Formula One Car Collection models - anyone else?
Discussion
You may or may not have seen these advertised on TV, especially in ad breaks when the F1 is on (duhh!)
Anyway, anyone not familiar with them - it's a Panini product (those of the Football sticker albums fame) whereby every fortnight you can buy a magazine with a 1:43 model of a Formula One car attached. The first issue was £2.99, the second £5.99 and from then on each issue is £9.99.
Here's the website
If you subscribe to them direct, you also receive a bunch of free gifts - four or five extra cars, some DVD's, a binder, and two model transporter trucks as well, a Scuderia Ferrari and Mc.Laren Honda.
However - the full collection runs for two and a half years in total, so dedicated subscribers will receive 60 model cars at a price of just over 600 quid...
I've always been cynical about these types of collections, the cost for one - but I bought the first two issues and I was pretty much smitten from day one! In my opinion, the models are obviously not the last word in detail correctness - but for the price, I think they're pretty damn good. The magazine is also quite nice - ok, you could easily find all the information on the net, there's nothing new in them - but they're nicely printed on decent stock, and have a nice bit of history on the car, team and drivers, plus a little pull-out on the technical aspects.
Anyway here's a pic of my first four models:
There is a small thread in the 'Models' section of PH where a handful of serious anoraks have just dismissed them as toys, arguing about proper liveries and all the anal stuff they love
so I wanted to start a thread in the General section for those of us who are a little less bothered about perfection and more interested in having more toys!
Is anyone else collecting? What do you think? Be interested to know.
Cheers
Anyway, anyone not familiar with them - it's a Panini product (those of the Football sticker albums fame) whereby every fortnight you can buy a magazine with a 1:43 model of a Formula One car attached. The first issue was £2.99, the second £5.99 and from then on each issue is £9.99.
Here's the website
If you subscribe to them direct, you also receive a bunch of free gifts - four or five extra cars, some DVD's, a binder, and two model transporter trucks as well, a Scuderia Ferrari and Mc.Laren Honda.
However - the full collection runs for two and a half years in total, so dedicated subscribers will receive 60 model cars at a price of just over 600 quid...
I've always been cynical about these types of collections, the cost for one - but I bought the first two issues and I was pretty much smitten from day one! In my opinion, the models are obviously not the last word in detail correctness - but for the price, I think they're pretty damn good. The magazine is also quite nice - ok, you could easily find all the information on the net, there's nothing new in them - but they're nicely printed on decent stock, and have a nice bit of history on the car, team and drivers, plus a little pull-out on the technical aspects.
Anyway here's a pic of my first four models:
There is a small thread in the 'Models' section of PH where a handful of serious anoraks have just dismissed them as toys, arguing about proper liveries and all the anal stuff they love
so I wanted to start a thread in the General section for those of us who are a little less bothered about perfection and more interested in having more toys!Is anyone else collecting? What do you think? Be interested to know.
Cheers
ecsrobin said:
I signed up for the first 6 issues to get the free gift offer. These came out as the F1 auto collection in mainland europe last year so you can get an idea of what’s in the whole collection although the sequence of releases is different over here. They are not as good as minichamps but then they are a lot cheaper and I'm generally happy with them. I will keep it going until I get the Brabham BT44 which was issue 10 abroad, hopefully it won’t be issue 60. Looking forward to the lotus 72 in the next issue, the 70s cars have more detail and are nicer to look at.
which is a shame 'cos the idea was to get a wider audience. Ah well! ecsrobin said:
Which descended into the anorak-farce that I was trying to avoid with this post...Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
ecsrobin said:
Which descended into the anorak-farce that I was trying to avoid with this post...Just to validate your point I need to provide some clarity around this:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
If you subscribe to them direct, you also receive a bunch of free gifts - four or five extra cars, some DVD's, a binder, and two model transporter trucks as well, a Scuderia Ferrari and Mc.Laren Honda.
To get the transporters is an extra £1.50 per issue. Therefore £90, or £45 each. And they're a different scale to the cars.I'm sure they're excellent though.
ferrisbueller said:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
ecsrobin said:
Which descended into the anorak-farce that I was trying to avoid with this post...Just to validate your point I need to provide some clarity around this:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
If you subscribe to them direct, you also receive a bunch of free gifts - four or five extra cars, some DVD's, a binder, and two model transporter trucks as well, a Scuderia Ferrari and Mc.Laren Honda.
