Subject: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
15/12/2007 @ 17:26:43: CarChasesFanatic: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
Great cars Crzy Cars, actually w could add here our last purchased items here :grin: !

Anyway i must buy that minichamps 5 series and also the 7 series, everytime i see them i love them.

By the way my two lasts cars i bought arrived to me this morning, in these case two International trucks:

Fridge one http://www.ashevillediecast.com/images/new-15903f.jpg

And another one of bottles transport
The first photo of a truck in this forum thread http://www.forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=789009

Both at 1:43 scale, and they were very cheap, 9,95 each, New Ray brand, its something like Cararama quality but the price-quality is very good as some of you will know.
15/12/2007 @ 18:34:55: CrazyCars: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
Cool trucks, i must show you this truck i bought in August: http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/8687/vovofmnirvingby5.jpg

1:50 Scale by Corgi, so it's fairly large.

This great 1/18 was sadly destroyed when i dropped it onto a path, i really was careless :cry:

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/1335/1985mercedesbenz230elp1.jpg

If any of you have wondered if there is a model W140, look at this i picked up on Ebay for about 9 EUR. I'm not to fond of the red paintjob and matching wheels though, i'm tempted to change them...

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/1340/mercedesbenz600selamgyz0.jpg

Oh, and Carchasesfanatic, you may of noticed that Minichamps do not do a M5, well look what this guy has converted his to:
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa6/raidou-models/IMG_3046.jpg

Finally i want to show you what this guy can do to your models for $50. I could do this myself with a hammer, although i wouldn't want to damage any of my cars.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0BTrUIhiKk
15/12/2007 @ 18:43:17: CrazyCars: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
Oh, i'd like to show you all this very cool feature with the Norev A6 i bought today, http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3170/dsc03424hh9.th.jpg
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/3989/dsc03425zn5.th.jpg


Great little detail :grin: And this colour really stands out on my shelf :smile:
15/12/2007 @ 19:43:10: MBSL65fan: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
I collect 1:18 scale modeled cars. I haven't bought one though for about a year.
16/12/2007 @ 00:26:20: CarChasesFanatic: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
How nice that truck is CrazyCars :grin:

Nice transformation of that M5! seems very accurate.

And you destroyed your Mercedes? what a shame that incident has ahppened to me other times.

And nice S-Class! is it 1:18? well i dont like the colour that much...

And that about that guy destroying cars, i like dthe Volkswagen Cabriolet and the SL damage but as you say, i wouldnt do that to any of my cars either :grin:
16/12/2007 @ 08:48:45: CrazyCars: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
No, the W140 is only 1/43, no company makes a 1/18 of it, many people are complaining because of this....
16/12/2007 @ 12:31:37: CarChasesFanatic: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
Logical, it is my favorite S-Klasse, well that one and the one before, i'd like to get a 1:18 one.
16/12/2007 @ 12:43:50: CrazyCars: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
Some people pay lots of money to experts, just to get a car that hasn't been released by a top brand, and carchasesfanatic, have you seen the 1/43 W140 by Minichamps?
16/12/2007 @ 17:18:11: CarChasesFanatic: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
hmm i dont think so, but there might be some on ebay, about that of experts, in a spanish website i visit about scale models they talk about a guy that had done (as an order from a website) few units of a never released on 1:18 Seat 124 or 1430 (cant recall which one exactly right now but you know they both pretty look the same) but do you know its price?? well, hold on tight :tongue: TWO THOUSAND EUROS!
16/12/2007 @ 19:04:34: CrazyCars: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
You could buy an old real car for that...
16/12/2007 @ 19:06:26: CarChasesFanatic: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
Haha that's funny, someone said exactly the same in the Spanish forum.
16/12/2007 @ 19:22:11: CrazyCars: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
I hope to get these this christmas:
http://www.1-18scalecars.com/0Maybach_62.htm

1/18 so it's HUGE!! (Make sure you scroll down and look at the interior!

This one looks very good too:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Autoart-1-18-Die-Cast-Mercedes-Benz-S-Klasse-2007-Black_W0QQitemZ320172366134QQihZ011QQcategoryZ45349QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmd- ZViewItem

And finally this:

http://www.1zu87.com/bilder/14255B.JPG
16/12/2007 @ 19:49:02: CarChasesFanatic: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
Incredible interior for the S-Klasse!! i have a CTS with such quality, you know, Kyosho, Autoart are the best ones.
16/12/2007 @ 21:16:29: sixcyl: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
Modelcar collections?…. Well, it seems the virus flowed in my blood since I was 5 years old...let me tell you that I had a brother collecting model cars and a father collecting trains and buses... therefore I felt into very early in my life as young boy with big choice of Matchbox , then Norev, Dinky-toys and Minialuxe...some time some Tekno or Marklin models....as kid, each time I got 4,50 “Nouveau Francs “ , I went to the corner bar& tobacco of my street (Cours du Médoc in Bordeaux) to buy one of the plastic NOREV on display in the tobacco shop and increase my collection...
I stopped collecting car when I was 14 around... but went back to it in the mid 80’s until 3 years ago when I decided to stop again and start to sell my whole collection (almost because I ‘ve kept some english OOscale models of buses EFE/Corgi and older BudgieToys + few 1/43 rd scale )... I ‘ve sold around 30% of my 3800 models (the rarest and highest values)... and I keep on selling them from time to time at swap meetings...
My new collection’s aim is real vehicles (veterans) , but for the moment I have not the place and have only 2 moderns car.
16/12/2007 @ 23:24:51: CarChasesFanatic: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
mm, what a shame Sixcyl, i always wodner how can anyone sell their collections when they take many many years to collect, perhaps i suddenly change my idea in a future but for the moment i wouldnt sell any of my cars at all, i think i couldnt sell the crapy ones either simply becuase theyve been with me for a long long time.

You seem to have had a collection with rare pieces, dont you regreat at any point of selling them??
17/12/2007 @ 08:01:33: sixcyl: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
To sell/to buy..that's part of life too!
Of course I regreat sometime some good and nice pieces that I know I'll never find again if I would want to...but in such a case I think about the next collection :dawa:
17/12/2007 @ 08:25:36: sixcyl: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?

Found in the website link sent by Ingo
http://www.lostplaces.de/cms/verkehrsgeschichte/tankstellengeschichte-in-deutschland.html

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1195/ret20811856011501091501aq1.th.jpg http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/7184/ret20811856011501091501gi7.th.jpg http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3963/ret20811856011501091501uv1.th.jpg
It remind me this HO scale kits , one from East Germany :

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/168/stationserviceminolref2eb2.th.jpg http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4354/stationserviceminolref2bh4.th.jpg
1/87th scale kit from MAMOS MODELLE

the other from West Germany.
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7655/stationserviceessoref10ed8.th.jpg http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4533/stationserviceessoboiteau5.th.jpg
1/87th Plastic model from WIAD
17/12/2007 @ 08:32:54: sixcyl: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
About Frank Lloyd Wright gas station in Cloquet USA
Quote From: 58Roadmaster
It has two levels, presumably to entertain customers above whose autos are being serviced below.
...same idea with this very funny looking gas station:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/818/stationservicecafeshellrk5.th.jpg http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5876/stationserviceshellcaferi8.th.jpg
Faller kit HO scale of the sixties
17/12/2007 @ 08:53:20: sixcyl: How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
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Your attention to and preservation of model and box condition is impeccable. You may want to talk to a local museum, such as one devoted to transportaion or science, to see if you can get space for your collection. I would surely visit such a place if ever I was in Europe. Please don't sell these!
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