At least the background scenes on the insert cards on these two releases are realistic, unlike with the VAZ !!
Only one problem with that A55 diorama - as the background is showing the old fort (or whatever it is) at Port Royal, the model should be facing the other way. The pics on the magazine support this and I remember when rewatching DN recently (to get the Vauxhall Velox licence plate for Maz) that the taxi reverses away after SC exits, so it never on-screen faces back up the road it comes down to the harbour where Quarrel is painting his boat.
Wow - that's sharp eyed, FACT!
As long as people here have a small three blade tip screwdriver, the model can be turned around very easily and (I think) would look better facing away from the 'side' card, anyway. Wasn't there a similar problem with the VTAK Rolls, facing the wrong way?
Wow! Both look to be excellent models and what you'd expect from Ixo! Since he seems to have the magazines for both, could someone in the UK ask him what Issue 116 is (would logically be in Issue 115's magazine)?
As long as people here have a small three blade tip screwdriver
Ixo has been using a mixture of Phillips and triangular screws lately. Phillips, naturally, is an easy screw to take care of. For the triangular screw, if you don't have a screwdriver that fits, take a Dremel Moto-Tool (the kind the plugs into the wall) and put in a fibreglass cutting wheel. Set the speed to the minimum and cut a straight notch down to the plastic. Now use a flat head screwdriver (a big, wide one) and it comes right out. You can also put it right back in, though that's how I get most of the triangular screw cars off the display stands.
Wow! Both look to be excellent models and what you'd expect from Ixo! Since he seems to have the magazines for both, could someone in the UK ask him what Issue 116 is (would logically be in Issue 115's magazine)?
As long as people here have a small three blade tip screwdriver
Ixo has been using a mixture of Phillips and triangular screws lately. Phillips, naturally, is an easy screw to take care of. For the triangular screw, if you don't have a screwdriver that fits, take a Dremel Moto-Tool (the kind the plugs into the wall) and put in a fibreglass cutting wheel. Set the speed to the minimum and cut a straight notch down to the plastic. Now use a flat head screwdriver (a big, wide one) and it comes right out. You can also put it right back in, though that's how I get most of the triangular screw cars off the display stands.
I checked out eBay for the sales term for the 3 blade tip screwdriver - apparently it's called a 'Tri Wing Screwdriver' and there's loads of them for sale very cheap:
IXO actually sell screwdrivers with correct head for their triangular screws and they turn up from time to time on ebay for a couple of pounds. Even have an IXO logo on them. But the models do dot around the Lada is on cross head screws whereas if I remember rightly the Merc had the triangular one.
Will wait to see if Taxi and A55 are right you really can't tell in those pics though I agree they look promising.
Finally Darlington - mmmm only a short distance from the location where all the models are mailed from. Perhaps not a co-incidence?
Thought I'd post some pics of the 'custom' QOS Alfa model I said I'd be doing - the photos are a bit yellow unfortunately, I had to take them using artificial light due to the current lack of sunlight in the UK -
Basically a simple swap over to the damaged Aston DBS's 'tunnel chase' setting base and background with no alterations, plus repainted figures from the TND (issue 34) Range Rover again. They dropped in without any great problem, but I altered one leg on the shooter guy just to make his stance look more believable should anyone peer inside!
The Goldfinger 'Bad Guy' Merc 180 is under way, complete with little guys hanging out of the windows....
Again,I really like what you have done.A vast improvement over the driverless Alfa.Just by adding figures and changing the diorama,you have managed to capture some of the excitement of the chase scene.Nice work Fella!
Again,I really like what you have done.A vast improvement over the driverless Alfa.Just by adding figures and changing the diorama,you have managed to capture some of the excitement of the chase scene.Nice work Fella!
Thanks Winnie - your comments are much appreciated!
Thanks D110, again your comments are much appreciated!
I'd just like to wish all the contributors and followers of this thread a Happy Christmas - hope everyone has a good one. All the best for 2012 too. {[]
I personally think that it is unfair to accuse IXO of laziness or ignorance they are sub-contractors and not the producers of the JBCC. The models IXO produce are commissioned by Fabbri/Eaglemoss who will have negotiated which models are produced by IXO. I am sure that IXO would have produced different vehicles if they were paid more to develop them by Fabbri/Eaglemoss, as might other contractors like Universal Hobbies.
I can understand that Bond Collectors may find the latest releases less satisfying than car-centrics but the blame lies with Fabbri/Eaglemoss and the retention of a £7.99 price point and not the chinese sub-contractor.
