Well, the dust has settled on Santa's sleigh for another year but the season offered some fine die-casts for me to drool over and have fun restoring paint chips.
Whilst in Whitby I treated myself to the lovely Superfast Dodge Charger - left - in a collectables shop. At £4 it was a bargain, just the windscreen chipped. The body is divine. In a mad fit of over-confidence I bagged another cheap Dodge on Ebay last week for its better windscreen hoping to recycle it.
Drilling out the rivet I managed to split the damn windscreen! Still I did find a nice purple Sharpie that patched up the small chips on the spare Dodge - the one at the back below - so my finer Charger will just have to suffer its chipped screen!
It is a beauty and the windscreen and sides lift up gullwing style [is that right, is it called gullwing?]
The rear black grille is just fabulous.
Another car I touched-up is this Matchbox Super Kings Shovel Nose Clipper. Luckily there was a similar pale yellow in my new acrylic paint pens [thanks Wotan!].
Its a fine looking futuristic motor. I just spotted it with yellow, some silvering and black panel colouring.
.... a lift-up windscreen too! I just need a smaller Superfast version of this now!
Some shades are proving difficult to match to anything I have in terms of Sharpies and paint pens. These two, a Superfast and a Corgi Junior, are good examples of paint chips I can't restore until I get similar hues of yellow and orange.
So here's the line-up of the all the Superfast I got over Christmas, the ones I've since managed to restore the paint chips, which all turned out rather nice.
The two Superfast at either front end needed no work as they were in such good shape.
Right, these are ready for the display cabinet.
Have you or did you have any of these toy cars readers?
I had the Charger and it is still around with a lot of my cars from my youth. Gullwing doors lift up and towards the centerline of a vehicle. Straker's car, the Delorean are the first two examples that come to mind.
ReplyDeleteThe type of door the Charger has is called the canopy door.
A canopy door eh! Thanks Lance. Send us some snaps of your cars or anything else toy-wise if you ever fancy seeing them on the blog!
DeleteThat was such a pity about the broken windscreen. Very disappointing. However, you have made a good job of touching up all the others. As Lance says, gull-wing doors lift up in the centre, and include part of the roof. When open they resemble the wings of a gull seen head-on. Several German cars also have this door style.
ReplyDeleteYes, you live and learn Paul re. drills. Mine is way too bug for small die-cast cars and windscreens! I need to keep my eyes peeled for a Dremmel mini set at Aldi or Lidl I reckon!
DeleteYou could always fabricate a new windscreen out of a piece of pop bottle acrylic. Just draw the basic shape on a spare piece of plastic and nip it out with scissors. Warm it in hot water and bend to (rough) shape. From what I recall, its a fairly flat piece, so you might get away with it.
ReplyDeleteA very good idea Wotan, ta very much!
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