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Modified or repainted motor vehicles.


I enjoy repainting commercial vehicles to represent businesses on my layout

 

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The Ford pickup is a Yat Ming Model that I repainted into a well-used farm truck.


 

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The Hess Tanker  is an Ertl 1948 Diamond T with a tank trailer

 

 

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This is an Ertl 37 Ford with a Berkshire Valley dump body

 

Lets see your modified or repainted motor vehicles.
 
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Many Matchbox and other 1/43rd models have some logo emblazoned on the side of

them that is irrelevant to my model area.  I have to at least paint that out, and have

had problems with getting the old logo off and paint compatibililty with replacing it.

I just got in a hard to find 1933 Diamond T stake truck with a beer brand on it and

colors not seen on farm trucks used to haul suger beets.  What are your and other

posters methods of "correcting" these vehicles, especially in regard to removing and

then reapplying compatible paint?

I enjoy repainting vehciles a lot, and do a good deal of it, particularly for all the 'Streets conversions. 

 

I've done only one non-Streets commercial vehcile with a name or logo on it.  This was dark blue and a NY Times delivery truck.  I converted it to the local newspaper in my town. 

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I've done about a dozen cars, but only a few two-tone ones like that below.  This was  poorly painted from the  factory (one of the cheap Polish knock offs) in green and yellow, a taxi originally.  I like it because it is a plain-Jane sedan; its hard to find models nearer the bottom than the top of the automotive totem pole.DSCN1571

 

 

ADAM-12 was a light brown family sedan.  Shield and logo on door are done with very fine colored and normal pencils and look good as long as you are more than two inches away.

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This nice convertible was bright red.  Dove gray seemed much more appropriate for a Buick.

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I had to paint this scratch-build trailer and did the cab to match.  

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This UP truck's cab is stock.  The trailer, which houses the motor for this 18 wheeler, is scratch built.  The trailer body is basswood, covered with printed paper.  Some experimentation was required to match the cab's color well . . . 

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I have three buses in this custom livery for my city bus line. 

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These seven 'Streets trucks have all been repainted.  

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