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
Mini Golf
Today's pick is this rather popular and common first generation Golf model by Bburago. This along with a test drive of a rare for Bangladesh 1:1 Golf.
Corona RT40 taxi
I've always lusted after the Corona RT40, to the point that I almost convinced my family to trade in our comfortable, modern Toyota Vista
Muscles and 'coolth'
This week is all about the classic muscle. Now American cars aren't known for their finesse or their originality. The best of the bunch
911: Minichamps VS HotWheels custom
We pit Hotwheels' excellent 934 Porsche 911 against the same from Minichamps. To do that the former needed some custom work.
Customizing a diecast 1:18 Diablo
This Bburago Diablo had some proportion and detail issues. Here's how we fix some of it and add some details to ignore what's left.
Diorama 101: Photograph your scale model against an easy to create backdrop
Here's a tutorial on how to create the easiest diorama backdrop for your scale model cars.
It's not Fair if you don't have multiple Fairlanes
Every now and then a gem pops out from Hotwheels such as the 66 Ford Fairlane. It's fantastic but how does it compare with Greenlight's offering?
Clean or mean: custom HW BMW and Dodge
Customising a Dodge and a BMW from Hotwheels. One goes mean, the other goes clean.
Muscle cars collection from GL
Greenlight 1:64 cars are a hit and miss affair. Some of the early ones had 'steam roller' tires, ones that were ridiculously wide in
RMZ's 1:64 lineup
RMZ City is a scale model car line-up from Uni-Fortune Toys Group, a Hong Kong based manufacturer that has now shifted operations to