Very cool! I never would have thought of refinishing Hot Wheels cars... but why not?
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."
Oh yeah, I love it! That is a most interesting job!
I worked at Pegasus Hobbies where several guys used to modify many Hot Wheels and re-paint them into all manner of wild and crazy schemes. They would stretch some of the buses and do all kinds of wild things. It was always stunning what they did. A Mattel rep came in and saw some of these wild designs and took pics to offer to the design teams for possible ideas for future cars.
The Duke
Virtuoso of Miniatures
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.