hi Matt! 

I'm impressed by the width and diversity of your subjects. Bravo!

CT

[PappyD340]

Very nice group for 2024!

[hedotwo]

Great group of builds!

[ChrisR]

Great builds.

[Phildaupho]

A very interesting selection of models built this year. I especially enjoyed your series of Eagle cover cars.

[1959scudetto]

Great models, Matt - I'm urgently awaiting your next "Roy Cross" racecars...

[Roger U]

A nice selection of models. I really like the Lotus Esprit and the Roy Cross cover cars.

[Pierre Rivard]

Great stuff Matt. The Eagle cover cars have been so cool to follow. Thanks for sharing these.

[Zippi]

Great group of builds for 2024 Matt.

[slusher]

Wonderful builds for the year!

[XYHARRY]

Very nice collection of builds, well done Matt.

Cheers, 

David. 😎👍

[spencer1984]

Nice group for the year, the art cars and displays are especially impressive!

[TooOld]

Great collection Matt ! I especially enjoy seeing your 1/43rd builds !

[OldNYJim]

Nice work Matt!  I picked up the Airfix DB5 kit today off the back of your review of the Lamborghini and the McLaren…they looked like fun so I grabbed the Aston to try!

Did that one make the magazine too?  Would be interested to see how you liked the build on the DB5 too…

[ybsluos]

Well done Matt!   Gorgeous builds.

[Matt Bacon]

5 hours ago, CabDriver said:

Did that one make the magazine too?  Would be interested to see how you liked the build on the DB5 too…

@CabDriver thank you, and yes, the DB5 and Land Rover are in the issue after the one with the McLaren and Lamborghini. Short answer: I liked it a lot, though I swapped the wheels for some 3D printed wires. The kit ones with a wash to pop the detail are not at all bad, though…

best,

M.

[OldNYJim]

19 hours ago, Matt Bacon said:

@CabDriver thank you, and yes, the DB5 and Land Rover are in the issue after the one with the McLaren and Lamborghini. Short answer: I liked it a lot, though I swapped the wheels for some 3D printed wires. The kit ones with a wash to pop the detail are not at all bad, though…

best,

M.

Oh nice!  I found the issue with the E-type in my stash but not the DB5…I kinda remembered seeing an article for that one, so thanks for confirming!