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What WAS on my bench .... ?

   

Bought off eBay on December 5th for approx. £10.50 posted was this Ninco 'Atag' Renault Megane. Described as a 'Project' it looked a bit ropey with the broken spoiler, 'dirty?' screen and a liberal coat of racing detritus BUT it still had both mirrors and is one of my favourite body styes. Although I didn't have this particular paint scheme I did have a duplicate #18 Ninco 'Lightning' chassised donor car so .....

The glass was carefully removed and the graphics masked off. The 'dirt' appeared to be paint covering bad scratching but both polished out with Autoglym Super Resin Polish, finished off with 'The Treatment' Model Wax. Brilliant stuff but I'm almost out of it, so does anyone know if it was just regular Carnaubu wax? 

The body itself was given a good clean in hottish water and washing up liquid to degrease it and get rid of the tyre rubber, then it to was carefully given a LIGHT polish with 'The Treatment' wax. (It does clean as well as polish so is slightly abrasive.) The spoiler and body had the remains of the broken legs removed before gluing the glass back in place. The two were married up again using a section of slot car tyre. Superglue was used at the spoiler end and to avoid 'hazing' GS Hypo cement was used at the 'glass' end. The  body was completed with the interior and chassis from the duplicate car.

   

It's not perfect but does fill a 'slot'  in the pit box with a racer I'll not worry about running hard.