Hot Wheels and Matchbox Customizing Thread
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That's another possibility right there
On the note of the builds for the convention, I'm almost done! I managed to squeeze in another couple cars to my roster, one of them a trans-am-esque 65 Mustang with a scratch-made rear diffuser and front splitter which is coming along nicely. It should be ready by tonight... I hope.
EDIT: @cfun well, I knew of the guy via the Hot Wheels Mexico Club, the next meeting is in two weeks or so, let me see if I can gather up something, altough as far as I know he doesn't have any left, obviously.
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Just found these two at the local flea market $2 for the both, ones a s500 Benz made in 99 and the other is a fd rx7 from 93 both matchbox castings
One issue I have though is the rx7 is a pretty bad casting it doesn't even have the tail lights cut out
Any ideas what do here? I can't place a decal as I haven't got a machine available.
One issue I have though is the rx7 is a pretty bad casting it doesn't even have the tail lights cut out
Any ideas what do here? I can't place a decal as I haven't got a machine available.
Just did an unveiling to my son of the monster truck that I've just finished.
First time painting with my new airbrush, with acrylics, and using home print decals. The body wasn't great as I used an 80grit sanding drum on the dremel to remove the old paint - this was before I figured what Nitromorse was for, so the body work is pretty rough. It wasn't sprayed with primer either. I used a 1:1:1 (flat white:klear:windowlene), then decals, then Klear again. The exhaust chimneys are small chain links cut down and expo glue'd inlace inside the body - they were sprayed with gloss black enamel a few weeks back - unfortunately I dropped one in the garage last night and it chipped on the floor. I'll touch this up the next time the paint tin is open for detailing something.
Over all I'm really pleased with the look, but feel the decal edges are too visible on the larger decals - does anyone have any tips on how to reduce this?
As you can see he was pretty happy with it too...
First time painting with my new airbrush, with acrylics, and using home print decals. The body wasn't great as I used an 80grit sanding drum on the dremel to remove the old paint - this was before I figured what Nitromorse was for, so the body work is pretty rough. It wasn't sprayed with primer either. I used a 1:1:1 (flat white:klear:windowlene), then decals, then Klear again. The exhaust chimneys are small chain links cut down and expo glue'd inlace inside the body - they were sprayed with gloss black enamel a few weeks back - unfortunately I dropped one in the garage last night and it chipped on the floor. I'll touch this up the next time the paint tin is open for detailing something.
Over all I'm really pleased with the look, but feel the decal edges are too visible on the larger decals - does anyone have any tips on how to reduce this?
As you can see he was pretty happy with it too...
Its up to you @Emmcee, the beauty of modifying is that its all done for individual choice. If you're happy with it, then thats is really all that matters. But if you're not, you'll regret it when its finished and you look at it and wish you invested a bit more time to do what you really wanted.
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hahaha thought I'd share this... I was on the juice a bit last night and starting to feel the hangover go so I thought I'd get set up to start decanting some primer into a pot for airbrushing... so I get the bendy straw on the spray nozzle all sealed nicely and realise its pointing the wrong way! Dammit!! So off it comes and a bit of a retry and its back on... only then do I realise I could have just bent it the way i wanted it lol... maybe I'll leave the power tools for tonight...
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And sooooooooo the convention was a total, absolute scam. The people participating was nearly three times compared to last year, and the level of work featured by many participants was impossibly epic, I had never seen so much quality work featured in one single contest. In each category there were at the very least three cars that could ahve won hands down, in some of them up to six. We ended up being totally overwhelmed by several entries that surpassed our work by faaaar.
Yet, as in the convention contest the invited Mattel designer is the one who choses the winners based on personal taste and nothing else, with no real judging whatsoever of the ammount or quality of the work, many, not to say all of the country's best customs of this year were olimpicaly ignored in favour of some bleh, and in some cases, utter garbage works.
I won third place in the Mild category with a car that I wasn't even going to take to the contest due to how poorly executed it was. The first place in that category was absolutely infuriating, it was amongst the worse cars in the entire show, by far.
We're strongly considering not attending anymore.
Yet, as in the convention contest the invited Mattel designer is the one who choses the winners based on personal taste and nothing else, with no real judging whatsoever of the ammount or quality of the work, many, not to say all of the country's best customs of this year were olimpicaly ignored in favour of some bleh, and in some cases, utter garbage works.
I won third place in the Mild category with a car that I wasn't even going to take to the contest due to how poorly executed it was. The first place in that category was absolutely infuriating, it was amongst the worse cars in the entire show, by far.
