skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 5,546
Club RR Member Number: 11
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This weeks effort. A Majorette Renault Alpine A310 police car... Which I've de-commissioned... Lovely and you just so happened to have some FTE wheels laying around to put it on. Or Almost FTE wheels depending on what you read. I have one car with FTE wheels, and it is faster than all my others on my gravity track.
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Thanks skinnylew, I think they're nearly FTE wheels, although they freewheel pretty good. I had to go out and buy two Chill Mills to nick the front wheels off for the Alpine! I'm starting to get a good amount of brand new toy cars that all need wheels!
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skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 5,546
Club RR Member Number: 11
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Looks good on the MBX wheels, great work.
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Thanks skinnylew, I think they're nearly FTE wheels, although they freewheel pretty good. I had to go out and buy two Chill Mills to nick the front wheels off for the Alpine! I'm starting to get a good amount of brand new toy cars that all need wheels! Lol I did that last week. Managed to get to a decent looking amount on the pegs but it all turned out to me fantasy stuff, so I bought a Kick Kart and a Rip Rod just because they had steels in a variety of sizes. I got home to find they were all exactly what I needed. I might be able to chop bits off the bodies for other ideas but they are probably bin fodder.
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Jun 13, 2020 11:29:28 GMT
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drseg
Part of things
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Jun 13, 2020 22:33:01 GMT
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as a kid definitely had a blue pre superfast iso griffo with opening doors
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Jun 16, 2020 12:18:11 GMT
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as a kid definitely had a blue pre superfast iso griffo with opening doors Me too. It was a tasty car.
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eBay Rare
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Jun 24, 2020 15:28:05 GMT
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Back at the beginning of lockdown I found myself in poundland looking at a Maisto Pontiac Solstice that I quite liked, so I splurged a whole £1, and took one home. I set about stripping it and before long I had this... Although I didn't have the Firebird on the bonnet, but my littlest Pistonpoppet looked at it's pink and white bodywork and said, I'll have that, can you put a Firebird on the bonnet please. So that was that, off to poundland, and another £1 spent and another Maisto Pontiac Solstice gets a date with the stripper, and pretty soon I was looking at this... In my mind this was Janines car, the secretary from Ghostbusters. In reality my eldest Pistonpoppet came along and said, thats pretty cool Dad, I'll have that, and that was Pontiac Solstice #2 dispatched! Back to poundland, and preparing to lose another one to Mrs Pistonpopper, £2 splurged on two Pontiac Solstices, both brought home, taken apart and plopped into the stripper, and I had this... Happily Mrs Pistonpopper had no desire to have one of my customs, and so, spurred on by the cafe racer thread on this very forum I tried to go down the cafe racer route for my final Pontiac Solstice, which sort of looks like this...
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Jun 28, 2020 19:30:40 GMT
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Jul 15, 2020 16:21:13 GMT
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Aug 17, 2020 18:23:35 GMT
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I got a big bag of cars at the car boot sale this morning... Having lost my 'General Mayhem' model I did I was only after the one that looks like the 'General Lee' (in the middle just above the ambulance) I thought this was an ERTL 'General Lee' which is what I based my 'General Mayhem' on it isn't, anyway the guy wanted £1 for it, so I pulled out a tenner, and he said I could have the lot for that. Which I did, then I had to lug it home in my back pack on my bike! No easy task as I weighed it when I got home and it weighed just over 12kgs! Anyway, incase you didn't see it before, this is what I started out wanting to make... Again. The General Mayhem! Which started off life as... An ERTL toy car. Anyway, what I thought was another ERTL toy car isn't, it's something far cheaper and nastier. But it looks like someone's had their Mums nail varnish out and tried to make it into a 'General Lee' at some point, and so this is what it actually turned out to be... Which is pretty rough, but I still think is kinda cool. So now I have a bit of a dilemma, I'm going to pull it apart anyway as I want to get all that sharpie off the windows if I can, and although not a General Lee, it does look to have been orange originally. But I can't decide what to do, do I pull it apart to make my General Mayhen replica as planned, or clean it all up and make a General Lee replica, or clean it all up and make a General Lee replica that looks like it's been in a few episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard as that was obviously the route that it's original owner was going. Lastly, can anyone tell me what HotWheels castings had the real rider tyres on the wheels that look like the Turbovec wheels used on the original General Lee? Because I think no matter which route I go down I want to put those wheels on it. I decided that the route I would go down in the end would be to try and take what the kid who used to own this had done and improve it. I'll be honest here, I'm not sure if I've improved it or not. After a wash in just water the paint that looks to be grey mostly washed away, and so I'm guessing it was water based. Worse still, the windows that were covered in Sharpie sort of dissolved. They just completely fell apart into little fragments in the water. So then I was into making new windows, which I did after a couple of attempts from a plastic Lemonade bottle. With that done I gave my wifes new nail varnish a go on the panels that were originally grey, so now they're blue. I tried her grey nail varnish but it was a bit transparent, and after three coats I figured a darker colour would work better. Then it was out with the Humbrol paints and I tried to apply a dark grey to look like a spot of rattlecan primer (I didn't use this on the original grey wing and boot lid because I wanted to look like I'd done spot of primer, and thought painting a couple of panels would detract from the look I was after). I followed this up by using some Vallejo rust and stain streaking paints that my kids got me for fathers day. I've not tried this before, and I think I may need more practise. Then I repainted the orange door with the Humbrol orange before putting a General Lee 01 decal on it. Then the lot was given a quick wash with Citadel Nuln Oil before given a quick coat of satin lacquer. The very basic interior was painted, and the rolling stock came from an old Matchbox Porsche 944 that was in the bag of cars with this Dodge Charger when I bought it. So this is how it turned out... This does of course mean that I'm still on the lookout for a couple of ERTL General Lee models, so if anyone has a couple of rough, but complete ones that they're willing to part with, please let me know. Oh, and don't let Mrs Pistonpopper know I've been using her new nail varnish!
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Aug 24, 2020 10:27:20 GMT
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Sept 20, 2020 11:44:20 GMT
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Sept 21, 2020 12:38:16 GMT
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The letter on the roof is part of something.
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eBay Rare
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Sept 21, 2020 13:27:51 GMT
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chip83
Part of things
One day at a time....
Posts: 357
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Sept 21, 2020 13:52:26 GMT
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I keep looking at this Mustang monstrousity in the toy shop. As the roof says... Just Y? I don't know what I hate more the bright coloured wheels, the fact they're mis-matched or the hideous paintwork. The car it's self I love, and so in the end I had to buy myself one and try and rectify the situation... I may, at some point find myself doing another one in the future with different coloured panels like it's original scheme but with more of a 'I'm fixing it up as I go along' look to it. There's a boulevard or garage series version of that casting with rubber wheels in almost exactly the same colour combo, looks good
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Quashqui and Yeti (needs must currently) SAAB 93 EST (Sold) Volvo S40(sold) Volvo V40(sold) MK2 astra aka "THE SHED"(sold) Mgb GT (crashed) Peugeot 405(sold) Orion 1600i (sold) Metro (scrapped) Mk1 Fiesta (Broken for spares) Mk5 Cortina (crashed)
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Oct 12, 2020 21:04:28 GMT
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Oct 12, 2020 21:11:17 GMT
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Oct 18, 2020 19:02:10 GMT
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