Creamsicle Dreamliner... [PIC]

On rare occasions, Hot Wheels will take one of their 1/64 phantom designs and produce it in 1/18 for the big box stores. You don't buy these (~$25) for their parts count or precision build, but once and a while, I find one that tickles my imagination. This model was released almost 20 years ago (when there were a lot of big box toy stores) and was rereleased a year or so later as a Christmas edition with a Santa figure behind the wheel. I liked it for its over the top euro-streamlined design found with coachwork  from the continent in the 1930s. What it was missing in my mind was all the swoopy trim on the exterior and interior and the steering wheel was a bit fat and plasticy looking. An aftermarket billet steering wheel solved one problem. "Bare Metal Foil" is too thin to replicate trim on an unadorned surface so I used a heavier metal peel and stick tape that I had liberated from one of the factories I worked in while going to school. I gave the model front and rear gravel guards, side spears and rear fender tips along with some interior trim and paint washes for the grill, engine bay and interior upholstery and mats. I was enamored with those Figoni & Falaschi Delahayes and Talbot-Lagos of that era and I thought it wold be a fun exercise.