Diecast Restoration Budgie toys rover ,this wasn't going to be a video but part way through I decided to film it ,so it's not as you normally expect. But worth a watch .
Not so much a restoration, more a reincarnation. I would have thought the Rover was beyond resuscitation but you have proved me, and I suspect many other viewers, wrong. Great work.
I would have THOUGHT about restoring it but probably never got around to it! 😂 The only thing I think Leonardo da Vinci and me have in common. A tendency to switch focus in the middle of projects, leaving stuff incomplete 😊
Good man, Martin. You saved another one from the bin. I put a really, rusty base. in Evaporust for two nights. When it came out it was full of holes and as delicate as a potato crisp. It was a base from a Dinky Talbot Sport.
Amazing piece of restoration. Turned a dud to a dazzler. Given the state of wear, tear & fading. It looked bigger until you put the wheels on. Where it showed its true size
Martin the magician well saved took some doing but it's like a long lost coronation street actor coming back ( The rover returns). Most people would have thought this to be scrap. Paint looks good no one would ever know what it was like great work 👍
Holy cow, Martin! You're a A+ Paint and Body man! For what wasn't supposed to be a video it turned out spectacular. Would love to see you take one or more of those corroded vehicles and make a little junkyard diorama!
Fabulous save Martin. There is nothing wrong with experiments. It either works or doesn't for you. If it doesn't work, someone might see where it didn't work and can make it work. You just may have planted that seed of inspiration to someone that may have a casting in a similar condition, where initially they would have thrown it out but now can think yeah i can try and save this. It's thinking outside the box. We all look at what Paul Restorer does
Nice salvage of that Budgie toy. I would have tried for the right front fender via an apoxie sculpt. While it's not as strong as JB Weld, etc, it is much stronger than a sculpey or something like Milliputty, and you can work with it for a bit. Once it dries, it sands down easy too. What you managed to do was excellent regardless, Martin. Considering just how bad that damage was, you can color me impressed!
Hi mate, Wow talk about bringing it back from the brink. Very well done it looks very presentable now. One of my old cars I bought when I had more money than sense. Was a 1970s Holden Monaro. You could say it was a bit of a fixer upper. Anyway the front wings on it had dents all along the top of them. Don't ask me how they got there it wasn't me.🤔 So I did a bit of a bog up and sand down, using my hands to feel if it was smooth and not ripely wobbly.🤣 The old mechanic who worked next door to my brothers crash shop had the same model Holden but in a much more healthy condition.🤕 So I asked him if I could have a feel of his front wings on his car. I don't know why he looked at me so strangely, A perfectly reasonable request I thought. After I explained that I was trying to get the shape right he obliged. So I was able to run back and forth until I thought they were ok or close enough. I painted the car white and the car scrubbed up really well and turned out to be one of my favourite cars. I bought mine for $1.000 Ausi dollars or about 500 pounds in metric.😂 If I wanted to buy one these days it would cost me about $30.000.😬I'm sorry I got rid of the bloomin thing now.🤑 Catch you on the next one mate.👍🏻
I thought for sure that the car was beyond repair but your experiment turned out okay. Like someone else said, you turned a sows ear into a silk purse.
It’s turned out extremely well, it’s not a Rover 90 though it’s a Rover P4 105R ( the R stands for Roverdrive which is Rover speak for an Automatic car) Once again well done I would never in a million years think it would come out so well👍 Another thing you could have done is make The Rover into an accident damage Diorama.
Good job.Think I would have tried to recreate the wheel arch detail with a piece of plastic wire or something,bent to shape and glued in place.Failing that,file the other one off so that both sides match.
Well, where do i start? No stanley again. I'm beginning to fear for his welfare. You tell us it's a Rover, the base says it's a Rover and then when its done you tell us it's a Roller. Maybe it's a phantom like Stanley. Anyway apart from that I reckon you did a good job in recovering it from the scrapheap. 😁
I think that is amazing to build a car up like that.To me it was beyond fixing but there you go,looks as good as new Martin. What happened to the Lesney one?
