1937 Bugatti Atlantic 57 S - Mother of all Sports Cars?

[Bennyg]

Wow. I love your subject choices in cars and trucks. Pure art.

Ben

[sjordan2]

I too Have a couple of these and would like to cast the body and use that to refine and build. Your build is very beautiful and

bears out the proverbial silk purse.

I too Have a couple of these and would like to cast the body and use that to refine and build. Your build is very beautiful and

bears out the proverbial silk purse.

If you find someone who can cast this in resin at a reasonable price, I'm in there for two. Let me know.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Great work, looks fantastic!

[Ramfins59]

That's an absolutely beautiful car Jurgen.

[Plastheniker]

Thanks for all further comments.

Skip, Harry, Matt, I meant this item http://www.micromark.com/HO-scale-decals-with-raised-3D-rivets-and-other-surface-details,9968.html

If it works as promised it would be a fantastic solution because these rivets are really 3-dimensional.

Matt's idea would certainly work and give a quick and accurate result. Since these printed decal rivets are either dark grey or silver it would be interesting how the effect on various vehicle colours would be.

After some pondering I am convinced that Harry's idea of using an ultra-fine Sharpie would work as well. Here the problem would be to create a straight line of "rivets" with equal distances between them. This, however, could be achieved by using a strip cut from a suitable universal PE fret (as Scale Link produces for decades) as a template. Either the position of all rivets could be marked with a pin first or the dot could be made directly.

[Matt Bacon]

I don't know if these are the same product as the above that MicroMark are rebranding, but you reminded me about these as well:

http://www.archertransfers.com/SurfaceDetailsMain.html

They come in many railroad and other scales, so I guess it would be a matter of figuring out which rail scale of chunky "boilerplate" rivets might be used to replicate much finer prototypical rivets in 1/24 scale...

bestest,

M.

[Plastheniker]

Matt, thanks for the fantastic link that I did not know up to now. Since I do a lot of big rig scratchbuilding I was glad to find there casted louvres in various larger sizes. All louvres I saw before were much too small for my requirements.

Thanks again!

[Funkychiken]

Wow, what a motor & what a build!

[Speedfreak]

That is awsome Jurgen, the history alone is cool and the build is great! Thanks for sharing the photos!

[f1ford48]

an AMAZING build- especially considering what you started with. one of the best in this scale I have seen here.....