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Not so much 'on the bench' as off the bench now but I did say elsewhere I was going to attempt to tone down this rather lairy Gaydon BRM TTS purchase.

   

Not as easy as I thought, as removing the one piece folded sheet plastic interior without damaging it was a devil of a job. However, once out it was easily stripped back to its individual components. The dash detail was masked off and the rest of the interior sprayed a matt grey. The driver's helmet was brush painted a gloss blue to match the NSU decals on the body and the 'door cards' (interior body sides) were treated to a black vinyl 'wrap', or sticky backed plastic as it used to be known. 

Given the struggle to get the interior out I was dreading trying to get the reassembled unit back in but it turned out to be a doddle. 

The chassis was given some mild tweaking - evening up the the wheels side to side and pushing them out to the maximum track - then the whole thing was put back together.

The final step was toning down that black and pink chequered roof. Ebay supplied the 5mm black and white sheet vinyl and after much prevarication I ended up making a paper template, cutting the vinyl slightly oversized then giving it a final trim with scissors once it was stuck firmly in place.

I'm biased of course but I much prefer the toned down version, although I may keep my eyes open for a waterslide decal to redo the roof sometime.