1/43 Diecast Collectors - Who else is here?

[williamp]

ChemicalChaos said:

great models and a nice cabinet

Can we also talk about storage please. Thats a nice cabinet- can I ask where from??

[GTRene]

Just today my 3 new (new limited series) Ford escort RS2000 in yellow came in, wow, they look so real and that for 1/43 they are from corgi, vanguards.

Now I hope they also bring out also a limited series from those in orange, I need 2 in orange as wel..

look at the ones I collected long time ago after my first RS2000 back in 1983 I have those cars about 40 years now, its not 1/43 I think 1/56 orso
but look at the difference :-) at that time they did not had them in yellow so I painted it... almost 40 years ago.



here are those they gona replace



here a few pictures from Corgi, remember just 1/43 and so nice details, really good, love them and made in UK I believe 2500 they come with numbered cards.

Edited by GTRene on Tuesday 12th July 22:38

[ChemicalChaos]

GTRene said:

Just today my 3 new (new limited series) Ford escort RS2000 in yellow came in, wow, they look so real and that for 1/43 they are from corgi, vanguards.

Now I hope they also bring out also a limited series from those in orange, I need 2 in orange as wel..

look at the ones I collected long time ago after my first RS2000 back in 1983 I have those cars about 40 years now, its not 1/43 I think 1/56 orso
but look at the difference :-) at that time they did not had them in yellow so I painted it... almost 40 years ago.

Considering the age of the model and the fact you've painted it yourself, the old one doesnt look half bad! But yes, the new one definitely knocks it out the park detail wise

williamp said:

ChemicalChaos said:

great models and a nice cabinet

Can we also talk about storage please. Thats a nice cabinet- can I ask where from??

Many thanks!
I'm not 100% sure unfortunately - I got it secondhand in the Ebay steal of the century!

Without derailing the thread too much..... When I moved into this house and finally had room for a cabinet, I knew I had a few large and heavy models waiting in the wings so didn't want to go down the route of cramming them into one or multiple Ikea Detolfs or similar.
I spent weeks looking for a good secondhand shop cabinet online to let them "spread out" and crucially would be made of tempered glass - much safer and much, much stronger when carrying the weight of diecasts!
I eventually found the guy selling this on ebay. He was downsizing his collection - he had a basement with 4 of these each crammed with airfix. I got it for £500, all he would say was that they had cost "thousands each"
There's no makers mark on it but having searched online and compared the fixing holding it together, I believe it's probably an older version of this:

https://www.display-cabinets-direct.co.uk/products...


And here it is in all its glory:

[SebastienClement]

I shouldn't have started this thread... It's dangerous!

Some great looking models and collections - I love them!

[Stealthracer]

Vanguards are now made in China just like everything else, but the early ones (pre-Corgi when they were Lledo) were made in the UK - the box will tell you.

(Slightly OT: Couple of years ago when I went to the London Olympic Village to watch a table tennis tournament, I noticed the street where we parked the minibus was called Lesney Avenue. This is because Lesney, better known as Matchbox, originally had a factory in Hackney. And of course it was Jack Odell, one of the founders of Lesney, who later started Lledo.)

[wolfie28]

williamp said:

Can we also talk about storage please. Thats a nice cabinet- can I ask where from??

I've got the Rally car collection (Panini subscription from a few years back) and bought a display cabinet from Watsons on the Web. I'm happy with it as is holds all 70 1/43 scale cars nicely and looks good.

Looking at getting a second cabinet for models from the Supercar collection (Also Panini subscription). Just need to save my pennies and work out where I can put it.

Edited by wolfie28 on Wednesday 13th July 12:16

[GTRene]

Stealthracer said:

Vanguards are now made in China just like everything else, but the early ones (pre-Corgi when they were Lledo) were made in the UK - the box will tell you.

