How to Design Matchbox Cars

Matchbox cars are fun to collect, trade and race. They have been around for years and have followed almost all of the trends of automobile design. Designing your own Matchbox car is a great way to express your creativity or try out automobile paint jobs without having to paint a real car. Once you have completed your design, you can grab some enamel paints and paint your own Matchbox car. This way you will have a truly unique car in your collection.

Things You'll Need

• Paper
• Pencil
• Black ink pen
• Eraser
• Colored markers

Instructions

1. 

   Draw a long cube for the body of the Matchbox cube. Do this by drawing a long diagonally facing rectangle. Make the rectangle three-dimensional by adding two parallelograms to the front and side of the rectangle. Draw three short vertical lines coming down from the bottom three corners of the rectangle. Connect these lines with a short diagonal line on the front side and a long diagonal line on the right side.

2. 

   Draw a square in the center of the rectangular cube. Add the front window with a trapezoid: draw two short diagonal lines coming off the bottom left and right corners. Add a long diagonal line in between these two lines to connect them. Add the rear window in the same manner as the front window, but make the rear window slightly smaller. Add the side window simply by drawing a diagonal line between the roof and the side of the car.

3. 

   Draw the wheels with two circles near the bottom left and right corners of the body of the car. Add a bumper with a long thin rectangle attached to the front of the car. Add a back bumper with a small square coming off the back right corner of the body of the car.

4. 

   Erase any overlapping guidelines. Ink the entire drawing. Let the ink dry and carefully erase the pencil lines. Add flames to the front and sides of the car with two large curved triangular shapes on the corners of the front of the car. Add a long, thin triangular shape running up the center of the hood of the car. Add licks of flame with tiny curved triangular shapes on coming out of the flames.

5. 

   Color the body of the car blue. Color the wheels black and the windows gray. Color the inside of the flames orange and color the outside edge of the flames red.

Tips & Warnings

• Make a photocopy of the blank Matchbox template that you create in Step 4 to make multiple designs without having to redraw anything.

• Place a sheet of paper under your illustration to prevent the ink from bleeding through.

Resources

• 100 different Matchbox cars at Matchbox.com