my diecast scale 1/43 collection (uk car park in 1985!)

They are wicked, u gotta look twice cos they look so real. Have to show the model at car shows, would create great interest!!

Thanks, in the meantime more resprayed sierras on the way, in beige, metallic green and navy blue colours. Will also buy the black XR4i from vanguards due out on 1st December.

Also brought the black XR3i ford escort mk3, beige coloured Austin 1300 estate and have replaced the red cavalier with a white one, and white morris marina with an orange one.

Will put new pictures up in early December.

Here's a picture of a resprayed escort and sierra along with an original cortina:







I'll try to update the big car park within the next week or so as there's been a few changes since last time.

how on earth do you respray one of these! Do you mask or dismantle?

They defo got to be dismantled, the Sierra's easy to do I've done so many of them as you'll see when I put all the cars up in one go again.

The Escort was a bit tricky because of the way the window panel's glued on, I almost broke it! Tried glue remover, drillling and evrything, eventually got there.

A brown resprayed Cavalier with a black/grey grill and red Vauxhall badge on the way, followed by a red Capri if I can dismantle the Capri without breaking it.

How many hours would a typical rebuild take on one of these cars?

As the cars are 43 scale they're approximately 10cm long so they're not as big as other scales sizes...

I would say in terms of actual labour around a couple of hours, you gotta first strip the model down, that can take up to 20-30 minutes, then leave the shell in a tub of break fluid oil, l leave it for a couple of days.

Then strip the paint off which takes about 10-20 minutes, the longer you leave it in break fluid oil the easier it is, sand it and respray. I respray outdoors and the actual respraying doesn't take too long, priming and everything with the main coat takes about 10 minutes.

Then let the shell dry for about three days before slowly putting the bits and pieces back on which can take an hour or even more. I don't do it in one go, I like to do bit by bit as it's really delicate and requires concentration.

Once all the bits and pieces are back on, the last bit are the decals, ie the waterslide emblems/ number plates etc and painting the side indicator lights orange such as on the sierra and cavalier, I poke these with a paperclip!

still want to do one more cavalier in yellow before I put the main pictures up in a big car park!

a few more repsrayed models aside from the granada which is original, I will put the main car park picture up hopefully this weekend!












ford sierras, six have been resprayed:

that granada is loverly

Thanks, last post updated with a couple of new pictures.

Here is the updated collection - pictures of all 31 models:

Mg Ork, they look amazing, I like the back drop! is that a photoshop trick?

Thanks, don't think I'd know how to use photoshop!

The base is just a plank of wood sprayed grey, the brickwall's a cardboard cut-out and as for the background image, it's just a google images print out.

mg ork wrote:Thanks, don't think I'd know how to use photoshop!

The base is just a plank of wood sprayed grey, the brickwall's a cardboard cut-out and as for the background image, it's just a google images print out.

It looks good to me, however you done it
do you do private jobs?