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Detailing
a Corgi 1/43 HILLMAN
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Started:
17 December 2006
Finished:
07 January 2007
This is a
very special car in my life...
It was our family's first car, my father had bought it when he was in
the
U.K. and had it shipped to Turkey in 1964. It was most probably the
only
sample too, by then. I had a thought of replicating it, and the biggest
scale available was Corgi's 1/43, which I bought from ebay.
17 December
2006:
This is how it
arrived. Signs of wear through the years...
I disassembled
the model.
I scraped the
paint by brushing automotive paint remover throughout.
I sanded the
base metal and applied putty on the rear area where mold marks made
unequal
levels on the body.
24 December
2006:
I sprayed a base
coat and machined the headlight lenses to concave reflectors with
Dremel.
31 December
2006:
The steering
wheel had to be transferred
to the left since our car was LHD. I cut the place for the steering
column.
I machined the
place for the steering column in the dashboard too...
07 January
2007:
Our car was
white with black interior,
so I painted it accordingly. I applied BMF to the bumpers and
reflectors.
I scraped the paint over the door handles, drip rails, emblems and
scripts
to reveal the real metal below.
I filled the
reflectors with drop-gel in 3 layers, to depict the headlight lenses. I
painted the front and rear signal and stop lights with clear glass
paints.
And
here are the finished photos...
