Hot Wheels Renault Sport RS01 Custom Repaint

This Renault Sport RS01 is a super cool casting, that I fell in love with as soon as I saw it. The real thing is a car that Renault created specially for a new racing series it has developed, called the Renaultsport Trophy series. They originally developed the car to replace the Megane Trophy in the GT3 class, but it was too fast!!

It's an all carbon-fiber monocoque chassis, with a modified 3.8 liter twin-turbo V6 borrowed from the Nissan GT-R putting out over 500 horsepower! And the thing only weighs around 1,100 kilograms... Wow!!!

The version I made is something of a "test car", and it looks very menacing in flat black!

The real thing:

And the two versions to come from Hot Wheels so far:

Majorette Simca 1308 Restoration

Back at it with this Majorette Simca 1308. Chrysler of Europe was an interesting company back in the day, to say the least. They made consistently woeful and outdated products that they bought from other random car companies, such as this Simca/Talbot! (Not much has changed, has it?)

But Majorettes are always cool, and I enjoyed this one. The paint didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, I think the humidity did it. Not sure if you can tell from the photos or not though. I might strip it down and repaint it at some point, so I didn't bother with any detail work. And my trusty silver paint pen ran out, so no wheel refinishing for the time being. Oh well, enjoy!

Before

After:

The only car in my collection that seemed right to pair it with:

Matchbox Peugeot 205 Turbo Custom

Hey guys! We are back from a little diecast break. I recently bought a parts car for my Volvo, so I've been spending most of my free time in the garage playing with big toys haha.

But I'm back and have tackled a lovely little French hot hatch from Peugeot. I have loved the 205 since I was a kid, and have wanted to customize one for ages! This casting is a bit hard to come by in the states, but I happened across one in a cheap ebay junk lot.

Getting stripped down ready for paint, and some new wheels and tires

I'm thrilled with how it came out! Not perfect (as so few of my projects are), but pretty darn nice,

With some French friends from my collection: