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[Barry Boor]

TOYS????

[Ray Bell]

Well, how does your wife view them?

...don't you dare say "through her spectacles..." either!

Barry, when I'm on the phone to some 87yo who raced in the thirties, asking about things I need for a story I'm researching, I'm told that I'm "waffling on." Would such a woman see your little cars as other than toys?

[Bladrian]

Originally posted by Ray Bell
Well, how does your wife view them?

...don't you dare say "through her spectacles..." either!

Barry, when I'm on the phone to some 87yo who raced in the thirties, asking about things I need for a story I'm researching, I'm told that I'm "waffling on." Would such a woman see your little cars as other than toys?

When 'er indoors tells you that you're waffling on, there's only one sensible reply: "Speaking about waffles, have you got mine on the cooker yet? And I want more syrup this time."

;)

[Barry Boor]

My dear wife is FAR too tactful to call them anything! But she did once take a few cars into work to 'show them off' to colleagues, so that must tell you something.

Then again, the other day, when I came in from my shed she asked me if i had finished my GAME.

[eldougo]

Iam unable to show photo of my special toy.i found it in a cleanup at a friend place in surry
years ago it isa TAMIYA 1-12 scale LOTUS 49b in gold leaf colours G.HILL aa battey powered
car . it,s the TWIN FRONT AN REAR WING MODEL .It was badly broken an i had
to reconstruct the wing legs an some back suspension parts no wonder itwas in such a bad way
kids used to play with it. Ihave en cased it in a perspex box to keep it clean an safe.

I wish i had a digital camera i could also you my own collection off Wood f1 cars i made out of
pine approx 1-12 scale all painted in the correct colours etc.

SHADOW DN-9 regga
McLaren mp-4 lauda
Ralt Rt-1 paul berasconie
Ralt Rt-4 graham watson
Brabham bt- 16 paul collins
Brabham bt -52 nelson piquet
Porsche 956 peter brock/ larry perkins .

PLUS other tamiya 1-12 cars Lotus Brabham Tyrrell etc.

[Ray Bell]

Anything that's not work in life, Barry, is a game...

If you're smart, you make your work a game too. In other words, she got that one right... but how did she ever survive the aftermath of taking those 'toys' to work?

[Falcadore]

If I ever start buying die cast Metal models it will be a slippery slope to bankruptcy I'm sure.

Although I do own a Bob Morris / John Fitzpatrick Holden Torana LH L34, the car that won Bathurst without winning it, supposedly. I'll stop at one. I did buy a recently Dick Johnson collection Ford Sierra RS500 only for it to be sold before I could collect it. Not happy Jan.

I'm less reticent about buying plastic kits. Sitting on my dispay shelf are,

Alan Jones Williams FW07B Cosworth
Nigel Mansell Williams FW11 Honda
Nigel Mansell Ferrari 640-2
Alessandro Nannini Benetton B189 Cosworth
Eric Bernard Larrousse LC90 Lamborghini
Ivan Capelli March CG901 Judd
Stefano Modena Tyrrell 020B Mugen-Honda
Rickard Rydell Volvo 850 Estate
Dick Johnson Ford Sierra RS500
Glenn Seton Ford Sierra RS500

and under construction
Johnny Herbert / Volker Weidler / Bertrand Gachot Mazda 787B

theres quite a list qwaiting to be built inlcuding a Zakspeed 891 Yamaha next I think will be a turbo Renault.

Oh there's another car on the end.

It's a Ligier JS11/15 Matra which unfolds into a robot called 'Mirage' who claims he would be much happier hunting foxes on his home world than fighting as a warrior on Earth.

[fines]

Originally posted by Falcadore
It's a Ligier JS11/15 Matra

[Falcadore]

Originally posted by fines

Sorry - Cossie of course. The engine block isn't exactly well represented. And it's not a definitive 11/15, it could also be an 11. It's not wonderfully accurate. I guess the ability to form arms, legs a head, carry a shoulder fired missile launcher and a snipers rifle (how can those weapons compliment each other???) was considered more important. But it's kitsch and kinda cute. As a Datsun Z fan I'd love to get hold of one of the 'Z' robots. The Police Car version looks cool but there's a another in vaguely Peter Brock Datsun Zed racing colours called 'Smokescreen'.

