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Here’s the first one I saw, and practically the only one I shot, because I wanted older cars.
Beware of doing decals, because almost every one of them has some sort of horribly botched buzzsaw, some almost as bad as those on some HO models 😯 One of Nate’s photos shows a normal one, but in my recollection those are rare. Either they’re a squashed oval, or a much wider distance from the buzzsaw to the OD, or the lettering inside the buzzsaw is an odd style, or it’s entirely off center like some of the junk you see on eBay. The photos posted so far show all of those variations.
I’d be interested in how these would be done, since most originated from ART cars with the horizontal rivet line. As for the roof hatches, I seem to remember seeing one from overhead in which the pressed steel parts of the hatch were cut out and a flat plate welded in, in other words just a flat rectangular buttweld.
Ron Merrick
