STYRENE DIARIES : Making a 1:64th scale interior for Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Corgi 

I love that you said "a donkey's years." I had an instructor from the UK that would say "in a donkey's age." You just reminded me of him.

this is some good stuff, thanks! I'd be surprised if anyone into diecast and mods would complain about this type of video. It's inspiring, at the least.

Easily the best die cast restore channel on here.

Brings back memories of many a day (and plenty of late nights) spent with styrene + MEK in the Senior Industrial Design studio, working on prototype models for class critiques, back in the Uni daze. Various viscosities of CA glue and "zip kicker" were also regular go-tos. Ah, I can smell that "ethyl" now... and the xylene markers, Bondo, laquer, and all the various other things we all inhaled, working in the model shop back then.

Enjoyed it very much!

Appreciate the new information. Great job

Thats amazing! Very cool!😎👍

amazing work

I've used both Evergreen and Plastruct for many years. The difference with Plastruct they have a lot more in the architectural shapes and other plastic materials such as ABS. I am not telling people to use Plastruct over Evergreen as I know that Plastruct is hard to find in a retail outlet but they do have a catalog. You can also find some of the more common card thicknesses in bulk on Ebay for a decent price. Styrene and balsa wood are great for scratch building just about anything. Thank you King as this is a very good primer for those that have never done this type of building.

Very informative, thanks.

Nothing wrong with mixing in a bit of model making or kit bashing as part of your regular line up. I think it sets you apart from other people who work on these cars and best of all you are giving people something they havent seen. Keep up the good work mate, enjoying watching these with my 8 year old son and given me some ideas :)

Just Awsome work, thanks for the tips and advice.

cool custom

Excellent..these will help a few of us in a lot of ways

Good Lord that's some detail work, man you've got a study hand. Great tutorial.

Very interesting

Excellent tutorial very very informative!!!!

great little tutorial, I have a matchbox caravan which needs an interior will give this a try.

I love Evergreen styrene sheets. The material is always of a consistent quality. I have used 'Plastruct' parts in the past, especially their 'I' beams, gantry work, and their domes, cylinders and rods - I used to enjoy making science fiction models and dioramas. Their products are very well produced, but not all components were styrene - some were ABS (the plastic LEGO is made of), Acrylic, or Butyrate. The only thing that would definitely fix all together, was, and is 'Plastic Weld'. Like MEK-pak, I must have used gallons of the stuff. And been made to swear at it too. I had come within a hair of finishing a little diorama based on the classic war movie 'Ice Cold In Alex', and accidentally knocked a not-quite shut bottle of 'Plastic Weld' over, causing it to pour all over the 1/76 Airfix Austin K2 Ambulance, reducing it to a pool of plastic slurry in minutes. Deep joy. I like to use Tamiya Extra Thin poly cement nowadays, and I'm very fond of 'Ratio/Wills' textured styrene - I've used tons of their 'Chequer Plate'. The boxes of styrene offcuts, and 'greeblies' from plastic kits that I stored in the loft, were the bane of my late father's life. "Why do you keep this stuff?" "It's going to be useful one day..." Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for tips and tricks. Will be using these for future projects.

In the states we abbreviate the bonding agent as MEK. It's hard to find, but as you can see, it works REALLY well!

Thanks for a great instructional video. Well done!

Right hand to left hand drive conversion!

Very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to cover this process.

Awesome how to video! Keep up the great work

Awesome idea! I now need to start investing in styrene for garage fixtures & interiors! I never thought about building my own interior. That could take this in new directions!

That was awesome, thanks for sharing that!

Nice. So enjoyable!!!!

That's some nice work. You have all tools a builder could imagine...

What an incredible interior build! Very nice! 🙌

You can make about anything. Very Cool. You are great at this now! Fun to watch. Thanks!

Like your Styrene work. I realized while doing a recent edit on my Wesmade channel your video can be seen in the background. Guilty pleasure watching good videos while building.

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!

