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Fire-breathing Fairlane

Fire-breathing Fairlane

GMP calls this beast the Fairlane Street Machine, but if you ever see anything like this rolling down your street, run back inside and hide under your bed. Starting with its outstanding 1:18 Fairlane casting, GMP has completely reinvented this car, transforming it from a sporty intermediate coupe into a fire-breathing monster that doesn’t just […]
Super Snake in Scale

Super Snake in Scale

The brightest news coming out of Dearborn these days concerns Ford’s ferocious Shelby GT500 Mustang, and Franklin is taking full advantage of the buzz that this modern-day muscle machine is creating by releasing its own 1:24 scale version. It will be a 5000-piece numbered, limited edition and it will feature all of the detail horsepower […]

Mattel’s G-Machine Cuda

Mattel’s G-Machine Cuda

Mattel’s G Machines line is all about taking hot vehicle designs and tweaking, modernizing and generally amping them up to give them a bit more of what made the stock versions appealing to begin with. Pretty much every panel on the 1:24 ’71 Cuda has been massaged, but the changes aren’t blatant and the character […]
Scale Babes for any Era

Scale Babes for any Era

There’s a new batch of figurines from M&D to help dress up your favorite diecast display. In the period specific Motorhead Miniatures series, the four 1:18 ladies (posed around Precision Miniatures’ ’56 Chevy) are Trixie (in front, adjusting her stocking), Francis (reclining on the hood), Barbara (at the rear corner) and Bonnie looking contemplative at […]
Germany’s Best Bomber

Germany’s Best Bomber

Looking at the military equipment—and aircraft in particular—the Germans employed during World War II, don’t you get the sense that their engineers understood the value of intimidation? So many Allied planes had elegant, flowing lines; Axis stuff looked just plain mean. Take this Junkers Ju88A from Corgi—the cluster of asymmetrical protrusions all over the forward […]
Aussie Look-alike for Max Movie Buffs

Aussie Look-alike for Max Movie Buffs

“It’s the last of the V8 Interceptors—a piece of history.” Well, okay, it’s not the last Interceptor. It’s the first—the first from Australian manufacturer Models 56, anyway. And it’s a piece of history if you’re a fan of the most famous Australian motor mayhem movie series of all time. This 1:24 car is badged simply […]
Danbury Mint revisits those Fabulous Finned ’50s!

Danbury Mint revisits those Fabulous Finned ’50s!

Danbury’s newest 1:24 scale headliner is a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz in beautiful Dusty Rose. This color has a gentle pearl quality that makes it much more sophisticated than your typical pink Caddy, and it contrasts wonderfully with the chrome on the grille and rear flanks. The curvy rear quarters are what distinguish this car […]
More Rumbling from GMP

More Rumbling from GMP

The street fighting is fast and furious from GMP these days—but in a good way. Round three in the Street Fighter Camaro series is this sweet ’67 stuffed with a high-tech LS2 6.0L V-8 lifted out of the company’s contemporary GTO and sprinkled with plenty of detail and a few go-fast goodies to pump it […]
Got a thing for redheads?

Got a thing for redheads?

Ferrari sure does, and now so does GMP. The second in the company’s series of 1:6 scale Ferrari engines is this stunning beauty—the 250 Testa Rossa V-12. Testa Rossa translates directly to “red head”, and you don’t need to be a linguistics professor to figure out where it got its name—the brilliant red cam covers […]
Brawler Buick

Brawler Buick

GMP’s Street Fighter series is all about taking models of high-profile muscle machines and augmenting them with selective aftermarket parts to simulate what the modern street/strip warrior would do to his car. The latest in the series is this 1:18 ’87 Buick Grand National. While previous efforts have struck a balance between street style and […]
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