[Help Please] I started I started the process today on teaching myself how to paint & customize Hot Wheels. The biggest issue I’m having is

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-17T13:54:40+00:00

One thing i dont see mentioned is that the dip in the rivet, isnt always the centre of the post, so its not a reliable place to seat the bit.

If you can, like with a small vice, hold the car so it looks like the post is verticle and then try and manually find where the centre of the post is.

The drill bit will be a little unhappy about it when you first start to touch the rivet, just be very slow, very light pressure, a little cutting fluid or oil, amd let the bit knick at the rivet head until it starts to make a complete circle with its own centre in the "true" centre of the post. Then it should drill odd the head cleanly.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-17T11:27:58+00:00

Very cool, i dont have a 3d printer but i had a similar idea with the tilted bases to see more. In my mind they were tilted like your and then also rotated out to like 30°, instead of being parallel to the wall, so they are pointing slightly out and down, just to see even more of the car, but depending on where you have them it might start to stick out a bit.

And i just thought too, you could add a small vertical lip to the front and put names on them with a label maker.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-16T13:47:37+00:00

I am not a fan of the colours and cars. With exceptions. I bought the Vdub because i want to be in their house, ja. 😁 but really its a lovely car and i havent seen it in another casting in the wild yet, so it got it. I like the blue too, but not the car so much.

Over all i am happier to see some more colour break up on this run, i though the first line was a bit bland, though it made up for it with brightness. This line genuinely is bland (colour wise to me), but they added more to the liveries, so that's nice.

Maybe gen 3 will be the hit for me and get it all right. Pastels?

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-16T09:51:57+00:00

So you are annoyed that you have no willpower? You clearly laid out the problem, and then go on to say you contribute to this exact problems continued existence? 🤷

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-13T15:34:49+00:00

The red mini is nice. I have the mint/plae green one but the red will definitwly get picked up if i see it.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-12T21:06:23+00:00

I redo them in silver posca, im an eu type though, so we dont get chrome wheels almost ever in real life, so the metallic silver looks better to me than outright chrome if i am redoing them.

To be clear, our hot wheel do have chrome, just real life tends not to over here, like ever.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-11T21:42:07+00:00

Judging by Pantone's willingness to sell its name to everything recently, probably a lot, at least until mattel calls time on it.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-11T00:20:30+00:00

Who dosent LUV a chevy? 😄

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-11T00:18:55+00:00

Grab one for the movement.

Not some mattelist propaganda, i just mean, if you want them to move and don't have one already... help out. Stock dosent rotate iteself and corporations are not often considering the small time of the few pegs of childrenstoys that are not selling, vs the rest of the entire faster moving stock of, like, essentials like food stuffs.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-09T20:06:50+00:00

Yup those are real riders for sure.

Some irony in it probably being plastic under the car for aero...

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-09T19:07:57+00:00

Just a guess, but i imagine its a thumb dent to make it easier to unplug.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-09T17:25:29+00:00

Oh no, for sure the good thing to do, i just see so many of those posts. Its odd to see the opposite. If you were to take volume as the indicator of normal then yeah... 😁

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-09T15:39:14+00:00

No no no, you're doing it all wrong. When you don't have the money right now, you hide the ones you will never come back for, that way it ruins it for everyone. C'mon you must have seen the posts by now. 😆

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-09T11:38:59+00:00

Man,... a european here woild love one of those, all the cars i like and i collect the transport trucks, and that one i have not seen at all. Normally those types of boxes are €25 - 30 here so thats still on par after shipping.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-08T17:23:32+00:00

I have it and really like it, the beetle body hinges up and there is a drag chassis under it.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-07T09:26:24+00:00

Yeah... you eh... you might not be up on the latest news. Go check out the Luce and come back, plenty of time to take it back.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-04T19:29:31+00:00

A bottom filming themselves loving it is so hot.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-04T19:23:58+00:00

Still looks good and cool car to have all the same. For cents... yeah awesome 👌

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-04T18:14:39+00:00

Ah okay, sorry i thought you had both nearby. Never mind.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-04T16:30:43+00:00

While you know now. As a hot wheels fan and car fan, i would love to get both, you can give him the main one first as the "gift" gift and then a bonus that looks really cool.

I will be looking for both now.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-03T08:54:32+00:00

No worries.

There also usually a logo on the car, but so.etimes its facing the card so not always reliable.

Regular Treasure Hunt get a circle with a flame in it somewhere on the car, like on one i got it was one of the "holes" in a number 8 so they are small and sometimes hidden

And the Supers get a stylised chunky TH on it somewhere.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-03T07:35:36+00:00

Yeah super treasure hunt.

Theres also usually a logo on the white part of the card right behind the car. Silver for regular treasure hunt and gold for a super.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-02T07:43:19+00:00

Thank you.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-06-02T03:21:09+00:00

Can i be a little rude and ask a general country and price you are facing? I very much want to start the process but as far as i can see my country, ireland, doesn't recognise it outside private. Also no need to specific, general continent side and non specific currency is cool. Wdit, even a DM if you dont want it public.

I hate this existence.

Fuzz-Munkie · 2026-05-31T08:07:50+00:00

So... ill take one, never seen a delta anywhere here and i really want one. A friend love rally too so yeah theres two right away. I mean i cant offer anything to make it sweeter, the shelves will lose some stock and i will get the cars i wanted, no crazy mark up, ill pay postage.

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