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I'd like to have one! Will it fit on the side of a box?
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Im sure he could make it any dimension needed.
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I finished applying the clear coat to my latest Ebay box.
It doesn't look any different but, it is sealed now so the exterior won't regrade further.
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While I had the clear and the brush out, and I was in the mood, I decided to get some clear on some other boxes.
This box has an old Northwest Model Car Racing Association sticker on it. In my opinion a real prize indicating this is a true vintage slot car race box!
This box only had two stickers on the lid, the Northwest Model Car Racing Racing Association and another that was pretty much scratched off. I placed a new sticker over the damaged one, and added a couple more repopped vintage stickers. You can get
reproductions of most any of the old vintage slot car or automotive racing stickers on ebay!
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I don't remember exactly where I picked this box up. The lid had a silver plate (probably from a race event somewhere) that just happened to say Checkered Flag Raceway. It also had an original Hoffman sticker still in place, and some other damaged stickers. I replaced the damaged Redline Racing Lubricants with a reproduction one and added a vintage "Hobby World" sticker as a tribute to my buddy Dave Smith. The front fold down door retains its original hand lettered "Slot Cars Unlimited", and I added a Rat Fink repro sticker and an MRRC repro sticker, both purchased off Ebay.
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This box was one Gary "Goose" Gossett had used to carry his race stuff. I will be using it as my new race box. It is a little bit bigger than the Hoffman 1200 I was using, but overall weight isn't much more. Goose had a few stickers on it, I added a bunch!
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This small box was an Ebay purchase I had made a number of years ago. It was pretty badly damaged in shipping, but I repaired it to the point of it being useable. I did not do much in the way of the cosmetics, I just cleared coated it leaving the "battle" scars. Being so small and with how the shelves and drawers were arranged inside it was not much use as a 1/24 racing box until
.....Steven and his neighbor came up with this really cool idea for an attachment for race boxes that would house your controller. Well, I had to have one and Steven was nice enough to hook me up (thanks again Steven!)! I attached the controller trunk to the backside of this little box. It fit perfectly! It is hinged on one end and has a magnetic latch on the opposite end. It works perfectly for this box!
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all the boxes look great!!! ill need to start refurbishing a couple of mine here soon as well..... Add it to the list of other projects I am going to be undertaking
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Thanks Steven! You are going to be a busy boy!
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As mentioned above, this box was one of Gary "Goose" Gossett's boxes and is now serving as one of my current "race" boxes. At one point it time I had sold this box. A few years later I had the opportunity to buy it back. Needless to say it came back home and will remain here!
There was no real finish on this box, so today I decided to start to address that issue. I applied a coat of Mod Podge to all the outside surfaces of the box. This stuff pretty much seals everything, including all the little imperfections (which is fine by me). It is really good for sealing the stickers, and reattaching some stickers that had fallen off due to the lack of a smooth surface to adhere to. I will allow the Mod Podge four full weeks to fully cure, then the entire box will receive a couple coats of acrylic clear.
