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Although my diecast collection is admittedly rather large it isn't quite laden with full on premium models as I've always preferred the budget toy end of the 1/64 market. Only if the price is right and/or the subject matter is just too alluring will I buy any and this super charming Lada 2105 certainly fits all those criteria!
Made by a new Chinese company called Perka it joins a slowly increasing range of Russian themed diecasts they are bringing out and which are already attracting a lot of interest from many collectors. Its a true 1/64 scale so a little bit smaller than what I was expecting but more than makes up for it in the detailing department.
Everything which can possibly be detailed has been done to a high standard and it even features a metal baseplate and rubber tyres to justify its higher cost though in fairness it only cost a couple of Pounds more than what UK retailers charge for premium Hot Wheels!
Mint and boxed.
Admiring glances of the shiny new Patrol car.
1:76. OO Gauge. Ford Fiesta MK1 Police car is by Oxford Diecast.
This evening I was in downtown Boston walking through an area which consisted of old brick buildings that were cheek to jowl with concrete high rises.
As I crossed a litter filled alley, I happened to look down to the end of it and there was a mid 70's lux-o-barge parked under a very dim street light.
The scale of the buildings overpowered the size of the automobile, making it appear somewhat toy like.
It had such a feeling of "theater" that I came home and reconstructed the scene.
I chose a 1960 Cadillac diecast to convey the faded drama of what I had witnessed.
4 diecast toys. Matchbox. Cararama. Hot Wheels. Other. £5.
The gem is the Matchbox Rolls Royce dating from 1985. Restore or leave?
Brand new generic Matchbox MBX Fire Dasher casting, this one benefitting from lashings of Molotow chrome which certainly makes it look less cheapo. Mint and boxed.
With Tesco so far behind with 2020 Matchbox I wisely ordered and received Case C in Power Grabs guise from the U.S. some weeks back. I never thought for one minute this assortment would come to the U.K. but happily i've been proved completely wrong. One of my nearest stores had literally just put out a full case that morning and so.....well I think you can guess the rest! ;-p
Because international cases have a 72 count content rather than 24 there were SIX of these gorgeous little 1976 Honda Civics contained within instead of just the single one I got from the States. That meant plenty of scope for a bit of Molotow action which although not entirely accurate does rid it of that nasty cheapo unpainted plastic!
Using a diecast model to practice car photography... now there's a good idea, just took a really long time to have it. Sometimes I think the lightbulb in the fridge is brighter than the one over my head
A portion of my collection, there's all sorts of stuff over here from times from around late last year. Sorry my posting has been slow lately, schedules resume! Also some other stuff in the corner I might put up for sale soon, including some diecast and car calendars
Finding a Seat model in small 1/64 scale invariably meant trawling the internet looking for old Spanish made Guisval and Mira branded items so it was a genuine surprise to find Welly now getting in on the act too. Sadly not a Marbella, well yet anyway ;-p, but rather a beautifully crafted 600.
Made under licence of course from the original Fiat, Seat made these up until 1973 in huge numbers which probably explains why they were still a common sight on my holidays there throughout the 1990's. The sunny warm climate also stopped them from rusting away like an old tin can!
The model itself is jaw droppingly fabulous and as ever I just cannot believe that this is primarily priced and sold for the toy market when it just shouts semi premium scale model! Welly really know how to pack all that diecast goodness into such a small package and with a range which is becoming evermore diverse I'm fully expecting to see an Austin Ambassador Vanden Plas in their line up next year......
Mint and boxed.
The diecast drought here in my part of the U.K. continues even as the school holidays are in full swing and tales of various MBX batches including H appearing in Poundland and Poundworld stores only makes things more frustrating as none of mine so far stock any! Even new batches of Hot Wheels are impossible to find at the squillions of local stockists who normally do with Poundland of all places now neck and neck with everyone else! To console myself I've done a bit of Tomica shopping on Ebay and bagged myself one of their latest castings in the form of this gorgeous Abarth badged 124 Spider. The market for low cost roadsters now seems to be declining in the face of SUV's and Crossovers but thanks to a tie up with Mazda Fiat recently introduced their gorgeous 124 Spider and its seen here Abarth performance version. Being a Tomica you get a beautifully cast little model which in their usual style is extremely well presented and nicely detailed and even features a very easy to remove hardtop which makes it look even sexier. With a nice array of Eurocentric castings its a real shame models like this don't appear in U.K. stockists, indeed the last time I saw Tomica sold as singles here was at Toymaster back in the early 1990's! Mint and boxed.