Setina PB400 Push Bar! Easy Make!

[Pleiner87]

Police cars without push bars are... well... kinda boring, so I took care of that problem on my Des Plaines 1:18 AutoArt CVPI. A while ago I had Put the push bar from my CHP Motormax Crown Vic onto the Des Planes car after I made a correct CHP bar for it, but I did not like the look of the bar and then removed it. So like how many of my projects start (alot of freetime), I went to a local hobby shop and got some evergreen .060" thick plain sheet styrene and .100" rod styrene. I looked at several photos of the Setina bar and cut the shape out of the sheet. Then I tried to match it's width on the bumper and cut a horizontal flat bar as well as the rod to the right length. For the final touches I used a rubberband as the rubber moulding and cut some brackets for the bumper out of the styrene and then sprayed it a semi gloss black. Overall it looks great, maybe alittle "fat" but a great dress-up for the front end of the CVPI. For around 7 bucks I now have enough styrene to make dozens of push bars for future projects, or other parts for the cars (next project flat door pannels & K9 back seat). Here are some photos of the push bar. -Todd   

[techcomm]

Nice looking push bar. Your efforts may make more of us try the same type of add on! Thanks for the details.

[motorcade1]

I second that motion...    Very nice job there.  It really adds to the model.  I especially liked the way you fabricated the mouting brackets.  Very Nice.