Great idea but and I love that paint, but I wish you'd handled that broken door pillar and buffed the red light up some.

Nice restore but one slight problem the star on the hood is wrong. A single point should be facing the windshield not the grill of the car.

Just found this channel and I'm not disappointed! Obscure and unique and addictive.

dirt and grime effects would look good this car. giving it that backwoods, country, dirt road look.

You should look into molding casting new windshields. You could just Bondo the windshield to a desired finish and that would be your mold pattern. Just pour some silicone and you'll have a mold that you can shoot a variety of translucent resins into.

I have both the police and fire versions from my childhood. Love what you did with yours.

I wonder is little red LEDs would work as a light dome if it's missing. You might even be able to make it light up.

theses silver sharpie pencils works amazingly good, i use it everytime for my customs

You inspire me to fix many of my toys, my beat-up farm truck was transformed into a muddy, roadworthy truck again,for example

I did notice there was a crack that separated the top of the car from the front driver side pillar. It's noticeable in the video but it doesn't seem like it's a problem since the car isn't going to be for playing, just show. But if you noticed that, did you want to try and fix that or anything or leave it as is?

I like how the windshield is all cracked and roughed-up. It looks like it's been on some gnarly car chase. Nice work, dude.

Just a question .... is the star on the hood the wrong way around ? .....

I like the way this one turned out. Nice work.

i like the cracks in the window, i personally would have made the car look like its been used to go with the cracks.

That’s a really neat car and you did a great job customizing it. I believe it’s a 1965 Galaxie judging by the grille and taillights. I have a full size 1966 Galaxie 500 and it’s got 200,000 miles on it and still running fine. I drove her everyday for about 10 years and she never let me down.

Another very useful and well-presented instructional video! I wish I thought of the silver Sharpie before buying a metallic paint pen. If you haven't already, an instructional on how to replace cracked / broken glazing using hard clear packaging plastic and heating it to form windows would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Sharpie works for all details.

This would look great with a few jeeps chasing the A-Team van. Nice job as always.

idk why but I've always liked matchbox cars over hotwheels. perhaps it's being british but they always look a bit more detailed

Good idea for a transformation, I was digging the big star for a while. The cracked windscreens are definitely a pain, you did a good job there.

I know this comment is a bit late but you could do this car as the patrol car from The Andy Griffith Show.

have a lot of vintage matchbox! and in good shape! WOW!

Thanks aggain for the props. Love the vintage redos!!

I had this car when I was a kid!!

Great custom car. Job well done. Thanks for the info.

Excelente restauración!!! Desde Argentina Bs As gracias totales

Looks really cool, well done!

Very cool custom. I thought you might have gone with a standard restoration but happy you went custom

these videos are cool as hell. I may try and do some stuff with the random toy cars I have. beautiful hand work man

Love the siren on the top and I love that it looks cartoony

I had that car as a kid...very young. First thing I did was wonder "What does the red button do?" and pushed it through. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened there...

have you ever thought about making silicone molds of the windshield or whatever part you need and casting them in acrylic?

Beautiful job. Gorgeous. But I think the star on the hood is upside-down.

Nice MP car. They did make older MP cars like that but I think they only used the old 2 door Mercedes and none had a light on top unfortunatly.

That is really kool and I have just started out restoring some of my Matchbox and Hot Wheel cars :-)

A little dab of JBL epoxy would take care of the windshield post crack that you left. It is really unbelievable how strong that stuff really is!

Amazing work! I kinda wished you made it a dark green color, but the color you used was perfect enough.

@baremetalHW - nice - thanks for detailing the chrome bits. Simple transformation from one "authori-tay" vehicle to another. That model was actually used by the U.S. Army. How to fix a windshield crack? Here is a method I like but nobody else does because it takes a while. Wash the clear plastic (whatever hue) in soap and water and dry. Carefully tape (painter's tape) right next to the edges of the crack - on the outside of the crack so that glue won't go anywhere but the crack. Since I don't have a "studio" or "workshop" I use Krazyglue (Dollar Tree) thwipp right from one end of the crack to the other and let harden for a minute. Remove tape and sand and polish. The crack won't be invisible but structurally it is solid. Not that it matters. I haven't seen my Corgi collection since 1968 however this method of window crack repair is a universal fix. Aloha.

great job, would be nice if Matchbox and Hotwheels would have more Army staff cars

Just a tip, when you do decals, it helps to apply some gloss clear coat to the spot the decals are going to be placed. This will prevent the decals from "silvering", which just means that the clear part around the color becomes visible.

Omg I used to have one of the police style ones, when I was so so young. It broke my heart when it broke. I was playing with it and a kid stepped on it to be mean. Thanks for the memories, I miss that car lol

You should've replaced the windshield; since we've seen 2 cracks, not just no side windshields. I realized that this Matchbox toy car is now, the MP car is what it looks like.

Have very steady hands to so good.

do you ever revisit cars from older eps like these? your newer techniques could prob work well on the windshield and light dome here. would also be an interesting vid to show “modern methods” in action 😃

Looks good.