I personally think that it is unfair to accuse IXO of laziness or ignorance they are sub-contractors and not the producers of the JBCC. The models IXO produce are commissioned by Fabbri/Eaglemoss who will have negotiated which models are produced by IXO. I am sure that IXO would have produced different vehicles if they were paid more to develop them by Fabbri/Eaglemoss, as might other contractors like Universal Hobbies.
I can understand that Bond Collectors may find the latest releases less satisfying than car-centrics but the blame lies with Fabbri/Eaglemoss and the retention of a £7.99 price point and not the chinese sub-contractor.
Wholeheatedly agreed. Ixo was neither lazy nor ignorant and did a fine job on the models assigned to them. I look forward to both, given the constraints.
allright then, no IXO, but still I feel like SOMEONE is using the stamp of 007 to sell cars that are nowhere near connected to bond but have a small role in a film.
They are looking at an existing mould and thén search if it's been in a bond movie, while it should be vice versa. I think anyone will agree here...
Yes, me too - nothing to do with cars, really - just hope you're all having a great Christmas and my best wishes to everyone for the New Year 2012. I really enjoy following the conversation in this thread, even though I don't contribute in any major way.
I guess I'm very Bond-centric, I do miss the figures and the more busy dioramas, I dislike the boring bases and the drab cardboard insert backgrounds. But think JBCC is still good value for money and don't intend to stop collecting ... yet.
Cheers,
Rhinoman B-) -{ -{
I don't mind having these cars in the collection, as long as they also keep making cars that do have a greater importance / longer screen time in the films. A bit of this, a bit of that.
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!
The Niva is next
WOOHOO!!!! ) -{
The FX4 and A55 Cambridge also look good. The Cambridge seems to have some issues with the paint scheme; as you can see in this closeup ( http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/254/drnotaxi1ej9.jpg/ ), while the A-pillars are yellow (they're not in the magazine CGI shot), the rest of the yellow color was found on the roof, C-pillars, hood, and trunk (bonnet and boot lid) only. Still, black gloss paint is one of the absolute easiest to match, so you could probably paint over the part just aft of the hood as well as the "flares" connecting the paint scheme on the hood to the A-pillars for a more correct look. Overall, they seem to have done a very good job on this one, otherwise, however.
Ditto the anticipation for the Lada Niva - this one was on my wish list from way back, partly because Bond actually drove this vehicle! Thanks for posting those pics, MCF.
I suppose it will be February sometime before it is released, though.
Some nice late-50s/early-60s metal in that pic of yours, DB110 - I'd try my hand at identifying some of them (besides the obvious Fords) but EM might be reading this :v
D110 - Just had a look on Dr. No on IMCDB and the Cambridge driving along looks like it has yellow A pillar. Not the first time Bond movie continuity issues have been noted!
Maz, I understood D110 to be referring to the CGI("artist's impression") of the Cambridge on the magazine front cover, which shows black A-pillars (see MCF's linked pic above, the CGI is part-covered by the model), whereas the real car did indeed have yellow ones, like the model. Where the model does go wrong, as D110 points out, is extending the yellow over the panel between the bonnet and the windscreen ... which the CGI creator got right by having a yellow bonnet only
allright then, no IXO, but still I feel like SOMEONE is using the stamp of 007 to sell cars that are nowhere near connected to bond but have a small role in a film.
They are looking at an existing mould and thén search if it's been in a bond movie, while it should be vice versa. I think anyone will agree here...
That's precisely why as a Bond-centric I now pick and choose...
I got the Austin FX4 Taxi earlier in the week(Tuesday),I was not really looking forward to this model,but It is of such a high standard of detail and accurracy,I think Its great. I've surprised myself by turning a bit Car-centric lately.While I agree with Jag,JJS&Leijo007 about the collection,one cannot argue about the quality of the last three models.I expect the Austin Cambridge to be the same and I'm looking forward to that as well.Yes,there should be more Bond-centric cars,but while the models are of this standard,I shall continue to buy them.The Lada Riva sounds promising as well.
Happy New year to you all.I'm looking forward to more JBCC discussions in the future.
Great to hear the Austin Taxi is of a high quality and the Austin Cambridge is promising to be the same. I think the collection is certainly recovering from the low points of recent months and i predict (hope) more of the same from from future issues especially with my response from GEFabbri is anything to go by.
I too look forward to more chat on this thread, it has to be one of the longest .
All the best and Happy New Year , Bondcentrics, Carcentrics out there -{ -{
Here's the Goldfinger Merc 180 model I mentioned a while back that I was working on. I know the JBCC are due to release Oddjob's 220, but I've been wanting to see the black 180 complete with figures pretty much since the GF factory scene DB5 was issued (25), so decided to make my own: Click on the pics to enlarge, (note to self, must get a better camera!):
Rather than choosing the Goldfinger factory setting Merc 180, I decided to go for one of the three chase cars in the forest road sequence, specifically 'NE 9641', which, unless I'm mistaken, was the car that plunged off the cliff after hitting the DB5's oil slick.
