Joe Handley

My Drag Heep is done, and I started a Mini-Me from the new Hot Wheels ‘95 XJ Cherokee casting! I’m thinking the big one is going to need a light bar and roof rack in the future too?

Depending on how difficult it is to reach that mess, I’ve been finding lint rollers work great on the metal shavings from the Hot Wheels I’ve drilled and modified.

A Tesla Model Y being used as a RFD vehicle and an early 70’s Buick Electra 225 coupe.

Depending on who would buy them with that name, it would make for a great joke.

Yup, that’s why if I ever do that ‘70 Charger kit like this, it will have a Dana 60 out back and looking at fabbing something like that for it too would be a good idea!

Considering the kinds of abuse these cars take, it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to have on a car like this.

Wheel swapped a Hot Wheels ‘40 Ford Truck, put some rolling stock on it from the ‘06 GTO, which fits this trucks attitude much better, IMHO.

Be interesting to hear how that turned out for the owners of the car.

Is that one supposed to be Jackie Kennedy or Dr. Girlfriend/Dr. Mrs. The Monarch?

I think that was the idea.

Lol, I love the fake lashes for car sized fake lashes, that’s a great touch!

Almost done with the new body for my Drag Slash

Thanks, and I appreciate it, I’m trying to make it more of a T-Bird sized roadster, which is why I’m trying to knock an inch (+/-) out of the rear half of the car.

Well, how about this? I need to chop the Batmobile down and carve out the passenger compartment opening to fit the T-Bird interior tub next.

Here it is mocked up on the T-Bird’s chassis, interior and suspension without any cutting on the body so far. And then one with the T-Bird body stacked on the Batmobile on the T-Birds chassis.

Thanks! Funny thing too, that T-Bird is a 1/24 kit and the Batmobile is 1/25, I tried a 1/25 AMT ‘57 T-Bird, but it was smaller in width and height too. I want to do that with one of the Revell Lincoln Futura kits I have too, but that’s undersized compared to this and their snapper Batmobile kits, so that AMT T-Bird kit should be workable to do this with the Futura, once I get around to it.

Getting ready to chop up another Polar Lights Batmobile to try and get it to fit the chassis and interior tub of that Revell/Monogram’57 T-Bird underneath it. Also want to get rid of the wheel opening in the back to be more like the real car was before Barris did this to it, so the 1” strips of tape circled in blue are roughly where I want to cut it to shorten it in the middle, but don’t know exactly how to deal with that rear overhang and make it more like the T-Birds, so I am open to suggestions if you guys have any!

That's cool! Have you ever checked out the R/HotWheels page on Reddit? You would probably like that!

That's a great build, gotta love what can be done with that Bondic stuff too!

Finally getting around to working on this one, had the Model Master Prowler Purple bubble up really bad on me so I dunked it and forgot about it. I think it’s about ready for primer again at this point.

Thanks, I'll have to look around some for when ever I get around to do that with a Charger. Been thinking of teh rolling stock from the stock Revell Jeep TJ Wrangler Rubicon to see how close those are. Should be around 31"-32" tall and the 16" TJ Rubicon wheels happen to be the same 5x4.5" bolt pattern as a midsized Mopar, even ones with the Dana 60 rear end and the offset shouldn't too far off either if modern wheels are allowed on the 1/1 cars.

Figured I’d post these here, it’s in the purple dip right now to strip the factory paint off it, but here’s that Barris Batmobile Kustom I posted in the Mock Up Thread recently. It’s going to be a friend hat if Kustom as though maybe instead of becoming The Batmobile, it was customized later in life with some of the Batmobile mods, but not the Bat specific ones at the same time. In this case, the molded chrome and bumpers, flared wheel openings, extended hood scoop remain, reshaped fins on the doors are all staying the same, but the bay wing scallops on the fins, split grill and “septum” on the hood scoop, turbine exhaust, launcher tubes behind the cockpit, and extended headlight shrouds are all gone. I’ve also decided to ditch the rearmost part of the canopy for headrest bubbles and pull the raised area on the back side of that section of canopy mating surface in between them as well as slightly lower it and change to some 17” Hollies that have better fitment that the Radir wheels and oversized tires that are sucked in too far to actually look good. These are what I posted on the mock up thread, but here’s the updates, plus the Futura, Batmobile and this car in 1 shot!

I need to keep an eye on this, I’ve been mildly fascinated by the real modified Prius’ for some time now! Can’t wait to see how you finish it!

Thanks, this will be something new to both of us, even though we both have experience with it’s older siblings. Quick edit, since we don’t want to ruin those nice C10 bodies, we are going to swap something else on them, he’s planning on getting one of they Fox Body Mustangs for his, and I went a different, but otherwise similarly RAD and slightly Gasser-ish route……. Axial XJ Cherokee, the ‘97-‘01 variant? The truck is a bit wide for the body. But I do dig the look and since I can’t afford to do this to a 1/1, there are no 1/25 kits to do this too, and the Hot Wheels XJ having even bigger flares and wouldn’t look as right, this will have to do.

Just picked up the blue one today. Traxxas was doing a 2 for $500 sale so a buddy and I went in on the pair. Both are brushless 2s and 3s LiPo compatible, waterproof (for now) and they licensed the bodies, wheels, and tires from Chevy, Weld, and Mickey Thompson! They even programmed the vehicle with something to act like a trans brake and put a momentary switch in place of the shift toggle on the 3 channel radio it comes with.