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  1. It’s one of those things I never know what to do for the best! I’ve done it before after leaving it on for weeks and it still worked but that’s probably more down to luck than anything.
  2. Just risked everything and took the masking off the Commer. It’s only had the green on an hour or so! Worked a treat! There’s a tiny bit of paint stuck in the little window opening I need to clean out but it just needs to harden off now.
  3. Some more of my work in progress… DelPrado Capri. Yes, Miami blue! Gave it a light shine up and lacquer. Still wet here. Bond partwork Sherpa, stripped down. I’ve filled the damaged parts on the door and bonnet, just waiting for it to dry before sanding it down. Spanish trucks partwork Commer Walkthru. I didn’t actually realise the roof on these was a separate plastic part. But when you take them to bits it looks like they’re designed to be adapted into a high roof version too with a different roof moulding clipped on. The chassis is similar. There’s a separate ladder frame chassis attached to the floor which isn’t really visible on this model, but could maybe be used on a chassis cab version of these trucks. Paint going on after masking up. I love those Commer/Dodge Walkthru vans! Such a good looking model of them. To me, the real ones are an iconic bit of British street furniture of the 60’s and 70’s - loads of them around but almost completely gone now. But still a very cool looking van!
  4. Nice job on those @FakeConcern great to see things being made rather than just buying things.
  5. Mine was literally a thick polythene sheet with roads, buildings etc all printed onto it. No 3D bits at all. It could well have been Matchbox I suppose. I can’t find anything at all about them anywhere though. I can’t imagine many are still around though, being polythene they’ve probably all fallen to bits by now and been binned. My dad seems to think it was Matchbox though so maybe…
  6. Jesus! I definitely didn’t pay that. I’m sure it was a tenner I payed, possibly £15?
  7. That big Chevy Suburban fire department one? I can’t find a pic of it now, but @Datsuncog got it for me from the market. It’s a bloody lovely model. Can’t remember how much it was now? Edit; found it!
  8. I don’t think I’ve ever had one of those little trucks with the crane still attached before. There can’t be many around that are complete still I wouldn’t have thought. Those old 1 - 75’s do have a real charm about them somehow. They’re lovely little toys. The Cresta is a nice one too, I think mines in that copper two tone colour.
  9. Last few days has seen a bit more done to various models. FG recovery truck has been converted to rhd. Quite easy to do on this one, just a bit of messing around to get the steering column out of the floor on the other side. Just need to sand that big lump of moulding flash off the instrument cluster! Lada Riva got painted in authentic Lada Adriatic blue! Which strangely dried overnight darker!? I wish it’d have stayed the lighter colour. Sierra estate is now in Ceramic blue. It looks brighter on the photo than it really is, but I hope the grey trims etc help tone it down a bit! Im pretty sure this shade must have faded quite a lot with age, as it seems to have a slightly purple-ish tinge to it on real cars. But I suppose the paint is going on 40 odd years old on them now! Dodge RAM pickup is being put back together. I did the bumpers in molotow pen chrome and the grill unit in silver paint as that’s normally in that duller painted plastic silver on real ones. Cab back wall is painted too. I’ve had to paint the inside of that black as it’s made from clear plastic and you get lots of light bleed through it if the suns on it. Dinky Volvo has had its wheels refitted and new tyres. Wheels are Dinky Transit wheels. Ford F100 is about ready for being put back together. Hard to photograph this and get the metallic sparkling from it but you can just about see it in places. I had to paint the cab twice! Had it sat on the side while I was painting the Sierra, shook the can of blue to mix it and the nozzle must have been on loose and a jet of the blue paint and propellant shot out and landed directly on the F100 cab side! Being fresh paint it melted and went funny. I was mighty pissed off I can tell you. Lots of words that rhyme with ‘duck, ducking and hunt’ were said… Converted a few interiors to rhd too ready to refit. And stripped one of those cheapy DelPrado mk1 Capri’s which came from some collection or another. These aren’t actually too bad with the old paint gone. Originally they’re in a horrible gun metal grey colour. Why they picked that colour for these is anyone’s guess as it really doesn’t show off a Capri’s shape at all. A Capri wants bright blues, greens, reds, yellow etc etc not dull boring dark grey! I think with a bit of extra detailing and a better colour paint job it’ll look just fine! No prizes for guessing what colour this one will be getting! A clue is: I conveniently already have a can of it…
  10. No it wasn’t that one. I’ve never seen that one either though. Mine was like a little town with buildings and car parks etc etc.
  11. I remember making my own extensions by drawing and colouring in bits of cardboard and paper to make it even bigger. They probably looked like absolute shit of course, but it enabled me to fill the room eventually with little roadways!
  12. When I was little I had road mat for my toy cars. It wasn’t one of those new fandangled ones though made out of carpet or whatever, it was like a thick polythene sheet with the roads and buildings all printed onto it. Obviously it disintegrated many years ago but I’ve never seen one since, or even a picture of one. No idea who even made it. Anyone else seen or remember them?
  13. I must admit, I thought the hidden screws were a nice little touch by Corgi. Does it really matter? Not really. But it’s a nicely thought out design I think. And good to see they bothered to do it. When you open the Vanguards up they’re exactly the same inside as the partwork and IXO cars. Very simply put together.
  14. Very nice! When you take it apart, some Vanguards models have screws underneath but they’re sometimes hidden well! I did a mk1 Escort recently and the chassis screws were hidden under clip in parts of the undercarriage. One was under the fuel tank! Sometimes it’s hard to see but there’s usually a line around the part that comes off (gently prise off with screwdriver). On the Escort it was quite a good fit so I missed it the first time I looked.
