Jairus

Paint them flat black! Seriously, your eyes would never see the crinkles in a black painted set of scale valve covers at any scale under 1/3.

Color check. Wish I had some gold pearl clear... but, not too bad overall.

Just a quick pic to show that paint is finally on my build. The green is a custom mixed candy lacquer lime metal flake, about 4 or 5 coats with one color sanding session between. Here it has two coats of Tamiya clear and here it will wait a day to gas out before wet sanding again to ensure it is satiny smooth. Hopefully two final coats of clear will leave a glass smooth finish with-out the need for polishing. Painting of the interior and tinting the window glass are next.

Looking great Harry! Suggest you dry-brush a little silver over the green painted edges here and there to simulate wear. Also need some black wash over the bolts at the base of the steering box. Too bright to my eyes. Hard to tell from the real thing for the most part.

I don't care about the glass... I wan'na build this one!

Good to know Art, thanks for the info!

P.S. after I finish the Deora... I think this might just be my next project: (with two motors of course!)

Been working hard this last week. Finished three t-shirt designs and helped wrap a top fuel dragster. But for the three day weekend I spent some time just modeling, and managed to finish up the wheels for my build. The redline is hand painted with acrylic red and the wheels are aluminum Revell items with Lindberg '66 Chevelle hub caps turned-down and used as inserts. Finished chassis... .... oops, how'd that get there? Yeah, I know you guys hate slot cars. But if I am going to build a contest car it'll be a darned contest car! If it's going to be a slammer or curbside.... well, why bother making it just a dust collector? So for this build I assembled a chassis that can run it around the track at a good scoot! Plus it has been my experience that slot car collectors pay way better than do model car collectors and I already have a couple buyers for this... Plus, in some way... it makes my build more realistic in that it actually rolls and moves just like the REAL HOT WHEELS CAR! Anyway, here it is with the body. Time for some paint... onward we go!

For your information and it's another tour-de-force by Harry, the editors, contributors and printers at Golden Bell Press! (Gregg too...) Nice art Mike, Funny CARtoon Fred, Great tips Chuck... more to read in the reading room! Whoopee!

I am almost ready for primer. A bit of sanding yet to do still. Mixed up my lime green "Antifreeze" paint the other day. Two step process... requiring a gold underbase applied first. Maybe I can find some time this evening.

I agree with Andy, VERY NICE JOB! (good photo too)

I have never had any luck removing lacquer paint Eelco. Although you should first try all the known paint removers known to modeling including but not exclusive to: Brake fluid, Easy Off oven cleaner, 91% rubbing alcohol and Simple green cleaning fluid. I have also had chrome removed with Coca cola®! So try everything. If none of those work... lightly sand and prime and paint it again... or buy a new body?

Really? Dumping a HOT WHEELS build for a..... a.... Mini Truck build? Sigh..... *respect lost*

Received a set of beautiful Lindberg '67 Chevelle wheels from Roger "plowboy" Hayes today! Big THANK YOU Roger. THANK YOU!

Excellent info Steve! I must have missed that one altogether, thanks for the post.

My favorite line up of Hot Wheels cars have to be the original Sweet Sixteen released on 8 to 10 year old kids (of which I was one) back in 1968! Most of these have had corresponding kits released over time and some of them are on many of our shelves right now! All one needs is the desire and a set of Chevelle wheels (and redline tires) to build! 1. Beatnick Bandit - Revell kit recently reissued couple years ago. Dang thing is small! 2. Custom Firebird - Use the Revell '68 Firebird kit as a basis. Reissued at least twice in the last 10 years! 3. Ford J Car - Old IMC kit will cost you a cool $150+, if you can find one. 4. Custom Corvette - The 1969 showcar released in 68 before the real 1/1 car. A Scoop if there ever was one. 5. Custom T-Bird - The AMT '69 T-Bird kit has not been reissued in a long time leaving vintage kits way out in the stratosphere. 6. Silhouette - AMT reissued this kit a short time back as a Prestige kit and then later with the trailer. Should be easy to find. 7. Custom Barracuda - MPC kit reissued by the old AMT some 8 - 10 years ago. Still easy to find. 8. Custom Cougar - '67 Cougar kit by AMT, not easy to find but out there. (NO the '69 is not "close enough") 9. Custom Fleetside - '72 Chevrolet fleeside by AMT is still around. Pop on a 1968 ElCamino roof and some body work... Done. 10. Custom VW - Tough one, Revell's old VW kit is junk and the Hasegawa kit is too expensive. Opening sunroof, neat car, I had one! 11. Hot Heap - Typical Model T hot rod based on the 1925 bucket and fenders. Not hard to find. 12. Custom Camaro - AMT '67, most of us have one of these on our shelves, even me a Ford guy! 13. Custom Eldorado - No current kits that I know of, but AMT had a kit back in '69. 14. Custom Mustang - 1968 Snakebite Mustang by AMT. Incorrect inner fenders and chassis so... perfect for this slammer project! Ha. 15. Deora - MPC kit last released 1987, lots on eBay for about $20.00 16. Python - No current kits available, very old styrene if you can find one. Not sure who molded it but my friend Bob Jungblut has one.

Yes, this is what I am looking for. Seems the Lindberg '66 Chevelle is perfect and there are lots of them on ebay right now. I have a '66 Chevelle wagon kit in my stuff but I'm pretty sure the Torque thrust wheels are all that's in that one (no stock). Can I get a confirmation from someone please?

Quick mock-up to check proportions. Couldn't find the right set of wheels yet so went with a blank set of aluminum rims that I can inset the right faces. Hate the boards as they are not correct compared to the 1/1 items. But, it's all about matching the Hot Wheels car isn't it? Anyone found a set of wheels that are close? 1966 - 67 Chevelle maybe?

Okay, kept at it and managed to find a fair copy of an Antifreeze colored Deora for my build. (Paint on this thing is not that great....) Body (of the 1/25th) is glued together so now attention is turned to the chassis and wheels. P.S. NICE START Andrew! I hope you finish it.

Bill, you and I must have had similar lives growing up. I watched all the episodes each Saturday morning. Most of the time kitbashing models on the family room table.

That is a "Sand Crab", designed by Tom Daniel, circa 1969.

You bet it would! Just don't forget the red line tires!

So, are you going to join in on this build Bill? What is your preference?

I looked and cheap doesn't exist anymore with regard to redlines. I have a nice gold example with both surf boards and little use. That is what I will build since spending $50 for a nice antifreeze copy seems to be just a little too much for this project after buying the MPC re-pop kit.

Here is my car. The original 1968 cars were painted from green to gold and I have also seen some a dark brown or teal color. (I do not count the re-pops that came out around 2000) The original 1/1 car built by the Alexander Brothers was painted gold. But my first Deora purchased in 1969 was a beautiful "Antifreeze" lime green. Which is the color I would prefer to paint this project. Unfortunately, that car is long gone... so the only Deora I now have is Gold. So be it.... my build will be gold to match.