The Merc model came courtesy of eBay, made by Del Prado and was already finished in black paintwork with a black interior. The first hurdle was opening the model up, since this particular one was held together by rivets rather than the small crosshead screws we're all used to. I had to drill the rivet heads off, release the base, then drill 1mm holes into the old rivet mounts so regular crosshead screws could be gently guided into them. This is something I've done before, when restoring old Corgis and Dinkys, and seems to work well. The screws are a harder metal than the die-cast material, so usually 'tap' themselves in quite easily. Unfortunately whilst doing this, I accidentally broke off the round logo emblem on top of the radiator, and it was so tiny and delicate I had to resort to near micro-surgery to glue it back on. A few expletives accompanied that small operation, especially with the number of times it sprang out of the tweezers and hid on the floor just to annoy me!
After being covered in masking tape and marked in pencil, the side windows were cut away using a scalpel, leaving the front quarter-lights in place.
The figures are from issue 56, the You Only Live Twice Toyota, great for this car because the little guys are all oriental and there's four of them. They needed a fair degree of extra sculpting to get rid of jacket lapels etc, rearranging legs on the two shooters sticking out of the car, and reducing one of their Thompson machine guns down to something roughly resembling a pistol. Apart from their faces, all of them were repainted in a suitable 'Bad Guy Blue' plus yellow sashes using Revell acrylics.
Finally the car was re-assembled, with photo-shopped number plates added and whitewall tyres taken from a Dr. No Alpine.
The only detail I'm not too sure about is whether the driver's door mirror is on the movie car, but the Del Prado Merc is in places quite basic in detail (wipers etc), so it doesn't bother me too much. I can always remove it later if the urge takes me.
The base is from the Toyota again, with 'grass' edges added by using resin car filler moulded and shaped with an old toothbrush whilst still wet. I could have used train layout materials, flock grass etc, but wanted it to look in keeping with the modelling style of all the other standard JBCC models as much as possible. I managed to retain some of the original road colouring but most of the base has been repainted, again with acrylics.
The diorama background card is a combination of two forest photos found on the net then photo-shopped and filtered to look more like a night-time setting.
Quite a bit of time, money and sweat went into this model, but at least I finally have the 'Bad Guys Merc' which I've always thought to be the most glaringly obvious missing JBCC vehicle. And to be honest, it wouldn't bother me if EMFabbri make one like this as well as Oddjob's 220, it was fun.
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Wow - that's sharp eyed, FACT!
As long as people here have a small three blade tip screwdriver, the model can be turned around very easily and (I think) would look better facing away from the 'side' card, anyway. Wasn't there a similar problem with the VTAK Rolls, facing the wrong way?
Ixo has been using a mixture of Phillips and triangular screws lately. Phillips, naturally, is an easy screw to take care of. For the triangular screw, if you don't have a screwdriver that fits, take a Dremel Moto-Tool (the kind the plugs into the wall) and put in a fibreglass cutting wheel. Set the speed to the minimum and cut a straight notch down to the plastic. Now use a flat head screwdriver (a big, wide one) and it comes right out. You can also put it right back in, though that's how I get most of the triangular screw cars off the display stands.
I checked out eBay for the sales term for the 3 blade tip screwdriver - apparently it's called a 'Tri Wing Screwdriver' and there's loads of them for sale very cheap:
The one I use is actually part of a multi head (100 different) screwdriver socket set my good lady picked up for me for the princely sum of £5! Something like this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100-pc-SECURITY-SCREWDRIVER-TORX-HEX-BIT-SET-CASE-/260839525339?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item3cbb3f4bdb
Fantastically useful if you keep coming across different types of screw heads getting in your way.
Will wait to see if Taxi and A55 are right you really can't tell in those pics though I agree they look promising.
Finally Darlington - mmmm only a short distance from the location where all the models are mailed from. Perhaps not a co-incidence?
Basically a simple swap over to the damaged Aston DBS's 'tunnel chase' setting base and background with no alterations, plus repainted figures from the TND (issue 34) Range Rover again. They dropped in without any great problem, but I altered one leg on the shooter guy just to make his stance look more believable should anyone peer inside!
The Goldfinger 'Bad Guy' Merc 180 is under way, complete with little guys hanging out of the windows....
Thanks Winnie - your comments are much appreciated!
CORRECTED
Another 2 cars wich have a combined screentime of an astonishing 21 seconds! Hurray for Fabbri's lazyness and ignorance!
Thanks D110, again your comments are much appreciated!