  15. Got the Lada filler rubbed down, primed and wet flatted off. Rubbed the filler down on the Sierra estate too. The roof was easy and went well but the front bumper was a pain in the arse. I got it very close to perfect then the front edge chipped! I think the filler Im using is going funny. It’s dregs in the bottom of a tin and I think it’s started to dry out and not mixing well. After a second coat it seems fine. Ive given it a good wash off in soapy water since the pic and it’s looking good enough to prime now.
  16. Here’s a quick roundup of stuff ‘on the bench*’ at the moment for those interested. The first Sierra I did is being detailed. Bumpers etc are being done in British Rail Executive dark grey! Seems to work quite well as a grey plastic bumper sort of colour. Sierra estate. Front end cured well and it seems to have stuck well. I’ve reinforced the joint underneath with some chemical metal putty just to be sure. I’ve filed down the joint to get rid of any slight difference in height then sprayed several coats of primer over the join, rubbing it down in between each coat to use the primer as filler in the line of the joint. Normal filler just wasn’t fine enough to do the job. The front bumper and holes in the roof (from the roof bars) have been filled and need sanding back. The roof also had cast roof ribs on under the roof bars so these have been filed down smooth as a low spec car should be. I’ve had a Ford F100 short bed in bits for ages, so finally decided what to do with it! Metallic black paint job, and the light bar taken off the Dodge RAM pickup used on this. It’s loosely mocked up here while the paint hardens off. Dodge RAM pickup is dry and had a quick polish up. Battered Vanguards Escort mk1 has been stripped and re sprayed in its new colour. This is a Mexico free zone so it’s been done in a nice period correct colour for a normal everyday style mk1… as almost all of them were! And a new project started… A Lada Riva estate! Was a Belarus cop car. I’ll fill the holes in the roof and do it as a standard estate version. These are a really nice casting. Buffed up well with the wire brush! The others - trucks I was doing etc, are sat waiting finishing off too but I like to get a good few on the go at a time instead of just one or two. *bench - by bench I mean, a big cardboard box!
  17. The talk recently about BMW’s was timely. Ive never seen this one in this part of the world before. Only place I could get one was from South America! Very nice model of an E21 though. Great colour too, very ‘of its time!’ Issue number 113 if anyone’s interested. I need a complete list of all these as I still think there’s a good number I’ve never seen before.
  18. Glad you like em! Get that Capri stripped and painted!! Got to start somewhere… besides, it’s not that hard to do and you can’t really ruin anything. If it goes wrong just strip it again and start over!
  19. I would if I were you. The regular wheels are nicer than superfast’s imho. If you’ve had the other one so long, it’s not like your destroying it, just fixing it.
  20. Must admit, I love the E30 Bimmer. I love the E21 before it even more. They’re such nice cars to drive and really solidly built too. Imho they’re the best of BMW. I had an E36 too which was the polar opposite imho. Absolute shit compared to the E30. I used to occasionally work on an A reg 320 that had a ridiculous amount of mileage on it. Lovely car still though, and the only way you knew it was a mega miler was the state of the drivers seat. It was still tight as a drum to drive.
  21. Glue on the Sierra estate has cured. I’ll leave it another day before starting to mess with it though. Last thing I want is snap the nose off! Did some spraying while I was in the shed! Bond partwork first gen Dodge RAM pickup. These come in white originally so I stripped this one, primed, wet flatted and now paint. The plastic grill unit is painted white on the 007 version but I’ll do mine in chrome with the Molotow pen after. Weirdly, the cab back is a separate piece, done in plastic rather than part of the metal casting, so I’ll mask that up (window!) later and spray it while the truck itself dries. Did some wheel swaps. Capri 2.8i lost its pepperpots to the Cortina mk4 (beige car). So I took a set of steel dartboard style wheels from a Cortina mk5 and used them on the Capri. This Capri will eventually become a low spec car in different colour. Then the Cortina mk5 received the Ghia alloys that came off the mk4. The chrome finish is a bit crap so I’ll paint them silver. Ill repaint the mk5 at some point too. Dinky Volvo estate has been sat around while I dithered over what wheels to use on it. This one came with a set of very old spun style wheels that didn’t really suit it, after someone painted it red. I’ve finally found some wheels for it I’m happy with! Dinky Transit wheels leftover from a spares van. Correct 5 stud hubs too! Just need some tyres for it.
  22. Sorry, I was meaning the Sierra alloy wheels on the last page. The Escort in my pic, has the standard sports alloys our ones got, but I posted it referring to production dates. In Europe our Escort was at the mk5 by 1992. In South America they were still making the mk4 like that model. Love the Mini btw! Nowt wrong with a scale model! The two Camaro’s look superb too, great colour choices. That Saab looks odd with those lumps. It doesn’t look like zinc pest or corrosion though, more like a slight casting flaw? File it down and ignore it. I found some similar marks on a few of my newer 1:43’s.
  23. I’m not sure we got that style alloy over here then!? I know the South American Fords were a bit different in their production run to ours. The Sierra mk1 was built some time after ours became the mk2. And the Escorts were similar, their mk4 Escort went on longer than ours. Maybe they had their own items like alloys and bits of trim we didn’t get? I certainly can’t recall that style alloy here.
  24. Also, what type alloy are these? These are from the estate originally but not really suitable for a low spec estate. I think they are Sierra Ghia wheels but what else used them?
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