Here’s one I just finished, Polar Lights’ Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine.
It’s a snap-together curbside kit with a plated body. Mine’s more-or-less straight from the box, but I did spend a little extra time cleaning up the parts and detail painting. The kit’s nicely engineered and PL even gives you optional parts to model the “lightning-rod” version or the “Mr. Fusion”-powered car. A pretty good deal for the $13 or so it retails for. A full review will appear in an upcoming issue of Scale Auto.
Hey did you strip the plating off of the front and back before painting the gray? If so what did you use? I tried sanding but what ever PL used its on there to stay. I do have to say though its not a bad looking representation of stainless steel.
I didn’t strip the plating, I just painted over it. I did the gray first, then did the black lower-body trim after that. I used Floquil and Model Master enamel paints and they both seemed to stick pretty well. (Admittedly, I should have painted the rearview mirror housings black…)
I have to admit, I was a little sceptical of the plating at first, but once all the trim’s painted and the time-machine details are installed, it looks pretty good. It’s convincing from about three feet away, and that’s just fine by me.
