This was informative video you made. I did enjoy you painting the interior made look more realistic. The car came wonderful and looks cool too. I would like to see more. Thank you.
Love what you did with this car to bring it back to life! I love watching all of your videos, I have learned so much by following your techniques. Can't wait to see what you do next! Keep up the good work!
have you considered using photoshop or any other software to recreate the decals? then scale down and print on sticky paper you can cut out with sharp blade.
i had the black version of this model as a kid. i always thought these Fast 111s had cooler body styling than HW or MB, even on same-model cars, plus they all had super-fast style axels, and of course the all-unique license plate gimmick 😅
I've bought and retorted a few pairs of trainers that I picked up in charity shops in England, I've worn them until they were bin able, but they were technically works of art when compared to before and after, the white Nikes I restored were covered in plaster and had cobwebs in them, I felt a bit uneasy picking them up with my bare hands, after blasting them under the tap , soaking them in warm water then scrubbing them with creme cleaner they were looking promising, I reckon some one wore them to work once when they were pretty new and ruined them, then just wore them as work shoes..Anyway!! They went in to the washing machine,, when they came out I repainted them, sewed the rip at the back up, dried them and lacquered them... and they looked Brand new!! I was so proud and excited about it I ended up telling a girl.. A complete stranger on the bus!! She couldn't believe how proud of my trainers I was!!! (I think she missed the point! A- haaaar haaaar haaaar! It was funny! She was a lovely girl!!)
A perfect example where you could laser cut the firebird onto the hood prior to painting...that would be a sweet effect. You could even laser cut the bird...lay down a base coat of gold...then a top coat of black, and sand at the bird to reveal the gold. :)
Not quite on topic but I ave made a model of a typical workshop/garage and have had so much satisfaction from photographing my models after completion in it. I have some tiny cameras and the ground level shots are great. Was simple to do and a neat way of recording your hard work.
I love it! I'm currently working on turning a 1968 Chevy Nova into a Super Stock Car, I'm going to repaint it, do a wheel swap with the front wheels, add a Cowl induction hood scoop, full roll cage, sponsor stickers all over it, and a wheelie bar. When I'm done with it I'll have to post a video of it.
he seems to prefer painting cars that previously had decals just one colour, like the 80s ford bronco that had a really cool ableit very worn paint job, he painted it a straight blue when originally it was black, red and yellow. i think that was one of his more recent ones too
This red line restoration episode is a 2013 release. It's hard to believe just how much I've missed. This has a strong reference of what I used to keep and assemble. I used to have a 1/24th plastic scale model Shelby Charger. I even applied decals on this plastic scale model car.
HW, when I saw the title, I thought I was going to get to see all kinds of decals and fine line painting. Ah well. Maybe in another vid?Thanks. I enjoy your channel...
I love your videos. Have you ever tried doing a Gloss Black and a Matte Black on a car? Kind of like a two tone paint scheme? It might have a nice detail effect to a car like this by having a Gloss bottom and a Matte upper. just a thought. Thanks for all the hard work you do taking the time to share your skills.
really cool video... I don't like the wheels. but that's my opinion.. the interior looks really smart. just found your channel. liking it so far thank you
Watching some of your older videos and I had forgotten you used a Ferrari F-40 from blvd series on this Kenner.. guess it was Mattels loss of their license to produce Ferrari but man I saw one of these go for 50 bucks recently. Willing to bet a lot of us probably drilled out Ferraris and other castings 5-7 yrs ago that now are rare and pricey. Anyway still love the custom. Since we moved I can't find the Dairy you made but I am gonna go back through a bunch of old jammers and find it. That thing had the coolest rust/weathered look.
Another great video. Car looks great in my opinion, but I would've also painted the Pontiac Badge on the front of the car red as well. Minor thing I know, but would've accented the interior well I think. Anyways great work as always, look forward to the next one!
Hey! Not sure if you'll see this but I'd love for you to revisit this car and add the Firebird decal to the front and cut the top panels to get that T top look.
as a suggestion,most malls have those little vinyl printing kiosks and will make whatever designs you want,maybe you could either make a vinyl of the firebird to stick on the hood or do like I did on a project where I made a 3'x2.5' scale metal trans am hood and used the negative part that you usually peel off around the design and used it as a stencil to paint the firebird on the hood,id show a pic but this is the youtube comment section not facebook so no pics....it turned out perfect though!
