Hot Wheels Custom 2016 Camaro - Drag Car

 I have mentioned in the past that there is a local group of collectors and enthusiasts of HotWheels who get together on a semi-regular basis. And on some of those occasions we attempt a "custom car buildoff".

One of those meetings a while ago, the selected theme was Camaros... or was it Drag Racing... I forget... it's been a while.

But I still have my entry... It was a "Grumpy's Toy, 2016 Camaro".

I painted it white, molded a huge cowl for the hood, and printed up some custom decals for the doors and contingency sponsors.

I also built a low-profile rear wing out of some flat pieces of styrene sheet that I had laying around.

It must have been a drag car to start with, now that I am looking at it again. The chassis has molded in wheelie bars... but I did a little cutting to fit the massive rear tires in there!

I used some spare wheels and tires laying around for the big drag tires out back, and the skinny little tires up front.

In the end, it came out pretty clean, and definitely looks mean and ready to race!

Mustang-GT Super Boss Funny Car

So I had planned to do a full write up on this kit, and took pictures along the way, but just never got it down in the computer....

Had some great looking box art, and figured it could be a relatively quick build, that would look good on the display shelf.

Decided I liked the orange paint, and would just build it basically like it appeared in the art.

Here's the chassis coming together and some of the various pieces as they all get ready to come together. Love the long tube intake on the engine. Took a good bit of work to get them to all line up right, and be firmly attached to the intake.

And as I typically do, I managed to finish it all up before I remembered to get the camera out again.
This one has actually been finished for a couple of months now, but just decided to do a small update on what I am working on.

Looks good to me, and has that "too tall" stance typical of a gasser/funny car suspension set up.
I didn't use all the decals, and didn't quite follow the box art, but definitely looks angry, and ready to go racing.

And the one thing I have never seen in a model kit before, was a model of the packaging that it all came in. Only took about 10 minutes to cut it all out and folded up.

I guess by definition, it is a scale model...