Hot Wheels and Matchbox Customizing Thread

[Avalonbug]

In trash molde finishing up the cars for tomorrow's custom contest held @ Hot Wheels Mexico Club's bimonthly get-together. Sadly, I could not get my main project done in time, and since it's a pretty complex project, I'll take my time and finish it for the Convention. Fortunately, my "secondary" projects are pretty decent, so I have a good chance of landing a top-3 finish. I hope.

I'll post pics tomorrow when the contest is done.

Good luck

 

[Cano]

Good luck! 👍

Good luck

Thanks both. Sadly, I didn't come up in the top three lol. Some solace for me as I designed the livery for the car that came in 2nd place (it was entered by Ahmed, who also captured third), but we were deservedly swept by a better car this time. Pics tonight.

 

[Cano]

Twin post, but it's the pics I promised! Here:

http://www.customdiecastmexico.com/2014/06/concurso-de-customs-hwmc-junio-2014.html

 

[mustang fanatic]

As always, awesome customs from Mexico. 👍

Anyways, here's another thing I've started on

After tons of cutting, and two cuts in my finger from my dremel blade, this emerged.

 

[Cano]

two cuts in my finger from my dremel blade

Dude, watch it

 

[AOS-]

Should be more cautious about where the bit can travel, and know when to not apply too much pressure on your material or machine. That's usually the case when people get hurt with power tools.


Anyway, I remembered to use my all-white garage diorama to photograph customs, and seeing as wonderful the last set of photos turned out, I've decided to start working on adding more pieces as well as giving the current pieces a new coat of paint, since they've started turning yellow from handling.

 

[mustang fanatic]

Should be more cautious about where the bit can travel, and know when to not apply too much pressure on your material or machine. That's usually the case when people get hurt with power tools.

It fired my car across the room a few times too. I can be a real idiot sometimes.

 

[Ben_P]

Hi Guys, I'm trying to get my hands on a Peugeot 206 1.4 5 door scale model as a present.

I was wondering if this is a totally fruitless mission or if anyone could point me in the right direction.

 

[Nessy]

Hi Guys, I'm trying to get my hands on a Peugeot 206 1.4 5 door scale model as a present.

I was wondering if this is a totally fruitless mission or if anyone could point me in the right direction.

Welly, do a 1/60 scale 206 5 door (in green only).

 

[Ben_P]

How do I go about ordering one and can I choose a colour?

 

[Nessy]

eBay. Only ones i have seen are in green. Make sure to type in 1/60 scale in the search, otherwise they won't show up in the search.

 

[Ben_P]

Thank you so much Nessy your an absolute gem!

 

[Ben_P]

It's the metallic green that I'm after. eBay seems to have failed me though haha.

Found one on Google 1/43 (bit big) but out of stock haha oh well the search continues.

 

[Nessy]

It's the metallic green that I'm after. eBay seems to have failed me though haha.

Found one on Google 1/43 (bit big) but out of stock haha oh well the search continues.

Here's one (1/60 scale). All the examples iv'e come across are a bit pricey, but this was one of the lowest.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-2...hicles_DiecastVehicles_JN&hash=item1c34e33ffc

 

[Ben_P]

Here's one (1/60 scale). All the examples iv'e come across are a bit pricey, but this was one of the lowest.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-2...hicles_DiecastVehicles_JN&hash=item1c34e33ffc

I came across that one to, it's the wrong green though. Price isn't much of a factor however.

 

[AOS-]

Everything, everything, was going perfect until the end.

On the bright side, I am proud of the colour I mixed together. It's the best paint colour I've ever used to paint any of my cars.

It was great until I noticed the paint comes off super duper easily, and all that was happening while trying to reassemble the tiny parts. I was deciding whether to clear coat it or not at the time. I chose not to because the finish was perfect. Not too much shine, not too much matte. Clear coating would've probably protected it, but I'm not after a gloss finish. Not after seeing how gorgeous the gray came out. I tried to touch it up but the paint doesn't match. And I kept squeezing out too much super glue when fixing the windows back to the car so every single window has super glue haze on it.

The windows are still fixable if I have the determination to undo the glued rivets. Same goes for the paint if I spend an hour trying to match the colours.

 

[Johnny1996]

That's bad, but not as bad as not being able to work on your cars because of the lack of paint. I love the idea though.

Also not as bad as having split bases.

 

[AOS-]

Well, unless you needed chrome plastic bases, you can fix a base without needing to be perfect.

Then again, you probably don't have putty on hand.

 

[Apok]

And I kept squeezing out too much super glue when fixing the windows back to the car so every single window has super glue haze on it.

You derp!

I suggest using epoxy glue next time. Not just for windows (because it doesn't cause a haze) but in general as it's very resistant. It also has filling properties meaning you can glue parts that don't quite fit perfectly.

 

[Johnny1996]

Well, unless you needed chrome plastic bases, you can fix a base without needing to be perfect.

Then again, you probably don't have putty on hand.

I have one chrome base, one black base, but no putty.

The black base is going to be a hella tough fix since it split along the front axle groove.

 

[mustang fanatic]

It was great until I noticed the paint comes off super duper easily

Welcome to the club.

 

[Cano]

That looked pretty good @AOS- such a pity ):

Will you find solace if I tell you more of the cars you sent me are getting the treatment? We've decided that both the Stude pick-ups will be transfomed into Boneville stormers (:

 

[AOS-]

I don't want a Kyosho to go to waste. I'm determined to make it better. Only reason I gave up hope was that I given myself a due date to finish it. I'll put that aside until the next time I head to a hobby shop to pick up more paints.... that gray is too good to give up on. I've fixed the R91CP though. That one had a huge amount of haze.

 

[Nessy]

That's a nice colour @AOS, Perfect for the AMG. 👍


Not much to show on the Escort (just one slight progress pic). Added some rain channel/roof seam thingy's, and swapped back the original wheels.

 

[AOS-]

That's a nice colour @AOS, Perfect for the AMG. 👍

Added some rain channel/roof seam thingy's, and swapped back the original wheels.
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Thanks! And that rain channel is looking great!

You'll see a wicked SL65 soon... maybe in a month if I've got nothing else to do.

 

[Avalonbug]

So, does anyone know if there is a 1/64 scale Toyota FJ somewhere (eBay, Amazon, etc) that I could find? My friend has one and I wanted to give him a replica for his birthday after customizing it. Is there a model out there somewhere?

 

[Avalonbug]

@AOS- I was wondering if you had anymore free models from your Facebook page?

 

[AOS-]

Haven't had much time to get my photo processing done. Here's all I can share for the rest of the day.

So, does anyone know if there is a 1/64 scale Toyota FJ somewhere (eBay, Amazon, etc) that I could find? My friend has one and I wanted to give him a replica for his birthday after customizing it. Is there a model out there somewhere?

A few brands manufacture castings of the FJ: Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Majorette. Start searching.


Free models? Not free anymore. That window was only open for a limited time I'm afraid. I still have a bunch of trash cars I can do without. PM me if you want to discuss it any further.

 

[Cano]

Not much to show on the Escort (just one slight progress pic). Added some rain channel/roof seam thingy's, and swapped back the original wheels.

That's starting to look seriously good. HASTE, DUDE. HASTE!

Also, due to having quite a lot of "free" time while watching LeMans over the weekend (free time I should have used to write stuff for a book on the Golf we're doig, but frankly I didn't -and don't- want to do a thing on it) I revised all my small boxes of projects, with four purposes:

-I made a properly marked box just for the cars that need little fixes, like they're missing a headlamp, a steering wheel or need one tire, retouching or such stuff.
-I made a properly marked box just for the cars that need tampo erasing, which came out to, oh, two boxes. That sounds dramatic but several of them just need the small Hot Wheels logo they have somewhere deleted and that's it. Others, though, do need the full treatment. This was made with the express intention to make progress on these as much as I can. Even at work.
-To photograph all therestoration projects I have in those boxes, to make sure I have pictures of the "before" for all these projects. With the blog going, I always need that.
-To put all the donor cars in one properly marked box with the intention of sometime in the near future tear them all appart and extract all I need from them. I also made a second "trash" box for the parts of donor cars that I don't need. Stepped-on bodies, carcasses of cars that donated their wheels and interiors and such, etc. Yup, I already had a box full of this stuff. Needed another.

Now, I said "small boxes". Well that is because under my bed I have a giant, archive-type box filled to the brim with restoration projects, that I've started to move to smaller boxes so they'll be easier to browse trough. I'll have to photograph them too.

I need 48-hour days ):

Along the way, I found several possible projects for the upcoming custom contest, which has off roaders as the theme. I dismantled them yesterday.

 

[Avalonbug]

Picked up some Porsche 993 GT2's, Honda Civic EF's, Corolla AE86's, CTS-V Coupes, and Skylines. Any ideas for customizing any of them?