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I've built the 1/24 version and it's particularly small. Looking at that photo this one must be enormous! EDIT : should read NOT particularly small

First parts assembled.

Not sure if these are loose parts or bits of sprue : I hope it's sprue as the sink marks are huge. It'll sit nicely next to these when finished :

Interestingly thís box isn't listed on Scalemates. I picked it up on E-Bay three years ago for €7,27 plus postage . It seems complete and undamaged. There's a lot of plastic inside :

Here's a topic placeholder for my entry. I've taken the sprue photos and will upload them this evening. There's a LOT of plastic, much of it very thin. It does look like it will be easy to build several sections (engine, chassis, ladder, turntable) in parallel, which will give me a fighting chance of getting it completed on time. I plan to put the first few pieces together over this weekend.

You seem to have overlooked that I'd offered to build the Delahaye 103 Bonneville Fire Engine.

If the orange is significant, were they KTM X-Bows? Just seen one out today myself. Not sure these are capable of having a coachline though!

Cockney rhyming slang?

A PhD usually involves 30 months of full-time research. There is no way this can be checked by a supervisor or an examiner. What can and should be checked is that the research is original, carried out and understood by the student, that the analysis is logical and the conclusions fit the data presented.

Some colourful ones magenta : my Italian husband carmine : hole in the ground from which automobiles are extracted sepia : spot a jetty crimson : time to watch The Bill lavender : the last turd before the flush violet : a small stringed instrument ochre : abbreviated expletive

Good guess - here it is :

No, but it does like to be close to water.

I haven't participated in a group build since Photobucket took away my ability to share photos. Finally got around to using the One Drive storage I have this week so that excuse has gone. With this GB spreading over Christmas and slim chance of getting together with relatives this year, the second excuse that I need more than 4 months to finish anything is also looking shaky, although my offering is quite a substantial kit. The mould dates from 1980 and is pretty much alone in its subject category. It doesn't fly, can't shoot anything and won't fit in a multi-storey car park. That's enough of a hint - I 'll post a photo later. Andy

Finally bought the beer! The Nascar car was painted with the Revell Aqua 364 shown. Left to right are Humbrol 2, Revell 61, Revell 364, Revell 62. It's close to 2 or 364, but a bit darker than both of these.

The top picture looks close to the current beer cans and bottles. Just checked but couldn't find any empties so might need to buy some to confirm for you.

First attempt to post pictures since the Photobucket debacle so I hope this works. The Italeri Miura is a fairly simple kit with major fit issues, but I couldn't find any RFI on here for this model. It's not a perfect build, but I'm pretty happy with the end result overall. The bodywork does fit onto the chassis base properly if you've fitted the cockpit and door cards as indicated by the alignment marks on the plastic - it probably could be fixed but life is too short, and there's a high risk it'll end up looking no better, so I left it with the slight misalignment.

That is truly phenomenal. Flawless build with an amazing paint finish. As others have said, without the hand, it's impossible to tell it's not the real thing. Great photography too.

You still get these instructions on the Dapol reissues of the Airfix railway kits. I managed to locate the whole jib of a crane in completely the wrong place. I thought it a big odd that the picture of the finished model looked so different. It was only when I found I still had a pulley left at the end that I realized my error! Fortunately I could rescue it but did have to redo all of the rigging. They assume a level of knowledge of part names that very few people have today, which can sometimes make the assembly tricky. Back to the original thread, nice build, very cleanly finished.

I reckon there's a decent chance of that with Miniart - they've released figures for the trams.

Not the first non-reigning monarch- the first non-royal. Numerous Royals have appeared on stamps when they got married, and spouses of monarchs have appeared.

They're all fantastic, but surely the Matra has the "je ne sais quoi" - the Porsche has a "weiß nicht was".

I recommend being patient and bidding on low start price kits on Ebay. I've picked up loads of stuff for next to nothing although admittedly from Austrian sellers not UK ones. I did indeed get a 1/48 Hasegawa Sea King AND a 1/48 Hasegawa Phantom AND an Eduard 1/48 Mirage for less than £15 in total including postage a while back. The key is to accept that most of the time you'll be outbid, but every now and then you'll get really lucky.

On Tuesday spotted a pristine-looking burgundy NSU Prinz.

Love the comment but I donated your like to the previous post.

If you drink enough of it all your models will look misty and this one won't stand out!