I have attached some photos of some AF streamlined passenger cars.
My restoration process may just be a cleaning operation. First I disassemble the car, and clean it in the sink. Tooth brush nail brush a little dishwashing soap etc. After drying I polish the aluminum body, replace the paper light filters, and replace the light bulb. The assembly goes pretty easy after that. I soaked the original windows in hot weater and roll them until they dry, this takes the warp out of them and they fit back in place nicely.
My photo skills are rookie at best but here are some examples of a complete set, 660 through 663 that I have done and one more 663 as I found it.
Here is the 660 and 661
Here is the 662
Here is the 663
Finally here is the 663 I have not worked on.
George
George:
I think you are doing great on the cars and the pics are just fine as well. You got those old cars shining nicely! Well done!
Regards,
Timboy
Yes, VERY NICE!
Lovely, nice looking cars!
Restore? Absolutely not!!!!!!!! These are looking sweet. Your time and effort have produced some great results, and its all original. That floats my boat.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Timboy, Balidas, Mr S, and RockIsland,
Thanks to each of you for your kind words. I was pretty happy with the results, only wish I had taken photp's of each of them before I started. One thing I forgot to add as part of the cleanup, a couple of the cars had some scratches in the roof, I took care of those with some 2000 wet or dry sandpaper.
As for the photos, I am using photobucket for hosting, but wonder what software you all use for working on the photos. I notice a bunch of spots on the 662 in my photo, and fortunately they don't exist on the car. I was using MS Office photo manager in the past, but these I did with windows live photo manager.
Thank you,
George,
Thanks for the tip on using 2K grit wet/dry sandpaper!
I just use the POC software that came with my little 4meg camera to do basic light/dark/contrast or just "enhance". I have found that an overhead light source is THE best simple way of getting the most out of my camera. Perhaps the spot is dirt on your lens! LOL
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