Diecast collectors

[SIMid]

Anyone out there collect Lancia diecasts? Love to share your collection to us all?

I have a few 1:18s, 1:24s, 1:43s and a couple of 1:64s.

[rossocorsa]

check my photo album
http://www.lancisti.org/forum/modules.php?set_albumName=album67&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

I don't collect much any more because
1 I have too many :D
2 I don't have too much money :cry:
3 my wife complains too much :evil:

never mind........................

[SIMid]

That is one serious collection of Lancias!!! 8O

Some pretty rare ones there, very envious and very impressed!!!!

Did U ever some across a Beta Spider during your searches? I have seen pics of a couple, but never found any in my searches.

Oh, my wife is actually jealous that I collect diecasts cause I have a hobby. ;) Use that as an excuse.

Will take a few pics of some 1:18s I got as I didnt see any on your album pages.

[rossocorsa]

I think the spider might have been made as a resin or white metal kit but i don't have one, I have also seen one that someone made as a one off that was an ambitious conversion from the solido 1/43 diecast. I have about 600 lancia models in total, in terms of lancia model collections it is on the small side I know of people who have several thousand just of Stratos!!! I don't buy new models too often now, I tend to look for the older die casts but really the ones I don't have are usually too rare and expensive now

[SIMid]

Very brave to chop up an old Beta diecast, I wouldnt. I came across these pics on the net, seen them before?

http://tinypic.com/fxsbkj.jpg

http://tinypic.com/fxsbol.jpg

[rossocorsa]

the top one looks to be based upon the mercury 1/43 diecast coupé and the bottom on the mebetoys/hotwheels 1/25 diecast coupé. Doing this sort of conversion is down to time I have a mebetoys coupé that i intend to make into a model of my volumex coupé by adding spoilers, bonnet differences, later grille RHD dashboard etc.... but I've never had time!

[SIMid]

Gees, U gotta be keen to chop them up though. I just recently won a mebetoys Beta Coupe. It's mint so it'll stay like that. ;)

[rossocorsa]

there's plenty of less than perfect play worn examples out there to have a go at without feeling guilty ...and not paying out too much cash!