Classic British Cars Kit inventory

[ChrisBcritter]

MG

Minor, 1/24, Airtrax (resin, Finland)

Minor Traveller, box scale (about 1:38), Revell

Sunbeam

Tiger, AMT, 1/24

Should the Minors be listed under Morris? The AMT Tiger is 1/25.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Gotta add in the Thames Panel drag car by Revell

That was what I meant. The Thames and the Anglia were the same nose, but I believe the Thames is what they called the vans, wagons, and pickups.

[Harry P.]

1/16 Entex and/or Bandai 1908 Rolls Royce "Balloon Car"

1/16 Minicraft 1907 RR Touring Car

1/16 Entex and/or Minicraft1907 RR Silver Ghost

1/16 Gakken 1905 RR 3-Cylinder

1/24 Hubley "1960s" RR Silver Cloud metal bodied kit

1/24 Entex 1959-62 RR Silver Cloud II

1/24 Testors/Italeri 1934 RR Phantom II "Star of India"

1/24 Italeri RR Phantom II Torpedo Cabriolet

1/28 Breiter Bausatz 1905 RR

1/32 "Life Like" Hobby Kits RR Towne Car

1/32 "Life Like" Hobby Kits 1909 RR Silver Ghost

1/32 Revell "Highway Pioneers" 1911 RR Landaulet

1/32 Revell RR Phantom I

1/32 Lindberg 1933 RR kit #6606

1/32 MPC "International Classics" 1905 RR

1/32 Smer 1911 RR Silver Ghost

1/43 ABC Braziana 1925 RR Phantom I Tourer resin kit

1/43 ABC Braziana 1928 RR Phantom I Woody Estate resin kit

1/43 ABC Braziana 1930 RR Phantom I Sport Saloon resin kit

1/43 ABC Braziana 1947 RR Silver Wraith resin kit

1/43 ABC Braniana 1949 RR Silver Wraith Park Ward Sport Saloon resin kit

1/43 ABC Braziana 1950 RR Silver Wraith Sedanca resin kit

1/43 ABC Braziana 1951 RR Phantom IV "Shah of Persia" resin kit

1/43 ABC Braziana 1954 RR Silver Wraith resin kit

[sjordan2]

Don't forget the 1/8 James Bond Aston Martin by GE Fabbri -- that's the one that mails the parts in installments.

Did anyone mention the RoG London Bus?

Bburago has also offered kit versions of some of their prebuilt diecasts:

1/18 Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible ISF

1/18 1961 Jaguar E-type

1/24 Land Rover Defender 110

1/24 1951 Jaguar XK120

1/24 2001 Mini Cooper

1/24 Jaguar XF

Edited September 26, 2014 by sjordan2

[jrherald420]

Lets not forget the 1/43 scale resin companies like Starter. What about white metal 1/43 also?

[sjordan2]

1/16 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III -- Anmark, Revell, Entex, Gunze Sangyo

There's also a 1/16 Jaguar XJ-S coupe out there -- Entex, Bandai (Bandai is motorized)

Edited September 26, 2014 by sjordan2

[Pete J.]

Don't forget the Ford GT 40's the Mk Is were all British Fords and the Mk IIs were Modified Mk I's.

[Matt Bacon]

Thanks, guys!

I'm not doing 1/43 -- it's an area I know nothing about, and it can be what Douglas Adams called an SEP.

Harry -- do you know if the Life-like 1/32 RRs you mention are the same as the Pyro ones listed? I have a feeling that Life-like and Pyro were related somehow. And MPC are often Airfix reboxes, aren't they?

Skip -- 1/16 XJ-S, eh? I've never even heard of that one!

bestest,

M.

[Harry P.]

Thanks, guys!

I'm not doing 1/43 -- it's an area I know nothing about, and it can be what Douglas Adams called an SEP.

Harry -- do you know if the Life-like 1/32 RRs you mention are the same as the Pyro ones listed? I have a feeling that Life-like and Pyro were related somehow. And MPC are often Airfix reboxes, aren't they?

Skip -- 1/16 XJ-S, eh? I've never even heard of that one!

bestest,

M.

I can't keep them all straight, and without the actual kits in my hands to compare, I couldn't tell you which ones are reboxings of others... but undoubtedly that's often the case.

[Art Anderson]

Thanks, guys!

