Lately every time I hit the diecast aisle in WalMart or Target, I see diecasts that I think might work to steal bumpers and windows and stuff from to patch up slot cars. So yesterday I bought a few. First, the recipients:
The Tycopro Miura needed a windshield, the yellow Cougar needed a rear bumper, the red Cougar needed windows, and the AMX needed a front bumper. (That orange AMX figures in later...)
And the donors:
After attacking the poor innocent diecasts with weapons of mass destruction, and attacking the resulting parts with a Dremel, this is what I ended up with:
I think the Miura came out best of the three. After whittling away at the bottom of the windshield for a while, it press-fits in there without glue.
I ended up changing plans on the AMX. The R/W/B car is all original and in pretty good shape except for the missing bumper, where the orange car was stripped when I got it and I put some spare parts on it to make it a runner. The R/W/B car deserved the original front bumper more than the orange one, but I think the replacement looks ok, especially for a runner...
Pretty much the same thing happened here. The yellow one was in better shape overall, so I put the original rear bumper on it and stuck the hack job on this one. This is the least successful one of the three; I did another Cougar like this years ago when I first got back into slot cars and I think it came out much better. Haven't gotten to the windows yet, but I also did the windows on the previous Cougar I did and they came out surprisingly well...
The best part is the pieces are all on there with tacky white glue, so if I ever find the right replacement parts, this stuff does no damage to the body and peels off pretty easily.
--rick

The Tycopro Miura needed a windshield, the yellow Cougar needed a rear bumper, the red Cougar needed windows, and the AMX needed a front bumper. (That orange AMX figures in later...)
And the donors:

After attacking the poor innocent diecasts with weapons of mass destruction, and attacking the resulting parts with a Dremel, this is what I ended up with:

I think the Miura came out best of the three. After whittling away at the bottom of the windshield for a while, it press-fits in there without glue.

I ended up changing plans on the AMX. The R/W/B car is all original and in pretty good shape except for the missing bumper, where the orange car was stripped when I got it and I put some spare parts on it to make it a runner. The R/W/B car deserved the original front bumper more than the orange one, but I think the replacement looks ok, especially for a runner...

Pretty much the same thing happened here. The yellow one was in better shape overall, so I put the original rear bumper on it and stuck the hack job on this one. This is the least successful one of the three; I did another Cougar like this years ago when I first got back into slot cars and I think it came out much better. Haven't gotten to the windows yet, but I also did the windows on the previous Cougar I did and they came out surprisingly well...
The best part is the pieces are all on there with tacky white glue, so if I ever find the right replacement parts, this stuff does no damage to the body and peels off pretty easily.
--rick