1/43 Diecast Collectors - Who else is here?

[Skyedriver]

Love some of the display cabinets, especially the tall one. Been looking for a cheap glass fronted cabinet for ages to replace an open shelved bookcase with dusty cars on it.

[Stealthracer]

Just a small part of my F1 collection, some built by myself.

(Tyrrell and black Ferrari have since been sold.)

The Mercedes High-Speed Transporter is particularly nice.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

The Mercedes number 18 has always worried me. It the only non open wheeled championship winning car since F1 started in 1950.

[BananaFama]

This took 11 days to arrive , thanks Evri , cost £6.50 including post and a headlamp has gone missing .





A FIAT Panda MK1 ,a 141 in FIAT serial number bearding .
not a very good pic of it either .

[GTRene]

BananaFama said:

This took 11 days to arrive , thanks Evri , cost £6.50 including post and a headlamp has gone missing .





A FIAT Panda MK1 ,a 141 in FIAT serial number bearding .
not a very good pic of it either .

ah a Fiat Panda, I had one long long time ago, very short, not good for my back those camping seats lol.

here part of my Peugeot and Fiat collection of my once owned cars but then in 1/43 the Panda is in the middle under, the red one ( I try also to get colors right with what I once had and say with those 205 peugeots also 3 or 5 door.)

[BananaFama]

I only bought that one because it was so cheap ,the Minichamps and Maxichamps cars in nice boxes are way more money .

[GTRene]

BananaFama said:

I only bought that one because it was so cheap ,the Minichamps and Maxichamps cars in nice boxes are way more money .

true, some are very expensive and or very hard to get and so mostly also very expensive...
I don't dare to tell what my collection incl the special aly cabinet have cost me, I had more then 122 cars in my car live over the many years, so it became a expensive ride...

but, I love it, else I forget, ofcourse I made a list long time ago because I knew at some point that I liked to switch and buy other mostly sporty cars to try, but now I can walk to the vitrine/cabinet? and just look at what I once had :-) still need a few very hard to get though.

for example still need 3 Nissan Sunny (Pulsar) GTI-R in grey...

I already have the ones in red en 2 in black, but the grey ones come rarely back on the market, mostly in Japan and ow, also expensive all in all.

[Stealthracer]

Is that Fiat Panda a Bburago? I remember when you could pick those up for 95p brand new, and probably 50p or less second hand. Strip and respray, find some decent wheels, add door mirrors and other detail - job's a good'un.

I have a Bburago Porsche 928 GTS somewhere, still in pieces, awaiting paint, parts and reassembly. Bought it at a swapmeet 20 years ago for £1.

[BananaFama]

Yes ,it's Bburago , listing on ebay said "very rare" and I fell for it , buy it now for £4.50 or make an offer .which I did at £3.75 plus postage .

The camera never lies and the paint is better in reality compared to that pic and one of the headlamps went missing too .

[ChemicalChaos]

Just sniped one of these on ebay for a lot less than they usually go for. I pondered for several days whether to spend £120 more on the Bizzarre version which has better detailing especially around the cockpit, but then I decided to be sensible for once! I'm gong to save it for when I acquire a Golden Arrow to sit alongside it, as due to the shape of that the Bizzarre version is noticeably way better than the WM version.

It might be 1.43, but for an 8.2m long real-life car it's still going to be a hefty 20cm long!

[Stealthracer]

You lucky devil, I've been looking for one of those for ages, the 1935 Bluebird has always been one of my favourite cars.

For now I have to be content with the tiny Lledo one a mate gave me. (At least it came in a set with the Napier Railton, Spirit of America Sonic 1 and Thrust 2.)

Edited by Stealthracer on Thursday 23 February 15:02

[ChemicalChaos]

Stealthracer said:

You lucky devil, I've been looking for one of those for ages, the 1935 Bluebird has always been one of my favourite cars.

For now I have to be content with the tiny Lledo one a mate gave me. (At least it came in a set with the Napier Railton, Spirit of America Sonic 1 and Thrust 2.)

There's two of the Bizzarre versions still active on ebay for £lol, if you're feeling flush!

Ah yes, my dad has got that set at home too! I always thought it was a bit of an odd combination of cars given that the original Spirit of America was probably more famous, and the Green Monster that raised the record several times was absent

[Robmarriott]

New arrival today is the 1999 (McRae/Grist number 7) car, I’ve been trying to find one which wasn’t three figures for over 2 years. Not quite the holy grail, there’s a 1999 pre season test livery available too but I’ve only ever seen one of them for sale and it was almost £200!

Bit of a nerdy collection but there’s only 6 left to find now I think, or maybe 7.

[Stealthracer]

I only have one of those Foci, the 2000 Acrollops Rally winner.

