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Post by plastimatic on Jan 14, 2021 19:01:01 GMT -5
Well, apparently, I have very little patience...
Okay, I'm good now. 
Rustoleum Titanium Silver under some custom mixed transparent green/yellow coats.
They also did the Splittin Image back in 2003/4, but it doesn't have enough character for my tastes.
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Post by TooOld on Jan 15, 2021 5:41:55 GMT -5
Well that's pretty darned cool , a tooned Twin Mill ! Wonder if they did any more Show Cars like that .
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Post by jcon on Jan 15, 2021 12:48:53 GMT -5
Looks really cool!!!
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Post by wardster on Jan 16, 2021 23:33:09 GMT -5
Well that's pretty darned cool , a tooned Twin Mill ! Wonder if they did any more Show Cars like that . There are places where that kind of stuff could be looked up. This one, for instance ... hotwheelscollectors.mattel.com/shop... or this one: hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_Wheels... but be careful about the can of worms you might be opening, sir, if you see things you like?! PS -- Does anyone else look at the tooned Twin Mill, and have it seem "not too far off from the flavor of the Deal's Wheels Cheetah" models that came out from Japan, some time back? I'm thinking about the styling choices, for the body, mostly. |
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Post by Starryeyes on Jan 17, 2021 9:23:50 GMT -5
It ain’t eazy being’ green but this one steals the stage ! It’s a real beauty . 🏆 |
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Post by jcon on Jan 17, 2021 11:49:51 GMT -5
Great color choice!!!
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Post by plastimatic on Jan 17, 2021 17:38:35 GMT -5
PS -- Does anyone else look at the tooned Twin Mill, and have it seem "not too far off from the flavor of the Deal's Wheels Cheetah" models that came out from Japan, some time back? I'm thinking about the styling choices, for the body, mostly.
That's why I grabbed it immediately. I think it fits right in and I applaud whoever designed it, and whoever moved it forward.
It's less detailed than the Cheetah (but, it's a Hot Wheel) and, while I want one of those Cheetahs, I did save a coupla hundred bucks.
And, how could you go wrong with Dave Deals styled Hot Wheels? They should do that as a whole line! |
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Post by wardster on Jan 19, 2021 1:03:54 GMT -5
I heartily agree, Wardster!
That's why I grabbed it immediately. I think it fits right in and I applaud whoever designed it, and whoever moved it forward.
It's less detailed than the Cheetah (but, it's a Hot Wheel) and, while I want one of those Cheetahs, I did save a coupla hundred bucks.
And, how could you go wrong with Dave Deals styled Hot Wheels? They should do that as a whole line! You got me out of the house, and into the nearest dollar store, looking at their stash of Hot Wheels. Heehee? No luck, at that store (nearest one you mentioned likely 100 miles, one way, from where I live!) ... but I'll keep looking for these cute little monsters, over time. Unless they're a that-store-only exclusive, I presume they'll likely show up, sooner or later? As for body styles, and conversions: I did an experiment a few years back (2015-ish?) involving taking a Hot Wheels (not a toon, though) metal body off of the chassis, and making a rubber mold of it (after packing the innards with molding clay) and casting a solid-bodied copy in a fine plaster. I did enough to prove to myself that a "solid" copy (I only made a one-piece mold, not a multi-part mold) could be fine tuned and tweaked, shape-wise, and altered however a person (reasonably) wanted to ... but I didn't take things any farther than that. [It was something for the "Dark Future" table-top gaming universe; there's also "Gaslands" these days. They're both games that might best be described as sort of recreating "Mad Max" but with 1/64 scale vehicles. It's way off-topic so I'll just name-drop what I did, and say "you can buy weapons sprues, to arm and armor such vehicles".] Anyway, to make the "solid" casting useful, a person would have to remove some of the inner portions of the re-sculpted casting, in some way or another ... but I proved to myself that I could cast stuff that fine, if needed. I did up some personal copies of some of the Dark Future chassis parts, and with some fine-tuning to the process I was using, got them to turn out okay as resin castings, without too many issues. (Injecting resin via a horse-style medical syringe, minus the needle part, got it into the nooks and crannies, and the various delicate parts of a two-part rubber mold.) These days, I'd skip the plaster as a material for res-sculpting, and would go with a sculptor's wax ... or I'd want to. (I'm still learning that stuff.) EDIT: Closest I ever came to making an actual "hollow" body was slush-casting some resin into a rubber mold, of a modified Hot Wheels vehicle. It was two back-halves of a VW Beetle, put front-to-back, to emulate a "Space Precinct" TV show space vehicle. The prop-making crew for that film had done much silliness, on that show ... but not enough to actually be a "toon". EDIT: one reason I'm posting this is that if there is even a slight chance of us "getting" something cool, like this, it can't hurt to have some guys here brainstorming up some ideas, on how to get more bang out of our buck-per-copy tiny model cars. So making toon HW bodies may be do-able, if a person was willing to spend the time / resources to make the attempt. The far more sensible thing, though, would be to do what you did: buy something really cool; strip it; and repaint it. |
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Post by wardster on Feb 8, 2021 15:50:00 GMT -5
Guys, when my initial local explorations didn't pan out, I was worried for a while that those tooned "Twin Mill" Hot Wheels cars might be a one-store exclusive ... but, yay, they appear not to be. I found two of them at a Dollar General store, in my tiny little "middle of nowhere" town, and (of course, being a Toon Head) I bought both of them. I'll keep an eye out for more of them over time, but for now, I just wanted to point out that they may be widely available.
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Post by wardster on Apr 9, 2021 0:06:08 GMT -5
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Post by jcon on Apr 9, 2021 0:20:27 GMT -5
Some really good ones buddy!!!
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Post by wardster on Apr 21, 2021 19:48:08 GMT -5
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Post by jcon on Apr 21, 2021 21:49:07 GMT -5
Good color for that one, looks fast!!!
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Post by wardster on Apr 23, 2021 2:34:51 GMT -5
Good color for that one, looks fast!!! Yeah, it does make it look both really fast (seems to emphasize the twin engines, more, this way) and it looks kind of show-car-ish, too -- at least to my eyes. I'm hoping to pick up some others like it, if/when my local dollar stores re-stock. My local stores are running low on workers, or something: the store's shelves aren't even two thirds full (for even grocery items) in one store in particular. They were down to five total (not of this one type: total, of all types!) Hot Wheels on the rack's pegs, yesterday. But I wandered around: they had some sitting in a little cardboard container, off in the "generic toys and random items" section. That's where I picked that one up, with what looks like a Candy Apple Red paint job. I was originally wanting to pick up some spare blue ones, to repaint in that color, but the factory beat me to it ... which is perfectly fine by me! |
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Post by Count Dragula on Jul 23, 2022 15:04:25 GMT -5
Found some interesting toony Hotwheels lately. Including an alternate blue colored Batmobile!  A VDub below  And this cool “Pullback” “See Me Rollin”.  Todd |
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