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A bit of a main step in trying to bring some more accuracy to the 1:18 Tumbler, and my biggest issue with it; the over-sized front wheels.
Did an experiment - although the tread isn't right, there's a certain 'rightness' to what's shown here.
1st: overhead shot of unmodified and modified Hot Wheels 1:18 Tumblers.
2nd: front 3/4 shot of modified version
3rd: side shot of modified version
There are plenty of shots available of the stock version to compare... shot 1 helps, though, having them right beside one-another.
So, I wanted to see if my calculations were about right... but needed a rubber 'skin' to put on there, so I checked a hobby store to see what they might have in the way of tires.
The /only/ thing they had that would fit and look /roughly/ correct, but I figured would give me an idea of whether I was on the right track or not, was a set of smaller scale Super Swampers - not correct, but ironic, no?
Anyway, to me it looks MUCH better with the reduced front tires, even with the non-Hoosier treads on there... and if it troubles me that much, I'll sculpt them with the right treads. This helps for now.
At least it looks like, if there was a working steering mechanism, there'd be room for the wheels to actually turn... =]
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... for anyone who cares, I can post a pic or two of the interior; it's pretty elaborately detailed for something that'll remain largely unseen, especially owing to the barely-opening cockpit...
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You reap what you sow
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Please do.
I still haven't opened mine yet. 
 
 
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Interior shots of Hot Wheels 1:18 Tumbler.
Had to be very much disassembled for these shots, as is apparent from the pics.
There we have it - reduced to 800 x 600.
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| You remind me of... me.
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Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone...
One of my favourite movies.
=]
"I'm your huckleberry..."
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Yes, it's up and back... takes an alarming amount of force to get it unsnapped to move... but it'll go.
The 1:18 '89 has machine guns that flip over on the top surface, left and right, the pull-out engine, movable canopy, the steering works, and is linked to the steering wheel, too, and ... I think that covers it, aside from the wheels rotating.
The Tumbler... just the (only-slightly) opening canopy, and rotating wheels - ignore any old info floating around that claims that there is working steering on this thing; probably would have doubled the cost of the thing to accomplish that.
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| And it does not open all the way. Barely enough to see inside. I think someone at Mattel just said "Oh f*ck it!" and just gave up and left it the way it is...
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... which allowed them to skip painting/decaling the details that are molded into that unseen interior.
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