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| The packaging is a bit beat up... |
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| This is a Kyosho (Japanese brand) 1/43rd scale model of the 007 Movie car. Someone bought it in Japan originally (has a price tag on the end flap in Yen; it was 3,000 yen - about $30) Toyota did not build a convertible version of the car for sale. They modified two cars for the James Bond movie so that Sean Connery could fit in the car (he was too tall for the coupe...). |
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| This is a very nice 1/43rd scale model of a 1970 914-6 (with the 5 lug Fuchs wheels). It's a European spec model (can tell by the turn indicator color). |
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| Nice Dinky model of the Mercedes-Benz 220SE. This picture was taken on my desk (these sit just below the monitors). I've got the car in four different scales on my desk... |
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| The tires are cracked and the Right Rear is missing. |
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| Didn't know what these were when I bought them. I knew that K&E is a German maker of Drafting Tools (I have other K&E stuff) but had not heard of a "Spline Weight." Looking online, I discovered that they are used for bending thin pieces of wood used in either drafting up boats or making bent wood pieces for models of boats. They have a sharp pointy protruding pin on the front that is lower than the base of the weight, so that when the weight is sitting flush, the pin is below the surface of the table it sits on. The pictures are not showing the colors correctly. These are a light green color and are painted with wrinkle finish paint. They're made of lead and are quite heavy. I like the whale shape that they were cast in... |
Picture from the internet showing how the splines are used.
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