feast your eyes on this proto Alfa

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Pure car erotica!!

GeeDee wrote:

Pure car erotica!!

did someone want to start a model car thread ? I think its quite appropriate, Even the model car makers seem to pull out old castings and make currently significant models in the popular colours of current concours/ pebble beach cars, just like our friends in the sim world.

Case in point the 1954 Ballon frua bodied Maserati in black. The Delage d8 aero, this is in a game called L.A NOIRE ( perhaps thats why the model suddenly became available in the cheaper 10 euro range of model makers.)
There seem to be a lot of co relations like this.Perhaps doing a model car thread can further enhance our Love for this sport.

It works for me, I actually bought models of Maserati Bird cage, and the pininfarina a6 gs coup and the ferrari 166 berlinetta after enjoying driving them in GTL.

framroze wrote:

GeeDee wrote:

Pure car erotica!!

did someone want to start a model car thread ? I think its quite appropriate,  Even the model car makers seem to pull out old castings and make currently significant models in the popular colours of current concours/ pebble beach cars, just like our friends in the sim world.

Case in point the 1954 Ballon frua bodied Maserati in black. The Delage d8 aero, this is in a game called L.A NOIRE ( perhaps thats why the model suddenly became available in the cheaper 10 euro range of model makers.)
There seem to be a lot of co relations like this.Perhaps doing a model car thread can further enhance our Love for this sport.

It works for me, I actually bought models of Maserati Bird cage, and the pininfarina a6 gs coup and the ferrari 166 berlinetta after enjoying driving them in GTL.

Done the same thing , except for both going simulatneously, for example I bought a 2000 Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S last week, it came on tuesday, payed ~15€ (shipping incl.), it was on sale from 39,99€ down to 7,95€
Some other cars of mine are:
2 Ferrari 330's (a P4 and a P3/4 Spyder, with a P3 coming)
A small collection of pre-war "Silberpfeile" including a Auto Union typ c streamliner
A Alpine A210 Renault
A Melkus RS1000 and plenty more

teddyator,
Nice collection.
I started with 1:24 kits( mostly ferrari and some porsche and endurance racers)while they were still cheap, now its cheap 1:43s thanks to the lack of choice in 1:24.

framroze wrote:

teddyator,
Nice collection.
I started with 1:24 kits( mostly ferrari and some porsche and endurance racers)while they were still cheap, now its cheap 1:43s thanks to the lack of choice in 1:24.

I personally started with 1:18's but quickly realised that that's going to pose some big problems (space,price,avaliability), so I switched to 1:43 when my father gave me 4 pre-war cars, 2 of them made by brumm, one by schuco and one of a unkown brand. That was 2 years ago. Now my collection consits of 2 1:18's and 28 1:43's

I tend to take a 1/43 model with me each time I visit a race track, once in a while I order or buy some discounted models (the prices some manufacturers are asking are simply insane). Sportscars and racing prototypes in that small scale only. I still got a couple of 1/18 models from my young years, and then, I'm an avid builder in 1/24 and a random 1/20 F1 car