I have that custom Ferrari and I have the same problems with the back hatch. I thought it was too nice, though I couldn't consider it expendable. Might change my mind cause I love Firebirds.
Great video! Do you have any video of the wheel swap at all? I am interested as to how that was done. It looks like you may have touched up the side pipes. Or am I just imagining things?
I remember in the 80s a line of toy cars that decals on an oversized rear bumper that looked like real license plates. Is this one of those cars? I enjoy your videos! Keep up the good work!
I just saw that you said you couldn't do anything about a yellow windshield. I think there's a way to fix that. I'm a big sneaker collector and I love to restore sneakers. Sometimes part of the translucent sole on Jordan's gets yellow(something that can't be wiped off) so we use 40 volume cream salon care. Put a small layer on the soles, cover it with plastic wrap, and set it out in the sun. I don't know why it works but it does. Just a thought. Thought it might help you
Use modeling clay to fill the inside of the windshield plastic, pull it out and then use that as a vacuform buck. The result will be an exact dupe of the original windshield. Use something like .003 clear PETG and you will have a new windshield. Used to do that to make replacement windshield back when I was doing 1:43 slot cars.
The interior looks much better but the paint on the body turned it into a whole new car. Nice work!
This car turned out awesome. The Ferrari tires made the car look completely different, like a newer model. Epic work
I owned this one and had many hours of enjoyment with it. Beautiful Custom rebuild.
This was informative video you made. I did enjoy you painting the interior made look more realistic. The car came wonderful and looks cool too. I would like to see more. Thank you.
Love what you did with this car to bring it back to life! I love watching all of your videos, I have learned so much by following your techniques. Can't wait to see what you do next! Keep up the good work!
Those wheels are 🔥🔥🔥🔥 makes it look so much better I've watched almost all the custom paint videos this has to be in my top 5
Wow - those side pipes really pop after the paint job. I didn't even notice them in the before pic. Nice job!
And I thought I was cool, painting cars with nail polish
I love the paint job on that car and the wheels look perfect.
I liked the pop of the original seats but your wash adds to the realism.
I do remember having this car as a kid. Great video!!
I had this! Totally forgot about this. Trans Ams and Firebirds were huge back then...
That's cool, the flat black really made the chrome bits pop out more
have you considered using photoshop or any other software to recreate the decals? then scale down and print on sticky paper you can cut out with sharp blade.
Once the painted interior had been placed into the car, it made an enormous change to the car's look.
i had the black version of this model as a kid. i always thought these Fast 111s had cooler body styling than HW or MB, even on same-model cars, plus they all had super-fast style axels, and of course the all-unique license plate gimmick 😅
man to bad you can't put firebird decal on hood !!!!
I had this car as a kid and yes a firebird on this restoration would have made it an awesome project!
I've bought and retorted a few pairs of trainers that I picked up in charity shops in England, I've worn them until they were bin able, but they were technically works of art when compared to before and after, the white Nikes I restored were covered in plaster and had cobwebs in them, I felt a bit uneasy picking them up with my bare hands, after blasting them under the tap , soaking them in warm water then scrubbing them with creme cleaner they were looking promising, I reckon some one wore them to work once when they were pretty new and ruined them, then just wore them as work shoes..Anyway!! They went in to the washing machine,, when they came out I repainted them, sewed the rip at the back up, dried them and lacquered them... and they looked Brand new!! I was so proud and excited about it I ended up telling a girl.. A complete stranger on the bus!! She couldn't believe how proud of my trainers I was!!! (I think she missed the point! A- haaaar haaaar haaaar! It was funny! She was a lovely girl!!)
A perfect example where you could laser cut the firebird onto the hood prior to painting...that would be a sweet effect. You could even laser cut the bird...lay down a base coat of gold...then a top coat of black, and sand at the bird to reveal the gold. :)
Awesome job thanks for sharing. I have a box of old Kenner Fast 111’s I think I’m going to try repainting some. Thanks for the advice
Can't wait to start this hobby someday.
As always...magnificent work...it not only have a new life, it now also looks more beast than ever...great video...
