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1969 Triumph Bonneville. The Customer’s Triumph: An Opportunity to Restore Early on in the shops program to introduce a commissioning service for our customers, we had a customer contact us regards a collectors display model of a Triumph motorbike. In his description he said he had a Franklin Mint Triumph Bonneville and the rear light […]

1958 Ferrari 246F1 Grand Prix Car. A customer contacted the shop and was enquiring if a collectors model car could have a Girls name be added. The email with the enquiry was forwarded to me so I could contact the customer and discuss what he really wants and if I could do this for him. […]

Assessing the Locomotive’s Initial Fault A Hornby Large Prairie 2-6-2T locomotive came into the workshop. Picture 1 The fault was described as starting then stopping and a buzzing sound. Once taken apart it is then a case of putting direct power to the motor terminals to check the motor does actually run and it is […]

Welcome to the final part of the Jaguar XJ12C model car conversion. I think I should now talk about painting the model car. Preparing for Painting Your Model Car You will have seen from the pictures used so far, the model car is red and white with some pale blue trimming. The model car will […]

Crafting Exterior Components for the Corgi Jaguar XJ12C In this part I want to highlight some of the smaller items I need to make for this corgi model. Items like two outside exhaust pipes, a wiper for the windscreen, front scuttle air vent, ignition cut off switch and two fuel filler caps all for the […]

Part 5: Dealing with the rear of the diecast model car. The first picture is showing the full amount of detail the Corgi has put on this diecast model which will need to be removed so a new flatter panel can be glued in place. This new panel will be a section of plasticard and […]

The continuing story of the Corgi Jaguar XJ12C conversion is concentrating on the very distinctive rear wings. The miliput filler has set really hard which now allows some reworking and cutting open the wheel arch shape. The picture shows half of the grey plastic tubing secured with miliput to the rear wing. On this side […]

Corgi Jaguar XJ12C Conversion using Milliput fillers So, here we are with our Corgi Jaguar XJ12C conversion. A few words about the Corgi model. It comes from a period when Corgi adopted the 1/36th scale to supplement their usual 1/43rd scale. Made of mazac metal, it is quite a hefty model, offering a lot of […]

Here we are with part two, converting a diecast toy Jaguar XJ12C into a track car. The job details I highlighted in my last post now allow me to focus on the work. The body shell, the interior with the dash panel and glazing would be kept. The enclosed picture shows the parts I did […]