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Atlas have released some vehicle collections (I think that they has been available under a different name in Europe) They usually have something localy interesting cheap to make you start collecting. I found a Swedish tram that i found interesting so I bought it. When I unpacked it I found this even though the box was intact. I contacted them and they sent me another one. Now I had two trams. Sadly from Gothenburg while I'm in Stockholm. As the base was broken I could just as well rip everything else apart. The model fit in size with a tram from Stockholm. But there are some differences. The top of the windows are rounded so some work there was needed. The fronts are open and need to be rebuilt. The end of the roof had to be shortened down and reshaped. I added a new floor with a finer pattern. Guess it is time for some paint.

That picture look like a brush painted model 🙂

Anyone remember the Airport movies series? There was four films made and the funny/strange thing is that three aircrafts that had accidents in the movies did so in the real life afterwards. Airport Boeing 707-349C This jet plays the part of two different 707s. One gets stuck on the runway due to the heavy snow and the other is suffers heavy damage when a bomb is detonated on board leading to a difficult job for Captains Demerest and Harrison who are flying the plane. It wears the made for movie livery of the fictional Trans Global Airlines. Registration N324F. C/N 19354. The Boeing 707-300 cargo plane departed Manaus, Brazil on a domestic flight to São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport carrying 26 tons of electronic equipment. Just after start the aircraft crashed into a residential area near the intersection of Rua Rua Regente Feijó and Rua Sandovalina in the Jardim Ipanema neighbourhood and burst into flames. Airport 75 Beechcraft A55 Baron The light plane that strikes flight 409 when its pilot Paul Freeman suffers a heart attack. Registration N9750Y, serial no.TC431. This plane later had a real mid-air collision with a CESSNA 180 (N42695) in 1989. Airport 79 Concorde Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 101 The star of the film is this Concorde owned by the fictional Federation World Airlines. To celebrate it being the first US owned Concorde it undertakes a celebratory flight from Dulles to Moscow via Paris. Along the way it suffers various misfortunes. It is targeted by an attack drone, shot at by a mercenary in an F-4 and suffers explosive decompression when the cargo hold door opens due to sabotage. Registration F-BTSC and serial 203 this Concorde saw real life service for Air France and as a test bed for Aérospatiale. It crashed in 2000 over Gonesse, France killing all on board.

I once again measured my Nitto/Entex kit and compared it with the dimensions mentioned at http://www.tu144sst.com I still get 1/149 and not the 1/132 that Nitto has on their box. Entex claims it to be 1/144. I have mine together with the original Airfix Concorde in a prototype livery. As I understand it both kits has their faults. As 1/149 is closer to 1/144 than the 1/132 is, I am satisfied.

You are just as crazy as me then. I just finished the C-version and got me a B even though I know how bad it is.

The mercedes will probably be the smallest problem with that diorama. The Roden Heinkel will be the main problem. 🤣

Nice to see this built. I have just been able to get this kit so now I am warned and prepared for the ill fitting parts.

Is that really a Rolls Royce?

Looking at pictures of various logos used by them and text on buildings it seems like they used capital letters for the complete name. Maybe I should take the easy route and do the same writing for my homepage.

Just to confuse everything we have the data plate at the bottom of this site: https://www.dhc-3archive.com/DHC-3_75.html

de Havilland, deHavilland, DeHavilland, De Havilland, or Dehavilland? I have seen it spelled in different ways on the net. I found an article from flight magazine in 1910 and the spell it de Havilland and i looked at their graves where it spells de HAVILLAND so I guess that De H.... or DE H.... would be wrong. Butit is funny that the logo of DHC say DE HAVILLAND CANADA.

My first thought wa a Fairchild F.71. I know that PAA flew them. I think that the white part behind the engine is the exhaust sytem.

I used the Bare Metal Foil trick for the small emblems on my Chevy https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235132347-put-on-your-sunglasses-1956-bel-air/

I built the same as a kid. Painted gloss brown and flat green. A couple of years ago I built it again together with the new tooled one. Airfix has come some way since then as Steve said. https://www.baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/images4/a-ixc_11.JPG

Yes, probably. But it would be interesting to watch (if they managed get the speed that the picture indicates).

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/9y8xn7/doubledecker_bus_race1933/ It must be more entertaining than modern F1.

Pic with decals: https://servimg.com/view/11290529/11523

I have noticed that 1/72 scale planes that have detailed cockpits have pilots in 1/87 scale to be able to fit. I guess that the material has to be thicker than it scale wise should be to be sturdy enough.

There are figures in Japan model railroad 1/150 scale: https://www.hlj.com/search/?Word=1%2F150+figures&GenreCode2=Railroad&Page=1 But perhaps european N-scale 1/160 figures would fit better in the plane as true 1/144 might look to big

Yes that is true but Corgi thought that the gold colour would connect better to the title of the film. A bit like what they did with the Volvo P1800 from the Saint tv-series, Corgi added the saint logo to the engine hood even though the real car didn't have that. All to make sure that you didn't miss the connection between the car and the toy. But there is a funny thing among the Revell pictures. The GB sign is rather useless together with rotating number plates 😄 I don't think that the movie car had it.

This one wasn't planned to be built. I needed something to test the new paint gun on. I found the body of a '56 Bel Air with broken roof pillars in the basement so I did a quick repair on it. While doing this I decided to test something else apart from the paint gun. I had read that pink was a good primer for red so I decided to paint it red and white. With the pink coat on I remembered that I also heard that pink was a good primer for yellow. I skipped the idea of white and put a coat of yellow on. For some reason I liked the result so I skipped the red and decided to build the car. It was missing lots of parts and as this wasn't going to be to serious, I found an engine that are missing some details and had to build some simplified things on the chassis but nothing is visible when it is standing on its wheels.

Thanks. There were a couple of pictures of the 79 that will come handy. As the bodywork is the 1979 type it should really have been green, but that is one of the most beautiful F1 cars in my opinion and it look best in black and gold.

I have a Silhouette Cameo 4 that I have used to cut some plastic card. I haven't been able to cut through any thicker pc than 0,25 mm. But I have used it on 0,4 mm pc. It will not cut through bu enough to either bend and break it or follow the cuts with the hobby knife.

No not really. I got the kit in 2015 and had no interest in it. Two years later I decided to build it and by the year 2017 it was almost finished. Only painting and landing gears was missing but I lost interest so nothing more happened. Now seven years later I managed to finish it but it was a struggle. I had no motivation for it. I just had the feeling to get rid of it and now it is finally gone from my work bench, but it got finished.