F1 model thread

I have a few F1 models,

1:43 Minichamps (all of which I am looking to sell)
1998 Benetton Wurz
1998 Minardi Nakano
1998 Stewart Magnussen
1997 or 1998 Prost Trulli
1998 Arrows Salo
1998 Ferrari Irvine
1998 Tyrell Rosse
1999 Sauber Alesi

1:18 Quartzo
1968 Jim Clark South African GP Lotus
1969 Graham Hill Monaco GP Lotus

1:18 Minichamps (all except Alonso I am also looking to sell)
2003 1st win Alonso Renault
2002 Kimi Raikkonen McLaren
2002 Ralf Schumacher Williams
2002 Jarno Trulli Renault (Universal Hobbies)

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Originally Posted by Cozzie

I have a few F1 models,

1:43 Minichamps (all of which I am looking to sell)...

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Good luck! :p :

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Originally Posted by schmenke

Good luck! :p :

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Yeah I guess I only want about $10 each for them though. :(

Hey! What a cool off season thread...seems a bit odd writing this...but I'm sure I'm amongst friends here. When Ant was 6 or 7 years old, I always bought him model F1 cars, that I'd secretly liked myself! He often spent hours setting them up on the dinning room table, using coasters, lids and all manner of objects as sections of tracks. He would study the cars from all angles, contemplating moves, like it was a chess game!

It never occurred to any of us that one day there would be models of him in these cars, let alone actually driving the real things!

Now today in his office he has a display cabinet full of them (1/43rd Minichamps), often given as gifts by fans (especially in Japan) which have been individually converted to the various special liveries that B.A.R. and the Honda team have adorned his practice cars with at the differant GP's. Indeed I have had a few converted over the years for him, F1 test cars, his Carlin F3 car, the Prodrive Ferrari 550 Maranello etc. To do the heads, one has to buy other models of him and do head swaps, which has left me with loads of headless models! Recently I outbid other bidders on ebay for the rare Michael Schumacher collection Minichamp Go-Karts so they could be converted into Ants various junior and senior championship karts.

He doesn't get time to play with them these days, but then the lucky git gets to play with the full scale ones!

I mentioned some very large scale replicas a few weeks ago. I came a across a lengthy selection a few days ago but forgot to save the URL. Here are a few pages with some highly detailed 1/4 to 1/8 scale Ferraris, so you can see they do exist.

http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/pages...errari&cid=880

http://www.alexreade.net/acatalog/co...5_and_1_8.html

So Christmas has just come and gone, has anyone else's die-cast collection gotten bigger during the Holidays? I managed to increase my minichamps from 1 to 5 (99 JV BAR test car, JV BAR 03, G. Bruni 2004 Minardi show car, and a Fisi 2005 Renault)

I also picked myself up a 1/18th Hotwheels limited edition Micheal Schumacher 2003 world champion edition. (I later went on ebay and found them selling for 4x what I paid for this one )

Yes, i have added a 2004 BAR Honda, Jenson Button.

Infact if i am honest its been an expensive week or so on eBay.

the schumacher models (especially limited editions) are going crazy

i currently have the following:

1/43
1994 champion edition schumacher benetton
1998 black ferrari test car (i've seen the 1:18 scale go for over £100 on ebay)
2000 jenson button williams
2001 kimi raikkonen sauber
2005 gary paffet dtm car, signed.

1/24
1994 australian gp shumacher benetton

1/18
schumacher champions - 2001,2002,2003 and 2004 (the 2002 is the 5 time champ edition)
2004 schumacher ferrari with marlboro sponsoring
2004 schumacher - king of the desert bahrain
2006 - 66 pole positions
2006 - schumacher presentation with his career stats
1994 aryton senna williams
2003 jean alesi dtm
nissan skyline r34 gtr
2005 aston martoing dbr9 le mans
2003 winning bentley, signed by all 3 drivers.


i'm quite impresed, by i know someone who has all of schumacher's cars, including 1:18 scale black ferrari and his 1991 jordan in 1:18 scale.

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Originally Posted by daz90

Yes, i have added a 2004 BAR Honda, Jenson Button.

Infact if i am honest its been an expensive week or so on eBay.

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Two new additions to my collection. The Jenson Button 2004 BAR arrived today, also a Stewart Ford SF 1, Barrichello, both Minichamps, and both 1/43 scale.

Tobacco or no tobacco?

I try as much as possible to purchase models with full tobacco livery. The few in my collection that are not with tobacco livery just seem "naked" :mark: .

I know that after-market decal sets are available for purchase but I've never tried to convert a model with these. Has anyone here tried? Is it difficult? Seems to me that you'd need a steady hand, especially with the 1/43 scale models.