What's on the bench?
Latest 3 cars in various stages of completion. Matchbox road dragster, hot wheels gremlin grinder and hot wheels 1966 thunderbird. Plus Isis and a stray witch or 2 skulking around in the background
- That purple roadster looks interesting — Dutch_Clutch_Racing
- Nice work area for multiple projects — AbbyNormal
- Thanks, I mixed the color, I was going for a metallic black cherry. Once I gloss coat, I'm hoping it will really look good. — Sunshine_City_Garage
- The only problem with my work area is not passing go and not collecting $200. — Sunshine_City_Garage
Upcoming project before pics...
Holy polka-dots Batman, we've been spotted!!
- That's awesome! Nice work. — LobotomyScam
- Thanks Lobo, I'd like to take the credit but these are the before pics — Sunshine_City_Garage
- Whoa. Never saw that one. Thats pretty sweet for a "before" photo. — Zamak_Speed_Shop
- Hey Zamak, here's the title of the ebay listing I bought it from. Hot Wheels Classic TV Series Batmobile Black 2021 DC Series Mint Loose Condition. It has entered the first stage of the transformation, stripped to bare metal. — Sunshine_City_Garage
- Looks awesome. I'm planning on hosting a Batman themed race sometime this summer. — ABC_Allred_Family
Getting one together for Bull of the woods 
- Your shoebox at jungle falls is a BEAST! — ManiacMotorsports
- I'm a big Shoebox fan.... — Zamak_Speed_Shop
- I have always liked the Shoebox! It reminds me of a Ford car my parents had when I was a kid. — johnson9195
- Awesome paint job — ABC_Allred_Family
Bringing a Shelby Turbine back to life, well hopefully.
- Nice!!! I'm looking to restore one of those myself. Are you going original or custom? — Sunshine_City_Garage
- It's actually shipping out Friday for a race, Indy style cars — GBURacing
- Wicked. I'll be on the lookout for that race. — Zamak_Speed_Shop
- It's the Indy/F1 race and I believe it's not full — GBURacing
- Thanks I'll check it out! — Zamak_Speed_Shop
Finished matchbox road dragster
- Cool restoration! — ManiacMotorsports
- Very nice! — Dutch_Clutch_Racing
- Love the old school matchbox cars! — Skid_Marks_Diecast_Racing
One of 3 for the Indy/F1 Race
This is the orginal Indy Oval 500 from 2011 and it's actually bigger in scale a touch to the current Indy Oval produced since 2011 and it's metal/metal.
Working on a foam suspension for my Evo. I used some Krylon paint that doesn't work to make the rusty-ish look. I like that it looks like it was thrown together out of scrap parts (which it was...).
- Cool! — Dutch_Clutch_Racing
- ty dutch, hopefully it works ok — ManiacMotorsports
- I really like it — ABC_Allred_Family
- Ty, you'll see it soon at gravity throttle racing — ManiacMotorsports
Last week I was at Advanced Auto and happened to spy their rattle cans so of course I had to look. I'd not seen Dupli-Color before but the $16+ per can was a nope for me. I Googled later and found JB Tools was selling the same rattle cans for $8.62/can. These arrived today.....can't wait to try them out!
- The red looks especially rich to me. — Dutch_Clutch_Racing
- Gotta love metallic paint. — ManiacMotorsports
- you will love the colors, I have done that over polished, and over chrome paint — dr_dodge
- I've only used their primer which I love. I heard those look great when they are used over a silver basecoat. Can wait to see! — Sunshine_City_Garage
- That paint has been on my radar for a while now. Haven't pulled the trigger yet. Let us know how it goes for you. — Zamak_Speed_Shop
- I bought these for that Spectraflame like potential of letting a mirror polishing of the ZAMAC shine through. I'll definitely report back when I have some results. — BadWoolRacing
- That's What we used on our Sled build, great paints, slightly expensive. $8+change not too bad no — QuadWheelz
the hat cam platform
for hands free gopro use, w/ protection
kinda like this (yes with eyes, when recording)
I got a way better 'stash, and my eyes will be terrifying
the hat cam
dr
- The creative voices.....they don't stop do they? — Dutch_Clutch_Racing
- Dr you are the best kind of crazy — AbbyNormal
- lol — dr_dodge
Finally got things more or less set up and then watched the requisite number of YouTube movies so that I could fire up my airbrush without hurting myself or it. All in all, I'm pretty happy it's certainly more work than disposable rattle cans, but I can begin to see where the Creative levels are pretty much unlimited. But right now I'm just working on finger coordination and aiming the damn thing.
here is tonight's work so far waiting to clear coat these in a couple hours. The orange 55 Chevy was first and certainly had some overspray and other issues. The blue car is a JDM of some sort and it came out pretty good as my second attempt and the Porsche 911 in lime green that was my last attempt and it's pretty good. Really enjoyed doing the ZAMAC finish stripes
I continue on learning about the airbrush and paint mixing and the reducers and intercoaters and flow improvers and all that stuff. And I've had overspray under spray orange peel sagging along with basically perfect paint. In the picture below the bronco is eventually headed to the Big O, but this is try number three. The first two tries went straight to the paint remover can. And the Ferrari in red is a eBay rescue as well.
but still even with all these troubles I see the eventual bonus of being able to have complete creative control.
Hunting for some speedy shoes for the REPU