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Post  bmd Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:51 am

ok so we all collect rally models, very funny....... Rolling Eyes
i've been thinking lately about the number of potential future releases that may/may not come out, eg Delta S4, more 6R4's, maybe 3 different Celicas, Legacys, Gallants, Chevettes, Nissan RS's, TR7's, etc,etc, and would have impact on my main collection simply due to the space required, so was considering revising my main collection in readiness.......this got me to thinking about the different themes we all have our displays based on.....so what are they?
i know of a few on here (Irish 1:43, Fisher only, Belga only, etc) but give us a short, sharp summary of your display theme.....purely for nosiness if course lol!!!! Embarassed Embarassed

I'll start us off....
I have 4 themes in my overall collection....
1. 1:18 World Rally 1970-2010 (perhaps to be revised Wink ) (limited to 84 models at any one time due to space)
2. 1:18 Irish
3. 1:18 Vatanen
4. 1:43 Mantas
5. 1:18 Mantas (mini-theme hopefully to consist of Brookes,McRae and Collins British C'ship cars)

next?.....................
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Post  gaz_bass Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:20 am

Sorry to be predictable for those who know me!

Mainly a 1:43 kinda guy....

1. 1:43 Manta's
2. 1:18 Manta's
3. More Manta's
4. And More Manta's
5. 1:43 Ascona's
6. Just starting on the 1:18 Ascona's - this could get expensive!
7. Andrews HFH / Brookes Cars
8. Belga rally models, only got 3 in 1:18 and the 1:43 collection is growing
9. 'CRACK' livered rally models
10. Various other random Vauxhall rally models such as Chevette's, Astra's, Nova's, Calibra etc....
11. Have some odd ball MKII Escort's and Audi's, nothing elusive really.

GAZ
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Post  gerardwrm Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:22 am

Very Simple Smile

one theme ...... 1:18 World rally championship ( nearly 90 )
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Post  Cowley Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:45 am

One theme, totally biased, completely blinkered... ...1/43 MG Metro 6R4s! cheers With a miniscule fraction of Rover Vitesses!
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Post  Simon6R4 Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:56 am

A few themes for me, nearly all 1/43 plus a very small number in other scales;

1. Metro 6R4s
2. Rallycross
3. Group B
4. Pikes Peak
5. Trophee Andros
6. 1990s BTCC
7. Various other unusual Rally or other cars that take my fancy Rolling Eyes


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Post  Juha Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:00 am

Here it goes, all 1/43...

1. WRC title winning drivers in their title winning year (1 car for each year)
2. 6R4's
3. Belgian drivers
4. Belgian rallies (special interest for Belga/Bastos/Boxy's/Vergokan/Structo models)
5. Heat for Hire
6. Sunbeam Lotus
7. Martini & Totip Lancias
8. RAC winning Escorts
9. Ford (intended as an overview of its rallying history, but it doesn contain 30 Escort Cosworth/WRC's)
10. Various Opels (same as above, but including a dozen asconas)
11. Juha Kankkunen
12. Mohammed Bin Sulayem
13. Rallycross
14. Equipe National Belge/Ecurie Francorchamps racing cars (mostly Ferrari)

There's often an overlap between themes: Belga 6R4, Kankkunen Belga Celica, Heat for Hire Sunbeam/Opel, ...

And then there are those which "I bought because I like them", no wonder I have so many models. Embarassed
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Post  Simon6R4 Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:02 am

Juha wrote:Here it goes, all 1/43...

1. WRC title winning drivers in their title winning year (1 car for each year)
2. 6R4's
3. Belgian drivers
4. Belgian rallies (special interest for Belga/Bastos/Boxy's/Vergokan/Structo models)
5. Heat for Hire
6. Sunbeam Lotus
7. Martini & Totip Lancias
8. RAC winning Escorts
9. Ford (intended as an overview of its rallying history, but it doesn contain 30 Escort Cosworth/WRC's)
10. Various Opels (same as above, but including a dozen asconas)
11. Juha Kankkunen
12. Mohammed Bin Sulayem
13. Rallycross
14. Equipe National Belge/Ecurie Francorchamps racing cars (mostly Ferrari)

There's often an overlap between themes: Belga 6R4, Kankkunen Belga Celica, Heat for Hire Sunbeam/Opel, ...

And then there are those which "I bought because I like them", no wonder I have so many models. Embarassed

I've got quite a few of those as well Embarassed
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Post  brian Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:13 am

gaz_bass wrote:Sorry to be predictable for those who know me!

Mainly a 1:43 kinda guy....

1. 1:43 Manta's
2. 1:18 Manta's
3. More Manta's
4. And More Manta's
5. 1:43 Ascona's
6. Just starting on the 1:18 Ascona's - this could get expensive!
7. Andrews HFH / Brookes Cars
8. Belga rally models, only got 3 in 1:18 and the 1:43 collection is growing
9. 'CRACK' livered rally models
10. Various other random Vauxhall rally models such as Chevette's, Astra's, Nova's, Calibra etc....
11. Have some odd ball MKII Escort's and Audi's, nothing elusive really.

GAZ

This might be useful for you then, if only for base models
Ebay

My collection doesnt really have a theme, mainly since nothing is on display.

I have a few 1/43 models, mainly from the 90s. They would be cars that are iconic to me. They may never have won anything, but they are the cars i remember from growing up in that time.

My 1/18 collection is a miss match of everything. But 95% of the models i have will be base models for something Irish if it ever turns up.

