Another Delage...

Posted by: @hobbydragon

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@chav no links, but that's the car that I'm selling and I've customized that by myself. I'm buying the wheels from Laura Brianza (from ABC Brianza fame) and wipers from some russian guy and technically can customized everything that worth customizing

I love it!

Posted by: @gdh

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@chav  I admit to some confusion, though this is nothing new as I continue collecting models, but do owners of models remove wheels and then glue one new ones?

Yes, collectors who have the skills and/or are brave enough do modifications all the time, we have a whole section in the forum for model crafts. Since we are talking about Delage, here is a link to repair and wiper modification I made to Minichamps Delage:

https://diecast.org/community/1_43/minichamps-delage/

Posted by: @hobbydragon

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@chav no links, but that's the car that I'm selling and I've customized that by myself. I'm buying the wheels from Laura Brianza (from ABC Brianza fame) and wipers from some russian guy and technically can customized everything that worth customizing

Many years ago I purchased bunch of hood ornaments from a "russian guy", amazing stuff, he was on eBay for some time but disappeared later.

@chav  I checked out your '39 Delage repair and that is a beauty.  She is on my list, as well.

@gdh When I joined this group some 14 years ago or so, I was taken aback by the talented folks who would take a perfectly good Brooklin, strip it down, and repaint it. Who would do that to a handbuilt model? But after realizing that early Brooklins, without much chrome detail, begged to be not only repainted but scraped and polished to bring out the hidden detail, I got on board. Mind you, I can't spray paint worth a penny but I could do a few things, like this wheel swap on the '57 Chevy using Brooklin wheels from their T-bird hot rod. One thing to bear in mind though, if you sell a modified model someday, it is your moral obligation to tell the buyer what changes you made, however slight.

BTW, I kept the standard wheels, and have put this one back to original. But the mag wheels are so typical of many '57s seen in the late 1960s. And with cheaper diecasts, you can just go crazy.

@mg-harv "...if you sell a modified model someday, it is your moral obligation to tell the buyer what changes you made, however slight..." Yes, this goes without saying.  My concern was you would no longer have an original model 'as built' and wouldn't that affect the value over time?  When I was younger, I had no problem dropping a fully-blown Hemi into a Sunbeam Alpine, replete with fat rear tires and a built-up suspension, but that was with Monograms and the like, which were designed for 'Ed Big Daddy Roth' types such as myself.

@gdh Ed Roth? Who's he?  

@mg-harv   Yup, that guy.  He was amazing and I had several of his models when I was much, much younger.