Wednesday 30 April 2008

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Study Of A Hot Wheels #3: Deuce Roadster



I realised for the first time that I was a complete Deuce nut a year or so ago, but it turns out I liked 'em long before that - I found a 32 Vicky Hot Wheels that I'd picked up years and years ago recently, and couldn't have been more excited to discover I'd bought some cool stuff and forgotten about it. This one is the latest of my Hot Wheels 32s collection, and I'm a little undecided on it.

The flat olive paint is cool as hell - it's got a real 'I mean business' look to it. The moon tank out front helps, as does the intake popping through the hood and the louvered trunk lid and parachute out back. Bigs and littles? Check. Cool rake? Check. Roll cage? Check. Motor hanging out of the sides? Check.

Dunno about those graphics though. Tribal flames dont really jive for me. And I'd swap that gold 'chrome' for regular in a flash if this was my design. Its cool though, and it's definitely gonna inspire a 1:25 build in the not too distant future. Well, with my swing on things of course...

JB

True Fire Tub



I'm very much an old-school kind of guy, but some of this new-fangled stuff is kind of cool I gotta admit. Take the whole true-fire phenomenon. I'm not sure where it originated, or even quite how to do it (yet!), but nothing catches my eye like a well laid out set of true-flames.

CarModDave has got 'em down, despite his modesty at the cool look he achieved on this Jimmy Flintstone slammer. Read 'em and weep...

JB

Monday 28 April 2008

Happy 100th Post To Us!

Here's to a million more.

Meantime, check out this pretty interesting thread relating to what people spend on an average build. Personally, I have no idea - I've never finished one yet!

JB

Got Shifter?



Yeah, that should just about do it...

JB

Bambina



Two tone flip paint job and hefty lowering job or not, I fuckin' love these little Fiats.

JB

Deathbus



What better way for a dubber to make that last journey than in this sick Bus. Racially-shaky sign writing and oversize novelty skull aside, this is a pretty good effort at making something a little dark and original out of a VW bus. Curved front windows indicate a Tom Daniel kit as the starting point for this one.

JB

Contrast



The red/black pairing of colours has been a hot-rod staple for some time - but flip those tones and you've got a cool, fresh looking combination that'll make any build pop. I wanna see a 32 Sedan in this scheme...

JB

PT Cruiser: Cool?



Well, that's debatable, but this is as close as one has got...

JB

Unknown Frame



I don't know whose picture this is, or where I saved it from (probably Scale Auto's forum?) but this is one of the coolest frames I've seen for a long time. using doubled-up tubes to make this roadster's chassis is a cool high tech touch that pays respect to the past without attempting to be retro. Great work, unknown builder.

JB

Wednesday 9 April 2008

Nothing to get...



...your modelling juices flowing again after an unplanned break than a cool old kit, near untouched, and ready for some attention. This one's an AMT Trophy Series 32 Vicky, picked up thanks to eBay. She's not getting built yet, I'd like to resin cast some bits first, but just getting the box got me excited again. That and the sunny weather, even got some paint laid today, that's how excited I was!

Apologies for the lack of blogs lately, I know some people actually even read this thing - normal service will be resumed very soon...

JB

Saturday 5 April 2008

RIP Roth



7 years ago today we lost Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth. RIP Ed. As a small tribute to a great man, here's my three favourite facts about him, in no particular order.

  1. The now-legendary 'Big Daddy' moniker was given to him by Publicity Head for Revell at the time, Henry Blankfort.
  2. H fronted a band, called Mr Gasser & The Weirdos. Ed was Mr gasser, naturally
  3. In 2001, just before his death, Ed was working on an "innovative hot rod project involving a compact car, planned as a radical departure from the dominant tuner performance modification style."
Thank modern-compact-as-a-hot-rod thing got me pretty excited - if anyone could make something modern into a REAL hot rod, it'd be Ed. One more fact? Alright then...in his last few years, Ed had his ex-directory phone number listed again, and encouraged fans to call him and chat cars. What a gent.

JB

Thursday 3 April 2008

Triclopz



I dont know if I like this or not yet, but for £10, I wasnt gonna turn it down. Released by Testors, and produced by Jimmy Flintstone, the Triclopz is one of the more interesting kits I've seen lately - or rather, bought lately, as I seem to be on another of my kit-buying sprees that happen every few weeks.

Strickly a slammer, with no underside detail bar 4 exhaust pipes that protrude from the rear of the car, this one's gonna be a nice quick fun build I think. White metal wheels, an unusual set of tyres with some licence-fee-avoiding hyroglyphics on the side where 'Goodyear' would normally be, and some photo etched badges and doo-dads.

This thing weighs a TONNE too, its the heaviest kits I've found yet in 1/25th. Definitely got my money's worth, just in the resin used.

So, whaddya guys think?

JB