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
The JDM invasion by hotwheels: Mazda RX3
Hotwheels has been bringing on the JDM invasion in small amounts. This RX3 shows how serious they are.
Custom Hot Wheels: Usdm Build-off
Bangladesh's model car collectors participate in a USDM themed build-off to show what magic they can create.
Custom Integra Type R
A custom Hot Wheels Integra...that has been reverted to stock form?! Read on.
Custom Hakosuka : The best of JDM cues on one classic Nissan
The Hakosuka is the soon to be unattainable Japanese myth, stored away in safes for fear of getting dirty. But scale models allow us to do whatever we please. Here's our take on what a Skyline can look like.
Tomica's Crown Wagon
This week on Collectibles: an absolutely gorgeous, classic Toyota Crown wagon from Tomica's Neo Vintage line.
Brian’s Ford Escort RS
Brian's Ford Escort from the Fast and Furious movie, one from Hot Wheels and another from Greenlight, in two different scales.
Hottest HWs of 2016
Hot Wheels in 2016 started off with a bang with more JDM specials and factory USDM hotrods. We look at the best of the lot that's sure to attract customisers.
Tiny Defenders
To celebrate the end of the Defender (or more accurately lie in a corner sobbing uncontrollably), we bring you three tiny Land Rovers.
Creating a rusty Chevy truck in miniature
A Chevy C10: This week we bring you a rust effect custom Hot Wheels done by Joshua Barrokh.
Mini cars, big meet
Model car collecting is a hobby best suited for individuals with patience and a taste for war as everyone scrabbles for the best pieces. Here's the 2nd meetup of the biggest collectors' group in Bangladesh.