Wonderful

excellent tutorial really helpful thanks for sharing.

Excellent work! I'm glad you posted this video. It's fun to watch all the small details being made.

Total Awesomeness.... Love these type of videos Thank’s

Awesome!

Thank you, thumbs up!

Well it’s no wonder I can’t find any at hobby lobby this guy has them all

Fantastic, can't wait to see your next one.

Love these work. please do more. you inspire me to do something with my pile of styrene.

Inspired a roll cage for a matchbox lotus 7. Styrene rod ordered

Thanks for showing all of this. I have a HW '70 Camaro that has a race interior and I didn't like that. But I will try what you did, when the time come to detail it, only making a close as possible stock interior.

Yes I think apart from your 'normal service' videos, this was the one many of us have been waiting for! Great explanation and demonstration of the styrene material usage. Your scratch builds like the Capri interior and Kool Kombi trailer bed show what can be achieved with a little bit of planning and understanding of the best styrene sections and profiles to use. I'm sure many of your subscribers would love to simply see your garage of cars with your comments on how they were created (Back to Hazard is a favourite mash up) as well as what you enjoyed or disliked when making them. Do you use polymer clay much? I've seen some of your earlier work such as the F150 modification and it would be super to see some of your more radical body changes in future videos (although I also appreciate how you preserve but uplift the original castings without major changes). As always, you surprise and inspire me each and every time. Keep doing and enjoying what you do! Art Per Day

Brilliant

I think videos like this is a great complement to the resto-mod videos you do. Great to see what actual stuff you use for your builds. Very useful knowledge for my plans of making a race roll-cage for one of my models. Thank you!

Thank you for the insights.

Tops as usual pal, informative and very well explained! Thanks for the great videos!

interesante video hay unos truquitos para aprender muy buena informacion te felicito por el ingenio a . saludos desde colombia 🖖🧐👍

Great video! Thanks for taking the time and effort to put it up.

Insightful and fascinating - thanks so much for sharing bud - as ever - Top Work Fella! 👍👍👍👍

A whole new level!

Brilliant to see how you put this together - I'm modding some matchbox cars for a tabletop game and I think styrene might be the best way to form weapons and armour for them.

I'm saying it since your first video. Great job mate. Keep it up.

Nice👌🏾, i enjoyed this as i do the rest of your uploads, i like the way you narrate them and love the craftmanship you put in to it👌🏾

I hope you continue this series. It was truly one of the most informative instructional vids regarding 1:64 modding. Also Kudos in your Instagram, I really dig they way you have it laid out.

Lovin the styrene videos..thanks a lot..can you also make a video on how you fabricate the alligator jack and other garage equipments..? please..😊 Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas..😁

masterful.

Awesome stuff...its getting better and better...and i really appreciate that you share where you get the materials and suppliers. !! Thanks for all the info.

Your content is amazing, man. Keep it going!

Loved it thanks for posting this video very helpful.

Great information may I wish I could do something like this

I'm amazed at the amount of detail you put into your cars, I don''t go as far with mine but the paint is important.

gobsmacking brilliant , amazing work,,,, your scale style is fantastic, great replica of the Capri, im working on Corgi 70s Trucks, and a few Matchbox Superkings from my child hood as a kid in England, great narrating, im too shy to do what you do lol,,, but keep up the good work , look forward to more of you sensational work

Make a Miata death kart from only styrene!

Greetings from across the pond mate. This is a truly inspiring how-to video. It has sent me in directions I might not have ever taken my own projects had I never seen it. I have been a subscriber since your first custom and rank your work up there with the best 1:64 scale mod'ers on the 'tube.

my styrene was obtained from dollar store gag gift cards, for one buck i got 8 gag gift cards that tare effectively credit cars with two thin pieces of styrene glued together so I got 16 credit card sized sheets . that being said id love to have square / cylindrical/ flat pieces and that fancy cutting board

