Year: 2019

  • Updating The Poor Man’s Swamp Cooler Part I

    It’s time to take our “vintage looking” swamp cooler and really make it look vintage. The prices for real vintage swamp coolers are through the roof. Last year we found a guy who sells reproduction swamp coolers that are actually pretty functional at fraction of the cost of real vintage swamp coolers. We’ve used it…

  • Custom Matchbox Gangster Car

    This was a quick one, but I think it turned out pretty good. The idea was to talk this 1933 Plymouth police car and turn it into a gangster type of car using the Bonnie and Clyde car as inspiration. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Hope you enjoy the video,…

  • Custom Matchbox Barn Find VW Bus

    Imagine walking into an old, forgotten barn and finding a vintage VW Bus just waiting to be restored. That’s the inspiration for this custom. It was a lot of fun and gave me the opportunity to try different weathering techniques. Hope you enjoy the video, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.…

  • Custom Hot Wheels VW SP2

    Still playing around with some different weathering techniques. This VW SP2 was a good candidate to try new textures with common household cooking products. I love the way that it turned out other than the fact that this particular car in real life would have a lot of fiberglass parts that wouldn’t really rust. The…

  • Custom Hot Wheels VW Beetle Camper

    Thought it’d be fun to do another custom using the VW Beetle truck. Playing around with different mediums to create this custom VW Beetle camper. After it was finished, I wished that I hadn’t included the piping around the edge of the camper, it was very soft metal and it moved on me while painting.…