Tory Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Every year my model car club holds its annual Christmas Build Contest, whereby one kit is chosen at the previous year's Christmas party and you can build it any way you see fit. This year was the Revell sort of reissue of the old Monogram Sizzler Dragster called the Slingster. It is basically the same kit, only scaled to 1/25 rather than the original issue's box scale of around 1/20th. It is a sweet little kit with a whole load of optional parts and build configurations. The end panel of the box has an illustration of the Bantam Coupe version finished in orange and it immediately reminded me of one of my favorite modern day Hot Wheels styles, the Way 2 Fast twin engined dragster. So as has become my MO of late, I decided to "scale up" yet another diecast toy as if it were a real vehicle. I was able to obtain a second engine from a fellow club member who wasn't going to use it in his build. The kit engines only have plated valve covers and headers so I finished the block, trans and blower assemblies in high gloss black and gave them a coat of Alclad II Chrome. The top of the body is open in the stock kit form so I filled it to accommodate the checker graphics. The grill and fuel tank are from the Revel '32 Ford 5 window coupe kit, as were the wheels and front tires. The slicks are from an old AMT '65 GTO kit and were slightly opened up to fit the 5 spoke chrome wheels. The orange paint is from a 15 year old pint can of Sherwin Williams orange toner lacquer left over from my freelance days. It was still good and yielded a super bright and very high gloss orange finish. The checker decals were made in Adobe Illustrator and printed on Micro Mark Clear decal film applied over a Tamiya gloss white top. The body and grill shell were finished in 2 part clear urethane. The chassis and under body were finished in Tamiya Gun Metal spray lacquer. It was voted 1st place in the contest, beating out a very well built other twin engined dragster by only 1 vote. Hope you like it. Tory
High octane Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Congrats, and all it takes is one vote to win. Nice job on that build.
Petetrucker07 Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Very cool. I have the hot wheels, about 4, still in the package, amongst 1000s of others. Im may have to do that, build up a hot wheels. Well done and congrats.
kilrathy10 Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Excellent work, Man....Love that orange........ Thanks for the inadvertent tip on the program you used for your decals.....I'm looking for a decent one to come up with decals for my truck models.....
TFchronos Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 One of my favorite Hot Wheels, beautiful job on it.
Tom Geiger Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Very nice build as usual Tory! Important to point out that there were a lot of participants in that contest too! Turnout was very good! And the car is much nicer in person than photos could capture!
Tory Posted January 4, 2015 Author Posted January 4, 2015 Thank you all for the wonderful comments, I'm glad it found favor here. I realize that building scaled up Hot Wheels isn't everyone's cup of tea, and glad so many of you "get" what I do! I've done a couple of other scaled up Hot Wheels and Matchboxes in the past, If anyone is interested let me know and I will post them. Happy New Year to all. Tory
Danno Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) Very nice nice. (Twin tandem engines, ya know.) A few years ago, our club had a "Hot Wheels" theme for our monthly contest. To qualify, members were to select a Hot Wheel and build a 1/25 rendition of it, just like you did. Voting criteria included faithful replication of the little die cast in1/25 plastic. It was fun! Edited January 7, 2015 by Danno
Tory Posted January 7, 2015 Author Posted January 7, 2015 Thanks again! Danno, are there any photos online of the builds from your club's contest? I would love to see them! Tory
Zarana-X Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Excellent! This is exactly what I pictured from your title.
Tom Geiger Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Tory left out of his photo... he also created a section of 1/25 scale orange track to display it on!
bobthehobbyguy Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Love it. Nice work. Congrats on the win it was well deserved.
John Teresi Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Tory......."Wow" that`s really cool looking.
Tory Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 (edited) Again, many thanks for all the kind words here. Yes Tom, I did forget to photograph it on it's "scale" section of Hot Wheels Track. Thanks for posting that photo. I originally made that section of track for my 1/25 scale Hot Wheels Python model. Edited January 8, 2015 by Tory
Porscheman Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Tory's builds are always top notch, but pictures don't them justice. They are incredible in person. Great job!!! Al
Belugawrx Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 OMG the Python was MY favorite Hot Wheel!! Nice job on that one too More please The first thing I did to my Hot wheel python was paint it purple... Man those were the days Cheers
Platerpants Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 Which hot wheels had a model form too? I know the real cars like gt500s and such have hot wheels and models but im talking their crazy cars like twin mill, Red Baron, Mutt Mobile, Whip Creamer... Stuff that I will most likely not see in production again because im too young, although 20 isnt a "kid" anymore
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