Junkman

If fuel efficiency plays a role with vehicles that are used in life-saving emergencies, such as police cars, ambulances and fire engines, then the world has indeed ceased to be a place worth living in. If fuel was indeed as precious as they try to brainwash us into, then why don't they start with stoppig to make those bloody good for nothing tanks?

They are all pretty pointless. Where is the concept car that doesn't need to be filled up?

Those aren't police cruisers. This is a police cruiser.

The real madness is much less hyped about: These things go 140+ !

I'm the most normal person I know. What people who aren't biking don't realise however, is that travelling at 170mph is a totally stable condition, much unlike doing such speeds with a car.

I participated twice in the Manx TT and I refuse to accept that I could be remotely insane. I mean, I would notice if I was. My late grandpa participated about 20 times in his life. He is one of the few who raced there before and after WWII. I never noticed the slightest inkling of insanity with him either.

Could one of the resin casters make it into a 4-door, please? And a fastback? And a wagon? Please?

I never considered it kid stuff. When I started in my early teens, it was exactly what made me feel soooo grown up.

We lived in an enourmous house on 4 acres of land in the vicinity of Munich. The entire downstairs were my dad's drawing offices, with a huge room with nine big drawing desks where the engineers worked. There were numerous other rooms, one for making blueprints, archives, my dad's office, and several storage rooms. In an annex, there was a room that wasn't used for anything, but it had a door to the garden. This became my first modelling workshop and I could just step outside to spray paint. When I was 13 or so, I started to clear out and do up a wooden garden house, about 50 yards from the main building further back on the grounds. I was finished and moved in at age 15, so at that age, I had my own three room house! One of the rooms I slept in, one was for the models, and one was a workshop for my bikes/mopeds. My sister then took over all the rooms I had formerly occupied in the main building, thus ending up with three rooms for herself as well. It was paradise.

1/3 scale Honda 750 engine, for another.

No, it is now the Metal Troops Creation's 1/35 scale kit of the German WWII railway gun 'Dora'. Before that, it was Nichimo's 1/200 scale battle ship 'Yamato'. If it was for scale, it would be Heller's kits of insects, which are hundreds of times larger than life-size.

A what?

The car that hit me was an old Nissan Primera, of all things. The driver tried to avoid me by steering into the field to the right, but it was too late. He hit me off centre and at an angle.

Yes. But I loved it and now there aren't any left in this configuration. Mine was a rare automatic.

How do you achieve those dents in what must be a diecast body?

The floor. Actually, it does not only slow them down, it makes them stationary.

An accident. The car in front of me slowed down for a left turn and stopped to yield for oncoming traffic. I stopped behind it, but a driver following me didn't think this is necessary. Four people got injured in the incident, including my wife. Thanks God the children were loaned to my parents when this happened.

Where do you always get those wheels and tyres? IXO (Ist).

If you find them difficult to obtain in America, you can order them from Model Car world in Germany: http://www.modelcarworld.de/relaunch/shopartic.php?f=NR&c=182684&userid=3699890&language=uk Stay patient, I bet a plethora of liveried examples will follow. This model will also appeal to many who are not particularily into models. It is safe to assume that a lot of them will be produced for companies on commission.

Only in England...

This is a very well kept secret, it doesn't appear anywhere on the Welly website! Obviously, it is available and shipping right now. It consitutes yet another huge win of the diecast boys over the backward dimwits of the kit industry. This iconic van has been loooong awaited by European modellers for decades! Seeing that I now can do all the conversions I had in mind waiting for a kit, I ordered six of them! Yes, kit manufacturers, eat your heart out! Six, and all paid for with money you will never see!

Wanna see me 1:1 car? Well, this is my 1:1 car. At least, what is left of it. For blood's sake.

That's the one.

It's a kit by ToHo of a 1960s Nissan President in 1/24 scale.

Isn't the 1/8 Monogram Trans Am larger than a Pocher? [anorak mode]However, the largest plastic model kit ever produced was for the longest time the Nichimo 1/200 scale kit of the Japanese battle ship "Yamato". It has now been surpassed by Metal Troops Creation's 1/35 scale kit of the German WWII railway gun 'Dora'. The latter consists of over 3000 parts, weighs in at 24 kg, and the box is 180cm x 60cm x 40cm (about the size of a coffin). Expect to pay 800 Dollars, plus shipping in the 200 Dollar region.[/anorak mode]