(Slightly OT: Couple of years ago when I went to the London Olympic Village to watch a table tennis tournament, I noticed the street where we parked the minibus was called Lesney Avenue. This is because Lesney, better known as Matchbox, originally had a factory in Hackney. And of course it was Jack Odell, one of the founders of Lesney, who later started Lledo.)

hah, good story that, so I started looking at the underside of that 44 year old Ford escort RS2000 mk2 and indeed, Matchbox, but that lesney product I never really saw :-) till now.

[964Cup]

Every car I've ever owned...

[marine boy]

^^^^ this is a fantastic collection ^^^^

[GTRene]

also a nice collection @964
it helps you to remind and look back the cars you have owned, thats also why I did it and even like you, bought a special show case for such.

It also gave a great feeling to find those cars in small on the web, some sadly never made or never seen...
thats also a part of the hunt, the hunt for red oct, euh little 1/43 cars :-)

[964Cup]

GTRene said:

also a nice collection @964
it helps you to remind and look back the cars you have owned, thats also why I did it and even like you, bought a special show case for such.

It also gave a great feeling to find those cars in small on the web, some sadly never made or never seen...
thats also a part of the hunt, the hunt for red oct, euh little 1/43 cars :-)

Indeed. There is occasionally the risk that I might buy a real car in order to justify setting up the hunt for the perfect model. The funny thing is that the most expensive off-the-shelf model there is the Saab 9000 Turbo - which really took some finding; in general it's the cooking cars, not the toys, that take real dedication to find. The Spit I built myself from a kit; the Griffith I had made. The wide-body 964 cab is a Frankenstein I put together from a 964 Turbo coupe from which I cut off the roof and whale tail and a 964 cabriolet which donated the tonneau cover and standard rear wing. It's all a bit obsessive. The holy grails as yet unobtained are a '99 Audi S6 Avant (the car shown is a plain A6 Avant) of which I can find no model, and a mark 1 Disco 4 (that's a late 3 in the collection - we had a '10, a '12 and a '14 and I couldn't find the '10). Of course the next step would be to get colours and minor trim details right, but that way lies madness.

[GTRene]

964Cup said:

Indeed. There is occasionally the risk that I might buy a real car in order to justify setting up the hunt for the perfect model. The funny thing is that the most expensive off-the-shelf model there is the Saab 9000 Turbo - which really took some finding; in general it's the cooking cars, not the toys, that take real dedication to find. The Spit I built myself from a kit; the Griffith I had made. The wide-body 964 cab is a Frankenstein I put together from a 964 Turbo coupe from which I cut off the roof and whale tail and a 964 cabriolet which donated the tonneau cover and standard rear wing. It's all a bit obsessive. The holy grails as yet unobtained are a '99 Audi S6 Avant (the car shown is a plain A6 Avant) of which I can find no model, and a mark 1 Disco 4 (that's a late 3 in the collection - we had a '10, a '12 and a '14 and I couldn't find the '10). Of course the next step would be to get colours and minor trim details right, but that way lies madness.

lol, I know what you mean.
I had a saab 900cl that was a trade in car and had the looks of a 900 Turbo so have that as well in my showcase.
and yes, had to built also a few myself, a Black Fiat 130TC Abarth, not the TVR Griffith which there are a few about, but build me a TVR V8S which you could also buy, but hey, I try it (it not as easy as it looks those iron parts and painting pff) but hey, when its ready it gives a good feeling.

Also had to paint a few to make it my color car, and I bought a lot cars I've owned not in the right color (to hard to find, because old and or were limited so can take years for one to pop up somewhere) to fill my showcase and then I look out on the web for the right color or sometimes the right model, say I have now a very nice Renault 18 GT in duo color blue silver or so, which looks like my ex R18 Turbo, except, mine was total blue with some striping and I've seen and now the precise type have been sold limited, so one day I buy the type that really looked and type was what I have owned, I know one on ebay, but way to expensive incl postage... although I've bought way more expensive hard to get Japan cars from Japan, but do not want to spent to much for a R18 Turbo.

The strange thing is, most sport cars there are plenty of some even cheap-ish, but some cars I've owned which were trade in or in between cars used for the time that I sought and found my car of choice, some of those I can not find! and or are never made some say... and some crazy expensive! very strange hah.

