Hot Wheels Corsair

I live in rural Kentucky where there are not a lot of places to get Hot Wheels.  This place, Big O's is a good and inexpensive place to find old Hot Wheels still in the package.

This is one of several I got there recently for $2 each or less!

This is the 1938 Phantom Corsair which was based on a real car.

The real car could seat 6 adults and go 115 miles per hour.

I think the front looks like it should have two machine guns mounted in those holes.

I think I am going to repaint it for use by the Shadow.

Most likely it will be all black, glossy.

 

 

Modern Abstract Hot Wheels

I am working on a few Batman 66 Villains of my own.

This car will belong to one based on Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. 

He was known for painting pictures of lines and rectangles, similar to the designs on these cars.

This particular Hot Wheels car is very unusual because it comes in crushed condition.

It also has white front wheels and black back wheels.  White wheels are very uncommon on any Hot Wheels car.

The original artist was very abstract in his work and I think the Batman Villain may also be an artist.

Joker and Clock King both had episodes where they were working in the world of painting.

There were also episodes were the there were sculptures of both Batman and Joker.

And who can forget the paintings done by Alfred, butler to Millionaire Bruce Wayne?

Hot Wheels also made this van, which turned out to be a bit of a peg warmer.

So I picked up a few of them, thinking they might be useful for this Villain.
 

Barbie Land

Another Barbie Land item, this time a store.

Like the other two this will end up as part of my Disneyland type amusement park.

The park is full of little shops that sell gifts, and toys, and foods.

So this certainly will lend itself to that environment.

While these items are about heroic 32mm size, I think most will be fine with my 1/72nd scale figures.

The shopping is cool but it is a bit big!

These are the only three sets I have and the only ones I have seen.  There may be others.

Put together they make a nice little vignette and here is a Hot Wheels Batmobile and Batman in 1/72nd scale.
 

Barbie Movie

This is another Barbie Land playset.

These are a little bit like the Polly Pocket playsets, only Barbie is bigger.

I am building an amusement park, based loosely on Disneyland, in California.

They have these popcorn carts in the park and they little puppet show theater is also like some of the things they have too.

The movie camera on the roof is very cool and it may get cut off and used as an actual camera on a tripod.  These items are about a heroic 32mm size, and my collection is 1/72nd scale, mostly.  Still I think these can be adapted to my scale.