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31/01/2006 11:49 pm
For Mercedes-Benz fans, a long awaited Minichamps model.
It's the 1935 limousine built for the Emperor of Japan. A Belgian model shop has it on their Website for late February delivery which means it may show up in the USA in April or May.
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01/02/2006 10:38 am
Who made this before Dick? I seem to remember it in diecast.
Or perhaps it was a larger scale plastic kit?? Memory has failed (again!)
01/02/2006 12:18 pm
There was a 1:24 version from one of the "mints", I think Franklin.
Actually Jo Ann bought one for me one Christmas not knowing that I was switching to 1:43's, so it went back.
01/02/2006 10:08 pm
Actually Paul's Model Art did a 1:24 first, then one of the mints, and I think they used the same tooling though there were some differences.
02/02/2006 1:56 am
Thanks, Arie, did not know which came first.