BILL'S BIRD: LEAVING LOCKDOWN BEHIND

 A long-put-off project saw the light of day this week.

Way back in 2020, during the UK's homebound lockdown, I kindly received some broken Thunderbirds toys in the post from Tony K and Bill to keep me sane. Tracy Aid no less!

Tony's JR21 Thunderbird 2 was 'restored' at the time, which I blogged back then  but Bill's box was put sadly aside and gathered dust.

No more! 

My first project from the box is to brush-up Bill's old busted childhood Dinky Thunderbird 2. 

As a kid Bill had painted it black. You can see the original blue inside.

I didn't have any metallic blue paint and I like the original green. Compromising, I used the metallic 'Christmas' green I recently bought for Paul V's Hot Wheels. 

My Blackbird brush-up is only half-finished but I wanted to post the work in progress thus far.

So, before.

After.

Hope you like it so far. Next I want to buy decent repro parts to finish it off properly.

For this 'shoot' I used two red Tomato puree caps for the exhausts and a bigger Matchbox TB4.

and finally, in homage to Bill's original repainted black bird here's a dark filtered picture of my own finish to give you an idea of Bill's sable coat in its heyday.

Watch this space for more.