Paul H
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Unfortunately I think that the only Vauxhall kit in 1:24 or 1:25 is a 1920s OE 30/98 tourer by Wills Finecast, however that is a whitemetal kit. I think that Airtrax may have done some resin 50s or 60s Opels in that scale, but not aware of them having done any Vauxhalls. The only GM Europe injected plastic kits in this scale that I have seen are the '68 to '73 Opel GT (AMT), Opel Manta B 400 rally car (Bellkits) and the 1930s Opel Admiral (ICM, but also reboxed by Revell).
For a PA Cresta PA, as bentwaters81tfw said, there is the Vanguards 1:43 diecast. Oxford Diecast also do a Friary estate version. If you really want 1:24, I suspect you would have to make your own, but I am struggling to think of any existing car that is similar enough in shape that it could work as a starting point for a conversion.
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Just read through your build thread & wow, that's impressive work!
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I was just thinking that when I saw the tread title... AMT did some 1:16 US cars (including some first generation Thunderbirds, and a few Tri Chevies), but the only big scale Tri Chevy I have seen from Revell was in 1:12 scale
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-07489-57-chevy-coupe--155685.
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On 04/04/2020 at 03:27, ArnoldAmbrose said:
Gidday Guy, since we're adding films, I agree with your two above. I was disappointed with 'The Battle of the River Plate', but only because the wrong ships were used eg an American Des Moine class cruiser for the Graf Spee. "Master and Commander" is very good I think. It follows the tenth book in the series (Far side of the World) but has anecdotes from other books (eg the weevils). As for "Pearl Harbour", it didn't appeal to me at all. I much prefer "Tora Tora Tora". Much more factually correct I believe, and that suits my personal taste in movies. But that's just me.
And, of course, "Das Boot" and "The Hunt For Red October". Another obscure movie and book, "The Bedford Incident", about a cold war stand-off between a Russian submarine and American destroyer. "The Gold Crew" (book) filmed as "The Fifth Missile" (I think). Memory's a bit vague here.
This should keep you entertained for the evening. Regards, Jeff.
'Tora Tora Tora' is very good - I recently rewatched it on DVD, and even with today's glut of high budget CGI, I thought that the special effects still passed muster. There is an excellent website about ship models in films here which may be of interest. Ditto O'Brian's 'Master & Commander' series, which I really enjoyed reading about twenty years ago. I always thought that the fhe film captured the flavour of the books well, and I keep meaning to re-read them. If considering that series, it is important to read them in the correct order though!
The books of both 'Das Boot' & 'The Hunt for Red October' are well worth reading too. My late grandfather (retired RN captain) always said that he was surprised how much Clancy got away with publishing in Red October about USN / NATO procedures & technology.
Other good naval reads include 'Death of the Scharnhorst', and 'The Flat pack Bombers' - the latter about the RNAS during the Great War.
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That looks really smart & fantastic foil work on all the trim!
17 hours ago, peekay said:The kit was released in the 90s and is one of AMT's better efforts.
The '90s seems to have been a second golden era for AMT, with a lot of really detailed, well tooled kits of classic American cars - for example the '57 Chevy, '57 Chrysler, & '62 Thunderbird amongst their other releases at that time.
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17 hours ago, Cooper645 said:
I have purchased (but yet to take receipt of {fingers crossed tomorrow}) a London Taxi Cab
Is that the ICM Edwardian era Renault one, or the ancient Revell black cab?
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That looks stunning! Can the headlights also be switched between raised and lowered, or do they need to be glued in place to have them raised?
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That looks fantastic, and great attention to detail! Whilst I won't be building mine into a replica of Morse's car, I am really tempted to buy a set of those steels as I much prefer them (I have an intense dislike of wire wheels from having to clean some regularly as a child...), and from what I can make out, most Mk2s left the factory with steel wheels anyway.
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23 hours ago, Pantera said:
Further down the list the paint for the subframes and under the hood is #66 matt olive drab! By the way the dashboard is brown #9 and carpets in blue-grey #127.
The front subframe, front bulkhead & underside of bonnet should all be body colour. The rear subframe should be 'chassis' black (i.e. semi gloss / satin). The dashboard is trimmed in black - as the Heller is a 3.8, the panel around the auxillary instruments and the centre console top should be polished aluminium. The rest of the interior depends on the chosen trim colour.
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I've been following your build thread with great interest, and the end result looks amazing! All the different finishes for the various parts look very convincing; in fact, it is difficult to believe that this is only 1:24 - it could easily pass for 1:16, which at one time was the usual scale for early / veteran vehicles. It is with great restraint that I haven't ordered one yet!
