Osbad's got gas(lands)

Time for another post, this time with MOAR FOTOS!

I picked up a Hotwheels Dodge Charger from my local Poundland that was just aching for repurposing, so here we go.

First off I dismantled the car, which involved drilling out two rivets from below.  I use a hand drill as it is a very controlled way of drilling and sometimes the metal these cars are made of is a bit fragile and can shatter under the pressure of drilling if you go too vigorously at it.  Also I can never seem to remember to charge my electric drill up before I need to use it…

So, having dismantled the car, it is time for stripping.  I’ll avoid the predictable awkward humour potential here.  But “stripping”… *sniggers*…

What I use is a bottle of the cheapest paintstripper I could find in my local discount hardware store.  This is it.

Squirting a generous helping over my car body I left it in an old takeaway carton with a lid for a few hours.  May even have been overnight.
Here’s the “before”:

And here’s the “after”:

A quick scrub with a brass bristled brush (try saying that after a couple of pints!) later and we have a clean body shell.

Now, as you can see from some of the previous posts in this PLOG, I don’t always dismantle and strip models.  A lot of the time I don’t think it worth the effort.  But this time I definitely didn’t want any bright yellow paint showing through and I also wanted to remove the windows.  So I thought it was worth it.

Talking of which, it was now time to address the other bits (well, really I did a lot of this while the stripper was taking effect, but for the sake of a coherent narrative forgive the temporal distortion and just run with it!)

The first thing to do was to clip off the unwanted back part of the glazing piece as I only wanted to keep the windscreen