You may remember when I bought two cars I liked, plus the ugly little Fiat?

I split my time between two of my company’s offices, and what do you know the San Francisco office is a very short walk from a Target and an independent Toy Store.

I was scrolling through the “loose” Super Treasure Hunts listings on ebay tonight. You know the ones that inevitability are “unspun” and/or “prototypes” - That ship almost exclusively out of Malaysia. Most were very familiar (from the can’t-give-them-away Boom Box to still incredibly expensive Datsun 510 Wagon - $105…

I wish they’d make more 911s without wings.

With it getting steadily more difficult to for me to find something that’s a true instant must-have, I was very pleasantly surprised to find this: the 1963 Aston Martin DB5, replete with Skyfall packaging and Bond-accurate plates and decoration. It’s a prototype car. It’s a film car. It’s a classic car. It’s iconic…

The garage is bearable again. Not many customs get made when my work space is 100°.

The reason I initially fell off the wagon was that I stumbled upon the Bluesmobile, seen in one of my earlier posts (link below).

There’s a fascinating sociological theory concerning one’s social threshold. Essentially, what do you find yourself willing to do when enough people around you are also doing it.

As I’m ramping up towards some more challenging custom jobs, both involving detailing and full-on repaints, I thought I’d take a break from buying more premium metal and get a few cheapies to use as trainers.

So, technically Sunday was when I scored this group but the title works better today! Just a quick show of what $8 got me.

Sorry for the long space between posts. My previous computer got... toasty. As in, very toasty. As in, starting to smell like smoke and burning my hands when I used it. So it was time to stop using that! Still getting some work done on getting back up and running. In the meantime, to accompany a return, a fond…

Since I’m prepping for some more involved customs (which I will document here, naturally) I decided to start messing around with some cheap mainlines to get my feet wet. Perhaps you saw my CSL?

Got a box in the mail today from Pixel and it was full of goodies.

I had all my McLaren F1’s out yesterday and notinced something. Each casting that they have released recently has been different. The black mainline with the metal wing has the F1 logo on the back grill, then the Gran Turismo set went back to the plastic wing, lastly the white one in the new exotics pack went back to…

I grabbed one of my dear old black Hot Birds from my youth, and paired it with the foxy new Greenlight Blues Mobile casting. They’re currently holding the fort on my desk at work.

Finally!!! I have been working on this custom for sometime and had to redo is a few times. I finally was able to finish the painting and get it detailed last night. The color I used was Tamiya TS-56. I need to take my Gran Turismo F1 GTR home and compare the colors. Over all I am happy with the result, I need to get…

The General Li.

As I’m rediscovering both my diecast and hobbyist roots, I thought I’d ease into customizing. The mainline BMW 3.0 CSL seemed like a great place to start. Hot Wheels does great work with BMW castings, but they’re weirdly lazy about the front fascia. Between the kidney grille and the double-eye headlights, I feel like…

I knew this was going to be a photogenic casting, but WOW. I did minimal color edits to these; that’s how incredible to colors are here. The Spectraflame blue is perfect. Especially matched with the orange track colored base. Add in the shadow-chrome skull / engine / interior? And RedLine striped the Real Riders? Game…

In my search for the new M2 Auto-Japan series, I got lucky with getting to crack three fresh cases (plus two more of the new VW series) over the last two days. But that’s where my luck would end, with no chase appearing in any of them.