My Hobby

I didn't see a section for Hobbies so I thought I'd try it out here.
I love die cast cars and trucks.
I have well over three thousand of them and my grandfather moved into our home when i was about three, and he moved from Yorkshire England.
Grand dad was great and he bought me and my brother our very first Corgi die cast cars.
He bought us a bunch of them!
I remember the utter joy I felt each time I got a new one, and my joy could not be contained when i got my first 1966 Corgi 1:24 scale and a 1:64 scale Bat mobile!! Two Bat mobiles in one day!!!
After that I got the Man from U.N.C.L.E. Oldsmobile, and then the Austin Martin DB5 James Bond casino Royal car that had an ejector passenger seat, a pair of front bumper machine guns and a rear window bullet proof shield all of these were operated with their own special levers on the base of the car!!!
I also got a Monkey mobile in each scale, and The Saint's Volvo. There was more James Bond cars such as the Delorean Submarine car, then there was the Green Hornet car...oh the list went on and on.
Then in late 1966 my brother and i went to the gas station with dad and we got free Red Line Hot wheels!!!! NO WAYYYYY!!!!! WE freaked so bad dad took the cars away from us for a whole minute!!! You can bet we were as good as pure heavenly minted gold when he gave them back!!!
Oh it was so sweet.
I eventually got into the Dinky line from yup, good old fashioned Grandpa!
Anyway... I actually restore and customise die cast cars and trucks.
I have sources where I buy spare parts and specialised paints for example, the Red Line Hot wheels had a special system where the bodies are buffed out to an almost chrome clear finish, then a special formula of pain called Spectra Flame is used and the polished die cast shows through the paint which gives these cool cars their sweet colour effects.
I use an airbrush.

I have done some really cool custom jobs...anyway here are a few shots.
If anyone is interested I'll post more...
Some of the shots were cut off for some reason, I'm not quite sure why, but anyway you get the idea...



Here's one that was in pretty bad shape. At this point I have stripped the paint, and sanded out the damage and polished it up.


Here it is painted...


This one was in sad shape, so I disasembled it...



and went to work...


Got a little paint scheme going...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/bronzesnake/My%20Restorations/Picture109-1.jpg?t=1273776012

then...changed my mind and experimented with a purple and chrome theme...


then went back to the origional idea...




That's it for now my friends...

Wow, mickey, cars is such a..... guy...... thing. I collect porcelain dolls. Such a.... girl.... thing.

I am teasing you about the guy thing. Cool cars. :thumb Great hobby.


And I really do collect dolls. :lol


I also used to collect dollhouse miniatures and I liked to build and decorate dollhouses. I had to get rid of all my dollhouses in my man moves, but I still have the furniture packed away in a box. I also have a collection of white tiger figurines. And Books! I love books! My final (I think final) hobbies are gardening and sewing.mickey

alysa wrote:

Wow, mickey, cars is such a..... guy...... thing. I collect porcelain dolls. Such a.... girl.... thing.

I am teasing you about the guy thing. Cool cars. :thumb Great hobby.


And I really do collect dolls. :lol


I also used to collect dollhouse miniatures and I liked to build and decorate dollhouses. I had to get rid of all my dollhouses in my man moves, but I still have the furniture packed away in a box. I also have a collection of white tiger figurines. And Books! I love books! My final (I think final) hobbies are gardening and sewing.mickey

Hey that's fantastic!
I love all collections and hobbies. My mom had a huge doll collection.
Hey what's your name?
Why not post some shots of your stuff?

take care