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Whilst I fully agree that white isn't the best colour, it ties in with a general theme that I've been (slowly...) building of iconic TV and film cars. I have already built an orange Haegawa Muira, green with yellow nosecone Tamiya Lotus 7, and waiting in the pile are a red big wing Aoshima Countach & 'customised' DeLorean. If the red plastic colour bleeds through (as I gather can apparently happen, especially with light colour top coats) then it would probably be painted red, but hoping that the white will work. Tbh, I'm not a massive fan of red Ferraris (my favourites are the 365 / 400 / 412 range and the 456GT, which I think all look utterly foul in that colour but fantastic in dark blue or grey metallics) but as a child in the '80s, red is the iconic colour for a Testarossa.. Whilst that mid blue does look smart, it looks more modern to my eyes than the actual age of the car (please note that I am far from being a Ferrari expert should it in fact be period correct!) and yellow is a bit too garish so if going off piste, something more like this appeals more than blue: https://www.hexagonclassics.com/car/ferrari-testarossa--lhd However quite a while back, I built the old Monogram curbside 308 in a similar shade, and it looked stunning - until the paint crazed for some reason, but I will be redoing it at some point so am saving that shade for the 308.
However, what other factory colours were there for these early Testarossas?
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I looked into this quite a bit when choosing my first tank model which was a Tiger 1, and after much consideration settled for the Tamiya kit. I built it straight out of the box except for adding some PE grilles over the vents, and whilst it is apparently not the most crisply detailed compared to some more recent tooling Tigers, it turned out very nicely with everything fitting easily. The Tamiya one should be easily available and if I remember correctly, it was also the cheapest option at the time.
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Tamiya's 1:24 Ferrari Testarossa. I had been waiting for one to pop up at sensible money for a while now. However I am still undecided though whether to paint it the classic Ferrari red, or white with Miami numberplates...
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Thank you - I was just about to ask about that sort of info, and that link has answered all my questions!
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Bought one of these a while back to convert to the Chipmunk 200 prototype
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17 hours ago, ElectricLightAndy said:
I have the Heller coupé and it is a lovely kit, as with a lot of Heller toolings it's very dainty and 'in scale'
I'm sure Revell also had a new 1/24 DB5 listed either last year or the year before, I wonder what happened to that?
I'm a big fan of that series of classic cars by Heller for the reasons you mention! The IRS on the Heller E Type is particulary nice, including rotating drive shafts - I'm using one from an old FHC kit in my parts bin (didn't survive my childhood...) for an Airtrax Mk10. The front suspension on the Heller E Type certainly looks much more 'in scale' than what is visible in pics of the new Revell one.
I heard that rumour about the DB5 too - when suggested recently, I think the reason it didn't go ahead may have been licensing issues. However I may be mis-remembering... I was diappointed though as I wanted to turn one into a DB4 drophead (to go with a blue E Type FHC and red OTS as a set of three fast cars
) and perhaps also convert one to a Lagonda Rapide.
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Apologies if I've misunderstood (thought you were meaning that the location was between the chassis rails behind the axle), however I'm confused by the use of that photo, as isn't the tank essentially invisible, even from underneath?
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That looks lovely! I am really tempted by this kit now, even though I have nothing else in 1:12 scale...
4 hours ago, nick said:The fuel tank is omitted completely, which I really should have done something about:-
Given the filler location, the tank is almost certainly located in the pointed tail above the chassis, which wasn't uncommon on racing cars of this era.
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The box art is the old 1:8 Monogram one - the shape is good aside from around the headlights, and yes, that is pretty much how the roof & screen should look.
2 hours ago, dbostream said:Found this photo on another forum, looks like the side windows look high because the frame is molded in.
Thank you for the pic - it answers a lot of questions! Seeing it much closer up, the roof & screen do look much more promising, and it is far clearer now how the parts are supposed to look once everything is painted and foiled. As I already mentioned above, I had hoped it was a trick of the photo, and seeing your one makes it appear that may indeed be the case. It struck me as strange it should be off, given how good the nose looks & also that I'm sure I read something a while back relating to the L-R Series 3 which suggested that Revell AG now scans vehicles to get the shape right. Interestingly, it looks like Revell may have moulded the windscreen and its chrome trim as one part, which means that the screen won't be incorrectly recessed as it often is on models.
