Saving Old Seagulls

Hello to all!

I have those two tanks.




The steel one is ready to use. I removed the old paint and the rust, paint it twice with primer against rust and another two times black paint. I would like to suggest me what decals to put on.
About the brass one. I am wondering whether is better to remove all the paint and polish it, or remove the old paint and paint it again black with new decals.


Thanks

I think that brass tanks need to be totally dent free to be polished.

I hate seeing polished dents, it always looks like a bodge.

H-A

Something came up to my mind. I am thinking of polishing the brass where the paint is left. Let the paint as is and add decals. Shine underneath the paint that has left. I think it is interesting. I will talk with John for the proper decals.

Isn't the tank on the left supposed to be blue with the more modern white large block Seagull lettering?

Yes now that you are saying so a picture comes to my mind. Somewhere I have seen a blue tank of this type with the big white font. I bought it as black with no decals though. So I repainted black. I think the blue tank fits the model with the recoil start and mine doesn't have.

The blue tank denotes a model that runs on 25:1 fuel mix.

charlesp wrote:The blue tank denotes a model that runs on 25:1 fuel mix.

As does the later black tank
H-A

That's an interesting one. I have a black tank with the sailor man logo - old style - and I have a blue tank with the same decal. The decal design was instigated by Conran's (Habitat etc) in a bid to make the firm more 'modern' as was the blue colour and the change to 25:1.

I have never before seen a black tank with that logo as issued but I have got 2 102 tanks with it, both black. I understand that repainting and redecalling tanks was part of the rebuilding service, but you always got the newer decals. On that basis one must assume that the decals are later than the tank.

If you had a motor converted to 25:1 the factory would send it back with a blue tank.

I like the shape of the small steel tank. I hate its rustiness.

This also has the black plastic "Seagull" flywheel nut cover, and black plastic band around the flywheel cover.

I have seen other black tanks with logos like this.

H-A

What's the engine date? Is it a very late one? The colours became a little confused later on.

If you are asking me the two silver centuries are:

WSPCL 18 66 CC6 (March 1976)
WSL 11 08 EE7 (May 1977)

So both must be 1:10 oil to petrol.

This post gets quite interesting, thank you all for your contribution!

Anyone got any recommentations for the correct shade of blue / petrol proof paint?

Horsley-Anarak wrote:I think that brass tanks need to be totally dent free to be polished.

I hate seeing polished dents, it always looks like a bodge.

H-A

Surely a dent free brass tank is to be admired[as they are so rare]
where as any painted tank can be filled first...more of a bodge id say

Ford Galaxy Blue is almost an exact match
Donald A