davecov Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 My build of the Airfix 1/32 Lotus Cortina (M8C) It was built for the ATF 14th Anniversary Group Build and you can read about this build here. Dave 27 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Nice one Dave - that'll upset the collectors....!! Good looking 'Tina! Keith 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt P Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Having owned the real thing I reckon yours will be a lot less troublesome 😳. Nice job 👍 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Smart, and no rust! I had a go in a few GT's back in the day but the only Lotus was a Mk2. It went like stink! I read that they modified this shell for their Scalextric type racing sets. Can that one be used as a static model I wonder. And I too imagine building it may upset some people. Well, it's your money, enjoy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs2man Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 13 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: Smart, and no rust! I had a go in a few GT's back in the day but the only Lotus was a Mk2. It went like stink! I read that they modified this shell for their Scalextric type racing sets. Can that one be used as a static model I wonder. And I too imagine building it may upset some people. Well, it's your money, enjoy! I wasn't aware that they modified it for use as a slot car , though they DID modify the tooling in , if memory serves , the late 1970s to turn it into a custom car This , together with the Mk1 Capri & Mk3 Zodiac which they also modified , sold appallingly badly at the time but are now hugely sought after like so many of the 1/32 cars . I remember a large pile of them in The Model Shop on Manchester's Deansgate - how I wish I'd bought some back then . I'm also saddened that I used the floorpan & interior of an original issue Lotus Cortina to fit into a Scalextric Capri , which was screwed upside down on a baseboard , fitted with a brass plaque reading : Crewe & South Cheshire Motor Club Rollcage Testing Competition 1st Overall Kevin Roberts It was presented to Kev at the motor club dinner that year to commemorate the fact that he'd managed to roll his Capri tarmac stage rally car on the road before he ever did an event in it . I also got one of the girls in the typing pool at work to type up on Rolls Royce Motors letterhead a letter offering him a job as a replacement for the crash test dummy because they needed something with a lower IQ than the dummy . When I see what they go for nowadays I really wish I'd kept the Cortina intact . Now back to the original topic - lovely job Dave . 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Nice job. Built one back in the day. I do have another one though - still with the original rusty staples as proof it has never been opened. Got 2 Zodiacs as well - one boxed as the rally winner. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Superb Cortina, looking forward to seeing your second one! Used to own a couple of Mk1 GT's back in the day. Shame Airfix don't rerelease some of there older car kits such as Dauphine, Cortina, Zodiac and Capri. Stay safe Roger 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs2man Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 14 minutes ago, Hamden said: Superb Cortina, looking forward to seeing your second one! Used to own a couple of Mk1 GT's back in the day. Shame Airfix don't rerelease some of there older car kits such as Dauphine, Cortina, Zodiac and Capri. Stay safe Roger Sadly , the Cortina , Zodiac and Capri were butchered to make custom cars in the late 70s along with the FD Victor estate and cannot be reissued in their original state I would be very interested to know which of the 1/32 car tools still exist . I'm sure many of us would like to see such as the Jaguar 420 , Maxi , Marina , Sunbeam Rapier again . 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecov Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 Thanks for the comments, lads. 👍 I have the Airfix Dauphine, Cortina, Zodiac, Austin Maxi, MG 1100, Morris Marina, Mercedes 280 SL, Morris Mini Minor, Beach Buggy and 2 Sunbeam Rapier kits in my stash plus the MPC boxings of the Jaguar 420, Mercedes 280 SL and Ford Capri all waiting to be built. I also have a Victor Estate and a Bond Bug for restoration. I had hoped that after three months of lockdown I might have built at least half a dozen of them but this Cortina is only the first! My next build will be the Ford Zodiac. Dave 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 20 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: Smart, and no rust! I had a go in a few GT's back in the day but the only Lotus was a Mk2. It went like stink! Classic motor! I remember seeing one of these in a 'race the car you drove here in' at Castle Coombe in the mid 80s. And it absolutely trounced the XR3Is, and Golf GTIs it was up against. RWD, tail-happy and previous generation technology. BUT huge entertainment! Great build Dave, keep churning them out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 They do keep popping up on the bay, even the Kansas Kruiser Cortina! Stupid prices though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 5 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said: They do keep popping up on the bay, even the Kansas Kruiser Cortina! Stupid prices though. I'll sell you mine at a stupid price if you like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 I could get a real one for that! I think the kruiser was a couple of weeks ago and into three figures. A Marina was nearly ninety quid. Victor estate? Over three hundred! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Last real one I saw at auction 2 years ago. North of £50 grand but it was I think the third one built. Mk IIs are £30 grand for a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteater Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Lovely. I much prefer to see it as a built up as a model rather than a collection of sprues that have sat in a box for however many years. I know old kits can be worth a lot of money but it does seem a bit of a waste if they're never completed. And this one has been done well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 So nice to see this kit built - and built very well at that. Pure nostalgia! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 How wonderful to see one of these built and very well too. IIRC it was 1969 when I was taken to a race meet at Crystal Palace and saw these dicing with a Camaro. Loved the Cortinas sliding around but that V8 got into my soul. Funny how memory plays tricks though I was convinced the stripe was dark blue until I had a chat with an owner at a classic car show. Funny old world sometimes. Who would pay £100s for a kit and why staggers me. For something like this 3D printing is the way to go I reckon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 10 hours ago, SleeperService said: Who would pay £100s for a kit and why staggers me. For something like this 3D printing is the way to go I reckon. Most of the shells of the old Airfix kits are now available as resin slot car bodies - 3D printed interiors and wheels etc would be a great idea, and save a lot of scratchbuilding! Keith 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 That's a superb build Dave when I was a kid the local park keepers son had the real thing in those colours,Lord when I think of all those Airfix cars I built growing up and probably made a hash off and what they cost to buy now,thank's for posting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecov Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Thanks again everybody. A lot of my modelling is all about nostalgia and it was in the Seventies that I joined the RN and stopped modelling until 2004. Since then I have started where I left off and most kits I buy are Airfix ones from the Sixties and Seventies. My father introduced me to modelling in the Sixties and I can recall a lot of builds were of the Airfix cars and we had a few of the full-size cars too! My father died last year and I was left some money which I have used in part to buy all of the Airfix 1/32 cars and I am intending to build them all. Here is a bit of progress on my current "build and weep" kit - the Airfix Ford Zephyr Zodiac Mk.III which has just received a first coat of Alclad 2 Pale Gold: Dave 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Juliet Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 An oldie but a goodie! 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 I nearly bought a real one (Zodiac) back in the 70s. Local Customs officer had one of the very last, in a dark purple with black interior. Didn't know he was gonna sell it - until after he traded it in for a - new Marina! I was lucky though, the first oil crisis struck, and I would have been hard pushed to keep it in fuel. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhouse Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 34 minutes ago, Alpha Juliet said: An oldie but a goldie! 👍 Fixed that for you 😉 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan R Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 On 6/11/2020 at 6:38 PM, Pete in Lincs said: Victor estate? Over three hundred! Saw one of these on the bay just recently for £450! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 41 minutes ago, Alan R said: Saw one of these on the bay just recently for £450! There's been one listed on there for that price for years (literally) - over and over and over again....!! Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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