Well since Sixcyl has showed us a fantastic gas station that at least me have loved i'd like to know how many of us collect such dioramas or scale model cars.

And if you have any special ones you can post them here so all of us can see them.

Mine:
http://www.antp.be/perso/modelcars/

I have 3 1:18's: a Yat Ming 59 Buick Electra 225 Convt in Tampico Red, a 58 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe in black, and a 61 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe in red that I am not as fond of as the other two. One wall is adorned with a shadow box of 14 1:64's, 6 of which are of fine detail. My other wall (small place, huh?) has 2 framed car photos taken by me.

I use to collect model cars a while back ... back during a place & time when I was young, and any bills that arrived at the house – didn’t have my name on them ...

I have one model car (I got for a Christmas present about four years ago)
It’s a light blue 1/18 scale 1965 Pontiac GTO "HURST Edition"

I collected 1:18 scaled cars untill I ran out of space. I have NSU Prinz, VW Coccinelle, VW Kleinbus, Citroen DS, Jaguar Mk II, Jaguar XK8, Auto Union 1000S Coupe, Fiat 500, Porsche 356, Alpine A110 and MB S-klasse W220.

I also have kept toy cars I had in my childhood (Majorette, Corgi, Lesney, Siku etc.) about 200 of them. Also various other toy cars in different sizes, a couple of miniature rail roads and a vintage scalextrics race track.

Here's a funny pic of the 1:18 Prinz. It looks almost like a real one doesn't it ?

Great photo Raul!!!

Look at this one i took few years ago http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/art/art_20050523_001.shtml hehe

I do have a nice collection of (45) Panhards and (circa 250) Citroëns, and a huge amount of Wiking-Modelle, mainly from the 60s and 70s (about 1000) and other 87th models (circa 300) and 250 miscellanious... Most interesting is a red tin Panhard Dyna by CIJ (1:24), an orange Pahard Dyna Cabriolet (1:87, Midget Cars), a grey plastic 2CV by Siku) and a red Mercedes-Benz 300 SE (Wiking 153 pre-production)

There are some nice Expedition models on eBay – if anyone is interested – just FYI ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ford-EXPEDITION-Eddie-Bauer-model-1-18-UT-diecast_W0QQitemZ230201858296QQihZ013QQcategoryZ47188QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQc- mdZViewItem

I have that Eddi Bauer Expedition by UT Models, i bought it last year, simply i recommend it to you Neptune, if you know how to appreciate a nice scale model you should buy it

My collection is way out of control (my last count was a couple of years ago & it was over 30,000 then.!)
I'm still planing a website with photos of each car (taken over 10,000 pics ..so far.!)
It will happen one day

30.000??!!! Oh-my-God

I have none on display (no room in my little bedsit flat.!) after writing details & taking photo's they're packed away in plastic boxes/car cases.
It's hard to keep track of what i've got (and hard to resist picking up more models, even of cars I already have, just on the chance it is in better condition than the one I already own )

Who are you planning to hire?

I am not exactly a die-cast collector but when I see some nice model of a Volvo or Jaguar, I usually can not resist

I see you have Norevs Citroen DS antp

Mine:

Land Rover Defender Diorama



I'll post more later

Nice Land Rover!!

I love collecting diecasts. When i was a kid I enjoyed the plastic scale models. Most were 1:24 but I had 2-3 of the big scale. I think they were 1:6 scale. I loved those things. I had the anniversary indianapolis silver Corvette, 84 Corvette, 84 Z28 Camaro and the black IrocZ.

Thanks I got it cheap from a model shop, £15, which is just above 20EUR. I hope to be adding to my collection soon with some 1/18s, a Mercedes-Benz S500 W221, a Maybach 62 (Very big, doubt it will fit into my cabinet, it willl have to go in at an angle)and last but not least an Audi R8.

Here is a small amount of my current collection:

BMW 535i Minichamps 1/18




Lamborghini Countach LP400 Kyosho 1/18



Vanguards (Mostly old British Cars) 1/43









I think some of you will like my hidden treasures series which follows





Now 2 french cars, i'm starting to collect more foreign cars now, i'm thinking of buying a Dutch police Volvo 340DL




Antp, i think you would love my local model shop, there are many french 1/18s, a green Citroen DS (you have, i know) A Citroen DS Convertible (I think it was chapron or something), Citroen 2CV Van, Michelin, Peugeot 504 and Peugeot 404 Spider and Coupe. They also have a Citroen C6. Doubt you want to go to Holland to buy some models though

Yeah these can be found here too I think. I'll maybe buy the C6 if I find it for a good price, but probably not the others: 1/18 is too big, it takes too much space

Today i bought a Audi A6 Avant by Norev.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8747/dsc03413pn3.jpg