What is your favourite die cast that you own?

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Oi Martin/Phantom Phixer – did you know Dinky made a model viscount in the colours of the sister ship of your aeroplane?! 🙂

TT

I did indeed squire and have one stashed somewhere in an orginal unmarked box.

Favourite model??????? Im rather partial to my Corgi RNHF Swordfish and Gemini Aces Mustang Princess Elizabeth. But so many to choose from in all honesty.

Curly boy, get yourself a display cabinet. Tis the only way forward for keeping her away from them. The to be Mrs Phantom Phixer insists on picking mine up. A lockable cabinet will shortly be stopping her with that naughty habit. 😀

Tough call…if I had to name my favorites, they’d be the 1/200 Historic Aircraft Tu-160 and the Gaincorp 1/72 Su-47.

Not exactly commercially available, but my favorite is my 1950’s vintage (Allyn?) 1/72 scale cast C-124 Globemaster II manufacturers model.

Yes, it’s large. It’s next to a 1/144 scale Corgi B-17G.

As a bonus, the plaque attached to the stand indicates it was given by Douglas to a troop carrier squadron that was based at the airbase where I was born about the time I was born…and my father was flying 124s.

Somehow, we found each other 35 years later a thousand miles away.
Small world.

Here it is in my den.
BTW: the background WWII era photo of the young pilot is my father in primary training, circa 1943

Mine has got to be the 1/72nd Corgi Black Bunny VX-4 Vandy Phantom that I have, followed closely by a new Century F14 Tomcat in 1/72nd. Very heavy model indeed for it’s size!

Never been much of a fan of collecting die-cast – but here is what I do have – so I guess they are my favourites…

Dinky Toys Gloster Javelin
Dyna Flights Supersabre F-100C

Both worn, weary and abused – rescued from the bin to bide their time on my bookshelf

Tough one……..I’d say my 1/72 Dragon P-47 in the markings of Ralph K Hofer of the 4th FG.
Wish some manufacturer would do Hofer’s P-51 ‘Salem Representative’…….especially Eagles International.

Not die cast, but my favourite model has to be my resin 1/72 Fairey Delta 2, mounted on a plinth with the signature of Peter Twiss. One of only 50 made, it was this years birthday present from my boss.

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Oi Martin/Phantom Phixer – did you know Dinky made a model viscount in the colours of the sister ship of your aeroplane?! 🙂

TT

Nice one TT, that clears that one up, I must have had the Maia/Mercury combination and swapped the lower half for what appears now to be a Junkers 89, I still have Mercury at least, I reckon they must have belonged to my brother when he was a kid, but he has a terrible memory. I also had the B-17, don’t know what happened to that, funny how you remember things, I recall jamming puffed wheat into a hole in the fuselage for use as bombs, except they wouldn’t come out.
Incidentally, a few years ago I did a survey in a barn that was full of treasures, after the owners had cleared it, I was allowed to take what was left, unfortunately not all the pre war Hornby train set, but the owner had been a notable script writer and ‘Erk’ in the RAF. I obtained some film scripts, various aircraft books and his RAF logbook. What was exciting was a mint Dinky box for a Short Singapore, unfortunately empty, I’ve been looking for one ever since.

Love RCAF Lancasters, so thrilled that Corgi went up from 1:144th and did a bigger one…….:D

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I have a still in box corgi 1/72 Guy Gibson ‘operation chastise’ Lancaster.

I am too scared to take it out of the box after what happened to my F4C ask phantom phixer about my mothers habits with my models.

curlyboy

mine has a little history it was built from the original wing of VX777 when it was modified in 1958?

It forms part of my vulcan shrine with the 5 corgi ones and pictures of real ones.

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Oi Martin/Phantom Phixer – did you know Dinky made a model viscount in the colours of the sister ship of your aeroplane?! 🙂

TT

It wouldnt have been a Sunderland mate – it would have been a Shorts Shetland – and yes – they’re worth a fortune now so it was a mistake! sorry!

TT

Oh dear, worse than that, I have a small Dinky flying boat that was presumably the top part of the Miai, whatever, combination. I bet it was the bottom part of that.
Slash wrists and curl up in a foetal position.
When I was a kid, my mate had the most incredible collection of pre war Dinky a/c, not just one of each, but whole squadrons of spits, hurricanes, battles, blenheims, wellingtons etc, where are they now I wonder, I wish I’d swapped them for that bloody Ju-90.

Mine’s a Vulcan.

I like the paintwork on the upper side of 426.

I think 600 is too shiney but I like the white underside.

At the moment my favourite one of the other with a light grey underside.

I had to send the white one back though as there was damage to the paintwork on the wing.

However if I bought another Corgi it would probably be

A Vulcan.

Corgi showcase collection

…for my sins, my desk at work has 22 Corgi showcase collection WW2 era aircraft taking up space at the back. Generally great little display models for their size.

For some reason they never did a correctly marked Mosquito bomber, or added an Fw190, He111, Do17, Ju52, B29, B25, P47 or P40 to the collection, which all would have been popular enough to make a business case for, as there are enough squadron markings to show to make up the numbers.

Unlikely to have been made (maybe as there was not enough US demand) but equally attractive could have been a Halifax, Stirling, Wellington, and Typhoon?

Does anyone know if Corgi intend to add further to this collection?

my witty wings mkv111 bobby gibs spitfire

A very old Dinky Toys Ju 90, possibly pre-war and very crude, I swapped a Dinky Sunderland flying boat for it in the mid 50’s, was that a mistake?

It wouldnt have been a Sunderland mate – it would have been a Shorts Shetland – and yes – they’re worth a fortune now so it was a mistake! sorry!

TT

I’ve got a few around here too, but Eagles International did a custom P51C for me. I have my wifes name for the nose art and September 44 markings with fuselage lower invastion stripes, black ID bands and red outlined QP-Z codes of the 334th FS, 4th FG. And of course the red nose.

It was a bit pricy but I figure it’s about as close as I’ll ever get to having my own warbird 🙂

Dan

my Corgi Viscount collection. In particular my RAE Bedford Viscount

G’day,

My favourite would be the recent “Corgi Aviation Archive” Gloster Meteor Mk.8 ‘Halestorm’. George Hale was a squadron mate of my late father’s with 77 SQN in Korea and as a lad I actually laid hands upon the cockpit section of A77-851. The paint had been rubbed back to reveal the Mig ‘kill markings’ that had been ordered to be painted over not long after the combat.

The model is not an overly ‘exotic’ choice, but personally significant.

Cheers,

Owen