A Civil Car Turns Into A Police Car

Although I don't collect Matchboxes with regular wheels, they sometimes appear in my restoration program. Just like this Matchbox Ford Zodiac Mk4. When I saw it the first time, I knew that it will be a police car - the Lesney only produced as a civil one.

In this case the body and the windows were ok, needed no spare parts, so I could start the work.
 

 

 

I had to drill a hole on the roof for the rooflight which was originally a miniature LED bulb.

It got the white colour, and I designed for it a unique Police Car decor, which should be somehow similar to the real UK police cars. 

At the end it got an own L-type box, too.

A Big-Big Mercedes

This Mercedes 600 SEL (W140) was a big car, looked bigger than any other Mercedes, so in Hungary its nickname was 'Bálna' means: whale. The Matchbox version is a fairly correct model, but a rarer one. 

Originally it looked like this:

It got a dark red metallic paint and I detailed it, too.

And finally I made a custom box for her.

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!

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.

A cool Mercedes-Benz cabrio by Lesney

The Lesney had produced this Mercedes 280SL in white and in yellow colour. I thought, I would restore one in red colour with pale interior.

This model, I bought had no windsreen, it had to be replaced by a freshly made one. Otherwise the other parts were ok.

Beside the new bright red paint it got the details, too.