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14/04/2024 5:43 pm
Like the West's Porsche Super Cup series, the Far East has their 'Porsche Infineon Carrera Cup Asia'. It's also integrated with the Asian Grand Prix. Born in Canada, O'Young left for Hong Kong at 21 using his marketing and business acumen to land on the Jebsen Group racing team. He was a very successful driver in GT racing all over Asia. He was a 3 time Macau Grand Prix winner and a 2 time Porsche Carrera Cup Asia champion during the 'aught' decade. Later he placed a class second at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013. I got a model of his 2005 Macau Grand Prix winning Porsche GT3 RSR as a review piece. Knowing nothing of the car The name "Blue Girl" imported beer sounded very Asian to me so I looked it up and, sure enough, it's Made in Seoul, Korea and is popular throughout Asia. Sooner or later, I got the driver's bio and then stumbled on this 1/6 scale O'Young figure in full battle gear with a really well stitched uniform with shoes , helmet and accessories (olive leaf laurel and trophy)... the 1/6 zipper actually works. Of course for display purposes, the figure is 3X the size of the model, but I don't consider it in the the top ten of stupid purchases I've made over the years, if only because the figure is so well crafted.
14/04/2024 10:25 pm
Great post. That O’Young figure is really well done and quite a find.
Christopher Moroni reacted
15/04/2024 5:41 am
Nice displays/post. I remember seeing this before but didn't realize your figure is 1/6 scale. Is there a 1/6 Carroll Shelby available? A friend is building that Deagostini 1/6 1967 Shelby Mustang, a "scale zipper-ed-outfitted Carroll" would be cool! 😎 😎
Rich Sufficool reacted
15/04/2024 2:57 pm
"Anyone doing a Batmobile in 1/6?"
Yes Rich, the largest commercially available Batmobile is in 1/6 scale and was released about 13 months ago. Two things you'll need to know:
1) You better have allot of room available. Yikes!
2) You will not need to fabricate your own 1/6 Robin. 😎
I like the 1/8 a bit better ONLY because the hood opens.... you gotta have an engine!
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Topic starter
15/04/2024 7:11 pm
@chris WOW!!! My Batman was the one that was made for this. I thought the project was dead. These darned thing sell out so quick I missed the Burt Ward Robin too.
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Topic starter
16/04/2024 11:50 am
How about 1/4 scale space ships for the Flash Gordon ("Buster" Crabb) and Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) serials?
Christopher Moroni reacted
16/04/2024 1:10 pm
How about 1/4 scale space ships for the Flash Gordon
To my knowledge, no... you're on your own. You must fabricate one from whole cloth. My I suggest you start with 75-gallon, galvanized trash can. 😏 😏 😆
Rich Sufficool reacted
16/04/2024 4:09 pm
always liked the livery on that Porsche. AA did a really nice job on all their GT3 Cup cars.
