I wanted to start collecting when I was younger but wasn’t ever able to. I built plastic models for a while in lieu.
Now, I wouldn’t say I have a collection but my wife got me a 1:18 ‘77 SE T/A and I bought this 1:24 model. This isn’t mine since I can’t post pictures but it’s the same. https://www.diecast.org/diecast98/html/asp/list_reviews/xq/ASP/id.D027/qx/printreview.htm
No, I did not pay $155 for it.
Question though, how did you customize that 79? My actual car is black with the charcoal/red decals and I REALLY want to customize a 1:18 SE or a 1:24 or something similar to looks like my car. A place I found that would build or modify custom modes wanted $600!!!
This is how we say NO in South Florida...
Yeeeeaaahhh, no... that's too darn expensive. Lol What a quack.
Your car is black, so you can already get an easy base to work off of. And there exists a vector file of the hoodbird and lettering, you would just need to boot up Illustrator or Photoshop and change the colors to your graphics, take measurements of the graphics currently on the model to match, change the file size to match the scale, send them to a custom waterslide decal maker (this guy is pretty good:
https://www.bedlamcreations.com/custom-waterslide-decals/custom-model-car-waterslide-decals/), and voila. Just install them and you're done. As for interior color, I used actual SEM brand interior dye like what is used on our cars. I think you should be good, though. In your one photo of your car, your interior looks black and most 1977 1:18 scale models already have a black interior.
You can effortlessly remove the decals that come on the models with some rubbing alcohol and patience. They come right off (do NOT use acetone). Just buy the 1:18 greenlight collectibles model, take off the decals, and if you want I'll help you out in making it look like your car. If your car is a hardtop, though, then that's going to be a sacrifice you'll have to deal with since most of the models have t-tops. If you really wanted to go all out, you could use filler to turn it into a hardtop but then you'd need to repaint the body which is rather involved.
A little point of interest: the reason I modified the model that way was because I wanted whatever car I'd end up with to have the red/orange graphics. In the end, the car I ended up with has the argent/silver graphics (the 1979 equivalent to your car's, actually). I do have a certain sentimental attachment to the argent/silver graphics (pretty sure you know why since you read my story on the "Tell your story" thread), so I fell in love with them and no longer have any desire for the red/orange graphics. I'm too lazy to modify the scale model again, though, haha.
