Hot Wheels

Does her Mother like Hot Wheels? I see no issue haha. They are colorful and uplifting

 

I will tell her that.

 

Well looks like we are going to make a small room for her with a bathroom. I’m actually on vacation this week and up north camping. Not the worst news to here on vacation but not what I wanted to be talking about.

 

@Toyotacrawler cases look great! What is this tow truck looking thing?

 

Thank you!

The name of it is tow jam, stamped 1997.

 

Not hot wheels but Franklin Mint. This is how I received them. They were grandfather's. Maybe I can clean them up. They need a lot of cleansing.

 

I like that old Nash ? Statesman still in the box. The Corvette is neat too.

 

It is a Nash. On the rear says Airflyte and Rambler Custom on the front fenders. I'm not too familiar with Nash

 

Nash and I want to say Kaiser merged to create Rambler in the late 50s. Nash had some funny looking cars and with those wheel wells set so low even on the front I cant imagine what kind of a turning radius they had.
I think those cars even had front seats that folded flat to make a bed with the back seats. They were weird and neat.

 

It's supposed to have a driver that bounces along but he got out somewhere in the last 40 years

 

Mine is still hanging on

 

So I found this Bronco yesterday at dollar general. It wasn't until a few minutes ago when I OPENED it to realize I'd just added a treasure hunt to my display. I usually look for the little flame circle but oh well. It's cool!

 

Got an order today of 1/64 scale cars and trucks along with a 1/24 scale 65 Mustang drag car. The Mustang will be getting a change with the rims. I have the same ones in chrome. Wont mess with it to much more. I collect 65 Galaxies and had to have this one because it has the Ohio Highway Patrol logos on it. I live in Ohio. Ill just post a couple today.

 

Matchbox Ford Cortina

 

Hot Wheels Wednesday Week 35. Late night cruise in

 

I have to ask. How did you do the lights? You taped the spaces on foam board?
Its neat.

 

I actually painted a particle board with gloss black paint, then misted with flat black paint, followed by a very light dusting of flat gray primer. Then I looked up parking lot space requirements, scaled it down to 1:64, laid it out and taped it off. Then I painted with a semi gloss white paint, pulled the masking and ta-daaa! Haha! The lights I added in Lightroom and Photoshop. Actually the only thing I added in Photoshop was the smoke and police lights. Everything else was done in Lightroom. Took that pic on my hobby room floor with the lights off. Used a couple diorama led lights connected to a 9 volt battery for simulated parking lot lights.

Didn't take much at all to get that picture LOL!



Parking lot lights haha

 

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Alot of work and its something I am sure you can reuse.
With me building models I used to have a junk yard that I made on a table top with a sheet of plywood. I made a pop sickle stick fence and a couple out buildings out of foam board and then painted the one side of strips of clear plastic different shades of blue and green and used those for my creek and then filled the rest with sand and tire tracks. When a model didn't come out right it went into the junk yard after I weathered it. I sold it when I had a guy come over after hearing about it. I never took any pictures unfortunately. In was in the basement 10+ years.

 

This is one I picked up last week. Was out in the driveway laying on the ground shooting these in my landscaping. Had to improvise. I see these are out with the 67-72 F Series now. I didnt care for the yellow and will grab those too when I see them.