The Diecast Zone · Model Car Club Since 1994
Diecast Collector Forums
Eight forums, every scale, and thirty years of shop talk — new arrivals, restorations, reviews, and the finds you won’t see posted anywhere else, with the full archive back to 2002 restored and searchable. Free to Register.
8Forums
195,000+Topics
1,276,000+Posts
10,000+Members
Notifications
Clear all
Forum 43
9
Posts
5
Users
0
Reactions
6
Views
06/01/2018 8:24 am
Sometimes just a little chrome is all it needs to stand out as a true scale model. A few paragraphs earlier I was invited to show what I mean with bare metal chrome trim on my cars. Here is a quartet of Dinky Matchbox Skylarks I am starting to detail. You'll see new chrome on the side, windshield and emblems. The white car I've totally repainted. I'd like to do more factory colors, a couple of reds are almost completed. But the actual factory 1953 paint color is costly. So I look touch up spray in auto parts stores. And I'm not the high-skilled modeler some of you are. I've done quite a few Brooklins and when we did the Strictly 43rd show in Chicago I sold them all. Sorry.photo no longer available
photo no longer available
<img
06/01/2018 8:48 am
That foiling really dresses up those Dinkys!
06/01/2018 9:32 am
Thanks Ken, since falling in love with these old Skylarks
I've learned that blue Matchbox or Dinky did here was not in the Buick color range for the 1:1 car so I've found the right metallic silver blue and repainted one. And also I want to do a black one too. But with the cold weather and high humidity I'll probably have to wait a month or two for the right weather.
My garage is too cold and damp right now. That blue and a solid red car are already done so when I get a chance I'll photograph them here.
06/01/2018 9:33 am
Looking good, Don! I enjoy up touching some models too. (pic)
photo no longer available
And even rebuilding some old ones, acquired on the used market. Sorry for my poor skills, but I enjoy the process!
photo no longer available
06/01/2018 10:18 am
So for you Buick lovers among us here's my repaints so far. This is a solid red while another metallic awaits shooting time and that blue is a nice soft metallic I like to call "Old Man Blue" a name once coined by a used car salesman in the sixties. And it stuck with me for some reason. Next for me is to figure our a way to add the sun visors to all of these convertibles. photo no longer available
06/01/2018 11:15 am
Beautiful models Don
06/01/2018 1:30 pm
Thank you John, and David, that's the spirit! Ain't it easy?
06/01/2018 1:59 pm
They look very good. Excellent work.
07/01/2018 5:58 am
I admire any modeler who can do this magic with Bare Metal Foil