Lesney #53b - Mercedes 220SE Coupe Restoration

Hello!!!! I bet you all thought I'd forgotten and abandoned this little blog. Nope, just been caught up in moving to another state and starting a new job! But I'm getting settled in now, and slowly unpacking my workbench and getting it set up again. And this Mercedes is the first product of new workshop. I forgot to take before pics (or just can't find them on my computer), but it was in a pretty sorry state. I like working on the older Lesneys like this, they look great sitting on the shelf afterwards.

For this one, I decided to go with a dark metallic blue, over light grey interior to complement the silver plastic wheels. It looks great!! Not as perfect as I would've liked, but it's ok.

Mailbox Find - Nice lot of Lesneys

Got a nice little box of Lesneys in the mail today, from a facebook group. 

And funny enough, this last piece was a freebie that the guy threw in for free basically, and I think it has turned out to be the best car in the lot, far and away. I'm pretty convinced that it's the rare "blue-green" Berlinetta. The lightning in the pics isn't the best, I know.. But anybody have opinions? The colors are quite different in person. 

Some comparison shots with some other pieces in my collection. That Cadillac has a seemingly endless number of variations!