Irish Ascona 400...............suggestions?

ok lads, because...
(a) i know you anoraks love to show your knowledge , and
(b) i'm a lazy bu__er who likes to let you do all the work,

can i get some suggestions please, for future potential irish ascona 400 conversions? just in case i happen to, em, come across a spare 1:18 ascona surplus to requirements in my wrc collection...........

obvious and obscure suggestions will be accepted gladly...........

cheers guys....

I'll be watching this topic with interest...

...as an Irish Ascona MIGHT just be my first non-6R4 CODE343 release in the distant future sometime, so I could do with some suggestions as well.

Sorry for half-hijacking your topic Billy - will you forgive me this indulgence?

Vincent Bonner? Bertie Fisher? Denis Cronin?

It's got to be a Bertie Fisher one hasn't it? For me I mean, as I will only do models that I know will sell out with ease.

Any photos of Bertie's?

that's my boys........................

ps work away david, we're all in this together lol!!

Sean Campbell who was the first Irishman to drive a 400 unless my memory is failing me!

Mind you, hasn't KMD got exclusive permission to do all of the Fisher family cars? If that is the case, then I don't want to tread on anyone's toes.

James Cullen just another name for your thinking pot

More options: Billy Coleman, Ger Buckley, James McDaid.

Peadar Hurson

Alan Fraser's car from 1983 was nice

gary done a 1off fisher ascona for himself which looks very nice!
i'd take any that was made! lol

Hursons car for sure


Just thinking we may start a thread of Irish cars from the 80s that we'd like to see

Speedy wrote:Hursons car for sure


Just thinking we may start a thread of Irish cars from the 80s that we'd like to see :D

it would have ALOT of pages!!! lol

The old warhorse JZP 252 that just about everyone drove. I sat in it with both Vincent Meade and Donie Keating and would love to get them done - very simple decals (the door panels would be the fanciest part of them- I have some photos). From memory James Cullen, Hugh Twomey, Denis Cronin all campaigned it at one stage or another and they are just names off the top of my head.

mcm motorsport wrote:

Speedy wrote:Hursons car for sure


Just thinking we may start a thread of Irish cars from the 80s that we'd like to see :D

it would have ALOT of pages!!! lol

I'd start thinking about buying your old models back because your attempt not to have the Ireland's biggest collection is likely to fail miserably anyway.

just to get a bit more specific here lads, (in other words, back on my topic! ), this will/would be 1:18 so the availability of decals or the ability to upscale wee ones will be a major consideration....thanks for all suggestions so far......
this is prob gonna ruffle a few feathers, but anyway, the whole thing about kevin or anybody else having sole rights to a driver/livery/marque is only a consideration surely if the maker is selling a run of them....who's to stop any of us sitting at our computer and making our own decals from pix on the web, then stripping a model which we own, and creating our own personal example?? is this not the basis of many of the great models on here?
and, do we really believe there aren't a whole load of one-off models hiding away out here in 'forum-land'??

I mentioned KMD's situation with regard to any possible plans that I might have to make a run of Fisher Asconas in the future, NOT your plans to make a one off for your own personal collection Billy - nobody (not even God's of Irish rallying folklore) can stop anybody from doing that!

I know david, i wasn't getting all defensive m8, just think that the skill and ingenuity of this place would be somewhat diminished if we all had a guilt complex about making a model that someone else had already 'claimed'........ i totally understand your point about making a run to sell on, and not wanting to tread on another producer's toes........ a very noble stand which i know is held by most if not all the 'professionals' on the forum.........

Yeah no worries Billy.

I know Kevin is held in very high regard amongst the model (arguably the highest regard!) and rallying community, and the last thing I would want to do is upset the Fisher family if there was any agreement in place between them and Kevin. I'm in no rush to do anything but my next 6R4 model release at this very moment anyway, so nothing is going to be happening this side of Summer 2013 at the earliest.

There's millions of fresh model material out there anyway, so it always amazes me how two people can end up producing the exact same model at the same time - although I appreciate working away at it in the privacy of your own model room, and then announcing it to find out that someone else has almost finished their own version must be totally soul destroying!

indeed m8.......... sure it keeps us all out of trouble..........

Indeed so...

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I've a wee plan to do an Irish Ascona for my self.... well Irish event and a Scottish driver
The decals are 75% complete and if they turn out well then I may do a small run of built models,
Trying to get base models at the right price will be tricky so it will be limited to the amount of base models I can get,
Oh and you'll be glad to know Billy it's going to be 1/18!!

If anyone else is doing Irish Ascona's in 1/43 or 1/18 keep me in mind


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Cazzo wrote:.

I've a wee plan to do an Irish Ascona for my self.... well Irish event and a Scottish driver
The decals are 75% complete and if they turn out well then I may do a small run of built models,
Trying to get base models at the right price will be tricky so it will be limited to the amount of base models I can get,
Oh and you'll be glad to know Billy it's going to be 1/18!!

If anyone else is doing Irish Ascona's in 1/43 or 1/18 keep me in mind


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If thats a McRae one I'd be interested in decals

hi col, good to hear m8!
i have just ordered the rohrl 82 rothmans ascona for my main rally/wrc collection, and will have the present one available for either resale or conversion......prob is, i should have one for my vat-man collection too, so that would be 3 of the flamin things!! lol!
anyway, this one is ripe for conversion i think. ari's can come later.....time to get the nail-varnish remover out again!