[Fallingup]

Stealthracer said:

Is that Fiat Panda a Bburago? I remember when you could pick those up for 95p brand new, and probably 50p or less second hand. Strip and respray, find some decent wheels, add door mirrors and other detail - job's a good'un.

I have a Bburago Porsche 928 GTS somewhere, still in pieces, awaiting paint, parts and reassembly. Bought it at a swapmeet 20 years ago for £1.

Not sure if you're talking about the model or the real Fiat.

[Speed Badger]

Thought I'd share this. I've got 1:43 models of all the BTCC Championship winning cars from the Super Touring era, 1991-2000, apart from Tim Harvey's 1992 BMW. Does anyone have one that they want to part with out of interest?

The Menu Laguna, Rydell Volvo and Aiello Nissan are all Onyx, the Tarquini Alfa is HPI (really beautiful model, best one there) Winkelhock BMW and Biela Audi are Minichamps and the Hoy BMW, Cleland Vauxhall and Menu Ford are Atlas Editions.



Also, a little Honda tribute.

[ChemicalChaos]

Speed Badger said:

Thought I'd share this. I've got 1:43 models of all the BTCC Championship winning cars from the Super Touring era, 1991-2000, apart from Tim Harvey's 1992 BMW. Does anyone have one that they want to part with out of interest?

The Menu Laguna, Rydell Volvo and Aiello Nissan are all Onyx, the Tarquini Alfa is HPI (really beautiful model, best one there) Winkelhock BMW and Biela Audi are Minichamps and the Hoy BMW, Cleland Vauxhall and Menu Ford are Atlas Editions.

I see you decided to keep them in the end then
I've got the same set and same issue as you!

The problem was that Atlas editions, who were busy plugging all the gaps in championship winning cars with their 1/43 magazine collection range, went bust halfway through the exercise - giving just enough vain hope to people like us who wanted to build a full set where this would previously have been impossible.
The only commercially available Harvey replica was made in the early 90s by Racing Replicas, it's a terrible model and very rare anyway.
There are a few people online and in Facebook groups who make "code 3" replicas using a DTM coupe as a base - however, the quality of these varies massively (I've seen one with a typo in the main decals!) and even the best ones are never quite right due to the very complicated paint scheme.

I'm living in hope that someone like Spark or Ixo picks up the baton - and to be honest, I'm surprised they haven't given the demand from collectors and the very left-field, obscure cars/liveries they do keep coming out with!

[Speed Badger]

ChemicalChaos said:

Speed Badger said:

Thought I'd share this. I've got 1:43 models of all the BTCC Championship winning cars from the Super Touring era, 1991-2000, apart from Tim Harvey's 1992 BMW. Does anyone have one that they want to part with out of interest?

The Menu Laguna, Rydell Volvo and Aiello Nissan are all Onyx, the Tarquini Alfa is HPI (really beautiful model, best one there) Winkelhock BMW and Biela Audi are Minichamps and the Hoy BMW, Cleland Vauxhall and Menu Ford are Atlas Editions.

I see you decided to keep them in the end then
I've got the same set and same issue as you!

The problem was that Atlas editions, who were busy plugging all the gaps in championship winning cars with their 1/43 magazine collection range, went bust halfway through the exercise - giving just enough vain hope to people like us who wanted to build a full set where this would previously have been impossible.
The only commercially available Harvey replica was made in the early 90s by Racing Replicas, it's a terrible model and very rare anyway.
There are a few people online and in Facebook groups who make "code 3" replicas using a DTM coupe as a base - however, the quality of these varies massively (I've seen one with a typo in the main decals!) and even the best ones are never quite right due to the very complicated paint scheme.

I'm living in hope that someone like Spark or Ixo picks up the baton - and to be honest, I'm surprised they haven't given the demand from collectors and the very left-field, obscure cars/liveries they do keep coming out with!

Yes, I had forgotten I had shown some of these earlier in the thread. I decided to keep the Super Touring ones as that's closest to my heart and I've sold/am selling the others. Ah that explains why Atlas Editions ones stopped, it felt weird how they just did random ones and not others. Would have been cool to have had at least one of the Astras from 01-04 or any of the Civic Type Rs, but hey. A bloody 92 Harvey BMW would have been nice though!

[fttm]

Robmarriott said:

New arrival today is the 1999 (McRae/Grist number 7) car, I’ve been trying to find one which wasn’t three figures for over 2 years. Not quite the holy grail, there’s a 1999 pre season test livery available too but I’ve only ever seen one of them for sale and it was almost £200!

Bit of a nerdy collection but there’s only 6 left to find now I think, or maybe 7.

Just had a nose at my long forgotten collection in the basement , I have a '99 Radstrom/Gallagher Rally Sweden example .

[marine boy]

Speed Badger said:

Also, a little Honda tribute.

Liking your Honda F1 tribute, think I've nearly 40 Honda powered F1 cars in part of my Honda section