Construction
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Starting point was a Busch HO scale Santa Barbara Police 1957 Bel air
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First was repositioning the lights
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Followed by sanding off the chrome stripes
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Molotow chrome on the steering wheel turned out beautifully until it went PING off the tweezers never to be seen again
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Painted the wheels yellow and blasted the interior with krylon flat black because I'm impatient
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First coats of yellow were unsatisfactory
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That's better, still not great
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Quick mockup
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Decals! I used a resized jbot set, and drew the chrome strip myself.
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I was impatient again and sprayed it with tamiya clear lacquer from a rattle can im the dark. Whoops...
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Ruined the chrome strip om the passenger side
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Better
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Better
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Quick mockup
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2 14 March 2022, 22:46
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A few construction photos