Three Inch Scale

I've been playing Car Wars for a while.  A long while.

It didn't take us very long at all to notice that our Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars would be perfect game pieces.

That led all of us to repaint our battered cars!

One of my favorite cars was the Hairy Hustler.

I'd had that car since I was three or four.  It was not in as good of shape as this image I stole from ebay.

I don't know what nostalgia bug bit me to try and recreate my old car from my middle school days, but...

OMG, that looks like shit.  That might even be a 100% accurate recreation of what it looked like for reals, but my mind's eye says it looked better.

So I gently pried it apart and stripped the brushed on enamel paint off with acetone.

Where it sat for more than a month waiting for a rattle can of the color I wanted to arrive!

It came out a lot better with a spray can than brushing!

 

I intentionally left the paint chips from the old paint intact because I had them on the original car.  The color looks far better in person than my camera is capturing.

Reassembly went smoothly.

 There's still some painting left.  I had some small numbers on my AutoDuel car and I painted in the tail-lights.

How it compares to the original car:

 The OG example is in far better condition than the one I repainted.