Pink Pig

June 10 2003

This started as a club project. The project was that everyone got the same decal sheet and put it on any subject they wanted. The decal sheet is the local provincial police (OPP). I originally was not going to do it but then during a conversation with a couple of friend the idea of a Pink Pig came up. The actual story behind the Pink Pig is that in 1971 there was a race team that could not get sponsorship for their race car which was a Porsche 917-20. As a lark they painted the car pink and labeled various sections of the car as body parts of a real pig if it was to be cut up. The pig reference also relates to the police car.

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First you buy a cheap diecast of the local OPP car

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Next you take everything apart

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Sand off all markings and prime the body white before the pink goes on.

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Yes Pink. I just mixed Tamiya acrylic white and red until I got pink.

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Aftermarket OPP decals and help from fellow modellers with the Pink Pig Markings and bingo. A new Pink Pig

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More photos added De 27 2010

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