So great ! :D

Best Videos for relaxing:) you got some skills. Keep up the good work !

Just an idea you can try, it worked on actual glass for me but never tried on plastic, if the crack is all the way through the other side, I used auto clear coat applied on the crack and with a suction cup or anything you can, create a bit of vacuum on the opposite side to make it leak in the crack, let dry and polish, takes a bit of practice but if done right the crack should completely vanish or very close, not sure how better to explain this without showing but I think you got the idea,please let me know if or when you tried it and what results you got. Tip. Try and practice on a flat piece first before going on curved windows. Also I think acrylic lacquer will work better than water based as it'll bond better with the plastic. (For clear pieces, as for tinted plastic is hard to match the shade and not sure the clear will blend in with your piece)

you can also use your exacto knife for detailing. dip the end of the knife in desired paint after that just detail where you want to do it at

I know on full size auto glass, clear resin is injected into the cracks and chips to fill them in and hide the crack. I wonder if there's a thin glue or resin that could fill and hide the cracks on the windshield in this car.

Nice job...i think i would paint the interior andcthe driver...but i get its nice to retain original features also!

The crack on the driver side pillar, I’ve seen other restores fix it with crazy glue and baking powder.And I was wondering why you didn’t paint the driver, and put some detail in the interior. Other than that the car Came out nice. I watch your channel all the time, keep up the good work.

Wow great restoration

I had a 65 Galaxie daily driver big car was a tank.

I was thinking that you were gonna restore the light but still looks great! @~@

Awesome!

Also, I love how perfectly placed the 24 is as soon as you drop it. Epic skill or luck, who knows :V

I feel like you missed an opportunity for an epic Mad Max model... have exhaust or something running from the engine up through the roof, like one big exhaust pipe. Could have used the method you showed previously for "action effects" to have smoke pouring out of it. I get that the intact red dome is important and all, but still.

absolutely cool

Nice work! You could have painted the tan interior piece in dark grey or some other dark color.

i love your videos so much

I love your channel.

Very nice resto .

Nice work , cool video , Mike espo .....

applying for bright finish, gray was primary, but to shine I use? Thanks, greetings from Mexico

You did an excellent job on putting the stickers on i wish hot wheels would allow you make you own custom hot wheels so i could get a hot wheel and make my own design and have in delivered for like 4 pounds like in Lego digital designer

Have that same one!

dang those old matchbox car are tanks

Your awesome dude I already subscribed you

Re cracks in glass. the old Johnson's Klear used to be good but I heard they changed it. Also, White glue dries clear. Superglue is good for real glass but don't know what it would do to plastic. It's thin enough to run into cracks. Best test it first...

SWEET!

2 tips, first look up "micro set" its an acid that you brush on the decals after they set up, and for most water slide decals it eats the film away allowing the ink to settle down onto the model eliminating that shiny boarder left behind and its like $3 second, sharpie makes paint markers in silver that i have found gives better coverage, especially on light colors, then the regular sharpie. and you can also trim the felt tip to a sharper point for better control also i know ive jumped into a few of your how to vids and offered suggestions, i hope you don't take it as me correcting you or anything. the modeling world is divided and each group comes up with its own tips and tricks, and unfortunately alot of those dont trickle over to the other modeling groups, thats why i followed you, the hot glue casting trick blew my mind because i had never heard of it before, and none of my model railroading friends had heard of it. but even though i dont care about modifying hotwheels, i love some of your modeling tricks, and im offering my incite from my 15 years of a different end of modeling

how do you reassemble them? Do you glue them?

I think that its possible to use an LED part to substitute the dome

I have the fire version of mercury matchbox with two guys but its on very rough shape. What could i put two the light hole on the top?

The left top front pillar is cracked

Which diameter and height have the light on the top? What you can try is to use a red 5 or 3 mm LED as a replacement for the original one.

why cant you use a sand blaster, with an organic compound in it like walnuts shells for stripping ?

nice diecast car

love it.

what kind of paint remover did you usw (brand)???

I love this video it good

That dome rather looked like someone stepped on the car.

I have this one in white sweet!!

beutiful man I love it

I wonder if some thin super glue would have filled in the cracks in the windshield ?? But then again would this make the plastic go foggy?

Nice video

I served in one of those

please make a video on how to take apart hot wheels

Here's an idea for a drinking game, take a shot Everytime he says *testers matte clear coaaaat*

Army vehicles are actually numbered

good work

awesome

Try using Future floor polish for clear parts, after a bit of a polish, it is a clear acrylic that will hide small scratches. I'm a static scale modeler, we use it all the time to do clear parts, as well as a gloss overcoat. It works well under waterslide decals to prevent that silver look that you can get with water, as an under and overcoat for the decal prevents a reflective layer from forming. www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html

Amazing!!! You ever want to sell that Military car I'll buy it !!!!!

VERY COOL

You should have painted the seats and maybe the guy a little but awesome turn out

The left pillar is broken! Be careful!

If I'm not mistaken that's a ford Galaxy ?

i used to have the fire chief car many many moons ago... :~(