Hey let's have a custom contest. I'll run it through th end of Nov. Post a pic. here of your favorite custom. It has to be a custom that you built. If you want to build one for the contest that's up to you. Please refrain from commenting on the customs until the end of the contest. Then I'll start another thread for everyone to vote. Whoever wins I'll send a couple small slot related prizez to. If enough people participate, I want to see lots of customs! One custom per person. This contest is for everyone here! I'll post my favorite custom too. Mine is not elligable to win so don't vote for me please!

Here it is. I know some of you have seen it before. I built this car for a customer. She was hard to let go. There's an in-process pic. too.

Some of you did already seen it, my Herbie fitting a 440-X2 narrow chassis

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/6871/herbie01lm1.th.jpg (img47.imageshack.us/my.php?image=herbie01lm1.jpg)http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/4605/herbie03yw2.th.jpg (http://img421.imageshack.us/my.php?image=herbie03yw2.jpg)http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/3979/herbie04ql6.th.jpg (http://img506.imageshack.us/my.php?image=herbie04ql6.jpg)



I've also done recently an Tow truck with a plastic unknown base made in China, fitting an AFX Specialty chassis

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/5451/167dw9.th.jpg (http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=167dw9.jpg)


And currently working on another car, if it will be finished before the end of contest, I'll post it of course

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/Picture001.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/Picture005.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/Picture006.jpg


I guess I'll have to enter this car... you've seen it before.

VJ - Even though I saw that hot rod on the original thread, I am still impressed with your craftsmanship. I love that Willys too. It makes it hard to post a pic of one of mine.
Jim

Thanks for the kind words Jim... and please post your stuff, don't worry about it. Besides, it can't really be a contest with no appointed judges or prizes, so again... post the pics!

As for the Hot Rod, I'm starting another one soon. I just ordered up some of the missing parts. They take so much work to finish that I've put it aside until I clear my work bench of the other projects in progress.

I may have to enter a few more into the contest. Building customs is my main focus these days. I love it. To get such nice feedback on them only serves to motivate me.. so watch out... anymore kind worlds and I'll fill this forum with pics.

hehehehe

Here is a 1/24 slot car I built from an MPC model kit. It is powered by a K&B Super Challenger motor on a Dynamic chassis. With the wheels and tires that are on it in the picture it wasn't very competitive, but they look great! (OW! That hurts patting myself on the back!) When I switched to less scale appearing silicone tires it flew! And handled well!
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/511/howmet4.jpg
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/511/howmet2.jpg
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/511/howmet3.jpg

Marty

Here are three of my favorite old school NASCAR MOPARS! :) rr

Here are a few customs. dont count me in on the contest just tossing a few old customs at you guys and the for the newbees


http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/medium/6587turbine2.jpg
custum turbine

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/medium/6587coefiretruck2.jpg

Cab over engine fire truck

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/511/medium/6587willysfourdoorslot.jpg
Willys Four Door

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/6587reaperinside.jpg

And The Reaper

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/6587reaper.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/6587reaper2.jpg

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/6587primed.jpg


http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/6587contest.jpg

Hey MT when ever you need to borrow the Reaper just let me know .anytime

cool stuff MR Willy!

Some of you have seen these, some haven't

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/CUSTOM40FORDCOUPE.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/forumbelair1.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/purple40coupe.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/CADDYFORUM.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/hotrod2.jpg


http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/customrod.jpg

That is just bad ass dude... :cool:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/CUSTOM40FORDCOUPE.jpg

VJ, does your last post pics are plastic car that you've painted and detailled or die-cast already painted that you've mounted on chassis ??

All right VJ now you just stop teasing us. Those cars are awesome. I especially like the 1st, 2nd, and 4th pictures. Are these on tjet chassis'? And of course you HAVE to reveal the source.

Good to see you back on the board Kevin! Still some great customs.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Dave

some great looking cars videojimmy

oops, I just read the "one per customer" disclaimer in the original post

Sorry about that... does this mean I'm disqualified?

No your not disqualified. I just want to see everyone's favorite out of their own customs.

