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Tag: custom hot wheels

  • Hold The Decals, Just The Paint Please.

    Usually I like to use water slide decals for my graphics. But, there was a time I fancied myself a car painter, not a decal artist. I used lot of air brush masks, which I made from Orecal Vinyl, which I cut on a plotter. I sold the decals for a while, sold enough to…

  • Early Works, We All Start Somewhere.

    Seven early models, showing varying degrees of success:) The purple Superbird is a favorite, the paint came out really nice on that one. The blue/silver Cuda was another milestone when it was made, I had figured out where to purchase some sponsor and livery decals, in talking with the person I bought them from, I…

  • The Iron Horse and His Toothy Friend

    The Iron Horse decals are not my designs, I got these off the internet as a test for the White Ink printer I use to make water slide decals. The white ink printer worked, so this test has stuck around as a moment when the way I created custom decals changed forever. For those that…

  • Hotwheels Toy Fair Exclusive Porsche.

    I don’t share much from my collection here, but this one deserves a little time. For the diehards, you’ll recognize this as a pretty hard to find price. Is going up for auction soon, it is too expensive to keep around. Ironically I won this, not for a custom or diagrams contest, but for winning…

  • Prototypes Are Finally Here!

    Come with cards, digital chip that links to this site, a cool little diorama base and a little kickstand to display the unit correctly. My kickstands got left behind when I took these pics, so ignore that little piece of green paper. Also on the back is a short description of the design inspiration for…

  • DieCast Hero Apocalyptic Contest

    This item was created for Diecast Hero Magazine’s Apocalypse contest (yes, it is real). It didn’t win, but it got a spread in the magazine with a tutorial on making the piece.

  • Porsche Outlaw

    I love the Outlaw casting, one of favorite all time castings. But, I don’t like it much for customs, the casting is really small and doesn’t have much of a footprint to work with. This design was supposed to look a lot different, but so much had to be cut to fit in the casting,…

  • Oriental Dragon Gasser

    I Have no memory of taking these pics! The diorama and car are separated by about five years, so I would have needed to dig the diorama out of storage to take these pics…weird. The design on the Gasser is about half Ai generated. I use Ai to make initial designs, then draw over the…

  • Three Early Works

    Two of my favorite castings. The black and green Cuda was the image for my YouTube channel for years. The wheels are a bot large, but considering this one was made almost ten years ago… The flames were made from vinyl masks that I’ve mentioned before. The copper and black Cuda might be the first…

  • Using Gold Vinyl On Customs

    So this one is an experiment that probably has potential. The goal was to cut gold vinyl (the same stuff you would wrap on real cars) to simulate a gold mirror finish on selected parts of the design. The concept was solid, but in the end the process just took too long and had too…