1/64 Porsche 911 Carrera RS Red and Blue stripe

Porsche 911 Carrera RS Red Stripe and 911 Carrera RS Blue Stripe - two of the rare model cars produced by Kyosho today.
The white paints are beautifully applied on the car body and the color of the rim complements the stripe brilliently. The blue stripe 911 Carrera RS has blue rim while the counterpart has red rim. The subtly really make them standout from the rest of the memebers in the same collection. The inscription "Carrera" on the stripe is very well done; if the scription is not there, I honestly think the car would not have such a great appeal on me. They will simply be white cars with solid red line and blue line respectively.

1/64 Alfa Romeo

I just won 30 pieces of Alfa Romeo Series 1 from Japan today, I finally can see 8C Competizione, SZ Red and 155 V6 T1 in person.

Too bad Giulia Sprint GTA 1300 Junior is not part of this set, otherwise, it is like winning a jackpot.

This series has some old cars and they are all very good looking. Giulia T1, 1750 Spider Veloce and Giulia Sprint 1600 GTA are good collection.

Red and yellow SZ look very sharp when they are complemented with black roof.

I also want to place 8C Competizione and red SLR McLaren side by side for comparison to see which one stands out. Both are racing cars that look cool in real thing and not too shabby in small scale.

Lamborghini 1 Follwup

Porsche 1 Followup

BMW Followup

They are here!!! They are much more beautiful than my wildest imagination. Totally speechless.
My favorite is M1 White and this is one of the best white Kyosho model car I have ever seen.
I will enjoy their presence for as long as I can until they are out of my possession.

Kyosho Lamborghini 1

I would like to introduce my latest Kyosho acquistion to this day - 20 pieces of 1/64 Kyosho Lamborghini 1. This is so surreal to me because they are so rare in ebay and Hong Kong. When I could not find any in my trip to Japan last year, I was disappointed but understanable because the series was released many years ago.

This is not a complete set but the collection is still impressive: (How many people can say they have all 24 pieces?)

miura SV orange

miura SV green

urraco purple

urraco red

countach LP400 yellow

countach LP400 orange

jota svr black

jota svr red

countach LP5000S red

countach LP5000S black

countach LP5000S white

diablo red

diablo white

diablo black

diablo gtr white

diablo gtr yellow

diablo gtr orange

murcielago orange

murcielago green

murcielago yellow

Diablo GTR (all three colors) and Uraco purple are mine but the others are for sale.

P.S. I don't know who reads my blog but I need some inputs here. In a perfect world, what kind of Kysoho or CMS model car you would like to have, please write to me and let me know. If a particular series has garnered a lot of supporters, I do my best to get it from Japan.

Happy Easter - find gems in Japan

Happy Easter, everybody.

I have a fantastic Easter weekend in terms of finding affordable 1/64 diecast models in Japan.

Yesterday, I won a full set of BMW (26 pcs), a full set of Lamborghini II (30 pcs), 27 pieces of Porsche I (without Carrera RS Red and Carrera RS blue) and CMS Colin McRae Memorial I (8 pcs).

One can say I had a busy Saturday night watching four auctions ending around the same time. I had to regularly jump from page to page to check I was the top bidder. I almost lost the BMW auction but I outbade another bidder at the last minute, so everything was rosy at the end.

I just wait three weeks for them to ship to Hong Kong, examine their quality and count items.

I was cheated in my Mercedes Benz set because the other party did not sell Sauber C9 #61 and #62 as promised but offered Sauber C9 #63 and 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II Green to me instead.

If the transaction goes smoothly, I will post pictures of BMW in my blog in early May. I hope I do not drool on 3.5CSL #59 and #25 when they are on my palms.