The wheels really make this car pop....as usual....NICE!!!!!!
Not quite on topic but I ave made a model of a typical workshop/garage and have had so much satisfaction from photographing my models after completion in it. I have some tiny cameras and the ground level shots are great. Was simple to do and a neat way of recording your hard work.
You should have painted around the decals as the 80's thing, is what made it special! Anyone can have a matte black firebird.
needs the bird, not that hideous original one, but the real one.
I agree
Definitely!
That first design was cool!
I love it!
I'm currently working on turning a 1968 Chevy Nova into a Super Stock Car,
I'm going to repaint it, do a wheel swap with the front wheels, add a Cowl induction hood scoop, full roll cage, sponsor stickers all over it, and a wheelie bar.
When I'm done with it I'll have to post a video of it.
i really like repaint and restoration videos .. wish to see more of them
Very nice restoration. Liked the ideas with the interior too :)
Turned out great! The firebird painted originally didn't look good at any rate. The black with red interior came out awesome.
Those Kenner cars always had a stupid looking rear bumper that didn't look right.
Coffee Shark ikr
All They Found Was A Boot just chop it off with a saw...
It also made it impossible to put them in a carry case designed for Hot Wheels or even Matchbox cars.
If I'm not mistaken they were all supposed to have custom license plates..that's why the bumper is enlarged. They were called "Fast 111's" (Fast Ones)
That was to accommodate a full license plate
Found your channel recently and I’ve been watching your vids non stop,but so far this has been my favorite one.
Car looks awesome now
Your vids are great. True customs, not just a wheel swap. Not that there's anything wrong with wheel swaps, just saying...
i thought the original paint had more appeal
Most of the bare metal ones are not good so are the colours he goes with
he seems to prefer painting cars that previously had decals just one colour, like the 80s ford bronco that had a really cool ableit very worn paint job, he painted it a straight blue when originally it was black, red and yellow. i think that was one of his more recent ones too
Funny
I had this car as a kid! I liked it so much I bought two of them when I could've bought two different cars :D
This red line restoration episode is a 2013 release. It's hard to believe just how much I've missed. This has a strong reference of what I used to keep and assemble. I used to have a 1/24th plastic scale model Shelby Charger. I even applied decals on this plastic scale model car.
2013 was the best year of my life.
Awesome job.
I would like to see more like this.
I think it'd b cool to cut the top so u have a T top on it
agreed!
my thoughts exactly
Cole Croley not really , cut if with a dremel , then sand it with metal files
Landon Klick Yeah. That would be sick!
Kenner actually did a good job on the body casting for this Trans am. I like the restoration!
It has a great period look to it. Nice job.
HW, when I saw the title, I thought I was going to get to see all kinds of decals and fine line painting. Ah well. Maybe in another vid?Thanks. I enjoy your channel...
What!?!?!? No screaming chicken on the hood? ;-)
I want! That came out amazing. And you should use your laser and make a firebird emblem.
The flat back looks amazing
i love this one, black, simple and badass, K2000 spirit, really nice
Nice job! Another color idea would be metallic gold as I recall a lot of Firebirds from the late 70’s in that color.
You can tell by the back bumper it was a fast ones line each car had a one of a kind license plate
Full resolution on that one would have been awesome, nice car
the one i have looks exactly like yours did before you painted it i’m pretty sure all of them do now lol it was my favorite
Awful to awesome in less than 5 minutes... the wheel swap was perfect! Keep it up!
I like your hot wheel customization videos😉.
wheels are awesome and it start to look like a Drag car,Respect and i really want one car like this one :D
Enjoy your videos. Like to see more of these
Looks great with that interior
I kind of liked the before a little better but both are good. 👍 nice job, bro
Another Awesome build!!
Personally I would have changed the orange of the tail lights to red, but that's just me. Another great car!
Really enjoy your videos! Keep up the good work.
Ik I'm late but damn! That's awesome! That odd thing on the back kinda killed it tho
Can you do a remake of a Buick Grand National ?
Really enjoying these!
Great job ! would love to see more vids like this
That came out really nice
Perfect choice for the color!!!👌😉
I love your videos. Have you ever tried doing a Gloss Black and a Matte Black on a car? Kind of like a two tone paint scheme? It might have a nice detail effect to a car like this by having a Gloss bottom and a Matte upper. just a thought. Thanks for all the hard work you do taking the time to share your skills.
