Mitch
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As I am paraphrasing an old song (there is a hole in my bucket) the next line should be Dear Liza!!!
Anyway, moving swiftly on! Rolling wheels and shelves don't seem to fit. This is the damage when a headlong fall from a vehicle falls from a shelf. The cab snapped from the rear of the Bowser and, cracked open the front cab dislodging the driver and seat and causing quite some damage to him. It also when he was dislodged snapped the passenger seat.
Front mud guards were bent and I removed them and, the wheels at the front were bent. so, the following pics show the damage and some of the work needing doing and some that had been done as I was taking pics. The first show the problems the cab with driver is when he had been repaired (some dints and scrapes filled) and had been repainted. The was only a small bit of flesh work to do on the hand.
Once that was done everything inside was repainted including the seats in a more acceptable brown leather colour. The cab was then worked on some new windows were added and, the cab itself was fixed using milliput for the window frame and then it was all glued back into place. I then filled in the cracks with watered down milliput and, sanded it all down with a fine tool.
From then it was a simple job repaint the cab and weather it (fortunately, the cracks had not gone through any decals) Once done I drilled a couple of holes into the polystone where it had come away from the rear and added some metal rods to aid and strengthen it when regluing.
Over a period of two nearly three days this was brought back up to what it was before and, it was also given some extra weathering overall to the yellow.
This was not mine that went skydiving but, it is why I think rolling wheels are unnecessary and dangerous on such expensive sets. It also shows that nothing is bin worthy everything can always be fixed.
Hope its of interest to some
Mitch
Anyway, moving swiftly on! Rolling wheels and shelves don't seem to fit. This is the damage when a headlong fall from a vehicle falls from a shelf. The cab snapped from the rear of the Bowser and, cracked open the front cab dislodging the driver and seat and causing quite some damage to him. It also when he was dislodged snapped the passenger seat.
Front mud guards were bent and I removed them and, the wheels at the front were bent. so, the following pics show the damage and some of the work needing doing and some that had been done as I was taking pics. The first show the problems the cab with driver is when he had been repaired (some dints and scrapes filled) and had been repainted. The was only a small bit of flesh work to do on the hand.
Once that was done everything inside was repainted including the seats in a more acceptable brown leather colour. The cab was then worked on some new windows were added and, the cab itself was fixed using milliput for the window frame and then it was all glued back into place. I then filled in the cracks with watered down milliput and, sanded it all down with a fine tool.
From then it was a simple job repaint the cab and weather it (fortunately, the cracks had not gone through any decals) Once done I drilled a couple of holes into the polystone where it had come away from the rear and added some metal rods to aid and strengthen it when regluing.
Over a period of two nearly three days this was brought back up to what it was before and, it was also given some extra weathering overall to the yellow.
This was not mine that went skydiving but, it is why I think rolling wheels are unnecessary and dangerous on such expensive sets. It also shows that nothing is bin worthy everything can always be fixed.
Hope its of interest to some
Mitch
jb