To get the transporters is an extra £1.50 per issue. Therefore £90, or £45 each. And they're a different scale to the cars.I'm sure they're excellent though.
dr_gn said:
ferrisbueller said:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
ecsrobin said:
Which descended into the anorak-farce that I was trying to avoid with this post...Just to validate your point I need to provide some clarity around this:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
If you subscribe to them direct, you also receive a bunch of free gifts - four or five extra cars, some DVD's, a binder, and two model transporter trucks as well, a Scuderia Ferrari and Mc.Laren Honda.
To get the transporters is an extra £1.50 per issue. Therefore £90, or £45 each. And they're a different scale to the cars.I'm sure they're excellent though.
ferrisbueller said:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
ecsrobin said:
Which descended into the anorak-farce that I was trying to avoid with this post...Just to validate your point I need to provide some clarity around this:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
If you subscribe to them direct, you also receive a bunch of free gifts - four or five extra cars, some DVD's, a binder, and two model transporter trucks as well, a Scuderia Ferrari and Mc.Laren Honda.
To get the transporters is an extra £1.50 per issue. Therefore £90, or £45 each. And they're a different scale to the cars.I'm sure they're excellent though.
I'm not bothered in the slightest about how accurate they are - they just look like shiny, colourful little Formula One cars in little display cases.....anything really which ignites my inner child like these do is welcome in my life haha!
And yes....to get the transporters is indeed an extra £1.50 an issue...so £45 each. And also as correctly stated, a different scale. I have to concede on this point, that this isn't maybe great value, and I'm not sure if it's going to be worth it. However, when I committed to the subscription, my OCD sort of wouldn't let me subscribe to anything less than the full collection haha!
So, there it is. I'll post pics and a review of the trucks when they arrive
My opinion is that, if you are happy with toys, that is fine, as long as you are paying the appropriate amount that a toy would fetch.
If you are being charged quite large amounts, you should expect better.
If you go ahead and complete the collection, you will have paid an awful lot of money that could have given you a very good selection of much better quality product.
If you are being charged quite large amounts, you should expect better.
If you go ahead and complete the collection, you will have paid an awful lot of money that could have given you a very good selection of much better quality product.
Eric Mc said:
My opinion is that, if you are happy with toys, that is fine, as long as you are paying the appropriate amount that a toy would fetch.
If you are being charged quite large amounts, you should expect better.
If you go ahead and complete the collection, you will have paid an awful lot of money that could have given you a very good selection of much better quality product.
I wouldn’t go so far as to describe these as toys. In my opinion they are very passable and fairly accurate display items. If you are being charged quite large amounts, you should expect better.
If you go ahead and complete the collection, you will have paid an awful lot of money that could have given you a very good selection of much better quality product.
What constitutes a very good selection of a better quality product? The minichamps versions of the cars in the photo would cost in the region of £150 to £200 for just the four so £600 won't get a lot of those. It is a lot of money but 65 cars of reasonably good quality is not a bad return.
kuro said:
I wouldn’t go so far as to describe these as toys. In my opinion they are very passable and fairly accurate display items.
What constitutes a very good selection of a better quality product? The minichamps versions of the cars in the photo would cost in the region of £150 to £200 for just the four so £600 won't get a lot of those. It is a lot of money but 65 cars of reasonably good quality is not a bad return.
Gosh - Minichamps have gone up a lot. A while ago I went through a phase of collecting 1/43 built F1 cars and they were usually sub £20 (often sub £10) - but that was between around 1990 and 1998 I have to admit. They were usually Minichamps, Onyx or Vitesse. You can often still pick these cars up for very low amounts at motor sport events such as Goodwood.What constitutes a very good selection of a better quality product? The minichamps versions of the cars in the photo would cost in the region of £150 to £200 for just the four so £600 won't get a lot of those. It is a lot of money but 65 cars of reasonably good quality is not a bad return.
dr_gn said:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
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