Friday, 9 April 2021

This is my fourth Hungarian Police Car, a Mercedes-Benz 240, but in this case it is not a German SIKU model - like the previous was -, but a Corgi Juniors one. It is a special model, not so easy to disassamble, because I had to take much care for the plastic base which can break very easily. Luckily it had its towing hook, too.

Originally it was a German Police Car, but I thought, this Mercedes should be my fourth custom with the stickers of the Hungarian Police (Rendőrség).

 After the restoration in white colour, without any details:

And now with the new stickers and all details:





Monday, 5 April 2021

Hungarian Police Car 3

This is also a SIKU model, a Mercedes-Benz 240 (This model was also produced by Corgi, but only in the SIKU version had opening doors, the Corgi is shut.)


 
 
It was ok for restore/customize, only I changed the wheels. The chassis got a new paint, but not white, in this case blue and the stripe was white with the blue 'Rendőrség' (Police) letters.


And the result:








Hungarian Police Car 2

This very old SIKU Ford 17M Turnier is a rare find in Hungary, so I was glad to get it and all of the parts were fairly OK. It was in the colours of the German ADAC, but I knew that I will make something different decor for it. Only I didn't know: shall it be a doctor's car or a police car? 

I painted it white (still without any decoration) and gave it new wheels:

Then I found out, that I will continue the Hungarian Police Car series with this model:







Sunday, 14 March 2021

This is a SIKU-made Volkswagen Passat Variant Police Car. Originally it was in fairly good condition, still has got the areal, too. Luckily the windows and the wheels were OK, so I didn't have to replace them. 


I decided to paint it white, but still didn't know to make another police car or a doctor's car?

 
 
Then occured to me to make a Hungarian Police Car from the seventies. So I designed stickers which were similar to the Hungarian police cars of that era.






 And of course, I painted the details, too.

Sunday, 27 December 2020

A Wildcat-Mustang

I have already restored a Lesney Ford Mustang from 1970, now this is a new one, a "Wildcat Dragster" from 1971. The origin of the two cars is same, only the Dragster got a big engine and bigger rear wheels, than the Mustang.

This model was very shabby, but not in bad condition, only the towing hook was missing. But that's general among those old cars; however there's no problem with the loss of it; a pony car, like this one not too often was towing for example a caravan or a trailer...


I painted it nice red and gave her similar stickers, but it as got white cat and letters, which fits better, than the original.





Saturday, 12 December 2020

Another Ford Cortina - With No Doors At All

This is a Lesney-made Ford Cortina, which I always put from one box into the other, I always postponed the resto, because this car had no doors at all.

Then, this summer I could get the proper doors for her, so last, not least, the restoration could begin.

I painted it lighter metallic green with the details, too.