Aussie post war die-casts

I have a brass Oxford (no stand, and separated cowls, I had someone lined up to supply the propellers and attach the cowls but that fell through) and a chrome plated Lockheed L-10 Electra (props missing too). The Electra is on a stand, but I don’t think it’s the original one.

Thanks for your interest.. haven’t opened this box for many decades now, and found a few more, some are prewar diecasts (the big DC2 and the Supermarine racer, ) and I believe anecdotally, the postwar ones are mainly sandcast, made by struggling local foundries from war scrap metal.. the Mustang and Airacobra are aluminium.. can anyone identify the flying boat fuselage and lower wing ??

I’ve never seen these before, but I like them. There is a nice mix of rough ‘folk art’ and attention to detail. Who was manufacturing them, and where did they get the metal? Were these built by pilots from metal recovered from scrapped aircraft, or anything as romantic as that? I’m only thinking this because the manufacturers have honoured some fairly obscure types, so I’m wondering if these were made by airmen for airmen perhaps? Presumably metal was somewhat scarce, or at least had some more important applications in post-war Australia.

These look like rarer hand made one -offs or small batch sand castings….to get die-casts (mass production) metal moulds have to be made which is precision work and very expensive

Very nice and rare

I’ve got a Hudson. Sadly not on its stand though.

Steve