Holy smokes, Kyle K made a custom...

I've been interested in making a custom for quite some time now. I always figured i lacked the skill/talent needed to actually produce an acceptable looking diecast. Well, I decided to go for it and I'm pleased with the almost final result. Just gotta add a few coats of laquer, pop the windows in, and put it on the car and it'll be good to go. Sorry for the poor quality pics.

Thanks for looking. Feel free to comment or whatever makes ya happy.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on July 15, 2009 at 9:52pm

nice job. Make sure you take a photo of the final product.

Permalink Reply by Mike Phillips on July 15, 2009 at 10:34pm

Dude looks pretty good, I too have decls that I have had for quite some time. My concern has been, that the decals would appear kinda transparent, how do we prevent this? i attached one of my older collection picts, but have 2 of these cabinets full of just his cars. I have decals for: offroad,com, & Navy Busch car he drove for JR motorsports a few years back. Keep me informed on how your final finished car turns out man!
Take care,
& Go Robby!
Mike

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Permalink Reply by Kyle K on July 16, 2009 at 1:48pm

Wow! Awesome collection dude! SO jealous of the red bull and fotl cars.... As for the decals- The numbers seem to be the only ones that might not hold up. So far, everything else looks okay but you can already see through the roof and left side numbers. Then again, the car is only a day old so it could all go down from here. I'm already hooked on these customs though and I'm ordering the decals for his Montreal WIN car as we speak.

Permalink Reply by Mario on July 17, 2009 at 4:31am

On the Diecast Crazy website, some of the guys who do customs say they have to double the decals (or more) that end up looking transparent. The car does look good though.

Permalink Reply by Mike/WC77 on July 16, 2009 at 4:10pm

nice job Kyle, lookin good so far

Permalink Reply by Kyle K on July 17, 2009 at 5:04pm

Well here's what the final product ended up looking like. I guess I'm happy. Turned out better than I could have asked considering it was my first custom.

I DO have a question though, does anyone know where I can get the 2008 Monster energy and operation homefront decals?? SMH doesn't have them and I'm really not sure where else to look. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Phillips on July 21, 2009 at 3:37pm

It turned out pretty good man. Was that clear coated as well? Im attaching my more recent diecst picts, which show it to be more uptodate than my previous picts. I look forward to trying this on my own as well.

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