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Bugatti 35b, 1/32, Airfix


Vadim

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Hello everyone.

 

I am an absolute 'zero' on this branch of BM... However, I got this oldie on our club meeting Christmas Ruffle and thought "why not to try something new?"

So here we are - inside the small box there are 4 light grey sprues - all in a very good condition. And one sprue with clear parts:

 

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The plastic is quite soft and can easily be damaged while cutting or sanding. The first bits came along nicely:

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This is my first car kit since my return to this hobby 6 years ago, so I've decided to add some extras. I sanded all the details along the bottom of the body (don't know how, you name all those small things and wire) drilled small holes for the future wire to to be added separately: 

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Then I moved to the inside, where the kit's instrument panel lacks of details. While googling I've found some beautiful images and decided to add some scratch built switches and what seems to look like a spark ignition distributor:

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Taken from Pur Sang Type 35B – Driving Report November 23, 2012 by Rick Carey (http://www.sportscardigest.com/pur-sang-type-35b-driving-report/)

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Taken from Pur Sang Type 35B – Driving Report November 23, 2012 by Rick Carey (http://www.sportscardigest.com/pur-sang-type-35b-driving-report/)

 

So I spent around 3 hours to add some of these items. Hope the panel will look more convincing after the painting :)

 

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This is all for now. 

Thanks for watching :)

 

 

 

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Thanks for your kind words @southpier and @mbdesignart

I critically reviewed that panel and decided to redo the spark ignition distributor. 

Now I took Albion Alloys tubes and bead wire - this is what I've done so far:

 

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Now, I think, it looks a little bit better... But still not convinced enough. Is it just lack of skills or it can't be done any better in this scale???

 

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Just a really small update here:

 

Yesterday I test fitted all the main pieces to decide where to move further and not to miss any important steps before all glued together... Think it looks good. :)

 

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Hello everyone.

Here is another small update - I started to build the engine:

 

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I have to admit - I never did any scratch building before. But it is quite fascinating :) 

I hope the final result will be convincing, though I may need more practice.

 

 

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  • 2 months later...

Hih Vadim

 

looked good 'in the flesh'  at the club,  even at a distance.   I was a bit distracted,  so  didn' t look too closely,   I did think it was a quite a departure,   but now I see it was a raffle  prize it all makes  sense!

 

off topic,   here a link to the article about the veracity of Hurricane drawings

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235014713-hurricane-mk-v-prop/&do=findComment&comment=2593379

 

this is the long  thread about Frog kits nostalgia

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235017777-a-nostalgic-tribute-to-frog-model-kits/

 

apologies for the thread drift,   a few of the pics above are missing BTW.

 

cheers

T

 

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