RUMCars Forum
General Category => Off Topic Lounge => Topic started by: plas man on November 16, 2014, 03:41:40 PM
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new model coming from Oxford die cast , due out early 2015 in two scales , Messerschmitt KR 200 .
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Good news, but it seems to me that Messerschmitts and Isettas are relatively frequently released, but never Heinkels!
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This forum is about real ones though isnt it?
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What ? Like yours Bob ? ;D ;D
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let me rephrase that, "full size ones"!
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True Bob, but I do also have a small collection of toy bubbles, mostly KRs, TGs and Isettas, plus 3 of the old Corgi Heinkel, a Morgan Matchless MX3. Also a couple of Scammell Scarabs and an Austin J van. The way Bubble and Micro prices are going, soon we will soon be only able to afford the models!
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Best way would be to get one 3d printed. You would need a good 3D CAD file of one though. Anyone got a decent three elevation blueprint of a Heinkel/Trojan?
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Sure we could look into that - if we knew what that was ;)
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A three elevation drawing would show the side, front/rear and top of the car. From a drawing like that it's possible to loft details off to build a 3d model.
Failing that good photos taken with the lens on telephoto (to minimise lens distortion) preferably with some sort of measurement stick for scale can work. This is a technique the kit builders like Airfix use when drawings are unobtanium.
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I have a corgi Heinkel if anyone wants to borrow it or buy it. Models don't interest me but for some reason friends and relative think that they do and keep buying them for me!
unobtanium? Like it. something from the periodic table!
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It's a funny old substance, the more you desire it, the harder it is to source.
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There is such a drawing for the early version Heinkel and I have on somewhere. I think it was on A2 paper so need to scan it. It is possible it is already published on the net as it was replicated, mine is a copy and thus a bit faint. A bit of tweaking would bring back some definition. But where is it? My Heinkel files have yet to surface.
Apparently the Corgi Trojan is one of the most popular cars they modeled and they were produced in the 100,000's. Strangely mostly in none original colours. So if your anal you can collect at least several different types, standard wheel/trimmed wheel and so forth in all the differing colours. In that lot will be some rarities. No idea what the full set numbers.