I'd just like to wish all the contributors and followers of this thread a Happy Christmas - hope everyone has a good one. All the best for 2012 too. {[]
I can understand that Bond Collectors may find the latest releases less satisfying than car-centrics but the blame lies with Fabbri/Eaglemoss and the retention of a £7.99 price point and not the chinese sub-contractor.
Wholeheatedly agreed. Ixo was neither lazy nor ignorant and did a fine job on the models assigned to them. I look forward to both, given the constraints.
They are looking at an existing mould and thén search if it's been in a bond movie, while it should be vice versa. I think anyone will agree here...
I guess I'm very Bond-centric, I do miss the figures and the more busy dioramas, I dislike the boring bases and the drab cardboard insert backgrounds. But think JBCC is still good value for money and don't intend to stop collecting ... yet.
Cheers,
Rhinoman B-) -{ -{
The Niva is next:
I'm also looking forward to the Lada Niva!
WOOHOO!!!!
The FX4 and A55 Cambridge also look good. The Cambridge seems to have some issues with the paint scheme; as you can see in this closeup ( http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/254/drnotaxi1ej9.jpg/ ), while the A-pillars are yellow (they're not in the magazine CGI shot), the rest of the yellow color was found on the roof, C-pillars, hood, and trunk (bonnet and boot lid) only. Still, black gloss paint is one of the absolute easiest to match, so you could probably paint over the part just aft of the hood as well as the "flares" connecting the paint scheme on the hood to the A-pillars for a more correct look. Overall, they seem to have done a very good job on this one, otherwise, however.
I suppose it will be February sometime before it is released, though.
Some nice late-50s/early-60s metal in that pic of yours, DB110 - I'd try my hand at identifying some of them (besides the obvious Fords) but EM might be reading this :v
That's precisely why as a Bond-centric I now pick and choose...
Happy New year to you all.I'm looking forward to more JBCC discussions in the future.
I too look forward to more chat on this thread, it has to be one of the longest .
All the best and Happy New Year , Bondcentrics, Carcentrics out there
Rather than choosing the Goldfinger factory setting Merc 180, I decided to go for one of the three chase cars in the forest road sequence, specifically 'NE 9641', which, unless I'm mistaken, was the car that plunged off the cliff after hitting the DB5's oil slick.
The Merc model came courtesy of eBay, made by Del Prado and was already finished in black paintwork with a black interior. The first hurdle was opening the model up, since this particular one was held together by rivets rather than the small crosshead screws we're all used to. I had to drill the rivet heads off, release the base, then drill 1mm holes into the old rivet mounts so regular crosshead screws could be gently guided into them. This is something I've done before, when restoring old Corgis and Dinkys, and seems to work well. The screws are a harder metal than the die-cast material, so usually 'tap' themselves in quite easily. Unfortunately whilst doing this, I accidentally broke off the round logo emblem on top of the radiator, and it was so tiny and delicate I had to resort to near micro-surgery to glue it back on. A few expletives accompanied that small operation, especially with the number of times it sprang out of the tweezers and hid on the floor just to annoy me!
After being covered in masking tape and marked in pencil, the side windows were cut away using a scalpel, leaving the front quarter-lights in place.
The figures are from issue 56, the You Only Live Twice Toyota, great for this car because the little guys are all oriental and there's four of them. They needed a fair degree of extra sculpting to get rid of jacket lapels etc, rearranging legs on the two shooters sticking out of the car, and reducing one of their Thompson machine guns down to something roughly resembling a pistol. Apart from their faces, all of them were repainted in a suitable 'Bad Guy Blue' plus yellow sashes using Revell acrylics.
Finally the car was re-assembled, with photo-shopped number plates added and whitewall tyres taken from a Dr. No Alpine.
The only detail I'm not too sure about is whether the driver's door mirror is on the movie car, but the Del Prado Merc is in places quite basic in detail (wipers etc), so it doesn't bother me too much. I can always remove it later if the urge takes me.
The base is from the Toyota again, with 'grass' edges added by using resin car filler moulded and shaped with an old toothbrush whilst still wet. I could have used train layout materials, flock grass etc, but wanted it to look in keeping with the modelling style of all the other standard JBCC models as much as possible. I managed to retain some of the original road colouring but most of the base has been repainted, again with acrylics.
The diorama background card is a combination of two forest photos found on the net then photo-shopped and filtered to look more like a night-time setting.
Quite a bit of time, money and sweat went into this model, but at least I finally have the 'Bad Guys Merc' which I've always thought to be the most glaringly obvious missing JBCC vehicle. And to be honest, it wouldn't bother me if EMFabbri make one like this as well as Oddjob's 220, it was fun.
'You fancy a job as their new chief designer?