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All brands and scales welcome. Post recent acquisitions and ongoing projects.

They should sell the bodies in primer with stencils.

>>11615320 (OP)
what are some good 1:64 classic mopars to get? already got majorette charger and it's almost as good as old hot wheels one that used to have opening hood

>>11615320 (OP)
Posting some fake Mopars

Ah, Mystery Models-gotta love it when you're able to guess the correct model that you wanted-

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>>11616169
I just can't get into Car Tuned. I know they're really popular right now but aesthetically they just don't do it for me. Even the JDM sets aren't really sparking my interest. I'm not really a truck guy and it feels like a majority of them are trucks, so there's that I suppose.

>>11616879
same, they look really off to me, meanwhile i love maisto muscle machines and choro q i feel that they get the chibi or shortened toon stylization right

>>11617078
Hot Wheels early 2000 Tooned were like this too. I liked them. New ones are horrible.

>>11617108
There's definitely a way to do SD/"toon" cars without them looking utterly ridiculous. Hot Wheels forgot that somewhere.

Picrel is my car. Does anyone know how to modify 1:18th cars? My girlfriend bought me a model of the car but it has the wrong wheels and no vinyl top.

>>11617503
Picrel is model in question...ps MOPAR OR NO CAR.

>>11617078
I saw some Muscle Machines at a thrift store once that were 9/11 commemorative models like pic related. They were kind of baffling.

>>11617889
well that sure is something
>>11617505
looks like the greenlight one, quite nice! for vinyl top, you could either paint it like some do here
https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/182664-vinyl-tops-best-method/
or you could use black masking tape, anything thin and adhesive that looks like a vinyl could work, for the wheels its abit harder, either you could get them 3d printed or get from another diecast with wheels you want, or if you dont mind exact accuracy just color the red rims over with a chrome pen

>>11617503
>Does anyone know how to modify 1:18th cars? My girlfriend bought me a model of the car but it has the wrong wheels and no vinyl top.
For Wheels you'd need to swap them but about roof, try vinyl tape. This is how I saved Escort. It had huge scratch on hood. So huge that it would need to repaint whole car. So I used vinyl Black tape to create sport stripe.

>>11618182
And this is how it looks now. Tape has nice glow. Not fully glossy but not totally matte. I'm very glad of the results.

>>11617078
I wondering if Tomica's failure in the west scared Takara Tomy from exporting Choro Q.

>>11618484
Mattel has such deep fangs in the market that I'm surprised anything other than Hot Wheels/Matchbox has any kind of presence in the US especially.

>>11618551
US has Johnny Lightning, Greenlight etc..
The rest of the world hoveres suffers. Macthbox, Majorette and Hot Wheels are only wide distribution ones. Some countries are lucky to get Welly - they have sweet details for their budget.

While somewhat on the subject of Choro Q, I had these little buildable cars as a kid around 2000. I wonder if these had any connection to the customizable Choro Q from the 90s.

>>11619303
I swear I used to have that Cosworth in the front. I don't know what happened to it, but it definitely wasn't in anywhere near that condition the last time I saw it.

>>11619303
My rally warriors. Including Escort from >>11618182
>>11618184

Does anyone have any experience with Mini GT/Kaido House? I was looking at some of them earlier and they've got some really interesting body kit and wheel styles.

>>11619499
Mini GT are scale models, they are fragile and to avoid damage things like mirrors or spoilers are sometimes made of almost rubber.

Hot Wheels or Johnny Lightning are pure toys, Mini GT are scale models, step below Inno64 or so.