For all newcomers - welcome to the forums! Say hello and tell us a little about yourself and what you collect here!

Here's where you can discuss all general diecast stuff - mystery items, ask who made a model of a particular car, ask for info about an obscure manufacturer or chat about anything else related to vehicles smaller than 1:1 scale!

Here's where you can discuss all general diecast stuff - mystery items, ask who made a model of a particular car, ask for info about an obscure manufacturer or chat about anything else!

Here's the forum for new releases!

Check out what other members bought recently and boast about your new acquisitions

Here's where you'll find all the diecast forums dedicated to specific manufacturers.

The place to discuss classic muscle cars (old and new)!

Everything from E-Types to Veyrons welcome here!

Here's where you'll find all the forums dedicated to car racing, whatever the type!

Whether you restore, customize, build dioramas or want help and advice with any of the above, here's where to go!

Semis, artics, pickups, vans, road trains - whatever they are and whatever you call them, if they're used to transport stuff, here's where to talk about them.

Here's the place to talk about Cranes, Cement Mixers, Tractors, Combine Harvesters and other similar beasts!

Here's where you can talk about model tanks, armoured cars, staff cars and any other model military vehicles, whether they're kits, diecast or anything else!

Double deckers, Greyhounds, street trams and trolley-buses are all welcome here!

Tonka, Bandai, Nylint, Tipp, Buddy L, Ertl, Smith Miller... if it's made of pressed steel or tin, here's where it belongs!

Tootsie Toy, Midgetoy, Hubley, Barclay or Orphans, here's where to chat about slush cast!

Yes, we know it's a little bit of a contradiction in terms, but here's where you can talk about Norev, Minialuxe, Siku, Polistil, Tomte, Auburn, Sun Rubber or any other ready-made model car that's made of plastic or rubber. Hey, they're still cast in dies!

This is the place to chat about all things 1/87 - Herpa, Wiking, Eko, Bub, Roco, Efsi and any other model in this scale in plastic or metal!

Take a trip down memory lane. Besides Pedal Cars this forum also covers Classic Bicycles, Tricycles, Wagons, Motor Bikes, Simplex and Whizzers. This is also now The Pedal Car Collectors' Club Group Forum

50 hearses, 50 race transporters, 50 (or more) of anything you like!

Can you identify it? Give it a go!

From Bing to Bandai to Yonezawa, here's where you can talk about all those colourful tinplate cars, buses, motorbikes, trucks and anything else with wheels!

Here's where you'll find all the forums that are tied to particular groups.

For all general discussion to do with kits!

For road, rally and racing cars, bikes, trucks, buses and everything in between!

Airfix, Revell, Hasegawa, Monogram, Frog, Tamiya, Guillow, MPC.

Here's the section for Apollo rocket models, Sputnik kits and more!

Here's where to talk about everything from model kit renderings of The Starship Enterprise to Barbarella figures!

For model kits of all things seafaring, from schooners to warships!

For all newcomers - welcome to the forums! Say hello and tell us a little about yourself and what you build here!

Cars, boats, planes etc.

Aurora, Carrera, Faller, Scalextric...

1950s Dinky Toys' Vividly Painted American Issues Group Forum: If you grew up in the 1950s (or even if you wish you had) you might not have had a nickel to your name. But if you were a car-crazy kid, poverty probably wouldn’t have stopped the car craziness. Cars, and car colors, undoubtedly made an impression. Your family’s, and your neighborhood’s driveways, were full of the fashionable two-tone (sometimes even tri-tone) color combinations offered by American automakers. And even if you could only dream to own one of the full-size models – let alone a parking lot-full of them, there was one classically affordable alternative towards acquiring your own full color fleet. It involved some scaling down to be sure – to about 1/43rd scale, actually – but it could be done, and you needed to rely on only one manufacturer: Dinky.
With such acquisitions fifty-plus years ago, you would have had a mighty neat looking parking lot of colorful American cars in miniature. Today, you can appraise them as worthy of a museum collection. All tolled, if these Dinky Toys had been the real deal, and if they were kept in equivalently excellent condition since new, then the initial cash outlay for the twelve models would have been thirty, maybe forty thousand dollars; their combined worth would now top a quarter-million. The toys, on the other hand, cost maybe a total of fifteen hard-earned nineteen fifties bucks; their total value is today over a grand. Probably every antique toy collector would like to have any one of those great fifties machines parked outside in their driveway, ready to cruise to the office or the market or the beach. But if you did have one, it would not be the same one that you bought (or got) when you were six. And if you did own all dozen, then you’d need a warehouse, not a driveway, in which to keep them. On the other hand, all the Dinky Toys can sit together on the same shelf, in their original condition, while all of your colorful memories remain vivid, and your investment remains sound.

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Removals to Germany Group Forum: Removals to Germany - International Removals Company, Overseas Shipping and Excess Baggage services around the World.

Maisto Group Forum: For Maisto die-cast collectors.

Please note that this forum is for the discussion of toy weapons (eg, cap guns, plastic replica swords etc) and NOT real weapons like swords and BB guns as these are not toys. As a rule of thumb, if an item could genuinely be used to hurt somebody, it probably isn't suitable for discussion here.

Ant Farms, Battery Operated, Classic Clockwork & Wind-Up Toys, Etch-a-Sketch, Optical Toys, Pedal Cars, Puppets, Rocking Horses, Slinky, Space Hoppers, Yo-Yos and Other Vintage, Modern, Classic and any other type of Toys!!!

Here's where it's all about buying and selling toys - where you can buy them, how you can sell them and everything in between!

New Group Forums are initially here, when they become active they get moved to their proper location (i.e.a doll group gets moved to the Doll section)

From Adelaide to Winipeg, this is where you can meet others with the same interests

From time to time, we'll be holding giveaways for great free stuff! Basically, how it works is that we'll put up a thread in here about whatever the giveaway item is and if you'd like to be entered into the draw, just make a posting in the thread, then we'll draw winners at random after the closing date. Simple!