So a few cars are look alike, say a blue old Rover 216se I shortly owned, I used a Ford Orion instead, or a Hyundai Getz a small VW in the same color and made the same black rubber strips on it, it almost looks the same .

But most cars are the right make, type and model and color, the mini me car cars ;-) so lovely, like say a Talbot samba rally in red with striping or the Mitsubishi Lancer turbo in that pearl white and the Fiat 131 racing or the Fiat 130TC Abarth cars (had 3 in 3 different colors, one I had to build) or the fantastic Nissan Pulsar (Sunny) GTI-R I owned 6 of those, 2 black, 1 red (those I have and perfect) and 3 in grey, those were made, but very rare... even finding a good picture of that (have that), but they were made, sadly I need 3 of those, lol.

[GTRene]

Spark have those Audi S6 avant I guess? 1996 model , here a example

https://www.ebay.nl/itm/175182311078?hash=item28c9...

https://search.brave.com/images?q=Audi+S6+Avant+1%...

[Stealthracer]

Couple of photos of my small cabinet which only holds about 10 per cent of the collection!

Top row - minis (plus one Imp)

Second row - 1967 F1s (the last year before those nasty wings and adverts ruined it for ever) mostly built from kits

Third row - Le Mans winners

Fourth row - F1s from 2000, the last year I tried to buy all the current ones

Bottom row - Porsche rad cars, greatly outnumbered by the racers, plus of course the 804 which was the only Porsche ever to win an F1 race

[marine boy]

964Cup said:

Indeed. There is occasionally the risk that I might buy a real car in order to justify setting up the hunt for the perfect model.

It more than collecting, more like an obsession!

My obsession with my 'cars I've helped create' collection has got the level where part of my criteria for accepting a new job is 'can I buy a 1/43 scale model of the car' 😁

[BIRMA]

Here's my collection, a lot of Corgi Lotus models all mint and with mint boxes. Collected over a 30 year span and before the clever fakes came on the market. Quite a few rare die cast Ferrari models too.

[SAB888]

I have a collection of 1:43 models, 128 at the last count, all Lamborghinis. The vast majority are Minichamps and AutoArt, and are usually a good likeness to the real car. Norev are ok, so are Ixo (although I know of one or two that aren't that good). Kyosho are slightly better than Minichamps then there are the more expensive Looksmart and Make-up Models.

I have lots of 1:18s and 1:64s along with the odd 1:12 and 1:24, but 1:43s are a good size as you can build up a very nice collection without taking up too much space.

[williamp]

SAB888 said:

I have a collection of 1:43 models, 128 at the last count, all Lamborghinis. The vast majority are Minichamps and AutoArt, and are usually a good likeness to the real car. Norev are ok, so are Ixo (although I know of one or two that aren't that good). Kyosho are slightly better than Minichamps then there are the more expensive Looksmart and Make-up Models.

I have lots of 1:18s and 1:64s along with the odd 1:12 and 1:24, but 1:43s are a good size as you can build up a very nice collection without taking up too much space.

Sounds great. Any pics?

[SAB888]

williamp said:

SAB888 said:

I have a collection of 1:43 models, 128 at the last count, all Lamborghinis. The vast majority are Minichamps and AutoArt, and are usually a good likeness to the real car. Norev are ok, so are Ixo (although I know of one or two that aren't that good). Kyosho are slightly better than Minichamps then there are the more expensive Looksmart and Make-up Models.

I have lots of 1:18s and 1:64s along with the odd 1:12 and 1:24, but 1:43s are a good size as you can build up a very nice collection without taking up too much space.

Sounds great. Any pics?

I only have some old pics right now and the collection has grown since then.

[NoBrakesWC]

williamp said:

I have a neat collection of 1:43 Aston martins.

I now want to collect 1:43 of every car I have owned.. and in the right colour (or I respray them)

Its nio easy and I'm not sure its even possible. But its fun!

I've started collecting 1 of every car i have owned so far 2 cars I have collected. Looking for a model of my current car currently.