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Enhance Your Kato Toyotas
Steps for enhancing Kato 1978 Toyota Crown sets
Remove the body from the chassis
Highlight some of the details with Sharpies (fine or ultrafine tip)
Silver for bumpers, hubcaps and grille
Red for taillights (stop light red or clear red paint works well also)
Orange for front turn signals
Black may be used for tires instead of paint
Silver paint pen, paint or Sharpie for headlights (A silver Sharpie appears more aluminum while silver paint pens or paints are more reflective.)
Decal license plates (optional)
Dust with powdered Tempera paints using a dry paint brush (can also tone down the overall shine of the finish)
Black for brake pad (or shoe) dust and tire weathering
Brown for dirt and dust
Kato Toyota Crown (1978)
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Steps for enhancing Kato 1990s Toyota sets
Remove the body from the chassis only if repainting
Highlight some of the details with Sharpies (fine or ultrafine tip)
Silver for wheels (silver paint can be used for “chrome” wheels
Red for taillights (stop light red or clear red paint works well also)
Silver paint pen, paint or Sharpie for headlights (A silver Sharpie appears more aluminum while silver paint pens or paints are more reflective.)
Flat black paint for grilles
Decal license plates (optional)
Dust with powdered Tempera paints using a dry paint brush (can also tone down the overall shine of the finish)
Black for brake pad (or shoe) dust and tire weathering
Brown for dirt and dust
Challenges
Toyota Crown (1978)
Separation of the black of the tires and silver of the wheels (no raised “dam” to prevent paint from flowing where you do not want it)
All 1990s
Removal of the axles from the chassis and chassis from the body must be done very carefully to avoid breakage, and is only necessary if repainting the whole body
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