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By Greg RienziThe Gazette

Tim Phelps likes it hot. Flaming hot.
In fact, give Phelps a blank surface, and he's more than likely to have a flame on it before you can say "fat-fender Ford."
An award-winning medical illustrator for Johns Hopkins by day, Phelps 10 years ago developed an off-hours passion for flame painting, the kind you're likely to see on a circa 1950s hot rod.
Phelps prefers to flame miniature die-cast cars, but he's been known to heat up pool cues, coffee mugs, T-shirts and even Santa's sleigh with his scorching art. more