The 1:43 or 1/43 model car thread
Discussion
Show here your cars scale 1/43 or 1:43 or maybe some you are still hoping to find, cause some are long out of production, and or some even never made in this scale.
All around this scale, I wonder what your move is and or why you collect.
Of course as a kit I've had some scale model cars and or made some from a kit, but that was a long time ago, and mostly those were 1/56 or close and bigger wheels then the rest often.
Then way later in live when buying real cars to drive, I changed a lot with cars, mostly sport cars and or sometimes cars people trade in to buy my more sportier cars, which I then drove a while and putten them on sale at the same time.
So all in all I got a lot of real cars, I liked to try a lot, the insurance company went crazy and sometimes they asked, are you a car broker... NO.
Anyhow, at a certain time I started to collect some cars I've already owned, got about 30 or so... but in that time those were the 1/56 orso scale... I painted most in the color that I owned my cars (no internet at those days) then I stopped...
Many moons later I also bought some bucketlist cars... in scale ;-) I also had many 1:18 but sold those, took to much place for all my once owned cars in scale model.
So then I decided some years ago to go for all my once owned cars in 1/43 scale, because now a days you could look on the web for examples and the cars are way better, and most I could find in my color.
Now I have all my once owned cars, all 122 which I could remember (expensive hobby, some are rare = expensive)
-7 from those I need in the right size (now to small) like the 2 white Suzuki Swift and the 5 Ford escort RS2000 mk2 (3 yellow and 2 orange)
-3 or so I cheated with (I could not find them in that brand/type, only a look alike from another brand) whit the blue Daihatsu Cuore, the grey/blue Rover 216se and the grey Hyundai Getz, could not find those in 1:43
-9 could use in the right color (some look good in the other color) and 1 in a 2 door instead of the 4 door (the red Ford Taunus) and those 3 rally GTI-R need to be in grey, but hardly come on the market again, or the Matra Bagheera I owned in black, the Opel Speedster Turbo I owned in black for example.
And ow, those 2 rally Abarth 131 Fiat, need to be Fiat 131 Racing TC2000 cars, one in Grey and one in Orange.
And forgot, you see 4 phoenix yellow Z3 M coupe, I owned 1 in that color, but 2 I need in Black M and one in Titan silver (Hartge Z3 coupe 5.0)
Here a quick view of them in my new aluminium vitrine show case for now, maybe later I put in a list of the cars and models.
here those on the left side of that show case
this is the new alu showcase, but it came with halogeen spots, way to hot under there, so I changed those with extra LED spots, save for all.
All around this scale, I wonder what your move is and or why you collect.
Of course as a kit I've had some scale model cars and or made some from a kit, but that was a long time ago, and mostly those were 1/56 or close and bigger wheels then the rest often.
Then way later in live when buying real cars to drive, I changed a lot with cars, mostly sport cars and or sometimes cars people trade in to buy my more sportier cars, which I then drove a while and putten them on sale at the same time.
So all in all I got a lot of real cars, I liked to try a lot, the insurance company went crazy and sometimes they asked, are you a car broker... NO.
Anyhow, at a certain time I started to collect some cars I've already owned, got about 30 or so... but in that time those were the 1/56 orso scale... I painted most in the color that I owned my cars (no internet at those days) then I stopped...
Many moons later I also bought some bucketlist cars... in scale ;-) I also had many 1:18 but sold those, took to much place for all my once owned cars in scale model.
So then I decided some years ago to go for all my once owned cars in 1/43 scale, because now a days you could look on the web for examples and the cars are way better, and most I could find in my color.
Now I have all my once owned cars, all 122 which I could remember (expensive hobby, some are rare = expensive)
-7 from those I need in the right size (now to small) like the 2 white Suzuki Swift and the 5 Ford escort RS2000 mk2 (3 yellow and 2 orange)
-3 or so I cheated with (I could not find them in that brand/type, only a look alike from another brand) whit the blue Daihatsu Cuore, the grey/blue Rover 216se and the grey Hyundai Getz, could not find those in 1:43
-9 could use in the right color (some look good in the other color) and 1 in a 2 door instead of the 4 door (the red Ford Taunus) and those 3 rally GTI-R need to be in grey, but hardly come on the market again, or the Matra Bagheera I owned in black, the Opel Speedster Turbo I owned in black for example.
And ow, those 2 rally Abarth 131 Fiat, need to be Fiat 131 Racing TC2000 cars, one in Grey and one in Orange.
And forgot, you see 4 phoenix yellow Z3 M coupe, I owned 1 in that color, but 2 I need in Black M and one in Titan silver (Hartge Z3 coupe 5.0)
Here a quick view of them in my new aluminium vitrine show case for now, maybe later I put in a list of the cars and models.
here those on the left side of that show case
this is the new alu showcase, but it came with halogeen spots, way to hot under there, so I changed those with extra LED spots, save for all.
Edited by GTRene on Sunday 28th November 23:41
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