Chimpion
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I've found the first problem. There should be a pin on each side of the chassis to enable what look like pump levers to be attached, melting the pin to hold them in place. The pin is missing on one side. I was tempted to just glue it, but thought that as I'm being watched I should make an effort.
So I cut the end off a resistor leg and promptly dropped it on the floor. Worried about what it might do to my foot if I trod on it, with the aid of the torch on my phone I eventually found it. Long before that I found a long-lost 1/72nd-ish headlight - now I have to work out which kit is missing a headlight!
Combined with a spare bit of plastic (sprue ejector pin?) and some super glue I've ended up with this. It's still a bit loose, but once painted it'll hopefully tighten up a bit - if not I'll address it later.
Current state of the chassis shown below. I'm not convinced I've got it completely aligned, but there wasn't much play in it - the fit was very good.
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5 hours ago, TonyW said:
Heller did a lovely two page spread of their three Traction kits in one of their catalogues. Beautiful photography, the shot at top left is really stunning.
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
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First parts assembled.
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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 :
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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 :
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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.
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You seem to have overlooked that I'd offered to build the Delahaye 103 Bonneville Fire Engine.
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21 hours ago, MR2Don said:
Not so much "spot of the day", but "quiz of the day".
On the road between Wethersfield and Sible Hedingham, two large, low, wide and throaty what I can only guess at as supercars. Two of them in convoy. I was motoring on one way and them the other on a twisty road, so no chance to see badges or much else, but they were finished in a lovely metallic blue with, I'm sure, an orange coach line down each side of the bonnet. The sound was very much that of a decent number of cylinders.
Anybody got any ideas? Are the colours a hint? Strange road to see two of such, nose to tail in convoy.
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!
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On 9/17/2020 at 7:55 AM, TonyOD said:
Me yesterday evening, basically.
Cockney rhyming slang?
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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.
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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
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1 hour ago, fightersweep said:
Ooo! Is it the Type 103 Bonneville?
Good guess - here it is :
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22 minutes ago, JeroenS said:
Does it float? That would be something! How nice of you to join us!
No, but it does like to be close to water.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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23 hours ago, CliffB said:
This style of instructions was the norm for most 60s kit manufacturers and is how many of us were first introduced to terms like 'pitot tube', 'aileron' and (as in this case) 'dickey seat'.
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.
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7 hours ago, GerryW said:
With all these great early 1900s models it would be great if they, or anyone else, would release figure sets suitable for use with them.
I reckon there's a decent chance of that with Miniart - they've released figures for the trams.
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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.
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3 hours ago, sennapod said:
but the ‘simplicity’ and innocent look of the Porsche gives it a certain je ne sais quoi.
They're all fantastic, but surely the Matra has the "je ne sais quoi" - the Porsche has a "weiß nicht was".
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On 7/15/2020 at 3:19 PM, Giorgio N said:
Still, where else could someone find something like a Hasegawa 1/48 Sea King for £15 ?
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.
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On Tuesday spotted a pristine-looking burgundy NSU Prinz.
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780 Delahaye 103 Bonneville Fire Engine
in Heller Classic GB
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@wimbledon99I have a Bentley stalled for a year because the body panels are too warped to fit together. Maybe they'd fit on your chassis?