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Satin black bonnet - CHECK

Undesirable colour - CHECK

 

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Apparently, the dents down the driver's side look like deer strike.  At least, according to a friend of mine whose truck suffered three deer strike before having to go into early retirement.  So I'm sticking that in the story for this thing.

 

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Colour is Ford Forest Green, the nearest I could find to that dark metallic green that Dodges of the era came in.  I'm not ordering specially mixed Dodge paint just for this kit.

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Satin black bonnet - CHECK

Undesirable colour - CHECK

 

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Apparently, the dents down the driver's side look like deer strike.  At least, according to a friend of mine whose truck suffered three deer strike before having to go into early retirement.  So I'm sticking that in the story for this thing.

 

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Colour is Ford Forest Green, the nearest I could find to that dark metallic green that Dodges of the era came in.  I'm not ordering specially mixed Dodge paint just for this kit.

That needs some red oxide patches,and at least one panel painted a different colour too.

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I finally got the T-bird to a point that I could prime it to see just what I'm dealing with.  It's not bad, all things considered, and very salvagable.  Next stage will be filler and lots of fine sanding to sort out the minor damage and defects all over.

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I'll be going white and gold 60s custom on this one because that allows me to explain away some of the damaged and missing bits.  Had the kit not cleaned up so well, there was a very different route for it that I was seriously considering.

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The Monaco too has an update.  All the base colours are now down.  To help make a bit more sense of the 'deer strike' dents, I repainted the front wing on the same side in different colour.  the mask line for this is correct, the front panel on these is separate so the split is vertical behind the bumper end.  The trunk lid wasn't going to be mismatched until I had a glue mishap putting the rear bumper on and managed to lift some green paint with my thumb.  It was easier to paint it to match the front wing than in the original green, so that's what I did.  I like to imagine both panels came off another car, perhaps the original trunk lid on this one rotted out in that way they do and the replacement was too cheap not to buy at the same time as that wing.

 

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Stick a bit of paint on them and don't glue them in, you can shufty them around between stuff then and use them for little displays and photographs.  Where did you get the crates from?  They look pretty good.

 

Thanks, here you go. He does other variations.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/crates-assorted-for-00-gauge-4mm-20-per-pack-resin-cast/222910430292

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Not been in the mood to work on the Monaco so it's T-bird update time.  Today I learned that white is incredibly forgiving and gold is not.

 

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I had considered a proper Watson style paintjob and then realised I'm not brave enough for that.  Instead, I'm going to make use of the car's existing body lines to keep it simple while looking really complicated.  It's going to be very different to the other kits.  I feel like I need to display it on a piece of white fur.

 

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Picked this up last Sunday at a autojumble.

Made by Taiyo in Japan,it's a 1960's tin plate motorised Volkswagen.

 

Of course it didnt work,but some tinkering and a replacement motor got it to move.

 

Gave it a good clean,lube and polish and it trundles around the table quite happily.

It has a clever mechanism underneath that stops it going over the edge.

I won't paint it as I quite like it as it is.

 

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"Fill her up please smoll Eddy"

 

"You taking the piss M8"

 

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