The A-Team!
This is another fine bodyshell from Chase Cars. Apart from Scalextric's General Lee, slot cars representing classic TV cars from the eighties aren't easy to find (Scalextric's Knight Rider being not worthy of the name), so Gareth is filling a great gap in the market with his cars.
The bodyshell comes with an interior and windows. I used a PCS chassis this time.
Many toy versions of the A Team van (a 1983 GMC Vandura) are all black with the iconic red stripe. And I suspect most people have the same memory. But the van is actually gun metal grey above the stripe and only black underneath - like in the screenshot below (although unlike other vehicles they used in the series, this one doesn't have the stripe going right up to the back corner as usual - but it was the clearest photo I could find which shows the two colours).
So the van has to be sprayed in stages with the different bits masked off.
And then varnished once the detailing has been painted by hand.
The bodyshell is completely empty so I fixed a couple of pieces of plasticard to glue the mounting posts to, and hot-glued in some foam to hold the interior in place. I sprayed the wheels red too and cut some metal rod to the right width for the van.
The finished item:
Drives really well too. I pity the fool who has to race against this one...
This is another fine bodyshell from Chase Cars. Apart from Scalextric's General Lee, slot cars representing classic TV cars from the eighties aren't easy to find (Scalextric's Knight Rider being not worthy of the name), so Gareth is filling a great gap in the market with his cars.
The bodyshell comes with an interior and windows. I used a PCS chassis this time.
The heads of Hannibal and BA are cast separately and are pinned onto their bodies which form part of the interior.
Many toy versions of the A Team van (a 1983 GMC Vandura) are all black with the iconic red stripe. And I suspect most people have the same memory. But the van is actually gun metal grey above the stripe and only black underneath - like in the screenshot below (although unlike other vehicles they used in the series, this one doesn't have the stripe going right up to the back corner as usual - but it was the clearest photo I could find which shows the two colours).
So the van has to be sprayed in stages with the different bits masked off.
And then varnished once the detailing has been painted by hand.
The bodyshell is completely empty so I fixed a couple of pieces of plasticard to glue the mounting posts to, and hot-glued in some foam to hold the interior in place. I sprayed the wheels red too and cut some metal rod to the right width for the van.
The finished item:
Drives really well too. I pity the fool who has to race against this one...
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