Collectibles
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.
Collectibles / 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.
Collectibles / 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.
Collectibles / 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
Collectibles / 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.
Collectibles / 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
1:64 Countach and Subaru Impreza from Tomica's Premium range
Tomica is Japan's biggest contributor to ensuring kids grow up loving cars. They've been making 1:64ish model cars
Bricks and wheels
Superior build quality, meticulous attention to detail - exactly what Enzo Ferrari would expect of Ferraris, and what you get with the
Kyosho 1/64 Subaru Legacy
Competing in the early 90's, the Legacy was a properly successful AWD rally car, but was eventually replaced by the lighter, swifter Impreza in the mid-90's. Kyosho has replicated it in wonderfully detailed 1/64 scale.
The coolest lowrider scale model cars
Lowriders are colourful, loud and slow automotive art. Here's the best scale model options you can have.
Drastic plastic r32
Let's talk about plastic. It causes ecological headaches because it never degrades. But it is also supremely workable to take any
Bare bodied racer FERRARI F40
The F40 debuted in 1987 as the successor to the beautifully sculpted 288GTO, a car itself a legend. The F40 was also made to
Miuras in scale
The definitive petrolhead child's bedroom poster in the 90’s was invariably a Lamborghini. No doubt for many it was a Countach, but for some, it the first supercar ever, the Miura. We look at the Miuras in scale.
German Mercedes from China
Turn over almost any die-cast car and you will see one particular badge everywhere: Made in China. It’s easier to manufacture everything in China, be it cars, toys or mythical fake eggs. But are the models they make any good at all?
1:43 Ferrari Daytona: hot little torpedo
Ferrari’s designs were once only about three portions: a mile long hood, a tiny space for a person to sit in crookedly and a short