Tremendo custom el que hicistes, esta espectacular, es el primer video que veo, y me ha encantado, yo estoy empezando en esto del custom, y trabajos como estos inspiran bastante, te dejo mi jugoso like, y seguro me suscribo al canal, un saludo desde Guatemala en Centoamérica,

I'm bingeing on your videos right now Lol 😄 as you can tell LOL Love seeing you work with this stuff. YOU ARE TRULY GIFTED MATE 👌 And have very steady hands might I add 😮 I've been trying my hand at model building for some time, not easy working with shakey hands Lol 😅

These videos are so bizarre. I enjoy watching, I’m learning, find it quite relaxing but have no intent on doing this... but I now know what to do and could give it a go. It’s like going to school and enjoying a subject because you enjoy the teacher

Good day. I watch you from Ukraine and I really like your work. Very useful videos as a beginner modeler for me. Make more videos about building cars and also parts for the garage and other little things that make cars beautiful.

Great video....just getting into Styrene work...hard to find around my area. Hobby shops here don't have it. Ordered from Evergreen. Thanks for adding your Styrene Diaries to your channel. I think they will be a great addition.

When I hear "Ethyl" I think of Monty Python... some kind of reference there, but not sure... anyway, carry on ! LOL

kool , thanx Robert

I would blur out your name and address on the bottles of "Ethyl", but other than that, great video! Your precision and patience is incredible!

Excelente trabajo, las butacas son compradas o las hace usted? Saludos desde Argentina

Are you serious??? Amazing, AMAZING job. You do custom decals, custom interiors and custom exteriors. I've an idea, what about custom packaging?

Great info. You should be charging for this! lol Thanks for sharing .

Excellent feature/tutorial. What would closest describe your accent, Leicester, Derby, Stoke?

Great video I commented on the old one but it got deleted ha ho ,you should do a little tour of your little sets aka the garage and stuff anyway cant wait for the next one my friend :)

It is also known as solvent joining.

That's osm i m also a hot wheels lover n i also make different types of hot wheels stuff that u can watch in my playlist

Maybe a idea to make a tube frame car complete with Engine/supspension

Another great how to Video, I enjoy all you videos and have learned a lot. I am just getting back in to the hobby and trying to get the proper tools. I was hope that you could put a list of what you use. I like the look of the scalpel you are using, looks like it has some weight to it. What brand/Model? Thank you and keep them coming.

Interesting, DAMN INTERESTING❗🤔 Only wish I could find the stuff locally. To actually see & feel the different sizes & thicknesses of what I was actually buying,which you can't really get a feel of online.😖

Great work dude! I've one question: do u think that acetone can be used instead of methyl ethyl ketone? Thanks and greetings from Mexico

Fantastic what a fantastic lesson n how to it greatly helped me n when I hear Ethyl I straight away think of the comedy song oh yes they call him the streak, I said don't look Ethyl! Too late she was mooned lol I'm now a hooked subscriber 🍺🤓

Great video again, I want to do scale models but I’m in school and I have £30 to spend on buying the parts,so how much does styrene cost and how important is it compared to other things?

I can finally add a roll bar in the general lee

Brilliant work as ever. Could you put a link to the wheels and tyre sets you use ? Thank you.

What thickness styrene would you recommend for building a chassis? Thanks. 🙂

I love your work and I love watching you do it. But, I do have a question, where do you buy your Methyl Ethyl Ketone from?

I guess there isn't any local shop that sells different types of polystyrene shapes.

umm quick question what is the thickness of those sheets mine seem to flop around

J'aime combien d'heure vous avez mie ,je suis francais.

Quick question pal, i need to make a custom base for my bmw 2002 as i destroyed the original, what thickness sheet would yu recommend?

Were can i get the M.E.K that you use? I would love to get some

Can you form the styrene to original dicast doors, hoods and decklids to make spares...of so would you use warm or hot water to form them? Inhave a lot.of hot wheels red line cars with hoods that are impossible to find...

Where is a good place in the uk to get ethyl from? If i can get some i can use this isolation time to make stuff for my model cars.