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    Three kits with extras for sale

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    Whilst I can usually be found over on the Vehicle modelling section, I recently found three kits from my armour days packed away and in need of a new home.

    They are all brand new and untouched, and all come with upgrades/extras included in the stated price as well as tracked and insured postage in the UK only.

    Although the prices stated are my ideal, I am open to genuine offers.

    These are the kits and the upgrades etc. .......

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    Upgrades for the 'Fennek'.....

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    The 'Takom Panther'.......

     

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    And the 'M983 Hemtt'.......

     

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    Please keep in mind these are for UK sale only

    Prices I am looking for are;

     

    £130 for the 'Takom Panther' + upgrades/extras including postage

     

    £80 for the Fennek + upgrades/extras including postage

     

    £110 for the M983 HEMTT + upgrades/extras including postage

     

    If you need any more info or pics, or are in the Lincolnshire area and would like to inspect any of them, then please contact me by PM

     

    Thanks for looking,

    Cheers

    Ron (aka 'Silver911)

     

    Building the Pocher 1/8 Lotus 72D, Emerson Fittipaldi 1972

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    If I may...regards lubricants for tapping/drilling etc. ...oil (3in1/engine/gearbox/sewing machine etc.)...grease...washing up liquid...airbrush lube (although both of those are more suited to plastics) are all suitable candidates for hand drilling/tapping...and I have used all of them on my Proxxon Mill as well as by hand over the years with excellent results.

    Candle wax/beeswax will also work with plastics...and any of the mentioned can be washed away with white spirit/meths/IPA to avoid issues with glues to avoid the previously mentioned problem with plastic disintegrating...although I have never encountered that one.

     

    Ron

    Building the Pocher 1/8 Lotus 72D, Emerson Fittipaldi 1972

    in Work In Progress - Vehicles

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    Regards breaking 'taps'...the golden rule...especially for white metal...is never use them dry!

    White metal is a 'composite'...meaning it contains particles of harder metal...the softer particles clog the tap...whilst the harder ones are what cause it to break.

    One tip I can offer...do not use WD40 as a lubricant!...it was never designed to be such...mearly a rust inhibitor to keep water at bay...and to break down resitance to binding of joined metals.

     

    Ron

    Building the Pocher 1/8 Lotus 72D, Emerson Fittipaldi 1972

    in Work In Progress - Vehicles

    A BIG Rolls-Royce Version II 1-7-2020

    in Work In Progress - Vehicles

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    Dave's closing words on the Alfa.....

     

    "The point of this model was to finish off my series of straight-twelve engines.  The Alfa 12 is the result of combining two straight-eights into a straight-twelve.  The chassis is lengthened slightly.  The front wings are from the RR Sedanca kit."

     

    Last pics...enjoy.....

     

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    A great 'finale' :)

     

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    Honda RC213 V '14 REPSOL Tamiya 1/12

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    33 minutes ago, Totally Mad Olivier said:

    Indeed, Ron, I look forward to see if both seem to be at the same scale.

     

    Like you, I had been totally amazed when Manu had shown the head of his Pietro Bordino (the Fiat 806 driver).

    If, like Ron seemed to suggest, it is a prepainted face like the one I just ordered, then we're dealing with real artists. Btw, if I decided to order the prepainted version, it is because for now, my skills don't allow me to get such a result.

    Sometimes, you must be able to delegate...

     

    Anyway, thanks to all for your interest to my project.

     

    Cheers, O

     

     

    Just so you both (Olivier and Jochen) know...and without wishing to cause controversy or ill feeling with Manu...the 'suggestion' that it is in fact a pre-painted head for an action figure is for Manu to either confirm or deny.

    All I will say is this...I myself was a figure painter for over 40 years and...believe me when I say that I personally never reached such dizzy heights of realism in my pieces...and know of very few who have...the best being Koreans...although not exclusively so.

    What is more important to me personally is...we each choose a solution that we are comfortable with...be it to use or commission the work of others...to be used in our pieces.

    It never mattered to me if the clients claimed my work as their own.

     

    I am enjoying your work Olivier...and will only comment from a personal perspective in future.

     

    Regards

     

    Ron

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    Honda RC213 V '14 REPSOL Tamiya 1/12

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    Posted · Edited by silver911

    5 hours ago, Totally Mad Olivier said:

    Hello chaps,

     

    Sorry if my build (already very slow) is delayed by the crazier and crazier project that sprouted in my head, but I'm now focused on the characters that could take place in my "diorama" (if I may use this term). Why "characterS"? Just because I wonder now if I could not add, in addition to my mechanic, the Repsol driver Marc Marquez. Indeed, while researching the Net for the mechanic, I found several 1/12 Minichamps figures. Pity, among the latter, no figure of Marquez but an interesting one of Valentino Rossi testing his bike for the 2010 GP:

     

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    I also found Casey Stoner figures, but the head is not helmeted and, anyway, the suit is also different from Marquez one...

    I decide to order this Rossi figure.

    Now about the mechanic, the ebay seller replied quickly to my questions:

     

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    Remains the question of my mechanic size. I will quickly build the Tamiya driver (see above), not to use it but to make measures and have an idea of the over scale mentioned by Ron. Ron that I thank warmly for his very useful contribution...

     

    Cheers, O

     

    Edit a bit later:

     

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    Well, Ron, this figure doesn't seem to be so over scale. 

    On the other hand, the head of these figures (as well the driver than the mechanic) is very big, even taken in account that Tamiya gave them a pretty thick hair (these figures were created in the 70's 😉).

    I measure approximately a head size of 74 mm. Even keeping only 64 mm to take in consideration the thick hairs, 

    64 x 12 = 77 cm head size!! (I don't have a big head but for me, it's 59 cm).

    Now as I will change the head for Kitano's one, this won't be a problem...

     

    Edit even a bit later: The Kitano head and the Rossi figure are both ordered. I may come-back to my build for now...

     

     

     

    Looking at the picture...he does appear to be less of a 'hulk' compared to the mechanic...so yes...if you find him acceptable/workable...have at it.

    It will be interesting to see a comparison with Rossi when he arrives.

    I would keep in mind that in today's pits...and indeed in recent seasons...the mechanics seem to favour shirts and trousers/shorts...as opposed to all in one coveralls...just a thought 'O'

     

    Ron

     

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