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Diecast 1:43 Minichamps vs 1:18 Kyosho
OK, I'm looking at getting one of two models.
One is a Kyosho 1:18. It looks like it's got amazing detail and accuracy and finish. The other is a 1:43 Minichamps in a box with 2 cars that is pretty cool. The cars are clearly less than half the size of the 1:18, so they'll have much less detail, and since everything will be much smaller, little quality issues will be less obvious. But, in close-up pictures, it looks like it's good, but not great. But, you can get really close with a digital photo blown up on a 23" monitor, and I'm not sure that I'd really see any issues. I think most diecast folks like minichamps. What are your thoughts. Kyosho    Minichamps    
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Both look like toy cars to me...
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Kyosho but then again the pics are better...
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Yeah, the detail on the Kyosho, and the quality looks pretty good in the pics. Maybe not Exoto good, but very nice.
I guess then I'd get one of those boxes that you can put 1:18 models in so the missus wouldn't have to dust it.
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I like 1:43 because they take up so much less space on my messy desk.
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I like Minichamps and I think the 1:43rd scale is more interesting- that much detail at that small scale just seems more impressive to me.
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Both are on the upper level of detail. Not AutoArt or Exoto, but for the price they are very nice.
I have a few...... 
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That is impressive. Kyosho has a "museum quality line. Very nice. 1:43. Don't know if they offer it in 1:18. IXO and Kyosho are probably about as good as it gets for 1:43. I used to own an AC Cobra. Replica of course. During that period of twenty years, I collected Exoto 1:18 GT40's and a couple Cobra's that had some racing livery. Wish I had collected some 934/935's, now that I drive a 911. |
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I started buying the 43rd Minichamps Porsches recently because they are very nice and accurate but also because they take up less space! Yeah, a little spendy but they really are nicely done.
 Also got one of these Minichamps Turbo S's in 1/18th and it too is very nice. 
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I also like 1:43, started collecting 2 yrs ago to build up a collection of cars I've worked on
I'm little over halfway there and too far in to back out now. Will also have to get a few custom ones made to complete the collection but it should be worth the expense once they are all displayed together
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