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Activate notificationGeneral » How many of us collect scale model cars and dioramas in general?
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As a school-boy I've collected the 1:87-scale WIKING-models. A lot of them I've bought on flea-markets and at collector's store. I still have nine plastic-boards full with them (ca.400), but actually I haven't found a place to hang them.
In the early 90ies my interest in them was going back. They got more and more expensive and I've spend my money and time in my first real car (K 70, for sure
) and the work in the K 70-enthusiasts-club.
I'm collectiing heavily K 70-literature - but strictly no toy-K 70ies. May sound strange, but I've seen, that the collections of my friends are very big, so my chance is not good to reach them. So I've decided to be concentrated just on the literature. If I find sometimes a K 70-scale model for a good price, I buy it and give to my friends for the same price.
I own only two K 70-scale-models, a red 1:87 WIKING (I got from a neighbour, when I was 3 years old) and a greenmtallic 1:66 Majorette with Sterckeman-camping-trailer, which I got as a 5-year-old boy.
My other toy-cars of my childhood, mainly SIKU, Majorette, some Matchbox, Corgi and others, too, are still existing. Not in good condition, because played with, but still alive.
In the early 90ies my interest in them was going back. They got more and more expensive and I've spend my money and time in my first real car (K 70, for sure
) and the work in the K 70-enthusiasts-club.I'm collectiing heavily K 70-literature - but strictly no toy-K 70ies. May sound strange, but I've seen, that the collections of my friends are very big, so my chance is not good to reach them. So I've decided to be concentrated just on the literature. If I find sometimes a K 70-scale model for a good price, I buy it and give to my friends for the same price.
I own only two K 70-scale-models, a red 1:87 WIKING (I got from a neighbour, when I was 3 years old) and a greenmtallic 1:66 Majorette with Sterckeman-camping-trailer, which I got as a 5-year-old boy.
My other toy-cars of my childhood, mainly SIKU, Majorette, some Matchbox, Corgi and others, too, are still existing. Not in good condition, because played with, but still alive.
A little bit nitpicking before going to sleep: @Raul: one thing is not correct at your NSU TT. The wheels are from the Prinz 4. 
I'm collectiing heavily K 70-literature - but strictly no toy-K 70ies. May sound strange, but I've seen, that the collections of my friends are very big, so my chance is not good to reach them. So I've decided to be concentrated just on the literature. If I find sometimes a K 70-scale model for a good price, I buy it and give to my friends for the same price.
I couldn´t have explained it better - exactly the way I thought and the same way I act today.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what kind of car this is or where I could find more information about it. It is from the 1980’s and I gather from eBay that it is referred to as a “Tonka Friction Car”. It is the kind that you run along the ground to rev up an "inertia motor" inside and then push the button on top and it goes forward under it’s own power. It has "140" stamped on the bottom, and is about 3 inches long. I have had no luck searching the internet to find out what it is and possibly obtain one in better condition. Also, if anyone can tell me if it is based on a real car and if so what make or model, I'd appreciate any help.
Yes I agree.
Quite ironic that a European member is telling this to an American member though
Quite ironic that a European member is telling this to an American member though
Well Ingo that goes without saying, it is obvious that brands improve their scale model cars, if they were getting done like two decades ago nobody would buy them and they'd be considered unsafe
Naah, that's not really true. Just today I got the confirmation of the opposite facts.
We'd been in a tool-market and I had a short look to the SIKU-toys besides the cashier, if perhaps some models were still produced, which I know from my childhood.
I've seen one fact, which friends, who have small children, have told me. They said, that SIKU-toys (a well known company since decades of Lüdenscheid) were getting worse in hte last years. They let produce in China and the bottoms of the cars are nowadays plastic and not Zinc any more, so the new SIKU-toys are much easier broken into pieces, when children are playing with.
So this is the reason, because my friends are buying old, used SIKU- (also Majorette- and Matchbox-)cars on flea-markets for their children. They are just better quality.
And last but not least: it's good for the life's quality of a child, if it can play with a K 70-, Granada- Mercedes W115- or Opel GT-toy-car than with a modern one. 
We'd been in a tool-market and I had a short look to the SIKU-toys besides the cashier, if perhaps some models were still produced, which I know from my childhood.
I've seen one fact, which friends, who have small children, have told me. They said, that SIKU-toys (a well known company since decades of Lüdenscheid) were getting worse in hte last years. They let produce in China and the bottoms of the cars are nowadays plastic and not Zinc any more, so the new SIKU-toys are much easier broken into pieces, when children are playing with.
So this is the reason, because my friends are buying old, used SIKU- (also Majorette- and Matchbox-)cars on flea-markets for their children. They are just better quality.
And last but not least: it's good for the life's quality of a child, if it can play with a K 70-, Granada- Mercedes W115- or Opel GT-toy-car than with a modern one.
See his post at the top of this page
Hehe thanks, so not reallly then
Very nice Snookie! You have some great model cars there 