So many questions... Some of the cars are plastic, some are die-cast. Some have T-jets chassis, some don't. The Bel Air and the Yellow/Black Coupe have Tomy Super Gplus chassis. Lately I've been into modifying chassis to fit into cars, even if it mean cutting the motor and rear gear assemebly out and building a new front end.

Tomorrow, after I get a hair cut, I'll be fitting an old school AFX g-plus chassis into another Dash Cheetah. It's so easy and it looks great. I highly recommend it.

As for which is my favorite... I can't pick just one. If anyone needs a specific question answered on a particular car just cut and paste the link to the car into your post. I'm more than happy to share the info.

" So ya' wanna' be a playa', on the HO track,
Ya gotta pimp it out, & get it strack !
So trick it out ,& do yo' thing !
So add on some of that bling-bling ! Yo !"

With all apologies to Xibit

Cheers, Neal :dude:

I made it back to the board just in time.I like custom contests. :thumbsup:
Here it goes. My entry for your contest. How about a radical tow truck at your service... :cool:
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/MVC-514F.JPG
The body started life as a tyco 86 firebird. Roof moved up front for radical look,engine is from a JL 1/64 diecast kit,The wrecker boom is scratch built,sits on a set of aluminum rims from the parts box and a HP2 chassis.

Was that Tow Truck a Firebird in a past life? :eek:
Great job....
I am all thumbs on that sort of thing...
Scott

Here is my custom Porsche 962 Tomy (yes ! I'm a GTP addict... :freak: )

http://faimg1.forum-auto.com/mesimages/187114/100_5425b.jpg

COol truck Gear Buster... how about some details?
Any pics of the underside?

More details added to post...
Enjoy.
GB

nice!

Gearbuster,
Nice looking truck. Guess you could have painted it red and called it a FireTruck too. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: rr

Aawwwesome werk gear buster!!!!!!!!

RED?????? Firetruck?????
Hmmmmmmm..... Could be an idea...
Put out the fire and hook'er up...

roadrner, Petty era stuff. Noticed "green" on the white one. Remember, I'm not a HO type, so stupid questions will be. Is the green color of the windscreen and so forth? Great details, graphics and all.

Jas

Scratch,
Yes it's green. For some reason, Aurora made them that color for a variant of the Charger. :freak: rr

Hey JAS... on the die casts, some models are heaveir than others as different companmies use different grades of metal. Cheaper cars tend to be lighter. I also dremel out alot of weight from the inside of the body.

then there's the type of chassis you run. A Marchon, Tomy or Life Like chassis will move any die cast around the track and still be MUCH faster than a T-jet. They run about as fast as a Magna Traction. Tuff ones chassis move the car quickly enough to fling it off the track, but you won't win any races with it.

Here is one for the custom contest. It is the first nostalgia drag car I have for the 1964 Dodge 330 body. Just finished it last night while watching the world series. I had to go with the "original Ramchargers candymatic" for the first one, but I also have over a dozen more in the works for this body.

http://www.gm454dragbodies.com/images/Ramchargers_330.jpg

This is a die-cast conversion, tight fitting around a CurveHugger chassis.
Picture don't really show it, but I've managed to retain the dashboard and the right hand drive wheel(english car....)

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/7843/p1040259cx6.th.jpg (http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1040259cx6.jpg)http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6537/p1040260mk0.th.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1040260mk0.jpg)http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/8862/p1040261mp7.th.jpg (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1040261mp7.jpg)http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7265/p1040262fm8.th.jpg (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1040262fm8.jpg)http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/9541/p1040264ui2.th.jpg (http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1040264ui2.jpg)

Nice work!

here's another LITTLE RED WAGON

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/redwagon3front.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/redwagon3l-side.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m157/videojimmy/redwagon3rear.jpg

I put this one up for sale on ebay


This will be #3 out of no more than 10 that I'll be making up. I expect to keep 3 or 4 and sell the others. Each is a little different from the others. This one has a big chrome engine and chrome side pipes.

Hi Krazy Kustomers ! :wave:

Now some G+ F1 cars...
First : The March 741 from SCI . I wanted an early 74 season Hans Stück car. I have fitted the Lola T 330 airbox on it.

http://faimg1.forum-auto.com/mesimages/187114/march100_5435.jpg

Second : So I had the original SCI March airbox... I realized the Alan Jones Lola T 332 F5000. Rear wing from a Blaupunkt Tomy (ugly Porsche) with photoetched sides. Decals from an old 1/43 kit (yellowed...)

http://faimg1.forum-auto.com/mesimages/187114/lola100_5442.jpg

These cars are not finished (mirrors , pilots , rear end...)

