The Model Car/Collectibles Support Group

[HobieMarty]

I built this P40 when we lived in Destin, Florida in the late 70's so I was about 11 or 12 years old. I painted everything except my Dad painted the pilot. It used to have propeller blades but they got broken off over the years, I kept up with them for many years, heck I may still have them. It looks kinda rough, and you can see a black smear on the underside at one set of guns, but I built it and have kept it all these years because my Dad helped me with it, so,it has always been special to me.

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[wdfifteen]

I built this 1/4 scale VW engine while I was recovering from back surgery.




There is a thread about the build here:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/622390-engine-porn-117.html#post12196148

[flipper35]

Been practicing freehand airbrush on stuff I printed. Did the pyramid for my wife since she is really into them. And sci fi stuff.

The blending is much more subtle in person. Camera really has a lot more contrast than it really has.

[porsche930dude]

[herr_oberst]

I like the Skylark but the mid 70's Opel and '57 Ford seem to be aiming to a fringe collector demographic.

Maybe that's why they were in the .75 cent bargain bin at my local grocery store.

[herr_oberst]

My nephew's son is having his second birthday soon; I decided to get the little shaver onto the Model Car and Collectable road with the always tried and true, ever popular VW Bug and Bus.

[porsche930dude]

One of my exoto cars was missing one of its intake trumpet screens so I made one using a pressure washer intake hose screen. It has a nice fine mesh that matched perfectly. I just bent it over the dull end of a drill bit and squiched it with pliers till it was rounded and the tail fit in the hole. Elmers glued it in.

[Racerbvd]

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

one of my exoto cars was missing one of its intake trumpet screens so i made one using a pressure washer intake hose screen. It has a nice fine mesh that matched perfectly. I just bent it over the dull end of a drill bit and squiched it with pliers till it was rounded and the tail fit in the hole. Elmers glued it in.

nice!!

[porsche930dude]

[Racerbvd]

A good day for Hot Wheels today

[Matt at Pelican Parts]

Check out the neat collaboration with LEGO Technic and Porsche! This GT4 is a special release only available the Porsche Museum in Germany for their summer Holiday program. Pretty cool!!

Newroom Article

[Brian 162]

Purchased these 2 at a flea market today.
The Duramax 3500 I got for $10.
The Campbell soup truck was $25 and still in the box.

[porsche930dude]

Just sold one of my exoto's really just dont have enough cabinet space to display all the 1:18 cars. But I really would rather have an XK-SS so maybe I will have to make room.

[kevin993]

Only scale model of the wood buck used to make the Gmund coupes that I've ever seen:

[rwest]

Originally Posted by kevin993

Only scale model of the wood buck used to make the Gmund coupes that I've ever seen:

Coolest thing I’ve seen n a long time!

[CurtEgerer]

My 1:43 collection (80% Minichamps) circa late 90s. 1500+ at the peak of the sickness. I've long since sold off all but maybe 30-40 of them. During the early days of eBay, the prices on some of these were insane. I sold a few at over $1500

[CurtEgerer]

In the 90s I ran a well-known 1:43 diecast website. It started out simply as a way for me to sell and trade models on-line. This was early days of online buying/selling and eBay. The website got popular and eventually I had manufacturers sending me models for review and collectors around the world helping me. The growth quickly got out of control. I was just doing this for fun in my spare time after running my engineering practice and I had to shut it down. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, some of the website is still viewable.

https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.angelfire.com/mi/allishan/rare

[Scott Douglas]

Wow^^^^.

[Racerbvd]