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I found an older year Genesis that has darker plastic but with shipping the cheapest price is 13$. May go for that if the bottle thing doesn't work.
Hot Wheels and Matchbox Customizing Thread
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And then send me the genesis you steal the Windows from cause I want one! XD
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Update on the box van.
Primed this afternoon.
One coat krylon metal primer.
Oh, and hit the interior with some white. It was ugly bright red. Not done with it yet.
Gonna finish that up tomorrow. Weather permitting. Also, I was mowing my back yard today and dredged this old matchbox cop car out of the mud. After a good clean and soak, it's not bad. It's a crown vic. Lightbar is broke, and the inside still has some mud. Not sure what to do with it yet. Was thinking maybe just touch it up, and either remover or replace the light bar, and maybe dragster it out.
Primed this afternoon.
One coat krylon metal primer.
Oh, and hit the interior with some white. It was ugly bright red. Not done with it yet.
Gonna finish that up tomorrow. Weather permitting. Also, I was mowing my back yard today and dredged this old matchbox cop car out of the mud. After a good clean and soak, it's not bad. It's a crown vic. Lightbar is broke, and the inside still has some mud. Not sure what to do with it yet. Was thinking maybe just touch it up, and either remover or replace the light bar, and maybe dragster it out.
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Just touch it up and detail I reckon.
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Notchback Mustang is sick.
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Fix that spoiler! My eyes. I love GTO's and that spoiler is an affront to GTO everywhere. Grind it off! And some big fat chunky racing slicks
Ameer67
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It would still look wacky since the window proportions are obviously off. (Unless @Missfrost goes for the wacky look on purpose.)
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What kind of Hot Wheels is that GTO? That would make a crazy engine swap I could do.
This BMW 2002 gave me the idea to start modifying HWs. I was just looking for some cool diecast to keep on my work bench at work. Now my collection is crazy.
Didn't go crazy with the touch up.
This BMW 2002 gave me the idea to start modifying HWs. I was just looking for some cool diecast to keep on my work bench at work. Now my collection is crazy.
Didn't go crazy with the touch up.
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True that, but it isn't as bad as that spoiler.
Don't have the tools for such an extensive mod I have bin stealing my brothers tools he said girls should not be in to modifying litle cars but I like it thx for the tips I will do what I can to make it look cool
Get to it! Can't wait to see
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This ^ @Missfrost. Maybe carefully remove the Hotwheels logo (but keep The Judge and stripes). Acetone is what most people use for tampo removal, though nail varnish may work too. I think a bit of black paint pen on the exhaust holes, grill and blower too.
As for your BMW @Ameer67 I'd start by removing that rear spoiler maybe. I don't know what else to suggest, as iv'e never tried anything like that before.
Finally managed a bit of putty sculpting on the Mazda. The side with the Watanabes needs some final touches, but i'm pretty happy so far. Decided to add a small duck tail spoiler at the rear. After iv'e primered i'll get started on the roll bar.
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What's under the front lip in the first picture? is that the chassis? Hangs low. Loving it though.
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Thanks. 👍 And yes, it's the chassis. It does actually sit a little lower than the body even when attached properly, although i haven't attached it properly yet.
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A friend sent me this as inspiration for that gto
I'd have to re spray with proper paint shave the headers of and defenetly redo the spoiler and level the ride but I don't have real riders to put on it and I won't get to do the interior that bums me out what do you guys think
I'd have to re spray with proper paint shave the headers of and defenetly redo the spoiler and level the ride but I don't have real riders to put on it and I won't get to do the interior that bums me out what do you guys think
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that's going to turn out awesome, the bottom set of wheels suit it better IMO but its going to turn out awesome.This ^ @Missfrost. Maybe carefully remove the Hotwheels logo (but keep The Judge and stripes). Acetone is what most people use for tampo removal, though nail varnish may work too. I think a bit of black paint pen on the exhaust holes, grill and blower too.
As for your BMW @Ameer67 I'd start by removing that rear spoiler maybe. I don't know what else to suggest, as iv'e never tried anything like that before.
Finally managed a bit of putty sculpting on the Mazda. The side with the Watanabes needs some final touches, but i'm pretty happy so far. Decided to add a small duck tail spoiler at the rear. After iv'e primered i'll get started on the roll bar.
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So, thanks to the lack of good picture qualities of my iPhone, here's what I have. I edited it with Aviary only so you can see the glimmer of the blue I used, although it makes it look like there are blobs and the like on it, which there aren't haha. Here's what I have so far:
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Tasty. Like the blue.
Looks like you had better success with putty today than I did. Don't ask. Lol
So this thing makes me so mad. I don't like the casting, but I wanted to do something with it, since I spent the money for the real riders that were on it. So as I showed, I slowly have been working on the dumb van delivery thing. All was well. Primed, ready to paint in the nice glossy white I ha...wait a minute. Oh I was wrong. The gloss white I thought we had was actually a white primer. Crap. Ah well. Maybe with enough clear. So I painted, left it to dry for a day. Then because I'm a cheapo, and I don't feel like tryin to do tampos quite yet, I hand lettered this thing and it actually looked pretty good. Not show quality but Good. Let it dry good, then clear coated. And then everything rolled downhill. The letters smeared and that side only collected dust. The front oddly seem to lose paint on the edges. Despite this I kept on, just to try to keep my cool. Well. It dried nice, and the back and other side still looked good. Until I opened the back door and messed up the doorframe paint. Oh well. Learning experience. On the plus side, my one body modification came out stellar, and the interior isn't too shabby. Observe!
Sprayed white completely, then used sillver sharpie to do the dash gauges, the floor ridges, and floor damage, from boxes sliding around and what not. Don't have a picture, but the tab on the doors is also silver. Seat and steering wheel with black sharpie.
My now horrible blurry lettering. Said Jun Imai courier service, till it smeared. Oh well
Back end with silver lock and tiny graffiti tags. Thanks @Nessy and @AOS- for use of names for tags XD you can also see the damaged bit down there in the corner.
Now on to the other side which faired a lot better to the clear coat than the other for some odd rea... Wait. What the...
Oh come on @Cano ! Isn't doing your own cars enough for ya!
All fun aside, this side actually came out decently. Also hand lettered. Sharpies. You an kinda see where it faded out some, but I felt like it went with the graffiti spray paint thing. I did Cano's name cause it was short enough to fit, and as a bit of respect for all the nasty hotness He and Ahmed drop all the time.
So the best bit, or at least the one I'm most proud of. The roof. When it started it had grooves all down it. And I didn't like them. So I filled them and smoothed it all out.
You can see the weird front fade too.
So yea a. This will probably stay like this till I get more paint stripper. Then back to the drawing board.
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That's coming along great.
@Nvrrespected.
That turned out ok, I mean the smear wasn't what we wanted but the graffiti idea and what you did is awesome in my opinion. Trial and error buddy and that turned out ok for a first attempt at that style. Don't be so hard on yourself.
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lol, what the hell. Cool. Needs more flames to be mine, but cool. Thanks for the homage Similar threads
