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Diecast Delights: A Ford Model T Van in 1:18 scale
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It’s a political hot potato, it seems. 1:18th scale cars find themselves being dismissed as mere “toys”, by my wife, many of my work colleagues and (whisper it) certain members of this esteemed website. Surely it’s all about context? Give a six-year-old a CMC Maserati Birdcage and it’ll be launched down the stairs as if…
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Diecast Delights: An MGF Roadster in 1:18 Scale.
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Cars come and cars go, and the majority pass into obscurity without leaving much to remember them by. The MGF was an interesting development in the late history of the Rover group, turning up in the mid ’90s as a mid-engined shock to the rather conservative Rover system. The development process had been a protracted…
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Diecast Delights: David Deacon's BMW M1 In 1:43 Scale
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Despite what television and the internet might have you believe, some guys actually enjoy spending time with their wives. This weekend we hitched up the wagons and headed into town for a day out and about enjoying the gorgeous weather and seeing what Reno had in store. We grabbed some lunch and walked around in…
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Diecast "Delights": A Trabant 601 in 1:18 Scale
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For years and years I had wanted a model of a Trabant to add to my collection of “real world” cars. I had vague recollections of seeing them for sale in model emporiums at prices just beyond what I could afford in my formative years as a collector, but I never made that stretch. And…
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Diecast Delights: A Shelby Cobra in 1:18 Scale
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You know, I’m not really a fan of the AC Cobra in any of its forms. I know that talk like that is enough to see me permanently ejected from The Man Club without any chance of readmission, but it’s just not my cup of tea. Many people other than Mr Shelby have cooked up…
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Diecast Delights: A Jeep Rubicon in 1:18 Scale
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Something happened last week, not sure what, but it inspired me to head up into my attic and uncover a model Jeep that has been begging for a Diecast Delights feature for years. I realised we’ve not done enough in Diecast Delights to explore the wonderful variety of off road vehicles that exist in the…
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Diecast Delights: A 1958 Studebaker Golden Hawk in 1:18 scale
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This model has actual, genuine, honest-to-goodness, working crank windows. That’s all you need to know, and all you need as justification to go and buy one. The subject matter itself is almost a side issue. It’s a 1958 Studebaker Golden Hawk, in gold, of course. Check it out in stills and in video (!) after…
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Diecast Delights: A 1975 Peugeot 504 in 1:18 Scale
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Now here’s a car which ought to appeal to Hoons on either side of the Atlantic. Indeed, one which is probably somehow more revered in the USA than it is in the UK. The Peugeot 504 is one of the more iconic shapes ever to have emerged from the nominally dull-as-dishwater category of “ordinary family…
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Diecast Delights: An Opel Ascona (B) i2000
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As has been mentioned here before, my favourite 1:18 models tend to be of ordinary, everyday cars, albeit those which no longer feature on the road prominently enough to still be in the collective conscious of the general public. A case in point is the second generation Opel Ascona, a car which, seemingly bizarre in…
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The Attainable Riva Aquarama
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Those curves. That pronounced sheer. The authority of line you only see when a design has formed organically from the mind of a talented designer. All of these attributes and more can be found on the Classic Riva Aqcuarama, and many more from that famous Cantieri. No matter what the angle you gawp at them…
