The Hot Wheels thread.

[kid325e]

My coworker got me these for an early Xmas gift!!



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[DTM190]

FARK, have not seen the Celica here in OZ yet.

MUST. HAVE. NOW.

Nor have I seen the blue or the green TWODUBs.

Jason have you tried the duplicolor clear?? Thats what I use and always comes up nice.

I did a matchbox E34 years ago and I just got it out to take a pic and had a lol considering my daily is now an E34 with style 66s, did one in advance!

[DTM190]

E34, repaint, wheels and lowering




W124 Merc, standard and the one i painted, lowered, wheels and front splitter



Minty CSL that I must resist the urge to strip, paint and mod lol



Ford Capri complete with engine conversion lol



A couple more repaint, wheels and ride hide tampering





One of my faves, the old Matchbox Ford Supervan




That once looked like this

[Pantless Spency]

wow nice cars man!
pm me if your interested in some 02's :D
for i am stacked.
but i think shipping would make it not worth it.

[DTM190]

Thanks!

If we dont get any Celicas or green and blue twodubs I will hit you up,

We pay $2.29-$2.99 for them here. Occasionally a local supermarket (i dont know what you call them, place you buy food lol) has them for 99c and they all look at me strange rifling through the basket picking out all of my faves.

We dont get many Aussie specific cars and usually when we do they are turd boxes that are uninspiring.

This is my fave out of the Aussie cars, XB Falcon coupe (like Eric Banas for anyone who has seen "Love the Beast")



Only have one but as soon as I get another it will get the paint and wheels treatment.

[JasonC]

Jason have you tried the duplicolor clear?? Thats what I use and always comes up nice.

Yeah, i've been using the Dupli color clear coat. But it's for wheels though. Seems to dry pretty fast!

[DTM190]

Oh, maybe different between AU and USA,

We get these here that are for people to "touch up" their cars lol



Which is sold as PowerPlus, Dupli-color and Holts but all comes from the same factory and even though its acrylic the clear comes out pretty good "off the gun" (read can :p )

A bit of polish after they are dry and it looks like 2k

Another 2 little tricks I learned was replicating the rivets,

First one is to get pop rivets and cut the head off then glue them on to make them look "factory"

The way I did it before that was to use "quick steel".
I made a mould on the end of a pen of a Hotwheels shaped rivet by wetting the rivet, putting some quicksteel in the end of the pen then pressing onto the original rivet.
Once dry, then put some quicksteel in a ball on the old rivet location, a bit of water on the ball and then squish the mould/pen onto the ball which would give the exact hotwheels shaped rivet. I bit time consuming but for ones that I just did a repaint on that were 60s and 70s collectables it was worth making them look original.

[JasonC]

We have regular clear, it's just that i didn't want to buy a new can and i had this can here, and it worked. So i rolled with it lol. Good tip on the rivits!!!

[Wschnitz]

I want a fucking blue one!!! :hitler:

[Eric]

ive got a green 02 i can send you. ill look for anothr celica too, planning on going to walmart tomorrow for some stuff.

[DTM190]

First I want to thank Jason lol (you will see why further down)

So I did the rounds

Scored my first Celica, I wanted 3. One to keep carded, one for my son and one for me to paint to match my real one in sig pic.

Another 510 (have 4 or 5 now), black E92 M3 and a GT2



And was fucking stoked to find 2 x Blue TwoDubs!



And while searching high and low for a green TwoDub and some more Celicas,


BOOM



Almost fell over!!

[Eric]

[kid325e]

What?,!?? I would've been jumping up and down! Cool finds man. I would call that a successful day.

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[Bavarian Performance]

BOOM



Almost fell over!![/QUOTE]




Is this a 2012/2013 model or just something from old stock from previous years?!!!!!

If this is a new model I will be spending the rest of the day search stores!!!!

[Wschnitz]

Ok fuck it im going out to every store now and looking for that