Karl Schnelle
Karl Schnelle
@karl
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Joined: Dec 31, 1996
Last seen: Apr 18, 2024
Topics: 104 / Replies: 1895
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RE: Duplicates

@chris-sweetman Yep, those Tekno Mustangs don't count as dups at all! 🤣

1 month ago
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RE: AMC Hornets and derivatives

@kenspear An accurate 1/43 Rambler Marlin would be really great but I do love my old Corgi!

1 month ago
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RE: AMC Hornets and derivatives

@chris There was a nice VAM Gremlin in that Mexican partworks:

1 month ago
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RE: PermiumX 2CV Picasso

I think the "car artist" might have been inspired by the name of the 2004 Citroen Picasso, which was a bit more boring! Here is the 1/43 Norev (hobby...

1 month ago
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RE: Duplicates

Like Harv, I found 2 JRD Peugeot 404s in an old toy shop - NOS as they say. So I had to buy both, but that was only two... (not six)! I do real...

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RE: What whets your whistle? New Autocult releases

@mg-harv Here is a Danish version of a real S4 at the Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix!

1 month ago
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RE: A Question For All You 1/43 Savants.... [PIC]

I like the history behind the models as well as their subject matter, so I do not mind the patina or yellowing. But I collect old diecast - Tekno, Vi...

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RE: What whets your whistle? New Autocult releases

@bob-jackman I grew up in Nashville where it was a 20 min drive to the start of the Parkway. This Lancia is one of the Lane Motor Museum Rally cars!...

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RE: From My Collection... Minerva

@stewil HobbyDB shows this as a ZZ Model. They made at least 2 Minervas, 1/43 resin from the Czech Republic.

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RE: What whets your whistle? New Autocult releases

That prototypo Lancia really looks like an erector set! Especially when compared to the road-going version, the Delta HF Integrale! On the Natchez...

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RE: "Chicago Shenanigans," New details and another musuem added!

This will be the 5th year for the 1/43rd and Automobilia Show at Countryside. Before that it was the Strictly 43rd show and at different locations in ...

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RE: 1933 L-1 Krasniy Putilovets by Vector models

Being a chemical engineer, I had to lookup "galvanoplastics", which is electroforming or electrodeposition to form metal parts onto a mandrel (the sha...

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RE: A few recent Burago Ferraris

Are those new new? I guess Bburago still has a Ferrari license? It's nice to see they can do 'real' wheels and not just the horrible whizzwheels on...

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RE: Alfa Romeo 2000 Berlina

With a wheelbase of 122 in, the difference scaled down between those 2 1750 GS's would be 0.2 in between the 2 scales! 🤨 Here's mine, from the Mill...

1 month ago
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RE: Alfa Romeo 2000 Berlina

Nobody really knows why the owner (who used to work for Alfa) choose 1:23 scale. 🤔

2 months ago
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