Hot Wheels 2013 Showroom Series - Lamborghini Aventador J

When Hot Wheels released the Lamborghini Aventador in silver, I was excited to get my hands on one. But then while browsing through the shelves at the store one day, I came across this Lamborghini Aventador J and just decided to buy it. I'm not quite sure if I might still get the silver one, but we'll see. For now, let's just focus on this one.

I quite hate the roofless concept of this one, as it looks weird to me. Seeing how Lamborghini has had most of its supercars with roofs, this one just looks too weird without the roof. From the design of its wide and long body, without the roof doesn't really compliment it to me. It just looks like another Bat-mobile from its old days designed just to look cool, but doesn't. But overall, I appreciate Hot Wheels effort to recreate this design into a 1:64 scale, but not Lamborghini's real car.

 

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 2012 Series - Porsche Boxster Spyder

Today I show you one of my grabs I found at a petrol station while washing my car. Who knew they'd have Hot Wheels models for sale at a petrol station? There were plenty of cool cars on the rack, so this was one of em'.

Out of all the Porsche models castings from Hot Wheels, I personally think this one has a sort of a 'cute' look? haha As its a Boxster, a white and a convertible, what more could you ask for in a Boxster? I was considering ordering the Porsche 911 off eBay but this one would do for now. Maybe next month when my budget is better.

About this car, I noticed it was quite common on the shelves as I saw some at Carrefour and Tesco as well, but how can you deny grabbing a Porsche into your collection? Not for me at least. The rims look quite cool with the whole size and color of the car, though a 10 spoke rim would do quite well too in my opinion, but who's complaining? The black interior does quite well with the car too. I think the only thing about most Hot Wheels models are of the missing tampos on the headlights/taillights. Like this model, the taillight paints are not present. So I'd have to paint it myself, which knowing my poor painting skills, is gonna be a terrible job. I'll probably work on painting and customizing soon in the near future.

And now the pictures! But before that, it'd be awesome if you could let me know in the comment section below which one of the Porsche models should be on my next post? Maybe either the Porsche 911 GT3 or the Porsche Carrera GT?

Here they are! I hope it's better than the pictures in my previous post :)

 And my previous feature alongside it: