New oldies purchased at an itinerant vintage fair. The Ford-Continental Mark II by Mercury-Scottoy was produced in 1960. Model is mint with original box, unused, good as new! The Lotus Elise by VITESSE is item n° 2100 out of 2500 made and came with a pretentious "Certificate of Authenticity" printed on some sort of parchment...
Over the last year a very good mate purchased some Hot Wheels Premium Series cars (Car Culture, Team Transport) for me, since in my region (actually, never saw any in stores in whole Italy...) we only have mainline cars (if at all). So last week I did a 850km-trip to Germany to spend time with him and as a side effect I bought him off a couple of boxes filled with my Hot Wheels Obviosly we went hunting together in the surrounding stores too and also checked by the Hot Wheels Convention in Frankfurt. Some fleamarket finds on the fly joined as well, so in the end I got home with...well...a lot of new stuff...as you can see on the following pic. (My counter for 1/64-models is now up to 2415 cars °-°) And I'll just add a more scenic pic I did a couple of days ago
First batch of Christmas (self...) gifts... Phone died while I was taking pics of the other two (a Meyers-Manx Buggy by SOLIDO, 1:18, and a ISO Isetta by IXO, 1:43) so I'm out of photographic devices for now...
I built and weathered a Pinzgauer model today. First time weathering something. I usually build the scenery, work on the plans or the wiring/digitalisation of the layout. Here are some pics http://imgur.com/gallery/MGchxrP
Nice additions, Nathan. Did you buy a part of a given up collection? Since I didn't get any presents for christmas this year and I also had to work around the christmas days, I decided to get myself some treats over the last few days of the year On Saturday I found a 1/18 Renuault 5 Turbo on the local fleamarket. It has some missing parts, but overall it's a nice model. On monday I went with my mate to Switzerland, where I got the 1/18 Opel Rekord Caravan and the Nash Metropolitan in a model car store. To finish it up, yesterday I drove 265km to get some 1/64ish stuff, some American brands and a hand full of Tomicas (including my first ones from their premium range). I also tried to freshen up an old Matchbox model, the Field Car/International Scout. It had seen better days, the wheels where messed up and several parts were missing, like the roof. I changed the base plate and interior to one from a Hot Wheels Chevy Blazer to get it lifted and added wheels from the Dune Daddy. Made myself a rollcage, it's not the straightest or most seamless one, but it goes well with the overall roughness. A little winch and a new spare wheel were added and that's what the outcome was:
Actually I got them at the toy fair at the NEC in Birmingham, UK which occurs three times a year. It's not too far from where I live and due to the lack of stores actually selling toy cars (most shops only have a couple of different cases of hot wheels and as far as I know only Tesco sells matchbox) its a good place to buy old and new cars.
