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Does anyone else swap out license plates?
Just curious if anyone else does this. For example, say you owned or your father owned a certain car and you've either got pictures of or (better) the actual plates themselves. It also allows for some pretty nifty variants. For example, the Renault 10 was a pretty common car in Romania for maybe three years prior to the introduction of the Dacia 1100. Since Ixo made a pretty solid model of this car WITHOUT the yellow headlights (in addition to a version with them), I decaled on Romanian plates. Likewise, the Renault 4L was an absurdly common car in Yugoslavia. I currently have two with Yugoslav plates (sort of; one is a GTL with early Slovenian plates). Also, I generally try and put something over the blank spaces on Minichamps models. My Mercedes-Benz 220S, for example, wears West German plates, as does my Volkswagen Hebmuller Cabriolet. I actually decided to go with Bulgarian plates for a few of the Fiats (124, 850, and 850 Coupe) that were made at SPC Balkankar and sold (but NOT branded) as "Pirin-Fiat". I'm also researching the Australian plates over the years to give to my Trax and Biante models. Does anyone else do this? The decals I use are either water-based or even permanent double-stick-taped on if I can get away with it so as not to harm the model...but still make it a bit more interesting.
I attach period correct plates to all of my models, and on models that have a history, I research until I find a photo of the plate attached to the 1:1, and then have one made for me.
Ditto here! Very nice! Anyone else?