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Diecast Delights: A 1952 Citroen 2CV in 1:18 Scale
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We’ll go from last week’s extreme Crocodile to a rather more mundane Tin Snail, and a vehicle which is probably far more relevant to the everyday motorist while being far less colourful. We’re looking at a Maisto produced Citroen 2CV, probably among the the most humble yet worthy vehicles to be made available in 1:18…
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Diecast Delights: The Audi R8 "Crocodile" in 1:18 Scale
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Having gone one and on about the various justifications a collector uses to add to his collection, there’s one big factor that I’ve left out, and this fifteen year old Maisto model is a very good example. I’m talking about when you just have to have something because of its paint job. I’m not really…
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Diecast Delights: A Pontiac Fiero GT in 1:18 scale
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My model car collection, by and large, tends to eschew household-name supercars in favour of less obvious candidates for teenage bedroom wall poster worship, hence the Opel Manta and Citroen CX being among the treasures in my attic. So, while bored on a train journey and idly browsing my Android mobile eBay app, which I…
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Diecast Delights: A Messerschmitt KR200 in 1:18 Scale
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Today’s model fits snugly into my collection under the sub-category of “Cars that I have always been intrigued by”. The Messerschmitt KR series belonged to that slightly elastic historical grouping we refer to as “Bubble cars”, machines beloved by Europe around the 1950s, and slightly forgotten today by most people outside a certain set of…
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Diecast Delights: A 2003 Thunderbird in 1:18 Scale
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This is a model that I’m still slightly angry about and have been since I bought it, second hand, from eBay. Owning as I did already another model by Beanstalk, the superb Ford GT, I was intrigued to see what their other early-Millennial Ford offerings were like. The Thunderbird was one and it was on…
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Diecast Delights: An XJ220 in 1:12 Scale. But is Bigger Better?
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In 1993, when I was 12, I visited the Florida Mall, Orlando during my first culturally charged foray into the United States. While I was there, in a branch of Smoke ‘N ‘Snuff, I bought a ludicrously overpriced Maisto model of the Jaguar XJ220 in 1:18th scale. Whether it was a £/$ exchange rate SNAFU,…
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Diecast Delights: A Jaguar XJS in 1:18 Scale
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What I have for you today is a piece of hard-hitting investigative journalism. It was while browsing one of the diecast model forums a chap mentioned that there was a sale event going on with a German model car supplier, namely www.ck-modelcars.de. I thought that perhaps this was something worthy of investigation. To see whether…
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Diecast Delights: A Mk1 Ford Capri in 1:18th Scale
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A strange phenomenon that seems to permeate through my entire model collections is that I seem prone to collecting the wrong versions of things. Looking on eBay to see just how luxuriously wealthy I would become if I was to begin flogging my models off, I am frequently disappointed to find that X model would…
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Diecast Delights: A Range Rover P38A in 1:18 Scale
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The Range Rover has probably never had a higher profile than it enjoys today. Far from being just a very accomplished SUV the current generation is seen as among the very upper echelon of super-prestige cars. Its the best of the best, the flashiest of the flash. For confirmation just turn to MTV Base and…
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Diecast Delights: A Renault Clio V6 in 1:18 scale
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So, I thought I was doing well managing my intake of 1:18s. I had gone five weeks without a purchase, not quite cold turkey, but pretty good. Then, suddenly, the eBay app on my phone jingled at me and boasted about how many diecast conquests I was potentially missing out on. So the addiction lives…
