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<\/a><\/p>\nThe brown one second from the left is Deckard’s de-commissioned Police Spinner. Obviously it was not the standard Patrol Spinner, on either side of Deckard’s. But according to everything I’ve read while Deckard was a member of the Police, his car could fly. But not anymore. Not since he quit. Only police cars are supposed to be able to fly, I guess.<\/p>\n
I have a few of these ERTL cars, in various condition. None mint. But recently Fujimi made a 1:25 scale model kit of it:<\/p>\n
What? It wasn’t brown. And had some nice detail. I bought the model, and intend to build it up maybe this summer.<\/p>\n But I thought it might be very nice to take one of the ERTL ones and paint it up and detail it more accurately than the ERTL version.<\/p>\n The hard part was drilling out the rivets to release the body from the chassis. I used a Dremel, and wasn’t overly delicate. I scraped the bottom a bit, but that’s not tragic.<\/p>\n Then I soaked the body in a jar of acetone for a week, and then used a Brill-o pad to scour the paint away.<\/p>\n Then I primed it:<\/p>\n Then I spray-painted it orange, with a rattle-can.<\/p>\n I am a bit worried the can was not the best painting method. I just bought an airbrush with compressor so I may re-strip it and re-paint it with the airbrush.<\/p>\n More coming, including details on the modifications I made.<\/p>\n I believe I will re-strip it, because I also want to remove the two vertical window supports. They do not exist on the actual car. They are part of the window.<\/p>\n Here are some photos of what I’m trying to achieve with this tiny version:<\/p>\n When I originally painted the body, I didn’t yet own an airbrush with compressor. Now I do. And I decided, after looking at these pictures some more, that the very thick window uprights had to go.<\/p>\n So I stripped the paint down again:<\/p>\n Using a Brill-o pad, I scoured the paint off, after the body soaked in acetone for another week. Then I used my Dremel to remove the vertical window uprights on either side: When I polished that up a bit, it looked like this: And then I primed it.<\/p>\n Sadly, I primed it in a 2x coat primer which was rather thick and chunky, so I stripped it a third time, and primed it with automobile primer: Then I used my new airbrush to paint it again. No pic yet. It’s still drying.<\/p>\n Stay Tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 8, 2014 When my favorite movie, “Blade Runner”, came out, ERTL put out a set of four die-cast Hot Wheels-sized vehicles from the movie: The brown one second from the left is Deckard’s de-commissioned Police Spinner. Obviously it was … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nUpdate – June 22, 2014<\/h1>\n
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