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:
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:
What I could get it was a played toy car. Not only shabby, but the front bumper with the grille was pushed in. (Why and how could have it done?) After disassembling, I had to pull it out carefully.
And then came the painting with a new metallic green colour, a bit more elegant, than the original was. The interior also has got a new colour, it's not yellow anymore!
And I made a custom box, too!
It's always funny to compare, how precisely made the producers the same model, just like the Volkswagen Beetle, a well-known car all over the world. It was always a must for the toy car producers to make any version of the Beetle.
I restored a Matchbox and a Majorette-made model the same time, so I had the chance to compare them, although they are not quite the same.
Which seems to be nicer? Everyone has a favourite kind of Beetle. There are Matchbox and there are Majorette fans...
In the first part of the 1980s, the Mercedes 190E was the smallest model of Daimler-Benz and became a very popular vehicle, and as a toy car, too! I also used to have a Majorette one, but it was a long time ago. I decided to get it again and not in mint condition, but for restoration.
When I got this Majorette model, it was in poor condition, there was no doubt about the restoration.
I thought, it will be nice blue, and unusually paint the baseplate light grey and the interior, too.
And then came the details:
The next project is an Audi 90 by the French Majorette. When it got to me, was very ugly, someone tried to repaint it, but it didn't succeed at all. I'm not really fond of black (model) cars, so I decided to paint it some nicer colour...
After disassembling I thought, I'd paint the enterior, too!
And then the details:
The Renault 25 was the executive car of Renault and was produced in the 1980es. I think, it is an elegant car with modern shape, I liked it very much. The Majorette casting is which I like the best.
This model I bought the last year was hand painted by a not so talented someone, it was no question to restore it and make it nice again!
The new, nice golden colour (here without the details yet):
And the finishing:
