As a companion piece to its First Response series of police cruisers, Diecast Direct has just released a Dauphin helicopter in the Maryland State Police Aviation Command colors. The accuracy on this model is astounding for the price, and well it should be since Diecast Direct’s Product Development Manager is a former trooper who flew in the […]
Diecast Direct’s First Response series has some of the most detailed models you’ll find of police and service vehicles in 1:43. They also personalize them to state and local departments with a variety of light bars, push bumpers and antenna packages to accompany the specific colors and markings. The two you see here are the […]
Diecast Direct gave us a look at their upcoming Divco milk trucks in two scales. The plan is for these to be modeled after trucks from specific dairies and distributed regionally to areas in which those dairies operated. The 1:50 Divco comes with a separately molded driver whose uniform will be painted to match each […]
The Dodge Charger is just about the hottest thing going in the world of police vehicles. With more and more departments switching over to Mopar, Diecast Direct figured the time was right to introduce a 1:43 Charger cruiser, and this sample has pretty much every feature the production piece will have, except paint and decals. Interior, trunk and engine detail […]
2008 is Honda Motor Co.’s 60th Anniversary. The company’s very first creations were motorized bicycles and it grew from there to include scooters, motorcycles and eventually cars. Ebbro showcases Honda’s roots with a series of 1:10 scale bikes, including the very first Supercub from 1958 as well as a 1968 version. 1958 1968
Here’s the latest BBR release that we spotted at a recent trade show: the 1954 Ferrari 375 Plus Carrera PanAmaricana #19. This is a variant of the outstanding 1:18 model we reviewed in the Summer 2007 issue of DieCast X, but this is no simple re-paint. Several key differences in the body casting, particularly around the rear deck, […]
We saw this pattern for a new bus casting at the Diecast Direct booth. We don’t know much more than what you can tell from the photo. But the surface detail looks great, and given that Diecast Direct has been heavily involved in some of Corgi’s classic American bus projects, they certainly know what they’re […]
Presenting the Icy Blu 2 show truck, new from Tonkin Replicas. Icy Blu 2 is a real, working International 9900ix High Rise owned and operated by Harvey and Karen Zander. This unit is seen traveling around the Midwest and showing at various locations, including MATS and the Iowa 80 Jamboree. The Zanders are contracted with DART […]