BigMetalRobot

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  • Some Older Hot Wheels Customs.

  • The Art of Painted Flames for Custom Die-Cast Cars

    A few examples of painted flames. For a long time, I sold the vinyl masks used to make these flames. The market dried up, but I made enough to fund the hobby for a number of years. I used a Silhouette brand cutter/plotter to make vinyl sheets. Then cut the sheets into smaller sections and…

  • Older Work

    Older work of mine, mostly from training videos from Lynda.com and Game Institute.com Mainly posting here to archive the work.

  • Reviving An AAR Cuda: The Psychedelic Space Monkey Custom

    Space Monkey returns, this time from a psychedelic universe. I didn’t take a pic of the top, so the pics don’t show the whole figure, you’re looking at the arms on the side panels of the car. Casting is an AAR Cuda, one of my favorite cars and also was the very first casting I…

  • Stormtrooper Power Panel

    Wish the lighting was better, I tried some new lights and they didn’t work out as planned. I did say I revert back to stormtroopers every time I can’t think of anything else to use. The Power Panel casting used to be one of my favorites. I don’t use it much anymore, the casting has…

  • Creature From The Black Lagoon Edition

    Coming soon, this one was a prototype for packaging designs I’ve been working on. Will probably sell these on eBay to test out what the interest in buying them is. The last image is the card art, yep, making card art now. Stay tuned.

  • Speeding Up Creativity with Digital Generative Tools

    The images I use for my designs come from a lot of sources. Fortunately I can draw reasonably well, so many of the images are my own design. Often I use Ai, or imagery from my library of game textures to start the image, then stack, pull, twist and generally smash parts of many images…

  • Peechee Obsessed

    So there is something about those old PeeChee folders. If you are around me age and went to high school in the 70s or 80s, you probably had at least one PeeChee folder. There were only two design, both featured a dirty yellow background with high school sports featured by iconic images. You probably also…

  • Cthulhu Chevy

    One of many Cthulhu designs.

  • Not All Work Out Well…

    All these design have issues, at least they aren’t some of my favorites. The CRX is a clumsy casting to work with, wasn’t the best choice for decal work. I like the paint job, which is a gold translucent paint over polished metal, but I then covered the paint mostly with decals I’m not thrilled…