Hot Wheels - 2012 Corvette Z06

 

Hello. It's been a while :) Without my own laptop, it's hard to follow up and post up a new thread at least every week. But now, I bring to you one of my collections, the Corvette Z06 2012 edition. I picked it off the shelves about a month ago, and have been longing to show it to you. I can personally say, it's way better than the Corvette Stingray Concept that I showed earlier. The color is a brilliant choice of variation, with the black base body color and bright red rims.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments section!

Model of The Week: Hot Wheels Showroom Series - Ferrari 458 Spyder

As promised, this week I will feature my Ferrari models among my collection. Today, I have for you the Ferrari 458 Spyder. Yes, it's convertible! :)

For me personally, this was easy to acquire without having to order it or pay an extra fee. I found this one among the shelves with all other mainline cars. I was excited! Because I found a Ferrari, which was quite difficult to find in the area which I normally hunt for exotic models. Thankfully, it was the only and probably the last Ferrari on the shelves. Though a few days later, I let a Yellow Enzo Ferrari slip away to a little boy as I saw him grab it off the shelves. But today, let me just appreciate this awesome 458 Spyder that I have with me.

Comparing it to the original life-size model of this 458 spyder, well, you just can't compare it. The life-size model is just 200x times fierce and beautiful. You can also tell it by the price, which is 200x times more than this little model which I hold in my hands. So yes, lets just not compare.

The 1:64 scale model is all in all done quite well by Hot Wheels. The only thing I'm most disappointed about is, is the missing Ferrari emblem on the front bumper. For me, that emblem just completes the whole design of the car. Really.. Utter disappointment. But overall, the whole body and the OH5 wheels is satisfying.

P.S Anybody noticed the slightly long white paint scratch along the left side door of the car? Well, I can tell you honestly, it's not my doing. haha When I opened the package (of course, nicely and carefully), it was already scratched like that. And mind you, I found this among the shelves, I didn't buy it from any other collector or supplier. Hmm..

Hot Wheels - Steel Flame

Today I present to you 2 latest grabs I found at my grandmum's place. Apparently, she has a bunch of Hot Wheels models stored in a box that my cousin and I use to play with when we were kids. Now that we're both grown up and no longer play with them, she keeps them in that box and I decided to 'borrow' a few to show you all :) I will return them definitely, soon! haha

I researched these two identical models and discovered that there are more of these but in different designs. But with me, I have the black Steel Flames, from the 2005 Hot Wheels edition and the copper Steel Flames from the Hot Wheels Crank ITZ 2004 editions.

Nothing much to say about these two, except that the whole design is spectacular, especially with the low rider theme to it like the real car itself. So I'll just let the pictures do the talking today :)

Old & Found

Today's post is going to be a long one. Why? Because I managed to save 4 cars out of my friend's old toy box from Malacca (of course, he didn't need them anymore, so he gave them to me). I took some time to savage through his old toy box to pick out the decent cars that wasn't so knocked out, and out of the many I only managed to take out 4 that I could probably still refurbish. The rest either had missing wheels, totally scratched out body or no interiors, it seemed like a junkyard to me and I was digging out for cars to revive

Of course, they didn't have their boxes with them, so I grabbed them with just the cars. But looking at the brighter side, if I can refurbish them, cover with new paint, polish them, they'll look decent enough to be in my collection.

my favorite photo among the rest, if you wanted to know.

The first and most decent one among these four is the Lotus Sport Elise, with it's interesting blend of black body base, plastic rear spoiler, metal silver front grill and gold 5 spoke rims, it was still in a good enough condition besides the minor scratches on the body. After a bit of researching and searching through the internet, this one was made in 2007 in Thailand, and was only sold with Hot Wheels' Exotic 5 packs. It might not be as rare, but it's a good find.

The next I found was the Enzo Ferrari, which was made in China and manufactured in 2002. It's quite an old casting as it lacks the variety and modern look compared to the new castings of Enzo Ferrari cars by Hot Wheels. And when I found it, it was just.. so scratched up. The paint was scratched up everywhere along the body. The rims as you can see are black in color, but going through hundreds of research and pages, I can't find an Enzo Ferrari with black rims. Unless, the rims original silver color faded off through the years, but it's so hard to tell. I might give the whole car a respray, but that would result in me losing the Ferrari logos on the car which are still clear and visible. I'll have to think of something.

The BMW caught my attention as well, when I found it in the box. The BMW 2002 or M3 which was manufactured and made by Corgi, has doors that open Though the doors have been abused so much till it just drops even when closed. This model also made in China, has quite a decent detailed interior with the steering wheel clearly visible, but the plastic wheels wasn't worked hard enough like as if they designed the car so well but gave up on the wheels.

That small green piece of maybe 'junk' you see as well, is the Rolls Royce 'Silver Shadow', manufactured by Playait and made in Hong Kong. Though interesting enough, this one is made out of semi-metal. You know? Half metal half plastic, with also a metal front grill which has been scratched and probably hammered hard by some clueless child holding it in his hand while slamming it on something? Just saying. This one which joins the BMW has awful looking wheels that just turn off the whole look of the car. Rolls Royce already being a beautiful classic car in its real nature, is just ruined by this plastic ugly looking wheels. I think with a good make-over, this car should look good. My plans as of now is to chrome up the whole body and probably changing the wheels to a 5 spoke or the weird 10+ spoke rims. But that's just my thoughts.

And lastly, the pictures will show you everything I just typed about (if you read any part of it):


Hot Wheels Lotus Elise

Corgi BMW 2002/M3

Playait Rolls Royce Silver Shadow

Hot Wheels Enzo Ferrari (2002)