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1983 Saab 99 - "Politie Culemborg" (1/43) conversion to civilian.
Topic Started: May 7 2018, 03:53 PM (271 Views)
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1983 Saab 99 - "Politie Culemborg" (1/43)

This is the model:
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Want to make it look like this one:
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Model in parts, body sanded, holes from the light bar filled (not perfect yet):
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Base coat of black applied:
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Very nice! The blue you painted is incredible.
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May 8 2018, 03:07 AM
Very nice! The blue you painted is incredible.
eehhmmmm.... The blue I painted? I did not ... yet. Just put a flat black coat on it as a base layer..

Either you need to calibrate your monitor's colors... or maybe you got the impression I painted the real car in the second picture?
Well, I did not. As far as I know, this was the factory paint, applied in 1983... by Saab. Picture was taken in 2015 :)
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Blue !

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(Not sure why or how, but LED lighting and/or the iPhone5's camera possibly make it a lot brighter blue than it looks in reality!)
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Finished it... well, the color is indeed too bright to be close to Saab's "Admiral Blue" but it'd be too much trouble to get my hands on that color, so I decided this has to be it...

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Had to re-create one windshield wiper, as it got lost somehow, somewhere.
It's made from wood... mind you, the ruler is in centimeters...

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Put it back into its protective box, as to not lose any other bits.
Might take it out later for some more picture takings...

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