The wire wheels are a definate disappointment though - whilst once painted / chromed and given a wash, they may appear a bit better, but they just look like cross spoke alloys as there should be spokes running out on the wheel centre, level with right behind the spinner, rather than ending where the diameter of the wheel centre is greatest. The injection moulded wires on Tamiya's Jag Mk2 and Morgan 4/4 do this so much more convincingly. Also, in an engine bay pic I saw elsewhere, the highly visible ball joints and steering arms are unnecessarily chunky & overscale. This seems to be Revell's habit these days - compare the underpinnings of Tamiya Mini Cooper & 2CV along with and Italeri's Land Rover Series 3 to Revell's offerings.
However, one very interesting thing shown by this pic is that the sills appear to be moulded integrally with the rest of the body, as the seam which has plagued all previous E Type models is not visible! I guess that the rear valance is still moulded separately though with the seam hidden by the bumper (in the same way that the spotwelded flange joining the valance to the rear quarter is hidden on the real car), to aid installation of the interior.
After initial disappointment based on the first pics I saw (now mostly countered by the close-up pic above), shape wise this looks like it has the potential to be the definitive injection moulded E Type kit in any scale, especially if Revell have indeed managed to engineer a solution to the sill seam... I cannot wait for pics of the final model!
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Found another pic of the E Type:
From here: https://www.spotmodel.com/product_info.php?products_id=53549&language=en
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On 19/01/2020 at 17:24, cmatthewbacon said:
Simple to build but exquisitely detailed in parts, with fit that's great in some places, not so good in others...
The end result looks like it turned out great to me! Proportions and shape look just right too. What went well, and what wasn't so good about the build? I have one of these which I was originally planning to paint in one of the solid colours that they were available in, but the colour on your model looks absolutely spot on for a pre-facelift SD1
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A pic of Revell's new E Type Series 1 FHC:
From here:
http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2020/Bilder_VH/101.html
My initial impressions are rather mixed. The bonnet, in particular the headlights (which virtually every other E Type kit has got wrong to varying degrees, ranging from passable to appalling) looks like it could be the best yet. However, the windscreen area looks very poor, with the top of the glass appearing far too low - it should be pretty much in line with the upper edge of the side windows. I hope that this is simply a trick of the photo due to it being unpainted, as if not, and if that is what they are tooling up, then the kit will be little more than a parts donor to use the front end to improve either Revell's own very old tool OTS or Heller's OTS & FHC, all of which haven't quite got the headlights right (Heller's effort is much better in my opinion, and at the passable end of the scale), but are otherwise pretty decent.
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On 19/01/2020 at 21:26, Spiny said:
The SD1 always looked good to my eyes, and that's as true of this model as it is of the real thing. Fantastic work, especially given it's only 1:43.
I wish someone would do a 1:24, but that's probably a big ask and small seller in the grand scheme of things
I'm hoping that Beemax will do a Vitesse touring car (one is visible in the background of the artwork of their Volvo 242 Turbo). I suspect that is the only way a 1:24 one will appear.
10 hours ago, Alan R said:The SD1 was a good car plagued by build and reliability issues. Shame really.
The V8 was quick!
Under-pinnings were a bit agricultural, though. Live rear axle when all their competitors has IRS? What were they thinking!
Simply a case of cost saving - this was the dark days of BL... Rover were fully capable of desigining and building a more advanced rear suspension, as demonstrated by the de Dion rear on the P6 from a decade earlier. However, I recall back in the early / mid '90s that Performance Car mag (when still a proper car mag) featuring the Vitesse version in a regular series of articles on older performance cars, and describing them as being not far off a 5 door TVR, so the live axle can't have been that bad.
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Heller Bugatti T50 & Mercedes-Benz 500K
in Ready For Inspection - Vehicles
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Having been on here for a while now, I thought that I should actually post up some of my models. I had built a few kits as a child and some as a student (only two survived intact, but several have found useful homes in my spares box). However, these two date from 2005, when I got back into the hobby as I recovering from surgery for a series of operations for skin cancer and needed something to occupy my time. Whilst I have listed them as Heller, both were Airfix reboxes.
Both built straight out of the box, bodyshells spray painted with Halfords rattle cans (although the blue on the Bugatti's body was actually the bare plastic...) and Humbrol enamels used for the rest. No BMF used - all that chrome trim on the Mercedes body was included in the kit. I don't have any better or more recent pics, as both are a bit damaged now, following several house moves and so are awaiting repairs. At the time, I had not found any scale modelling forums or magazines, so a lot of novice mistakes were made with both (e.g. fogged headlights, which will also be fixed at the same time). Heller kits often seem to get a lot of flack, however I really enjoyed building both of these, and the experience did not put me off building more models, or from buying pretty much the rest of Heller's classic / vintage car range!
Anyhow, I hope you like them, and I'll try to dig out some more pics of my other builds.