Here is my custom Porsche 962 Tomy (yes ! I'm a GTP addict... :freak: )

http://faimg1.forum-auto.com/mesimages/187114/100_5425b.jpg

Nice, What others have you done?

HOslotfrance... wow, those look great! very nicely done

Thanks but nothing finished....

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/511/100_5455b.jpg

From back to front :
-datsun 280Z and Mazda RX7 : strong contenders in the early 80's IMSA GTO (IMSA: the best ever road racing serie !). :thumbsup:
-resin block : will be a Spice 88 Group C2.(I'm so lazy !)
-Blaupunkt ugly European Tomy : will be a Courage Group C. The only use possible for this beauty ? :confused:
-Toyota Minolta : will be an unuasal all red car with "esso" sponsoring . The real car was a 1991 "all japan championship" contender . Lookin for a pic of the complete car... ;) (not the red and white denso car !)

That's in the pipeline..... :wave:

Thanks but nothing finished....



From back to front :
-datsun 280Z and Mazda RX7 : strong contenders in the early 80's IMSA GTO (IMSA: the best ever road racing serie !). :thumbsup:
-resin block : will be a Spice 88 Group C2.(I'm so lazy !)
-Blaupunkt ugly European Tomy : will be a Courage Group C. The only use possible for this beauty ? :confused:
-Toyota Minolta : will be an unuasal all red car with "esso" sponsoring . The real car was a 1991 "all japan championship" contender . Lookin for a pic of the complete car... ;) (not the red and white denso car !)

That's in the pipeline..... :wave:

You mean this:

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~IP3T-NKSN/Pictures/A-grc/PIC-T-ESSO91.JPG http://nohashi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/92CV-1.jpg



Did you know that the Toyoya 89CV sometimes raced with the rear wheels covered in?

http://www.interallied.co.jp/QMC006-02-021.jpg

http://pub.ne.jp/tanap/image/user/1138580450.jpg



Deane

Thank's for the pics ! It's this one . If you know a link with others Japanese unusual color shemes... :confused:

Covered wheels : I've noticed them in " World sportscar racing 89" , the book of Gustav Büssing and Ulriech Upietz . Mainly in japan and also at Donington .
This Toyota is the most efficient Group.C body in HO . Improving aerodynamics could make it unbeatable... ;)

Some work in perspective Francois, no excuses now you got the picture ;)

If you go to the page where Deane has found the pics there are some more

http://nohashi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/Photo.htm

Merci Zanza . What a lucky link !

I've found this one for Japanese exotic GTP liveries:
http://www.kuni-photo.com/

I'm completely mad with the GroupC/GTP area... :freak:

Thank's for the pics ! It's this one . If you know a link with others Japanese unusual color shemes... :confused:

Covered wheels : I've noticed them in " World sportscar racing 89" , the book of Gustav Büssing and Ulriech Upietz . Mainly in japan and also at Donington .
This Toyota is the most efficient Group.C body in HO . Improving aerodynamics could make it unbeatable... ;)

If you know of Helenwheels8 (http://www.hellonwheels8.com/), they are planning to do the body (both with and without the spats) and I'm tracking down 1/20th and 1/24th decals to be reduced....

Problem will be getting/making narrow rear wheels....

Apologies for hi-jacking this thread by the way!!

If you know of Helenwheels8 (http://www.hellonwheels8.com/), they are planning to do the body (both with and without the spats) and I'm tracking down 1/20th and 1/24th decals to be reduced....

Hey Montoya, I already had Patto reduce the Tamiya model Minolta and Taka-Q decals for HO. Check his site.

'doba

Hey Montoya, I already had Patto reduce the Tamiya model Minolta and Taka-Q decals for HO. Check his site.

'doba

really?
I always find his site a drag to look through, so much stuff and never quite sure where to look (M for Minolta, T for Toyota for example) - do you have a link?

Still need to get some Denso decals ordered and sent though.


dw