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I certainly agree Gary. I have a number in my stash, but foolishly let the Hasegawa Ford Focus Safari kit slip through my fingers a few year ago! Maybe a themed wip on African rallies could be fun.

@SnøMotion Martin, yes I did do a thread here: Thanks for all the positive replies!

Thank you, Greg, for moving this thread to the correct place. Regards, Steve

Well I couldn't wait till the weekend and started putting together the rest of the body shell. - rear lights added - front and rear bumper - rear bonnet pins - number plates - rear spoiler - front light pods - front and rear indicators - windows all round - mirrors Still a few things left, but for that I need some daylight Here are the money shots I think this weekend will be a final stretch. Thanks for lurking Dan

At least you don’t have to deal with the bright red plastic that one of the original sprues was. I quite tempted to buy the rerelease as the decals on my build have cracked due to differential shrinkage.

Nice subject. I also built the Matchbox version as a youngster. Good luck with the build. Trevor

Cracking little vignette, and great backstory. Love it! Trevor

Well done @Six97s dingdongdingdong! On 17th December 1979, Stan Barrett drove the Budweiser Rocket to a maximum (not average)speed of 739.666mph (mach 1.0106) at Edwards AFB. Thus becoming the first car to break the sound barrier, in the same place that Chuck Yeagar, who was spectating, had done so in the air 32 years earlier. Unfortunately there is a certain amount of question mark over the feat, which was never intended as a LSR attempt, it was only to go supersonic. Over to you, @Six97s.

Thanks Malc. I've got a few images from Getty, but I'll search for more.

Started on a bit of clean-up - there are a lot of parts for a Matchbox kit: Removed the visible location points inside the airbox: And stuck it together: Now the first problem: the engine. Judging by the position of the coolant pipes and where the disappear into the block, I think there's an error in the instructions in that the engine sides are the wrong way around. As shown below is how I think it should be (lower side fits on the right side of the engine). Luckily the location points (not that they amount to much) are identical left-to-right, so it's possible to swap them without much hassle: The real issue is that the assembly fits where it touches (which isn't in many places). I've ended up sticking them around blobs of Blu-Tack in the hope that where they do touch - when aligned and glued with Tamia Extra Thin wicked into the joints - will be enough to hold everything in place until I can get some dissolved sprue or plastic shim in place to strengthen everything: I modelled some new tyres with a more realistic profile and some wear grooves. This is the file ready for slicing (with some Viggen rear view mirrors on the plate too for good measure):

Thank you @Spiny for these two great compliments, I'm touched. 😊 As for 'my' English: My written English is certainly much better than my spoken English, because you know, when you're writing, you take all your time to construct sentences correctly, respecting grammar and avoiding literal translations, which is not always possible when speaking to others, during a conversation etc. That's why I said I'm actually not fluent in English. But I'm steadily improving by practising (while I'm staying in Canada) and watching British or American series in their original version (with subtitles), like the excellent 'Outlander' at the moment...

Thanks JCH. There was an article on TV today about microcars from Japan.

Budweiser Rocket 🙂

Sorry, dozed off. @HK-500 not big three @Pete in Lincs thankfully no flying, but.....

Wow, whats not to like about this?!!! Following with mucho interesto. Bonnkkkers idea, I could imagine Peter Bjorck doing this in full size if he was not so Volvoghini obsessed! Malc.

Welcome back! I saw this kit made up on the Revell stand at Telford, apart from the tyres it looked quite good. I believe this scheme was introduced at South Africa (3rd race), the black stripe round the airbox lip appeared at the 5th race in Belgium, Nivelles-Baulers. The Getty image gallery is pretty good as they have the Schlegelmilch archive. Wookeys motor racing history forum is also good, as their mission is to compile as many images as possible of every car at every F1 race. Malc.

We had that model Camry as Company Cars in Saudi. They were a great drive, Very reliable and almost indestructible.

As the others have said, this is looking fantastic. Just to briefly return to Page 3, your English is so good I sometimes forget references to British culture (can't believe I just referred to page 3 as "culture" there) might not be very obvious. Just to complete the knowledge gap though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_3 The examples you showed with the Uhlenhaut have much more class though.

Scanner is a pretty cool idea. Not sure what I would do with it, but it would be fun to play with it to see what it can do.

Looks very nicely done. I've always liked the look of this model of Galant (even better in estate form) so this is another kit to tempt me. I must stay strong!

I had no idea that you can actually get a scanner like that. Bonkers.

Wow, that’s a really good resolution for a relatively low priced scanner! I mean, it’s by no means cheap, but it’s about 30x cheaper than a dental scanner. It’s great to see that the prices of scanners that are useable at 1:24 scale are coming down into a feasible range. Martin

Yes. Both those and the Triumph 2500 were assembled in NZ for a while and there are a lot of both still around and in good nick. If I was a bit younger I would spend my money on a good example of either as a daily driver in preference to any of the ugly hi-tech lorries being made now. Plus I would be able to work on it myself!

911 Turbo . My poster car when I a youngster . Guards Red for me though. Gary

This looks excellent. I do like African Rally spec Rally cars with all the extra specific equipment. Gary