A Sweet Transformation

This was not a restoration, but a repaint with new identity. This is my favourite car, the Volkswagen 1600 variant (Type 3), but how the Hot Wheels painted it... 

I could buy it at a fairly good price - although it is a rare model in Hungary - and I thought, I will make another, much more attractive car from it.

I knew at once this German car must be a Milka chocolate delivery van. So after I removed the original coat, I painted it Milka-lilac.

The I assembled the parts and then made Milka-stickers.

I designed a custom box for her.

Didn't Stop At The Checkpoint...

This time I wanted to do something weird, something new with this Majorette-made Renault 25. Why the rear window was a bit broken, came the idea: this car is shot up! It is a smugglers' car with booze and cigarettes, which was shot up, because it didn't stop at the checkpoint.

Originally the chassis was metallic grey, but I wanted it black, because it fits better to a gangster car!

I found some 1:72 scaled soldiers - from my former collection, still from the eighties - to complete the diorama:

An Old Police Car With New Decor

It is always a joy to restore a Matchbox Mercury sedan Police car. It is not too easy to find a model for restore, but with good parts. Luckily in this case I found a proper one from the early SuperFast era.

As I disassemled it, I thought, I'd make not the usual Matchbox Police car.

The chassis was white and it is white - what else could it be - and the interior became light blue instead of the original cream colour.

It got a Missouri State Highway Patrol decor, not the known Lesney's Police car's stickers. I painted the details and the policemen, too.

A Fiat 1500 as a Taxi

I like this little Matchbox Lesney Fiat 1500 which had been issued in mint and red colour originally. I thought, I'd make something different, something new from it. So, it became a taxi!

The chassis and the widows were in good condition, only the roof luggage had to be replaced.

The new colour is taxi yellow - what else could it be?

And after assembling the car got its taxi-decor:

And last, not least, I made a custom garage for it!

A Popular Model From Majorette - The Renault 18

A nice successor of the Renault 12 - is the 18. It was a nice, modern vehicle and not only the real car was very popular, but its small scale models, too. It was produced in 1:64 by Guisval and Norev, but the best version is made by the French Majorette!

 

It's always a pleasure to deal with this model car, so I bought one. As we can see, it was high time to restore it:

 

A general problem with this model is the hole on its roof. What is to be done? I simply filled it with some putty.

 

The new colour is the metalllic steel blue - of course with the details:

Another Chevy Van - with Toffifee

And if the last post was about a Matchbox Cevy Van, let it be another custom version - with Toffifee. Although I'm not really fond of this sweet, the colours of this brand looked very similar to my brownish acrilyc paint spray.

Originally looked very worn, played, exhausted, poor truck.

I gave her an appetizing light brown colour which fits to the Toffifee (caramel, nougat and chocolate feeling).

Finished with Toffifee decor and new (Wellly) wheels:

Do You Want Some Coke?

Three years ago I restored a Chevy Van by Lesney, it became a van of a fictive non stop computer service. But when I found another one at a toy car fair, I knew, that I shall make a Coca-Cola delivery van from it.

The model was shabby, and the wheels had to be swapped.

The new colour was a nice vivid red to match the Coca-Cola design.

And here with the detailed chassis and new wheels and new stickers:

Finally its custom box has been made, too.