{FORGED?} Model Supplies & Skills Used On 1:1 Restoration

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Being a model car builder for 49 years I have developed many skills with paint's and plastic over these many years. Of which 8 years ago I put to good use on the repair and re-building of the interior of my yellow Hornet which sat for 8 years. My yellow car I must say was in really good shape as it was always garaged from the day I bought it new. The new orange Hornet I bought 2 years ago has really been a challenge to do the interior as it was just plain trashed by old age/Florida sun/and plain abuse. My latest little finishing detail was to paint the steering column and since it is a column shift remove the shift indicator housing to paint it black to match the new black interior. I had to hand paint the shift indicator detents on the clear part white and paint the frame black to match the column. The silver and day glow orange pointer was in sad shape so I removed it. I covered the pointer with Bare Metal Foil used for model car chrome trim, used day glow orange model pai!
 nt with a brush to paint the center and lastly applied a coat of model clear cote paint to seal everything. Once the shift indicator housing and clear lense with the detents were installed it looked like factory new. This was the first thing in 2 years that went off without a problem of some kind. It took an hour to do and most of the time was waiting for the paint to dry. No one will ever probably notice it but it is little things that seperate a real nice interior from a ho hum one
that no one can ever figure out why.  
"Doc"  











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