Bburago 1/16 Alpine A110

[Pascal]

After seeing the wonderful builds of the Tamiya 1/24 Alpine's, I decided to make one myself.

 

Not the 1/24 Tamiya kit, but this 1/16 diecast model made by Bburago quite a few years ago.

 

Got this beauty for the great price of € 20 :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Typically for Bburago are the opening doors, engine compartment and spare tyre compartment :

 

 

 

Also typically Bburago is that not a single drop of glued is used, makes taking it apart a lot easier :

 

 

 

The complete interior :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent base model to start with.

 

Sincerely

 

Pascal

[MikeA]

Really looking forward to the magic weaved on this one!

[scvrobeson]

Definitely looks like a great base to build off of. I'll be looking forward to this one. The A110 is one of the prettiest cars ever built.

 

 

 

Matt 

[hub]

Nice choice should be lots of scope for improvement 

Michael

 

 

[Pascal]

  

Thx for the replies.

 

Progress on this Alpine will be slow, because I've only just started searching for reference-material.

 

But still, I made some progress. I succeeded in taking apart the entire model. Had to cut the glass parts in two, to remove them from the body :

 

 

 

The hinges could use some extra details :

 

 

 

 

 

But modifying these will prevent the lids from opening. Not sure yet if I want to do that.

 

I don't want to respray the body, because it looks really nice. Will give it a couple of coats of clearcoat and polish it to a "Concours d'élégance" finish.

 

The only flaws are these vertical moulds lines, not worth respraying the entire body IMO :

 

 

 

 

The brake discs are a bit odd. The side that's visible is flat (like the 1/1 car) :

 

 

 

The other side has these holes :

 

 

 

I haven't removed the brake discs yet, because they are mounted in typical Bburago fashion. If you pull them from the plastic tabs, they'll never fit properly again.

 

The brake discs have a diameter of about 19mm, might make new one with the lathe so I can salvage the plastic ones for another model.

 

Plenty of things to think about. Meanwhile here's a nice video of a restoration. My model is also a 1600 S :

 

 

 

 

 

Sincerely

Pascal

[hub]

Alpine Label Bleu by Christian Descombe is a good book if you can still find it and it’s not too expensive!