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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

Looking at the military equipmentand aircraft in particularthe 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 Corgithe cluster of asymmetrical protrusions all over the forward […]

Aussie Look-alike for Max Movie Buffs

“Its the last of the V8 Interceptorsa piece of history.” Well, okay, it’s not the last Interceptor. Its the firstthe first from Australian manufacturer Models 56, anyway. And its 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’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

The street fighting is fast and furious from GMP these daysbut 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?

Ferrari sure does, and now so does GMP. The second in the company’s series of 1:6 scale Ferrari engines is this stunning beautythe 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 namethe brilliant red cam covers […]

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 […]

It’s Good to be BAD

Our favorite diecast boat maker is back with numbers 5 and 6 in its series of truly bad-ass Top Fuel drag boats. Bad Ass Diecast has just released these early photos of the pre-production samples. But as you can see, the detail is just what we’ve come to expect. The paint and graphics on these […]

Authentics Z/28 is like Butter!

Or in this case, Butternut Yellow. RC2’s Authentics ’67 Camaro Z/28 follows the inaugural red and last year’s black Z/28. Like previous versions, if features a highly detailed 302 engine, functional suspension, excellent paint and well formed rally wheels. And with prices holding firm at $50 the Authentics series continues to be one of the […]

No Holding These Horses

It’s amazing how popular the venerable 5-liter Mustang has been over the last 25 years. It remains the centerpiece of the budget domestic performance market. And for many just becoming automotively aware in the mid- to late-80’s, it was the status machine of choicenone more so than the GT convertible. GMP knows this wellthe ’89 […]