Collectibles / HotWheels — Best of 2019
HotWheels — Best of 2019
Collectibles / MiniGT Honda Civic Type R FK8
Malaysia, despite being car crazy and sporting a healthy tuner lifestyle, is surprisingly low on the scale of places where you can pick up a good die-cast. I did manage, though, and walked away from BMW’s M-Track Days 2019 (story above) with a MiniGT Honda Civic, hastily purchased from the duty free shops at the KL airport.
1973 911 RS 1:18 from Welly
The 73 911 RS (Rennsport or ‘racing sport’) is considered by collectors to be one of the hottest classic Porsches ever. The 207
Collectibles / Scale Bandits
Some cars start off famous for handling, looks or for catching on fire without any reason. Others go on to star in movies and become legends. The Pontiac Firebird Trans Am did it several times. Once as Knight Rider and before that, as Burt Reynolds' trusty sidekick in
collectibles / Bangladeshi Ducati
A Ducati 900 Monster. Made by Atlas, made in Bangladesh. Yep, That's right. These scale models are now made in Bangladesh, then sent abroad, then someone buys them with taxes and brings them back here. Why not sold here? Not a big enough market.
Let's build kit cars
Kits are not for everyone. But they help create unique pieces fit for a one-off collection.
MiniGT Honda Civic Type R FK8
Malaysia, despite being car crazy and sporting a healthy tuner lifestyle, is surprisingly low on the scale of places where you can pick up a good die-cast. I did manage, though, and walked away from BMW’s M-Track Days 2019 (story above) with a MiniGT Honda Civic, hastily purchased from the duty free shops at the KL airport.
1:18 McLaren F1 GTR by UT Models
Every generation has their decade specific car for the bedroom wall poster. The 80s favoured the Countach with a plethora of bikini clad women. The 90s saw the real king of hypercars emerge: the McLaren F1.
The melancholia of 1:32 scale
Ahh, 1:32 scale. For many of us, our first few steps into die-cast collection was not through 1:64s, but through the much more affordable-per-inch 1:32 scale. As children, these 1:32 scale models, almost all of them with a pullback option that allowed us the fantasy of “driving” them across tabletops, carpets and tiles, were precious and significant.
KK Diecast VW Type I and the case for closed shell diecasts
A recent thread on the Die-cast Car Collectors Club Bangladesh group on Facebook had a discussion on the pros and cons of closed shell
All the Initial D Truenos
If you’re a fan of Initial D, you will want at least one model car sitting on your desk. The simplest and relatively inexpensive is the Dream Tomica AE86 Trueno.
1:12 Aoshima Honda CB750F
I am not a bike person. I don’t really know how to ride one, I was never very well versed on things on four wheels, plus every ride on a
1973 911 RS 1:18 from Welly
The 73 911 RS (Rennsport or ‘racing sport’) is considered by collectors to be one of the hottest classic Porsches ever. The 207
Porsche 964 3.8 RS by Atlas
Gorgeous is an understatement. The Porsche 964 is possibly one of the coolest, most lust worthy 911 ever made. Yes, you will possibly
Resination - GT Spirit Porsche RWB
Resin is the bane of most scale model collectors’ existence. It’s a lesson I learned the hard way. Within a day of owning my first resin