We're strongly considering not attending anymore.
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Do upload pics, make blog posts and expose that designer fraud then. I dare you.
That 8 Crate's in the back just waiting for the wheels. The rest are ones I wanted to sell that no one bought, so I'm keeping them after a few improvements... just because mainlines could use improvements. This is a WIP BTW. The M3s need yellow lights, the Challenger needs and axle adjustment, the datsun needs a little lowering...well- the T-Bird, Fleetwood and '57 Chevy all need a lowering.
That 8 Crate's in the back just waiting for the wheels. The rest are ones I wanted to sell that no one bought, so I'm keeping them after a few improvements... just because mainlines could use improvements. This is a WIP BTW. The M3s need yellow lights, the Challenger needs and axle adjustment, the datsun needs a little lowering...well- the T-Bird, Fleetwood and '57 Chevy all need a lowering.
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The way it works at a scale model competition I regularly go to is they have several judges who assign points (1 to 10 I believe) in several categories. Off the top of my head I think it was overall quality of work, additional work done (such as scratchbuilt additions and stuff) and possibly a subjective score on how 'good' the model looks. Then they would just tally up the scores.
The method of voting was posted online, because every year people would complain about unfairness. They had to do this because it's such a small event that even if a few people decide not to attend it's a big damper on the whole event.
As much as you can tell yourself that it's all just for fun and just attending is worth it a bad judge can ruin an event like that, so I hope someone does something about it @Cano
The method of voting was posted online, because every year people would complain about unfairness. They had to do this because it's such a small event that even if a few people decide not to attend it's a big damper on the whole event.
As much as you can tell yourself that it's all just for fun and just attending is worth it a bad judge can ruin an event like that, so I hope someone does something about it @Cano
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As irrelevant as it sounds, I play fighting games, and in the tournament scene, there is always going to be people complaining about who lost, who won, who uses cheap characters and who they personally felt deserved to win (i.e. I wanted to see my favourite player win).
In short, there's always going to be someone who complains in competitions.
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Some national Hot Wheels clubs have been trying to organize a contest with good judging methods but so far it has proved very very difficult as it involves sending off customs -in three categories- to a certain location, participate in a contest there, then send another car to other location and such, and then a yearly final round. The problem, aside from actually sending cars away and risking loosing them in the process, is that the judges don't have the same good standards in one place or another, we suffered that too with the 993 Porsches we did.
We're actually thinking about opening up a new category at one of the big national modelcontest which will take place in two weeks. Ahmed sez that he knows one of the organizers, so maybe we could work something out for the next year and "move" our contacts a bit to fill an entire category with custom 1:64 cars. I'll report back on that, but we'd really like to give this a more serious note, as several people put a lot of resources on this -like, oh, coming to the convention from far away just to enter the contest- to just be discarded off like it happened yesterday
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Stay put dude. We got to an agreement with one of the organizers, which is a friend of ours from years ago, about having the chance of taking our light box to the convention and taking well-lit pics of each and every entry (which believe wasn't easy as there were more than 300 cars, shot all of them front and back... loads of work), so in the next few days we'll be posting the participants in each category in the blog (in my signature) and you'll be able to see every car in perfect detail 👍 I'll post about it here when each post gets done, we just have to process about 700 pictures
After a little help here...
I've just tried shooting white primer from the airbrush, and its given a really rough finish. Should I just revert to going direct from the can?
It was a mess cleaning the airbrush afterwards as well
edit; Just answered my own question and went with the can - immediate even coverage which looks smooth. Think I'm too inexperienced with the airbrush to get the results I'm hoping for. Will keep trying though on the paint front, but for now the primer is going straight from the can.
I've just tried shooting white primer from the airbrush, and its given a really rough finish. Should I just revert to going direct from the can?
It was a mess cleaning the airbrush afterwards as well
edit; Just answered my own question and went with the can - immediate even coverage which looks smooth. Think I'm too inexperienced with the airbrush to get the results I'm hoping for. Will keep trying though on the paint front, but for now the primer is going straight from the can.
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Keep trying, me, i can't afford an airbrush ATM so it's all cans for me. I've started to familiarise myself with which branded cans are better than the others. It's strange because obviously you get what you pay for in cans, dearer the better result, but I've found a cheap can of white from the local cheapy shop and its the best white finish I've ever seen out of a can. It's half the price of the other colors I get. But it's only the white, every other color they have in the cheap cans are crap.
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