In the mission of ridding myself from a load of lesser-valued cars, I found myself re-evaluating why I picked up certain castings and releases, and whether I still have any desire to continue keeping them. Other times, I went through my bin of disassembled spares I had saved for future projects, and decided to restore them to their original state as I sold off the mint condition ones.
Of course there is always room for improving mainline Hot Wheels, so let's look at some I've completed recently:
Keeping it mild here. I like the decal design and colour palette of this one. Although not a major drawback, the yellow windows was something that I sought the opportunity to swap out with all the other 24 Ours I was exiting out of the collection. While I was at it, I coloured in some holes and lamp sockets. I've got another 24 Ours to fix up, but that's still in the bin of never-ending projects.
Sold my original silver, but had this saved for the
Dream Cruisers series. For the newer folks around here, the series focused on convertibles and roadsters being repainted in nail polish enamel. The result was flamboyant colours and scenic diorama photos. That was years ago. Life happens, and modding HWs is no longer as high priority as it was. So I've cut out all the ideas that are weak in foundation and not creative. This was one of them. I've touched up all the minor grills that Matchbox didn't colour in, as well as giving some detail to the center console.
This was previously lowered and wheelswapped, but decided to do a bit more this time, and removed the black center stripe.
Also sold off the original, and pulled this out of the Dream Cruisers queue. Painted the grey plastic to get a black interior, and coloured in the bumper's lower grills.
