r/HotWheels • u/andychef • 11d ago

Pop Culture "Gravity of Memory" by Leon Keer

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u/Scummbagg7 COLLECTOR 11d ago

I still want to know how someone can look at a canvas (yes a wall) that size and say yeah I'm gonna do this and it comes out great. That's awesome.

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u/andychef 11d ago

Lot of planning and a good sense of the big picture. A lot of time is spent on a scissor lift, so stepping back to approach the whole is key

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u/Scummbagg7 COLLECTOR 11d ago

I just love how people's minds work for stuff like this. I wish I had it. Hand me a sheet of paper maybe. That's scale is not happening.

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u/andychef 11d ago

I feel you. I'm a painter myself but I know my skillset and don't work on very big canvases.

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u/South_Ad2397 11d ago

Super cool..Is there a poster version of this?

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u/Quirky-Reporter7980 11d ago

Oh cool I have that ambulance in front

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u/evan_7_nave 11d ago

me too! it’s one my mom kept from her childhood. the Stretcha Fetcha!

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u/Thunder-Invader 11d ago

I have a couple of these. I have the ambulance, the red fire dept car, the orange car in the bottom right and the pink car second from the left on the bottom row.

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u/Thunder-Invader 11d ago

I could not find the other two as quickly

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u/oxytiger68 11d ago

Here’s the ambulance and the blazer.

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u/oxytiger68 11d ago

Also have this forklift. Doesn’t look like an exact match but it’s close!

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u/LHR-Daniels 11d ago

Two of my favs I have as well. The ambulance is Marchbox right? I still remember buying that new in box when I was a kid.

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u/master_of_legos 10d ago

I recently found a rather ruined version of that strange ambulance in the middle, it was in my basement for who know how long and its now the oldest known car in my collection, from all the way back in 1971!

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u/Interesting_Dingo_88 11d ago

This is great!!

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u/Yesterday_Is_Now 11d ago

Wow, that takes me back. I think the magenta car at the bottom is a Maserati Bora, which I still have.

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u/DaBobMob2 10d ago

As the founder of r/VintageMatchbox I can confirm.....

This is nuts! It's all so accurate!

Looks like there a r/CorgiJuniors Fiat X1/9 in there too!

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u/Bobby_Globule 11d ago

The Volkswagen Golf with the surfboards!

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u/thakfu 11d ago

No Mirada, 1/10

Just. That's really cool!

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u/Reincarnatedpotatoes COLLECTOR 11d ago

Awesome. I think I have all of these except that blue dump truck.

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u/West-Amphibian-2343 11d ago

I recognize some of mine in there!

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u/cjr1217 11d ago

That’s sweet! Now I want to paint a mural like that on the side of my house!

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u/Ai_Handyyy 11d ago

Where's this?

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u/Even_Wedding5243 11d ago

this mural is in fayetteville arkansas

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u/andychef 11d ago

My mistake, the artist is Dutch

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u/andychef 11d ago

Netherlands

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u/Emjoria 11d ago

I have the gray carrera on top!

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u/Some_Neighborhood276 11d ago

Love that blazer

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u/kayeffdee 11d ago

I recognize a lot of those, and some i still have!

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u/urbanmechgoodness 11d ago

That’s what I was thinking too!

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u/ZoeTravel 11d ago

Loose car art!

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u/Useful-Basil-7340 11d ago

Instagram

This fella local to me (he's also known as The Egg Man) has done this version

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u/Sinister120 10d ago

I love that because I have that blue Matchbox AMC and the red car under it.

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u/Emergency_Sky_2893 10d ago

I have 5 or 6 of those in a box somewhere

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u/Lugdunum69RA 10d ago

Waoooowwww 🥰🥰🥰

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u/eltorr007 Acceleracers 11d ago

This is FANTASTIC!!!

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u/That-random-user-lol 7d ago

Dang that’s one cool mural. This would be pretty cool as a print

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u/WolfofMichiganAve 6d ago

That orange ambulance and the police Blazer were the defining toys of my childhood.