Rat style Hotwheels and other Kustoms

[xddorox]

Inspired by Highridah and not wanting to highjack his thread( He did an awesome job on that car), here are a few kustoms I've made with Hotwheels and such. Another of my too many hobbies.

Bugatti

Van

55 Chevy

There small size make for projects that don't take forever to complete. A week end usually compared to years sometimes for the 1/24 plastic stuff.

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

Hey Gerry, those are COOL 8) How did you make the rust on the Chevy :?:

 

[xddorox]

First you make your "rustspot" with flat black paint and then you add flat rust or brown colored paint making sure you leave some black around it. It creates the illusion of depth. I use a very small brush and magnifying glasses because I'm getting old. The "drip" is made with flat rust colored paint heavily diluted with thinner and brushed down to create the effect. I did the same thing on the van. I then did a dry brush of flat gray on the body, rust color on the wheels and covered the whole thing with Krylon flat clear. Result, one ratted out Treasure Hunt.

 

[Spokeshave]

Here's a few of mine...

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

Here's a few of mine...

Lets see...I'll take the one with the surfboards and the gray one behind it :wink:

Outstanding work BOTH of you

 

[scrumblero]

even that small that van is still way too creepy... :lol:

 

[aka_locojoe]

I just can't grasp being able to do this with something as small as a hot wheels. Very cool!

Oh and nice photography too.

 

[xddorox]

Compared to detailing a 1/72 model airplane, these things are huge. NIce paint job on those trucks Spokeshave.

 

[xddorox]

Here's a 1/72 WW1 German plane I did a while ago. Scratch built engine and gun. The kit was crap to begin with and to top it off only 2 pictures for reference of this plane anywhere on the net. It was a lot of fun. Btw, that's a Canadian nickel.

 

[Spokeshave]

Here are a few more I did. 1/72 WW1 biplanes(another hobby of mine)
and my own casting of the Bluesmobile in 1/87 HO scale with decals and some HO scale bikers I 'bashed together.

 

[xddorox]

Dude that is some great work! Are we long lost Brothers or something?

 

[Spokeshave]

Yeah it sure seems that way. Thanks for the kind words. PS if anyone's interested in my unfinished HO scale automobile castings PM me as I sell them to finance my hobbies. thanks for looking.
Here's a 1/25 scale rat rod with a flathead.

Some of my 1/87 HO scale Mopars-
'70 Chargers and '69 Roadrunners ( I own a 1970 Charger in 1:1 scale)

And another shot of the Bluesmobile with roof speaker. Chicago PD Monaco,'63 Pontiac Catalina and a '60 Ford wagon all in HO scale.

 

[Highridah]

theres some cool stuff here we should have a modelers topic i tried hot wheels before but most on mine got destroyed flying down the 40 foot long track me and my brother made

 

[Willg]

Dude those are sweet, I have a ton of hotwheels cars i want to try that on.

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

Those are COOL :shock: I want to make one but I can't

 

[partsguy]

Nice to see some other Hot Wheels collectors here. I do some cusotmizing myself. This last winter I did a custom of Toy Story when Woody and Buzz are chasing the truck and of Back To The Future II as Biff crashes into the manure truck.

 

[xddorox]

Some of my other stuff:

Feel free to post yours here guys.

 

[rico]

here are a couple from my collection on my layout.

 

[Spokeshave]

Great stuff there. Rico,I dig the diorama.
I thought I was the only one repainting old diecast.

 

[rico]

hey , there is something about bikes and diecast that goes together :mrgreen: