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30/05/2019 8:51 am
GAZ 'Tchaika' M13
I know your latest model is always your favourite (usually!), but had to post pictures of my latest acquisition, a GAZ Tchaika, or Chaika, M13 from IST. I'm starting to get a bit fed up with Neo models at inflated prices with their loose trim and poor quality, and finding much more satisfaction with cheaper stuff which you can often improve if necessary. Have done nothing to this except fit whitewalls from a Whitebox Plymouth Savoy which I think suits it well. Look at the chassis detail! Hats of to IST, will be buying more of their stuff.
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30/05/2019 9:51 am
I have 20 odd year old models of the Chaika. I shoulda waited.
30/05/2019 10:19 am
I found this one stuck back.(pic) Carl, yours looks much better!
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30/05/2019 10:55 am
Indeed, price is never a statement of quality.
I have plenty of cheap models that are just as good if not better as some higher priced alternatives. This looks quite good, and I wouldn't mind having that myself. I have one IST model in my collection, a ZIS 110 taxi, that's also pretty nice, outside of a rather bad paint job. Not the greatest, but definitely serviceable.
01/06/2019 11:25 am
chalk and cheese
Comparing the old Soviet Chaika models with opening parts to a new Ist is like comparing a Dinky Galaxie with one from the Brazilian partwork made by Ixo. I love my old Soviet made Chaika in black which was a good model for its time with lots of opening parts
White Chaikas were Soviet era wedding cars. They were a feature of Moscow life and young marrieds would be photographed with the cars on the hills overlooking the City if I remember correctly.
At one point the Ist moulding was available as a part word model for Russia and Eastern Europe selling at about a third of the price of the Ist and painted in the more typical black.