Or Maybe the Martini Porsche 935..... or the Lancia Stratos......

[Barry Boor]

Now this really is rubbish, or at least, the skill of the person making it is....

I bought this Renaissance resin kit of the Lancia D.50 about 4 years ago. Everything went well with the building until it came to drilling the numerous holes in the body to insert the brackets that hold the side tanks. I looked at it dozens of times, then quietly put it away again....

Having purchased a couple of new kits recently, I thought I had better complete this one, so in the last week I have finally finished it off.


Don't be fooled - it is a poor job! What you cannot see is that the right rear wheel is sitting on a piece of plasticine in order that the front wheels are both touching the ground. (I ALWAYS have trouble getting these resin kits to sit square on the floor!)

Also, there are the usual bodges and fiddles that I always seem to have to do when making these 43rd scale kits.

Anyway, now it's on to my 2 new kits... a Porsche 718 F.1 and the 1955 Vanwall.

[David Beard]

It must be my screen...I can't imagine it's you Barry.....but isn't that red a bit bright?

[Barry Boor]

Trick of the light, Old Thing. Check the Ferrari Nose Colours thread. There is a plan view of the same model. Actually it's a very dark red - as used by Lancia in 1954.

[Hse289]

Hi, sorry no pictures but i,ll tell you about my collection. They are all Cobras, nearly ninety in total. I started collecting twenty two years ago when my uncle who was clearing his shed out gave me a model kit made by Frog. Since then i try and collect what i can. My favourites in my collection are;
Revell Lang Cooper 1/32 scale( One off King Cobra designed by Pete Brock)
Exoto Cobra Daytona 1/18 scale ( i won this one in a competition)
John Day Cobra roadster 1/43
Marsh Models Ken Miles "Fliptop" Cobra 1/43
Marsh Models Cobra Dragonsnake 1/43
Monogram King Cobra 1/32
Scalextric Cobra (the one that came as a kit )
K&R Replicas King Cobra 1/43
AMT Cobra 1/24 kit
Anybody else out there collect Cobra models?

[Frank de Jong]

Originally posted by Frank de Jong
My load of rubbish is behind me: tamiya 1/12 Lola T70-Aston, McLaren M23 and 1976 Ferrari 312T; a 1/24 Williams FW07 (Regazzoni); 2 Porsche 956's (Joest and Lloyd version); a few 1/24 Touring cars (what did you think?) Porsche 935/78, 934, Lancia Montecarlo, BMW M1, BMW 320 (Höttinger), Zakspeed Capri, Toyota Celica, VW Golf GTI, Escort II Zakspeed, BMW 635 CSi and 1974 BMW CSL with starting #87, ex-worls colors,which I have not identified so far. Probabably the Finotto/Mohr car.
1/43, special modified section: 1975 Gelo Mirage, 1974 BMW 2002 Alpina (especially proud about that one, built from a Solido 2002 Turbo, looks absolutely right), a 1973 Grab Capri, a 1976 Luigi CSL, 1973 and 1975 Kremer Porsche Carrera RSR.

By the way, the #87 BMW is identified now as a 1974 Le Mans entry. And I do have a digital camera now. I might bore you one day with pictures

[Wolf]

Originally posted by Hse289
Hi, sorry no pictures but i,ll tell you about my collection. They are all Cobras, nearly ninety in total. I started collecting twenty two years ago when my uncle who was clearing his shed out gave me a model kit made by Frog. Since then i try and collect what i can. My favourites in my collection are;
...
Anybody else out there collect Cobra models?

