I’ve been on a 1:18 Acceleracers binge lately with my recent builds, and I’ve really only been focusing on Hot Wheels original fantasy designs since that makes up the bread and butter of the series’ vehicle cast, but there are in fact plenty of iconic real-world licensed designs from the series that deserve some love. I’ve also really only been building cars…
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1:18 Hot Wheels Power Rage (TEKU Custom)
My first fully scratch built custom 1/18 Hot Wheels (Slingshot), felt like a proof of concept more than anything else – I needed to see that I could actually take these projects to completion first before I really started dreaming bigger (ha, ha…) I was between a couple different Acceleracers for the second car – I really almost went with…
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1:18 Hot Wheels Slingshot (TEKU Custom)
The Acceleracers custom community has really taken off in the last couple of years – with the leaps 3D printing has made in the last decade, we’re getting builders producing life-size accelechargers, Wheels of Power, realm dioramas, even producing their own movie-accurate CM6 wheels for 1/64 Acceleracers customs. This project is that spirit taken up to 11 – what if…
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AutoArt Honda S2000 Legacy Racing Custom [Commission]
Commission work is a bit of a finicky thing – I often enjoy the process of building cars to mirror their real-life 1:1 counterparts and challenging myself to see how accurate I can make a build, but by nature commission work also usually means I’m building something I normally wouldn’t be interested in building for myself or on my own.…
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Hasegawa HKS Skyline (GT-R BNR32) + Pandem Widebody
My first Hasegawa kit! Well, kind of…I’ve actually had experience with the brand before, but not with any of their automotive kits. I actually hadn’t planned to build an R32 again so soon, but this one just happened to land in my lap as a gift from a friend who bought it in Japan.
