Hot Wheels and Matchbox Customizing Thread
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Bout to ask the same thing. As for my pics, yeah "cano" your right about my pics and iam sorry for the quality but as for detailing iam missing most of my index or "bird" finger on my writing/painting hand so I try my best. Hope I didnt come accross nasty, I appreciate all feed back weather good or bad and appreciate everyone's work.
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Pretty sure I know the answer, but is there a way to rust the bare metal on a Hot Wheels?
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flames are all hand done. I use an artists brush, thinned out testors enamels and a steady hand. The paint is HOK tangelo and the carbon fiber look was done with Testors black lacquer and Alclad II chrome. Found the mesh out of a trashed laptop bag.
tires are made out of automotive vacuum plugs. I kept searching to find rubber 'o-rings' that fit.
I'm going to try my hand at making American Racing Libra rims for my Datsuns/Toyotas. Hopefully get it looking correct and will try and resin clone them.
tires are made out of automotive vacuum plugs. I kept searching to find rubber 'o-rings' that fit.
I'm going to try my hand at making American Racing Libra rims for my Datsuns/Toyotas. Hopefully get it looking correct and will try and resin clone them.
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:0 didn't know that, you do a heck of a job if so! Still, get a better photo setup!
Daaaamn you have a freaking steady hand then, and the ammount of work in those just doubled right now after reading that. Amazing all the way.
Also, if you do achieve Libre wheels, I'm so buying some off you. Let me know.
You said it yourself mate, no way, as Zamac is all alloy. That's why there are several painting methods to achieve the rusty look.
As for me, fourth day in a row of erasing ugly tampos off cars that will be wheel-swapped in the future.
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yeah, I had Libre's on my 1st 510 back in high school circa '86. I had boxes and boxes of 510 parts my dad threw out when I moved out back in '89. When I was 18, I had 3 510's at one time..2 for parts and 1 running. I swapped the Libres off the runner with stock 200sx 15's and sold them with 1 of my parts cars to wrecker for $200. Pops didn't want the parts car in front of the house...
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Bought the spray paint last night for my Titan/620 T&N project. Also picked up a Matchbox Nissan Xterrra to have some fun with. I have the rest of the week off, so hope to finish them all. Although the temps here now are not great for painting, so going to have to figure that one out...
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Ungh, that sounds like a bitter pill to swallow
have you considered getting another one? (:also, pics of the cars? :0
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Ungh, that sounds like a bitter pill to swallow
also, pics of the cars? :0
life in the way..kid in college, other getting ready for prep school. wife says no project cars. need reliability right now.
always searching though. and no longer on west coast[SF bay area]. Philly area has terrible roads and winter snow and salt a killer. I did take pics of my car but they are stashed in boxes. prices on 510s going way up....
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Yeah, life gets in the way sometimes, but there's always time. Also, if you ever dig up pics of your cars, remember to scan them or something (:
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Sneaky preview: Got some paint stripper on the way home. All are loosely put together so their ride heights are not correct. Xterra wheels are final (this will also get a small lift) the Titan wheels are not final (using same wheels but with a different color) and the Datsun 620 wheels are not final at all.
The Xterra will be painted white as it originally was because the rear hatch actually opens and even though it's a separate piece it's plastic, and I don't feel like repainting it and screwing it up so just repainting it the original color. I only stripped it to get rid of the tons of tampos. Both trucks are getting painted Cherry Red.
The Xterra will be painted white as it originally was because the rear hatch actually opens and even though it's a separate piece it's plastic, and I don't feel like repainting it and screwing it up so just repainting it the original color. I only stripped it to get rid of the tons of tampos. Both trucks are getting painted Cherry Red.
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What brand is the Xterra?
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The ride height of the Titan looks spot-on @R1600Turbo. Pic of the chassis.
And the Datsun looks pretty good with those wheels. What are they off of?
And the Datsun looks pretty good with those wheels. What are they off of?
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you may want to use aircraft remover for your paint removal. I lucked out and picked up 5 cans of it on clearance at Advance Auto for $.05 each - no kidding. The salesman was like '5 cents??' WTF! I took all 5 cans. They were really out of date but they work fine.
your paint will be much cleaner when you remove all the residuals from the casting
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I had some paint remover in a spray can I bought from Walmart some time ago and went searching for it recently to no avail. So I stopped at a Pep Boys on the way home last night and picked up a can of Duplicolor Paint Stripper in a can for $6 (ouch) and it worked fantastic on the 3 cars in the photo above.
Edit: @Nessy what did you use for your axle spacers again?
Edit: @Nessy what did you use for your axle spacers again?
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that was a pain took me like 3hours to take the paint off with an x-acto knife anyways is it ok if i can post a build process of my evo x?
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I use sliced up wheel poly caps from (unfinished) Tamiya/Fujimi 1/24 model kits. They tend to work pretty well, but availability may be a problem (not sure whether they sell packs of them).
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You scraped it all off with an x-acto knife? Talk about dedication, but paint stripper is so much easier.
Yeah I did some searching and found it. You were also using bronze tubing, I'm looking at spacing wheels with the stock axles. Going out on the town in a bit (probably a bad idea today) so I'll see if I can find something.
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Aluminum can indeed be very fragile, I've broken my share with the pliers trying to make the tubbing hold the axle tube. That's why I don't do that anymore and now I just use a small dab of Pritt Taks in each end of the tube before sliding in the axle. It's about enough to hold it in place without worrying for a) braking it and b) warping it so the form of the tubbing doesn't gets altered. Works like a charm and you can retire the axle and put it in again without problems.
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Colour? Is it the one from Beverly Hills 90201?
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