Looks so badass, nice job man
really cool video... I don't like the wheels. but that's my opinion.. the interior looks really smart. just found your channel. liking it so far thank you
Awesome job. Very informative as well. More more more!
nice work,it looks good in black...
In love with this channel!
Very nice! Maybe some gloss black for the T-tops and color the marker lights.
Thank you another great video
Watching some of your older videos and I had forgotten you used a Ferrari F-40 from blvd series on this Kenner.. guess it was Mattels loss of their license to produce Ferrari but man I saw one of these go for 50 bucks recently. Willing to bet a lot of us probably drilled out Ferraris and other castings 5-7 yrs ago that now are rare and pricey. Anyway still love the custom. Since we moved I can't find the Dairy you made but I am gonna go back through a bunch of old jammers and find it. That thing had the coolest rust/weathered look.
Cool vid, really dig the custom stuff nice work!
Another great video. Car looks great in my opinion, but I would've also painted the Pontiac Badge on the front of the car red as well. Minor thing I know, but would've accented the interior well I think. Anyways great work as always, look forward to the next one!
Awesome !! Love how it turned out! Keep up the good work
Hey! Not sure if you'll see this but I'd love for you to revisit this car and add the Firebird decal to the front and cut the top panels to get that T top look.
I would love to have seen you put a Phoenix decal on the hood. And a red and yellow pinstripe along the side panels! But good job on this.
your vids are awesome dood love what you do to the cars
Great job...great videos.
as a suggestion,most malls have those little vinyl printing kiosks and will make whatever designs you want,maybe you could either make a vinyl of the firebird to stick on the hood or do like I did on a project where I made a 3'x2.5' scale metal trans am hood and used the negative part that you usually peel off around the design and used it as a stencil to paint the firebird on the hood,id show a pic but this is the youtube comment section not facebook so no pics....it turned out perfect though!
Have you ever considered using luminous paint on the headlights and interior?
Nice wheel choice. Very appropriate.
Have you thought about using the new Greenlight set's of wheels
You're vids are awesome
I have that custom Ferrari and I have the same problems with the back hatch. I thought it was too nice, though I couldn't consider it expendable. Might change my mind cause I love Firebirds.
Great video! Do you have any video of the wheel swap at all? I am interested as to how that was done. It looks like you may have touched up the side pipes. Or am I just imagining things?
you should paint the interior more often! Looks so much better than this plastic uniform colour.
I remember in the 80s a line of toy cars that decals on an oversized rear bumper that looked like real license plates.
Is this one of those cars?
I enjoy your videos! Keep up the good work!
I just saw that you said you couldn't do anything about a yellow windshield. I think there's a way to fix that. I'm a big sneaker collector and I love to restore sneakers. Sometimes part of the translucent sole on Jordan's gets yellow(something that can't be wiped off) so we use 40 volume cream salon care. Put a small layer on the soles, cover it with plastic wrap, and set it out in the sun. I don't know why it works but it does. Just a thought. Thought it might help you
You should try molotow chrome pens for chrome touch ups and small work, really good and as close to a vac metal effect as you can get.
Excellent job, one cuestion, Why do you use the oven?
Smoky & The Bandit !?
Looks great thanks for sharing.
Use modeling clay to fill the inside of the windshield plastic, pull it out and then use that as a vacuform buck. The result will be an exact dupe of the original windshield. Use something like .003 clear PETG and you will have a new windshield. Used to do that to make replacement windshield back when I was doing 1:43 slot cars.
I swear I had this car (or something very close) and the big deal was it had a license plate. Idk... maybe I'm wrong, but thanks for the memories.
This is one my favorites!! 😍
You made this car look like those kids win in Chuck E Cheese.
remember Fast Ones? they had license plates. this car reminded me of one of those.
I thought this was one of the Fast Ones...
@@RailfanJason yeah I realized that eventually. i didn't remember them having been made by Kenner, though. what a great toy company.
Yes,the Pontiac does look good. Painting rods in matt black seems to me to be a trend these days.
Huzzah, excellent work .