Hot Wheels and Matchbox Customizing Thread

[cfun]

Holy wheel well bat-man! At the moment I'm having to trash an entire car to get a set of wheels. Its a pricey way of doing it! Is there any where we can get supplies like this?

 

[Emmcee]

Nope, I've asked everywhere, just have to look for donor cars. It's bs.

 

[cfun]

man that sucks! Next time I'm in the states I'm stocking up as they're a lot cheaper over there. I've been going to car boot sales too recently to try and stock up on a few spare, but some are too good to pull apart. Might have a mouch around the interweb and see if I can find anything.

 

[Emmcee]

Man about a month ago I went to this cheap shop and I found about 10 real riders cars. I thought ill buy three now and come back and get some more as at the tome i had no idea how rare they were. 2 days later I went back, all gone. Man I was angry with myself.

 

[cfun]

Where are you located? I've never seen one in the UK, but now I know what I'm looking for I'll keep my eyes open when I travel. I've just been to town on my lunch break and bought a load of new HW from the pound shop. Can't get them any cheaper than there!

 

[Emmcee]

Iam in Australia. That's where I found the real riders at a dollar stretcher shop. Yeah like a pound shop here.

 

[Ustad]

I think you may be confusing me with @Ustad, if you're talking about that excellent chrome finish on that 993.

I can't remember exactly what paint he used, but i think it was a silver spray paint as opposed to chrome.

Welcome to the thread BTW. 👍

Thanks @Nessy for the mention.
and @cfun that was no.36 Silver from Bosny

 

[cfun]

If I ever find any on the shelf I'll be picking them up. Found some interesting links online, but nothing current.

Just been looking at axle tubes - figure these would be good for lowering the ride height - is this common practice?

 

[Ustad]

Not really. i sand chassis to lower them.

Here's a Supra with appropriate Spoiler and Matte black finish!

 

[Ustad]

@cfun here's some lowered cars i've done lately.

 

[R5]

Nope, I've asked everywhere, just have to look for donor cars. It's bs.

I'm sure you could ask Cano or AOS- to point you to a forum where you can ask around for them.

 

[Emmcee]

Yeah thanks for that. Anyway, here's my formula one car iam working on. I've cut the nose and actually a curved it down to reach the ground. Looks much better.

 

[AOS-]

That car is a liar!*

Holy wheel well bat-man! At the moment I'm having to trash an entire car to get a set of wheels. Its a pricey way of doing it! Is there any where we can get supplies like this?

As much as we all want it, no one supplies wheels alone. There is no marketable demand for such a niche hobby. Until someone steps up to make molds and mass produce them, the only way we figured out how to acquire wheels is to gut existing cars.


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Pinocchio reference

 

[Cano]

As much as we all want it, no one supplies wheels alone. There is no marketable demand for such a niche hobby. Until someone steps up to make molds and mass produce them, the only way we figured out how to acquire wheels is to gut existing cars.

Hot Wheels themselves marketed axle sets but they were available for a short time and now they go for biiiiiig money and the sets are collectibles in themselves now. M2 also offers wheel packages.

 

[AOS-]

Oops. I forgot about that.... but the selection in that little pack thingie is so limited.

 

[Cano]

Yesterday I was up to 3 AM detailing stuff on the customs for the convention. Managed to finish one too. I'm really happy with the Barracuda. Hopefully I'll finish other two today, and that would leave with just 3 to go

 

[Emmcee]

Has anyone tried making there own with any success?

 

[Cano]

Has anyone tried making there own with any success?

Yes, us. Altough we haven't perfected the method due to a lack of time, we've been trying to replicate several wheels that aren't readily available for a while now. We've already got several molds done but the wheels have come up with small deffects and bubbles. We should get to it again after the convention.

 

[Emmcee]

Awesome, I've seen a pic of regular wheels cut and ground down to fit inside two layers of hollow tubing, has that technique been tried?

 

[Cano]

Awesome, I've seen a pic of regular wheels cut and ground down to fit inside two layers of hollow tubing, has that technique been tried?

I haven't. Ahmed did it with this:

The rears were fabricated with that tehcnique.

 

[Emmcee]

Is it possible for someone to post a step by step on how to do it if possible

 

[cfun]

Id be interested in seeing some alternative wheel making options too.

I also need to make a rear wing for my Mitsubishi Evo 8 - the platic one that came with it was poor, so I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has any tips on creating one of them. Here is a link to a pic of a real one as can't attach it right now: http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/images/evo-viii-2.JPG

 

[Emmcee]

Man i got no idea how to make one but can I ask you, is your evo 8 a "Welly" brand car? Be ause I got 2 Welly evos and didnt realise the wings were plastic so I dropped one straight into the jar of paint stripper before removing the wing on the second one (which was the original plan) only realising then that they were plastic. So the first car I dropped in, the wing just melted away

 

[cfun]

lol - sorry had to laugh at that. My evo is a 'Realtoy' brand so the generic supermarket stock. Going to have to keep an eye out for new ones when I next go shopping and see if the new spoilers are any better. I was thinking about using some thin metal and coating it with putty and sanding to shape, or I have some 5mm ally that I might have a go at shaping from scratch.

 

[Emmcee]

Just going to be hard to get the exact shape, the scale shouldn't be an issue, just the shape.

 

[cfun]

Yeah I can see it being very unforgiving if you take it a touch too far!

 

[Nessy]

Well, here they are. @Emmcee might want to take a peek too, as well as, well, everyone else lol. I'm such a show off

These are all HW Real Riders of various models. The bag in the center slot holds the wasted axles I pry off restoration projects. Clickey:
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And these are all the rest there's various brand axles in these, many of them rubber-tired, as well as HW basic plastic tires, some of them out of production by now like the 7 spokes and of course, the black walls and wide whites, and the redlines to boot. The most empty case holds the axles I've pried off recent projects, as well as some construction tires. Clickey:
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Clearly a photoshop...

I demand! real proof. Maybe you should send them all to me so i can count them for you.
Rest assured, i'll speedily mail back the full (by my estimation) 20 sets once counted and inspected. :tup:

 

[Emmcee]

I'll help you count them Nessy, too big a task to tackle alone. Well both count them so you don't loose count lol.

 

[Nessy]

Nope. That just wouldn't be fair of me to ask you to share the burden..

It's okay i should be fine counting 15 (my accurate estimation) sets.
Besides, i'm fairly confident their won't be a miscount, and all 10 sets (my accurate estimation) will be returned safely.

 

[Emmcee]

Ohh no I insist Nessy, you work to hard, take a load of and let me assist you. Lol