Reply to "Buy/Make Anything Cool Lately (Tinplate Version)"

George SOGR Forum Member

George S posted:
This was described as C-2 on eBay. The post said it was missing both doors and the roof needed repainting.
I could tell one door was there. I had a replacement brake wheel from Port Lines. The roof had some paint specs that cleaned off and then I polished it. The Litho is very good and there is no rust for a 90 year old car. It is missing one door and door handles, but this is the car I was missing.
I will add a fake litho door to the other side with a card stock photo, and I will enjoy this car in my AF large litho box car collection.
George

I spent some time today making a door for the other side of my AF 3008 GN car.

I cut a piece of tin the size of the door and bent the bottom edge to fit in the door glide. I then printed a digital photo of the door on HP photo paper and sealed it with Krylon Digital Preserve-It.

I then used super glue to glue the photo to the front of the door.

I used a magic marker to make the back of the door black to match the other side.

Here is the new door installed.

Here it is with the roof.

I'm pretty happy how this car cleaned up.

George

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