I had a serious illness and as I recovered in the 1970s I made it as therapy. Was only hand painted but I adored it. It sat on the top of my bookcase in my room until somehow it fell down and shattered. My wife found a plastic bag with all the bits yesterday. Irreparable but I found this. A wonderful build and such memories. Thanks 🙏
Thank you, most enjoyable. Nearly 40 years ago as a 10 year old I visited the UK and my uncle and I were building this kit (or the 80s version of it). We never finished it before I went home. Now years later, my uncle sadly gone, I am building a real pre-war car, not a Bentley sadly but a contemporary Riley. But I still want to build this kit and finish it this time one day. Nice to see how it should turn out!
Beautiful and emotional words, I expect to see your kit builded. This is also the reason i make kits. Everyone in my channel has a history when I was a child and spent hours looking my father doing, now with parkinson and with no possibilitie to do anymore. Now he look my videos and entertain.
Very nice. I'm in the middle of building the same kit (almost) at the moment. Mine has been in my father's wardrobe since about 1974. It's interesting that yours has the number 8 on it, but the number plate is UU5872. The kit currently available from Airfix has the same number plate, but is number 9. Mine is number 8, but the plate is UR6571, which is the correct plate as far as I can tell from every photo I can find. Perhaps they changed the race numbers around sometimes. Anyway, congrats on a great job. I'm trying to find the most authentic colours for the parts on mine as the Airfix instructions sometimes have the wrong colour. Maybe when they examined the real car back in the 60's it had different colours to what it has now. Some of the engine parts are not quite right. The pipe that goes from the supercharger to the inlet manifold is shiny metal, not black as they show inthe instructions. I've almost finished the engine on mine. Just added spark plug wires and had to make tiny connectors to join them to the spark plugs. Unfortunately my kit had a bunch of melted parts as my father had checked the parts and left the hood straps sitting next to some plastic parts. The polystyrene has gone very soft and I've had to chop chunks off and fill them up with putty and bits of plastic. Luckily the tyres are still OK. The decals had turned quite yellow, but are starting to whiten after leaving them in the sun for a week or so. Hopefully they won't disintegrate when I go to apply them.
I'm going to build the same kit and I fond out that the car with number plate UU5872 had n. 9 in le Mans race and n. 8 in Irish Grand Prix, both in 1930. Mistery solved! 😉 I was surprised to see that in the kit engine there are no spark plug wires, could you tell me how did you built your own ones?
Hey, I am looking into this model and I was wondering if you could help me giving me a list of all the material (tools, paint, glue, etc.) that you used to do it. Thank yu very much it would help me a lot since I am a beginner :))). I want to do it with my dad during this Christmas time since this is his favorite car
