Sneak: The Return of the BLACK BOX!

We’ll announce what’s inside and more details later… “It’s a keeper!”

Sneak: 2009 Mooneyes 18th Annual Yokohama HCS – Dec 6th

This one’s is going to be hot!

Meeting at Mooneyes…

Meeting and lunch with Shige, the man behind the Moon!  We finalized a few things and had a good discussion.  Here’s some pics of Mooneyes USA shop down the street from our office…  The shop’s got a ton of cool stuff to see and some displays.  I can’t find the pics but I’ll post it when I do…

The Mooneyes dragster was there…

work, work, and more work! booohoo!

Due to work and travel, I won’t be able to attend the Summer Smash this year.  Really sorry and disappointed about it.  I’ll keep you all updated from China on what’s coming up!… Have a great time if your attending!!

 

New lil logo!

Been really  just so busy lately, working and making decisions that I neglected this blog, sorry.  But here’s something coming down the pike that I am confident you’ll all love!  More later, but first, see that character in red?  That’s “Chang” in chinese.  I must’ve drew that a million times! lol.  What’s inside the box is going to be really cool.  hmmm.  Can’t say yet, but it’s with a partner company, and uhhh, this too has been in the burner for a very long time, you know, on and off, but it’s finally finalized and I think you’ll all love it and especially what’s inside!  I’ll tell you all more soon.

Speaking of the new Black Box with  the K-Tek “Dragon” I designed back in 2006,  I love how this dragon turned out.  It’s a little bit tribal and a whole lotta cool.  I designed it to honor my father, so that every Evo product has the ‘Dragon’ somewhere (notice it’s on the back of the platform base, the bottom of the Evo chassis, etc…  When I first showed him awhile back, he loved it and was so proud and of course I’ was a happy!  Ya see , his chinese zodiac/astrological sign is the Dragon.  I was born in the year of the Tiger.  Both are the strongest/toughest signs in the chinese calender and at times are like water and oil, which could explain how we use to butt heads all the time.  But at the present, we’re really doing great.  Dad’s getting up in his years and I’m glad he got to see this all.  This means the most to me and makes me so happy!   Here’s to you Pops!

Lost Hot Wheels Art!!

Look what I found at the warehouse recently.  This is the original airbrushed artwork that was used on the Hot Wheels Redline Club VW Bus, 1 of 12,500? Man thats alot, but it’s cool art, non the less.  I can’t believe I can do stuff like this.  It’s been such a long time and I miss the kustom-paint side of me that’s aching to bust out.  

I didn’t know where it was for a short time, but looking at it, it really inspires me to start airbrushing and pinstriping again.  ahhh, only if I had the time. 

How the HW VW Drag Bus was made from this airbrushed artwork was a process called graphic fusion.  First a high-res image is taken of the original artwork, then the image is used to produce the fusion (fancy name), which is really a factory decal that can wrap around curves through a heat treatment, and adhere really well to difficult areas that tampo (pad printing) can’t get to.  For me, the tampo process is my favorite application.  It’s like an artform in itself, printing one color at a time.  The fusion process does have it’s uses, but I personally don’t like it, it’s like cheating, you know, print a decal and place it on, easy but still not that simple.  But again, fusion does have it’s uses but the tampoing, if done right and with quality machines is the ultimate fav.

Maybe I’ll do a write-up on the process of the step by step artwork, I recall taking pics all the way throughout.

REWARD: Stolen Mystery Chase (by numbers)

As crazy as it sounds, we have another theft. This time it’s the “theft of the Mystery Chase.” We most likely think the theft is from one of the trucking warehouse employees from which the shipment is kept after it clears US Customs. This time the thieves sliced through a couple of cartons and took out some busses. Same as last time.
We been contacting and working with our transport company and we are offering a $100.00 reward to the first one who comes up with one of the stolen cars and furnish us with the sellers name and address and where it was bought. (We are not concern with you ‘receiving stolen property, please keep it – use the $100 towards the purchase)  We want to know who the person is.

There’s also a $500.00 extra reward if the info you provide leads to the arrest and conviction of this person in a court of law! Everyone really just want this to stop and the person caught.
So if you happen to run across any of these ’stolen’ number on ebay or anywhere else, please contact us immediately at info@ktekdiecast.com
*If you purchased any of these stolen items, you’ll have to send it to us to verify the number and furnish us info on the person who sold it to you, and we’ll send it back along with the $100 reward. We’ll take care of all shipping costs and toss in some other goodies for your help.  Here are the edition numbers from the stolen cars:

STOLEN 192 EDITION MYSTERY CHASE from Commemorative Edition/13th Issue:

#147, #148, #151, #152, #156, #160

photos supplied to the authorities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

STOLEN 888 EDITION (BLUE VERSION) from Commemorative Edition/13th Issue:

#729, #735, #739, #740

STOLEN  “24K EDITION” – from Artist Proof VI /12TH ISSUE:

#25, #29, #33, #37, #41, #45

KUSTOMCITY® Brand of Shirts & Stuff!

From our talented friends Scott & Dirk at Stith Printing! Killer new Kustomcity T’s! These guys are really good!!  I have to admit these shirts were ready to go back in early ‘09 but got put on the shelves due to work & travel. These are so cool! I cannot believe how cool they turned out. We got so many emails saying how cool the EVO SS looks with a woodie deco, well, you can wear it proudly and get it on a shirt! Stay tune for more info on these as well as other cool stuff…

Here’s a sneak into some killer T’s!!  I think they are HOT!

 

First look: Revealing the Mystery Chase!!

One of my favorite combination!  Hope you guys like it!  Just love that Silver Plated with the black flames and black-chrome dip rims…

Comm. Edition/13th Issue Shipping!

Looks familar??  lol.  One of these most likely have been delivered by that postal dude to your destination.

 

 

 

 

 

  

Took this shot of the KC Staff Van before our driver took off, lol, this thing was so full and it was the excess because the postal dudes van was so full, he couldn’t accept anymore packages himself!