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Diecast Delights: A Euro Ford Ranger in 1:18 Scale
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Until the recent past pickup-trucks weren’t really a thing across Europe. I’m pretty sure, though, that within my lifetime auto historians will publish essays on the exact moment, and reason, that all that changed. It all comes down to clever marketing. Previously, the pick-up truck was a hardy, utilitarian device (ab)used by builders and manual…
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Diecast Delights: a '69 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ 428 in 1/18 scale.
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I still do it. Whenever we go past a toyshop I still go inside, forlornly hoping that what happened once some twelve years ago could happen again. Of course, it never does. In 2003 I found myself idly wandering around Chelmsford. Bored absolutely rigid, I ventured into a branch of The Entertainer, a generic all-ages…
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Diecast Delights: A Ford Mustang SVO in 1:18 Scale
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I couldn’t resist it. While patrolling this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, diligently photographing everything that I thought I might be able to write something about, I noticed a ziggurat of diecasts in the scant shelter of Bill Shepherd Mustang’s merchandise awning. Then the part of me that controls my spending muscles and is always…
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Diecast Delights: A '65 Corvette Sting Ray in 1:18 scale.
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Too much, too young: The Clash were about right. With a mortgage ensuring that what Easily Comes also Easily Goes, and with ACTUAL cars, ones that I can get in and drive around, vying for slices of my monthly income, I’d have to be absolutely stark, staring mad to spend out serious dough on model…
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Diecast Delights: A Willys Jeep in 1/18 scale.
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If I was opening a car museum, what would I put in it? That’s pretty much what I have in mind when deciding on collecting models. Every collector, consciously or not, has a theme in mind. Some are Muscle Car completists and will scour the world, pay huge amounts and sometimes perform DIY modifications to…
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Diecast Delights: An Opel Manta in 1/18 Scale
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When I was knee high to a Cortina, our visiting healthcare professional was a lady, and she drove an Opel Manta. It was a GT, the base model in the UK in the mid ’80s, and I thought it was pretty much the coolest thing in the world. It had those anthracite steel wheels with…
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Die-Cast Delights: A Renault 5 Turbo in 1:18 Scale
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Some people follow themes in their diecast car collections. Some folk own a model of everything ever in the entire Ferrari back catalogue. Some folk collect exclusively silver models, and there are, of course, motorsport fanatics who use their collection to demonstrate their allegiance to a given team or driver. Me? I collect stuff I…
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Diecast Delights: Lotus Elise 111S in 1/18 Scale
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You know, collecting diecast models is a peculiar hobby that everybody goes about in different ways. There are dozens of forums out there devoted to it, but a common theme is people fawning over the latest releases by companies like Exoto, Spark and CMC. These models are often made in extremely limited numbers, and the…
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Norman Timbs Streamliner from Automodello is a 1:43 Scale beauty
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In the 1940s, a man named Norman Timbs set out to make a car of his own design. In 1948, that goal came to fruition when the Timbs Streamliner roared into existence. Its sleek all-aluminum body was hand-formed by the man who stuck his own name on the car, and the resulting shape is truly…
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Diecast Delights: '98 Porsche 911 GT1 in 1:18 scale
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What is the point of the weekly Diecast Delights slot? Well, all over The Internet there are dozens, hundreds, several forums all discussing nothing but diecast models. Quite a lot of them seem to be frequented by folk with bottomless pockets, all high-fiving and back patting each other on their latest megabuck 1:18 purchase, often…
