It has always made me chuckle that “Toys, They Are Not” Tamiya should be making something so bright and fun and yet seedy at the same time. I’m talking about Vanessa’s Lunchbox. There is so much innuendo within the name that your parents should have been appalled if you’d askedRead More →
Toy cars are a passion for the petrolhead. If you can’t afford the real thing, chances are you can buy it as a toy car. And then you don’t need to stop at just one. You can buy your whole dream garage that you can play with in theRead More →
Or “TV Crime Busters” as Corgi would rather they be known as. The ’80s was a time to be alive as a child. We had nothing to worry about apart from impending doom from atomic bomb annihilation. We all watched “Threads” in 1984 and “When The Wind Blows” in 1986.Read More →
Without giving the game away so early in a review, it is safe to say that Revell has once again come up trumps with their VW Bus model. So there you go. Enjoy the pictures and get buying. However, if you have a few spare minutes, stick with me asRead More →
For many years Beetle modelling fans have had to endure the misery of the Revell Street Machine or Cabriolet Beetle kits. These kits had been around since the late 70’s and their poor mouldings showed this. There were some nice detail touches but they were very few. Or the expensiveRead More →
Hasegawa has long been the oddball of Japanese model kits. They make random kits that you never thought about until you looked for something a little different. Very much kits for Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) fans. On the top they looked good but underneath they always lacked details. Launched inRead More →
I had some fun thinking about this article. Motoring writer and author, Richard Gooding posted up on Twitter, pictures from his visit to the Hornby toy museum in Kent. This got me thinking about the toy cars that I longed to own as the real thing. Namely those from CorgiRead More →
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again. Well I did just that with an Imai 1/24th scale Volkswagen Beetle model. It took 3 attempts between 1989 and 2016 or 1 every 9 years to complete. There was a model shop just off the high street inRead More →
Jeremy Clarkson recently appeared on his Youtube channel comparing the Lancia 037 Rally to the Audi Quattro. https://youtu.be/6lo4dGTrzr8 It made for some interesting viewing and if factually correct, and why wouldn’t it be, Lancia played some dirty tricks in their all out attempts to do battle with the all-weather grippingRead More →
Tamiya Hilux Extra Cab (or to you and I, Toyota Hilux Bruiser) During the summer of 2018, I was fortunate enough to be given the keys to Toyota GB’s homage to Tamiya’s Hilux Bruiser for a week. It was a sad day when they came to collect it. Shortly afterwardsRead More →
