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BigWall wrote: Wed Feb 03, 2021 5:51 pm Very neat! Good luck with her.

BOABModels wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:21 pm Looks really special. I'm sure you will do a good job.

Is it all metal BTW?

Panzón wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:22 pm Brings back some memories! Back in 1976, I got the sports car version of the Pocher Alfa Romeo, and the 1910 Fiat racer when Pocher was going through a shake-up, and the kits were being dumped on the market through K-Mart at a ridiculously low price. I gave the Alfa kit away to a guy who was an Alfa freak, but I built the Fiat, and displayed it in my office at work. When I left my job, I gave it to a co-worker for his office. You can still find these kits on eBay, but they now cost $400-500.

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:04 pm Someone suggested leaving her as a neglect car...I just cannot do that, way too OCD for messy stuff

BigWall wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 6:55 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:04 pm Someone suggested leaving her as a neglect car...I just cannot do that, way too OCD for messy stuff

That was my first thought given the natural weathering it has. Maybe a vignette called "The Barn Find." But it's just too beautiful a car to leave in that state.

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:56 pm I really love the look of this beauty and the black rims would solve my rust issue

BOABModels wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:12 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:56 pm I really love the look of this beauty and the black rims would solve my rust issue

That looks gorgeous!

It's funny to see the Ferrari Scudetto on an Alfa Romeo but I know it was because Enzo Ferrari raced Alfas first before setting up his own team and company.

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:56 pm I really love the look of this beauty and the black rims would solve my rust issue

Casper wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:02 am Now ya talking
theses are stunning models when finished and a joy and pain to build....well jell
My good friend has I think three pochers ready for paint, hopefully I can persuade him to come show us his progress.
looks to be all there, are you missing a cam cover first job a strip down?

NoelSmith wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:33 am Two Kids No Sleep
Welcome to the wonderful world of old built up model kit restoration!
Have a look on Model Motorcars website. I think they have free downloadable Old Pocher kit instructions that may be of help to you.

NoelSmith wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:37 am Thanks for coming back Scott. The Scalemotorcars website is also a good one. I expect that you look at that one regularly as well as Model Motorcars. They seem to be the best two sites for Pocher modellers to look at. Model Motorcars as you know are virtually devoted to Pocher builds. Scalemotorcars has a lot of in depth scratch builds as well as the Pocher contributions with some really inspirational techniques shared by great modellers.

I visited your neck of the woods a few years back and had a round trip coach tour out of Vancouver into the Rockies to Banff and doing the inland passage across to Vancouver Island and down to Victoria. You certainly live in a very nice part of the world. Apart from the scenic splendour I thought that both Vancouver at Victoria were both impressive cities. My other trip to Canada was on a cruise from Boston taking in the Easter seaboard up to Halifax and up the St Lawrence to Quebec city. Montreal and Toronto still await to be visited. All in all I really enjoyed my experiences of Canada. Doing the Canadian Pacific is on by bucket list and maybe the Rocky Mountaineer!