Sunday Foto Fun 7 June 2020
Jun 7, 2020 5:27:24 GMT -8
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Post by Christian on Jun 7, 2020 5:27:24 GMT -8
Come on guys - surely someone other than me is excited to get this thread rolling every week.
Yep - another OLD model. This is a Pirate Models 1930's Mack Interstate bus. Pirate Models made bunches of white metal bus kits in the 60s, 70s. British company and the models are British HO scale. That means 4mm to the foot. A bit larger than American HO scale at 3.571mm to the foot. Pirate seems to still be around under 2d or 3rd owner, but reading between the lines in other forums only produces occasionally and at really high prices. I found this bus kit is available on eBay for about $20 (Current bid when I searched) from an American seller. About the same as I paid in the early seventies including my shipping from England. Many other kits and finished busses on eBay but mostly the British prototypes.
The late '60s and '70s were the glory days of white metal kits. At that time vehicles weren't very good looking. Matchbox diecast. Herpa was not yet what it would be. Varney had some plastic that were sorta Monoply token detailed. Of course, Jordon had stunning injection styrene kits of Ford T's. Then came the Scale Structures vehicles and machinery. A flood of highly detailed white metal kits which really owed their existence to that other great modeling component of the 60s and 70s - CA adhesive. Known at that time in the model press as ACC Glue. Eastman 410M was the first on the market and very $$$. Had to be kept refrigerated. (CA history moment. Eastman developed the material during WWII for use in bomb sights. Aftrer the war it was a mainstay of the film industry for splicing film.)
OK, history lesson over. You can put down your pencils and close your notebooks. Relax.
This bus kit was white metal with a sheet of brass etchings. I think the early 70s for me. I did use ACC for most of the assembly. It was my first use of etchings and they aren't well applied. The paint was Humbrol for the greens and the detailed interior and Testors square bottle rubber for the tires. It is all brush painted which is what makes me think it was the early seventies. Plus I was doing much better glass work by the end of the seventies.
Yep - another OLD model. This is a Pirate Models 1930's Mack Interstate bus. Pirate Models made bunches of white metal bus kits in the 60s, 70s. British company and the models are British HO scale. That means 4mm to the foot. A bit larger than American HO scale at 3.571mm to the foot. Pirate seems to still be around under 2d or 3rd owner, but reading between the lines in other forums only produces occasionally and at really high prices. I found this bus kit is available on eBay for about $20 (Current bid when I searched) from an American seller. About the same as I paid in the early seventies including my shipping from England. Many other kits and finished busses on eBay but mostly the British prototypes.
The late '60s and '70s were the glory days of white metal kits. At that time vehicles weren't very good looking. Matchbox diecast. Herpa was not yet what it would be. Varney had some plastic that were sorta Monoply token detailed. Of course, Jordon had stunning injection styrene kits of Ford T's. Then came the Scale Structures vehicles and machinery. A flood of highly detailed white metal kits which really owed their existence to that other great modeling component of the 60s and 70s - CA adhesive. Known at that time in the model press as ACC Glue. Eastman 410M was the first on the market and very $$$. Had to be kept refrigerated. (CA history moment. Eastman developed the material during WWII for use in bomb sights. Aftrer the war it was a mainstay of the film industry for splicing film.)
OK, history lesson over. You can put down your pencils and close your notebooks. Relax.
This bus kit was white metal with a sheet of brass etchings. I think the early 70s for me. I did use ACC for most of the assembly. It was my first use of etchings and they aren't well applied. The paint was Humbrol for the greens and the detailed interior and Testors square bottle rubber for the tires. It is all brush painted which is what makes me think it was the early seventies. Plus I was doing much better glass work by the end of the seventies.
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