"Diecast Collecting"

[Just Plain Dave]

Last two from DT

HW Prelude color different (J Imports)

Vacation Playset unknown make model of truck

And two from Dollar General between Livingston and Shepherd

HW 67 Camaro that will be repainted

HW 67 GT40 MK.IV

[WillyCamaro]

Awesome haul Dave!
Especially the Riviera...

Yup,
They absolutely killed it on the Ranchero, perfectly honoring it's big brother.

[Just Plain Dave]

I knew I had this. But knew not where it was.
Working on the riding mower found it in the tool bag.

[WillyCamaro]

Matchbox Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6x6 cr2016 Mattel Thailand.jpg

I knew I had this. But knew not where it was.
Working on the riding mower found it in the tool bag.

Dang mate, talk about a find.


I have this years black version, with red chrome rings, and the latest Superfast version. Another favorite vehicle of mine, that variant is sic!

[Just Plain Dave]

Repaint.
Dad had an El Camino company car and the color is very similar.

[Just Plain Dave]

I have the worst luck with white painting.
The hood and left side of the 67 Camaro bubbled up.
It is back in the paint remover.
It will get gray primer and either yellow or Tamiya Orange.

[Just Plain Dave]

Got a few at Cleveland Dollar General

Arkham Knight Batmobile

Hotwheels 98 Prelude in Light Metallic Green

Hotwheels Custom '11 Camaro

Hotwheels Custom Ford Bronco

[Just Plain Dave]

From this:

To this:

Paint job ain't perfect.
But much better than the white was!

[Just Plain Dave]

I noticed it has no doors.
I guess you gotta get in the window....

[WillyCamaro]

I noticed it has no doors.
I guess you gotta get in the window....

[Just Plain Dave]

There was a display at work.
Get a Hotwheels car in a candy box.
Only they are shrunken cars.
Got three Bone Shakers and a Roger Dodger.
Maybe pics later but Dad wants to get out so a Walmart trip may be in the future....

[Just Plain Dave]

Earlier today stopped at Family Dolllar for 20/50 oil.
Grabbed the Red Kia Stinger

From Walmart
1967 Eldorado

Mid 70s Dodge Van

1955 Chevy Panel

A duplicate 2021 Bronco

a 1935 Ford Pickup

And what I thought was a dupe Mustang Convertible but different interior and wheels

[Just Plain Dave]

Here are the little guys.

[Just Plain Dave]

I got my box of approx. 50 Hotwheels.
Quick search gave me four keepers.
We have been out real car searching.
When I search for real I will get some pics.

[WillyCamaro]

Good luck on the car shopping mate, get something good and reliable. Tip: Older Buicks are superb.

[Just Plain Dave]

Keepers I most likely will not paint.

47 Chevy Fleetline

Another Batmobile

Fishd & Chipd

Funny Car

Cockney Cab II

Unknown but Marvel

[Just Plain Dave]

Double Vision (Masters of the Universe)

And quite a number to be painted.
Got a number 28 Havoline car but the windshield was gone.
So it is in pieces

[knife7knut]

Dug this one out the other day to photograph before I pack it up and send it off to an old classmate who has been looking for a 57 Nomad model.He wanted a 1/25th scale to replicate the one his dad had bought new and gifted to him as a graduation present in 1961.This one I had painted flames on many years ago.

[Just Plain Dave]

Got another Falcon Ranchero to experiment with.
Also a Yellow 98 Prelude .
Also a yellow Volvo Wagon Factory Fresh.
And a MB Field Car.

The Ranchero has a Plastic base. Need some silver paint I reckon.

[Just Plain Dave]

Went to Walmart Livingston for this and that.
Jadatoys 1970 Boss 429 Mustang

HW Jag

HW McLaren

Another McLaren

Matchbox Aston Martin

HW Character Car Black Widow

[Just Plain Dave]

This is near 9 bucks at our store.
Under 5 at Walmart so I grabbed it.
Got a Mustang and an El Camino.
And maybe some donor wheels.

[Just Plain Dave]

Repaint of 40 Ford

It will likely get a wheel change soon.

[cody6268]

Nice pickups! I have both of the British Racing Green MBX Aston Martin DBR-1, but I didn't even know they had a silver one.

Found these myself at Dollar General Friday. I'd been looking for both of them for quite some time. About time, as both have been out around a year. I could swear the Scania came out in 2019! Both still remain really hard to find.

Scania Rally Truck.

It's a part of a series called "Track Stars" which is mostly tractor trailers. While rally trucks and support vehicles don't have the ability to tow, HW decided to add that function by way of a slide-out dolly. Doesn't work too well, and as a result, we get a plastic rear section (which in real life, they're fiberglass anyway).

And the Jeep is among the shorter MBX or HW I have and it still looks odd.

To fit onto the dolly with it retracted into the truck requires the model to not have been made by Hot Wheels. Some of the really old Matchbox should fit, since those from the '50s are tiny. This is a slightly bigger than 1/87 (closer to 1/76-ish) Camaro by Marx; and was their answer to HW at the time HW was new.

Airbus Helicopters H-130 "MBX Children's Hospital MBCare" (MEDEVAC). I'd hoped that when the casting debuted modeled after a helicopter in Jurassic World, it would see police and MEDEVAC use. For its second issue, that's what we got. Mattel somehow ironed out the problems in using the Star of Life; and now it's back on a few emergency vehicles, especially 2020-2021.

Here it is with a considerably bigger Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service BK-117 that used to be on the helipad of the MBX Hospital playset I use as a diorama. They had a roughly $60 AW-149 that was extremely high detail, but given I paid $40 for this (including SK-VA shipping)'; I decided to opt for the cheaper BK-117. These, at the time, weren't very easy to get. While STARS has an online gift shop, they didn't ca. 2015. A buddy of mine on another forum is a veteran Toronto EMS paramedic, and a very prominent model ambulance collector. He knew the guy at STARS who had commissioned these, and got me in touch with him. It actually came from the Saskatoon base. Interestingly enough, STAR-1 is stationed at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary; and had a quite important part in the TV series Heartland in Season 7. All AW-139 and BK-117 are in the process of being replaced with EC-145s.

Photo from Wikipedia.

[WillyCamaro]

Repaint of 40 Ford
Hotwheels 1940 Ford Coupe cr2001 Mattel Thailand.jpg


It will likely get a wheel change soon.

Now that's what I'm talking about

Awesome repaint Dave, suits the coupe like a ham and cheese sandwich.

[Just Plain Dave]

What do you think of these wheels?