I am working towards having a Eamon Boland display though, a few one offs should make the collection stand out a bit

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Post  Hampton Caught Fri Mar 01, 2013 12:33 pm

My display cabinets (2 at present! Wink ) contain solely 1/43 scale models, just nudged past the 200 barrier! Very Happy

The theme is straight-forward: Post war BMC/ BL/ Austin Rover/ Rover Group and MG Rover cars. Many of the cars are road cars, with an increasing proportion of rally and rallycross cars (strange that, eh! Laughing ). I therefore have the following marques present:

Austin
Daimler
Jaguar
Land Rover
Leyland (an unusual Autralian built Leyland P76 from the early 1970s)
LDV (vans!)
MG (sub-divided into MG Metro 6R4s approx 40) and 'all other MGs)
Mini (just 'proper Minis, no BMW DNA, thanks!, of which I have over 50)
Morris
Rover
Vanden Plas
Wolseley.

I'm hoping to get a third display cabinet some time in the future, and expect it to be solely for 6R4s. We'll see. The gaps between the models keeps shrinking, so I can't see them so well!

Cheers, Steve
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Post  Mal Fri Mar 01, 2013 12:54 pm

Why be complicated. Mine is very simple

1/18 rally cars

1/24 rally cars and

1/43 rally cars.

Then there is

1/18 race cars

1/24 race cars

1/43 race cars

and 1/18 road cars that I like

and 1/1 road cars

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Post  gaz_bass Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:15 pm

brian wrote:

This might be useful for you then, if only for base models
Ebay

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Thanks Brian!
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Post  Juha Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:16 pm

1/1 road cars, I forgot that one. It's the only collection where the numbers are reduced from time to time. The best We've done was 5 at once. lol!
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Post  reeft1 Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:46 pm

1) 1/43 WRC winning drivers - 1 car from each year they were champ unless you are Waldegaard who drove a Merc the same year as his Escort
2) 1/43 WRC winning manuacturers - 1 car from each year unless the model changed mid year and the different models both won events ie 8v Delta to 16v Delta
3) 1/43 WRC winning drivers - 1 of each driver who has won a WRC event
4) 1/43 BRC winners since 1970 something (unless it was in a Ford where i have a few earlier ones)
5) 1/43 non winning Fords from WRC or other events if not covered by the above
eg GT70
6) 1/43 F1 Driver and Manufacturer Champs ( Ford/Cosworth engined only) since inception - 1 of each
7) 1/43 F1 Ford Engined scope creep cars driven by drivers i admire ie Senna Mclaren Ford
Cool 1/43 Ford BTCC/ETCC/WTCC cars - 1 of each variant made but primarily overall or class winners
9) 1/43 dream garage cars - 1 of each RS/AVO variant made plus exotics
10) 1/43 variants of cars ive owned if not covered by the dream garage
11) until last year, 1 of each variant of Dakar winning car - sold them to make cabinet space


Its a slippery slope from 1 to start with........

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Post  Beaney Fri Mar 01, 2013 2:25 pm

1/18 mk2 escorts
1/18 + 1/43 mantas
1/18 Subarus
1/43 Novas
1/43 vauxhalls/opels
Then an odd misc 1/43 and 1/18 road cars
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Post  newt5550 Fri Mar 01, 2013 3:36 pm

Ermmm. Well, now revised!

1. Escorts (only the ones i really like) 1/43 only
2. Metro 6R4's
3. Rover Vitesse's
4. Allegro's
5. Modern MG's


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Post  Cardy Fri Mar 01, 2013 5:05 pm

FORD theres a surprise

focus wrc
fiesta s2000
fiesta RRC
fiesta WRC
RS200
a few other fords cosworths escorts etc
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Post  scoobycollection Fri Mar 01, 2013 5:52 pm

Imprezas,, Just imprezas. 400cars + about 300 decals.....

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Post  focussimo Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:03 pm

All in 1/43

+- 390 Focus wrc

and some Fiesta (s2000 and Wrc) , 206 WRC and 207 S2000 for the fun
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Post  Juha Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:06 pm

scoobycollection wrote:Imprezas,, Just imprezas. 400cars + about 300 decals.....
focussimo wrote:+- 390 Focus wrc
Will we ever witness such a number of 6R4 models?

Replicating the full line-up of parked up Clubman cars at the works is cheating, that would be too easy. lol!
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Post  skipperjim Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:14 pm

I have a lot to sell coming up as I am going to concentrate on only three areas at present. So as I sell some outside of these areas hopefully I will be able to pick up more within my selected areas.

1) Metro 6R4 - can't remember how many but can't rival anyone on here.
2) Ford Escort MK11 & RS2000 - not too bad quantity wise.
3) Anything Colin McRae - this one is coming along fine with quite a selection so far.

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Post  Zeus Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:16 pm

1/43 only..
MG Metro 6R4
Group B era
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV
Richard Burns
VW Motorsport
VW Golf GTI street cars
Cars I have owned in 1/1
Others I like
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Post  mcm motorsport Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:30 pm

IRISH mainly (253models)
nice ford cossie/focus models (20)

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Post  bob 6r4 Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:51 pm

Minor league : 80 odd 1/43 : mostly Irish , 60 ish 1/18 : 142 1/12 moto g.p bikes : 21 1/6 moto g.p bikes. 50 ish 1/22 moto g.p bikes . And 123 1/18 Formula one cars. Hope I don't get get excommunicated for the none rally cars . Very Happy

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Post  newt5550 Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:54 pm

bob 6r4 wrote:Minor league : 80 odd 1/43 : mostly Irish , 60 ish 1/18 : 142 1/12 moto g.p bikes : 21 1/6 moto g.p bikes. 50 ish 1/22 moto g.p bikes . And 123 1/18 Formula one cars. Hope I don't get get excommunicated for the none rally cars . Very Happy

affraid where the hell do you put that lot. Impressive Cool
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Post  bob 6r4 Fri Mar 01, 2013 8:03 pm

Double garage Chris , just being revamped ,but don't tell my dear wife, I don't know why but they just don't understand . lol!

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