I'm not doing 1/43 -- it's an area I know nothing about, and it can be what Douglas Adams called an SEP.

Harry -- do you know if the Life-like 1/32 RRs you mention are the same as the Pyro ones listed? I have a feeling that Life-like and Pyro were related somehow. And MPC are often Airfix reboxes, aren't they?

Skip -- 1/16 XJ-S, eh? I've never even heard of that one!

bestest,

M.

When Pyro got out of the model kit business, Life-Like, the HO model RR scenery company, bought up their entire tooling--and then later was bought up by Lindberg, so Pyro kits have appeared in Pyro, Life-Like, and Lindberg boxes.

Airfix and MPC had a tool sharing agreement for several years in the late-60's/Early 70's, so several Airfix kits, including aircraft, ships and cars appeared in MPC's line, and vice-versa.

Art

[sjordan2]

Super rare, and always over $100 USD.

Edited September 26, 2014 by sjordan2

[ChrisBcritter]

Super rare, and always over $100 USD.

Now he tells me - and I left a nice builtup behind in California. I recall the tires were hollow rubber and were a bit loose on the rims; they'd also start going flat if I didn't roll it around now and then.

[Tom Geiger]

Polytoy / Polystil 1/25 (yes!) Mini Cooper... came in yeller, white, blue and red. Later issues had less detail but came in a bunch of colors.

Edited September 27, 2014 by Tom Geiger

[jbwelda]

isn't that XJ-S a rebox of the hasegawa kit? kinda looks like it.

[sjordan2]

isn't that XJ-S a rebox of the hasegawa kit? kinda looks like it.

The example I'm showing is 1/16.

[jbwelda]

oh, I see

jb

[krow]

Add the "Get Smart" variant of the Sunbeam: An Alpine, with the 4 cylinder power plant. Lots of work to fix the hole in the hood for the machine gun, but it is a variant. The rest of the "Spy" gimmicks were mercifully glue on dreck one can ignore, But the hole in the hood is unfortunate.

[Junkman]

AMT made a Ford Capri MKII as well, but one could argue it is a German car, since it is US spec and those were built in Cologne.

One could make it into a UK car quite easily, though.

Then there were Capri MKIs in 1/20 scale, initially by Sharp, those were later reissued by Bandai several times with various box arts.

Bandai also made a Capri MKII in 1/32.

Not sure whether the Otaki 1/24 Capri MKI RS 3100 has been mentioned yet. It is crude in the Palmer school of kits, but was reissued by

Academy/Minicraft. Best avoided.

How about the Tamiya Sierras? IIRC there were several versins of the RS500, and an XR4i.

Revell made Escort MKIIIs in 1/25.

Has the Imai/Aoshima/Revell FX4 Taxi been mentioned yet?

Not strictly cars, but there are the Bedford kits by Emhar, and the Revell Routemaster.

ESCI did a Transit MKII with a RHD option included in the kit. Unfortunately it was never reissued by Italeri.

Wills Finecast (now Southeastern) made a 1/24 scale Morgan 3-wheeler. Not sure whether that is still in their lineup portfolio.

The Parts Box (Australia) makes a resin Bedford CA van and a Bedford S-Type in 1/24.

On a different note, the Revell Cadet kits that were mentioned earlier (Rover P5, Vauxhall Cresta, Jaguar MKI) are not 1/32 scale, but smaller.

They vary in scale from 1/45 to 1/40.

Midori made a 4.5 litre Blower Bentley, which was reissued several times, even by Revell once.

Edited September 29, 2014 by Junkman

[djflyer]

Some that I have are:

1931 Rolls Royce Phaeton (Monogram #2303 - 1//24)

Lotus Esprit S1 (Nichimo #CH240 - 1/24)

Aston Martin DB4 (Aurora - 1/25)

Triumph TR-8 (Monogram snap-kit - 1/24)

I know the Aurora DB4 was reissued by Monogram (have that one too) and maybe the Lotus was done by someone also. A bit surprised

by the limited Healy 3000's and TR-6's.

[bbowser]

I haven't seen this one mentioned?

[Foxer]

This all makes me want to get back on my Air-Trax TR4A ... if I could just figure how I'm going to do the front turn signals

[lordairgtar]

Don't forget EMHAR and their series of late thirties early forties Bedford lorries (trucks). Also the big scale Airfix Bentley Blower was reboxed as an MPC kit.