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TrueScale Miniatures 1:18 Tyrrell P34s: The Odd Get Even

Oh, to be odd. To flip convention off like a bad pair of shoes. To break through the walls of normalcy with a loud crash… okay, scratch that last one. Crashing isn’t what most race car designers and engineers are aiming for, per se. But sometimes, it takes a trip far afield to cheat physics, […]

Kyosho Announces 1:18 Audi A8

Kyosho continue to release intriguing, highly sought-after models, and their Audi A8 W12 is another work of luxo-model art. Add this one to a long list of modern car accomplishments; Kyosho captures The Audi A8’s clean body lines, as well as its finer details, in a full-access release with four opening doors, an opening hood, […]

Birth of the Sting Ray

The 1963 model year brought a new body style to the Chevrolet Corvette, and introduced the Sting Ray “split-window” coupe, arguably the most iconic Corvette ever produced. And now AUTOart has brought us the most beautifully rendered model of this iconic car in 1:18 that I’ve ever seen. Over the first 10 years of the […]

Greenlight’s Latest 1:18 Scale Releases

Greenlight has recently announced 3 new 1:18 scale replicas that will be available in August. The new releases include a Chevy Corvette Grand Sport as seen in Fast 5 and 2 retro Volkswagen. The first a 1967 Bettle which wears Fuchs-style wheels and a 1962 VW Micro Bus siting on BMR-styled wheels.

Round 2 “Authentics” 1950 Olds: Rock It

Round 2 / Auto World’s 1950 Olds Rocket 88 wears a set of license plates that say “ROCK IT”, and I agree, right from the car’s wide whitewalls to its 150-decibel red and white paint job. This latter-day mold set from the Ertl-nee-RC2 “Authentics” series (inherited by AW/R2) was a hit when it emerged a […]

Sunstar 1:18 Mercury Montclair: The Full Monty

It’s getting to the point that Sunstar’s origins as a maker of budget-minded models has started to fade into the past. Far be it for me to keep those hoary old days alive – especially in light of the maker’s far more successful string of exceptional, “Platinum Collection” cars. Here’s the 1956 Mercury Montclair they’ve […]

Hubley 1:18 Duesenberg Town Car: Zinc or Swim

Popping the box on a vintage Hubley metal model is a lot like entering a scale auto Oz. But to the less experienced modeler, the happy feeling can wear off quickly. Truth is, like that Merry Old Land, casual wandering amid the (parts) trees often resulted in panic attacks delivered not by flying monkey, but […]

Kyosho 1:18 Cadillac CTS-V: Bad Caddy

Cadillac’s CTS is a solid performer in base, V6 trim; add in the V series’ supercharged 556-horsepower 6.2 liter V8 and all of its other hyper-performance bells and whistles, and you have a world-class American four-slammer with a “fastest production V8 sedan” tag line. This model of the vaunted V comes via Kyosho, and it […]

Kyosho Mini Cooper S Rally Monte Carlo

In 1966, Mini went for their hat trick, the four Cooper teams being acknowledged as the favourites in the race and receiving lots of public interest. From the start, the teams lived up to this commitment, Makinen, Aaltonen and Hopkirk left all the others far behind and finishing first, second and third at the end […]

Don Green’s “Rat Trap” AA/Fuel Altered by Acme

The 60’s and into the ’70’s were the “Golden Years of Drag” racing and back then nobody, not the dragsters or funny cars, could deliver the raw excitement like seeing two of the AA/Fuel Altereds go at it toe to toe ! Drag racing is dangerous and the top level drivers are all considered heroes, […]