Hse289- where were you when I asked about Bburago Cobra 427 model I bought for my god-son: http://forums.atlasf...&threadid=63559 ?;)

[Martin Roessler]

Barry
I have a Resin kit of a BMW 2002...never touched it and i'm not sure if i ever will.When i first bought it i thought i might be skillfull enough to build it but as soon as i opened the box i knew i am not....
Just found a couple of nice Plastic kits on the Internet....PROTAR 1:9 Classik Bike Kits.
I'll get one for X-mas and I can't wait till it's here...I found a site from japan where you can replace heaps of parts of those models....unbelievable...the japanese modellers are absolutely stunning.

Somebody out there with Protar models????

cheers Marty

http://www.cosmos-factory.com/

http://www.kimshouse7015.com/

[Hse289]

Sorry Wolf, i did have a think. I really don,t know of any significant green Cobras, everything but. The only one i can think of was the 1963 Le Mans entry but that had a hardtop and solid wheels rather than the wire wheels on the Burago model.

[wibblywobbly]

A crummy webacm pic of my 1:18 GT-40.

[Wolf]

No prob, Hse289. Now he's getting what appears to be Herbie's son (he's mad about Beetles, but alack the new abominable ones; a thing I'll see to when I get the chance*)- 1:43 Bburago New Beetle with Herbie trim (#53 and racing line; no soft top)...

* apparently there is a proper Herbie model (1:18, 25$ +p&p, but I'm a bit short nowdays, having bought wheel for GPL ( ) - http://www.diecastmu...e/Makes/JL38304 .

[David Lawson]

A very interesting thread for me as an obsessive model-maker and slotracer with a passion for the classic era predominately.

I've built static kits for 40+ years from the 2 bob Airfix through to todays plastics, resins, white metal etc but however much I enjoy building these there's nothing more satisfying than a miniature racer of one of your favourite cars to allow yourself to indulge in some harmless make believe as you become Jim Clark balancing the car on the throttle through a bend on your slot track! Please forgive me this flight of fancy.

Here's a car I built a couple of years ago using the superb Tamiya Lotus 25 kit and fitting it out with a Scalextric motor and running gear and a nice resin driver figure to represent the great man. Driving this on a 100' 4 lane track with plenty of room to drift it about on it's hard rubber kit tyres is immense fun.






David Lawson

[dretceterini]

My latest scratch built 1/43rd (not too many kits of "etceterinis" exist, so I have to scratch-build what I want)..


http://us.f2.yahoofs...h6uT1_AzcPO5V5Z

[Johnny Lugnuts]

Sorry, not much rubbish to offer, but there is plenty of crap. Here's a sample:



Click the link in my sig for more.

Johnny

[David Lawson]

A very interesting thread for me as an obsessive model-maker and slotracer with a passion for the classic era predominately.

I've built static kits for 40+ years from the 2 bob Airfix through to todays plastics, resins, white metal etc but however much I enjoy building these there's nothing more satisfying than a miniature racer of one of your favourite cars to allow yourself to indulge in some harmless make believe as you become Jim Clark balancing the car on the throttle through a bend on your slot track! Please forgive me this flight of fancy.

Here's a car I built a couple of years ago using the superb Tamiya Lotus 25 kit and fitting it out with a Scalextric motor and running gear and a nice resin driver figure to represent the great man. Driving this on a 100' 4 lane track with plenty of room to drift it about on it's hard rubber kit tyres is immense fun.

One day I'll get the hang of posting images - the Lotus 25 is on this link.

http://www.ssrcworld...01/lotus25.html

David Lawson

[hans stuck]

Some pics of my slot car track...

[Frank S]

I know someone here wants this 12" gas-powered model of the first Indy Lotus . . .
http://cgi.ebay.com/...item=3163261038

[David Beard]

Originally posted by Frank S
I know someone here wants this 12" gas-powered model of the first Indy Lotus . . .
http://cgi.ebay.com/...item=3163261038

It appears to have 7 cylinders

[Martin Roessler]

finally got my collection shipped from germany to australia....and built my cabinets (which i will never ever do again!!!!!!)

http://www.anjella.m...hotoshare.co.nz

cheers marty