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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

COL Gumm

My friend Clarence was kind enough to send me a few die cast metal vehicles.  One of them is this truck.  It was painted a very dark glossy green.  I stripped the paint and now I am going to repaint it.  The plastic windshield got melted in the paint remover.  So I will have to replace it somehow.
Rust-Oleum 2X paint is both a paint and a primer.  Usually I prefer to use gray or white primer and then over paint with whatever color I want the model to be.  Since I am going to paint this model in pink, and the model is a rather uniform color I plan on just painting it in Gloss Pink rather than prime it first.
The cab, not a very realistic military truck cab, but perfect for a truck for COL Gumm.
The truck bed and the canopy.  In the Batman 66 comic book series, the villain, General Gumm, (in the TV series, Colonel Gumm) has a 2 1/2 ton size truck that looks almost exactly like this model.  The canopy will be flat white.  Gumm works for a trading stamp company, printing the trading stamps, as a cover for his postage stamp counterfeiting operation. 
 

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