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Steve Williams
Steve Williams
@stewil
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Joined: Dec 31, 1996
Last seen: Oct 14, 2026
Topics: 16 / Replies: 308
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RE: The Nicest Color Combo of a 1/43 Model in Your Collection .......

Brooklin - This thread is really appealing and was hoping to see more favorite color combos, but no one has posted in over a month so here is one I lo...

4 months ago
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RE: OFF THE SHELF: Harvey Goranson collects what he likes (Part II)

Reading about your looong collecting life was so very pleasurable Harv. Thank you. Loved how your life phases and transitions were also described. T...

4 months ago
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RE: OFF THE SHELF: Christian Braun Collects the Collectors

Thank you for sharing your story with us Christian. Am happy to meet you, learn some of your story, and about your contributions to our sometimes obse...

4 months ago
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RE: Off the Shelf: How Brooklin Got Under Gianluigi Cappi’s Skin

A story of great passion. Wonderful! Thank you Gianluigi for sharing our story with us and Randy for editing it. It resonated very well.

4 months ago
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RE: OFF THE SHELF: Charlie Barnett and the Curator’s Eye

  Charlie, your story is amazing, following a modeling maze of sorts from childhood and continuing. I much enjoyed reading about it.The model s...

5 months ago
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RE: The Nicest Color Combo of a 1/43 Model in Your Collection .......

What a wonderful thread Richard. You are so right, a single choice is tough, and rough to make. Like Jack Dodds, I too have too many to choose from s...

6 months ago
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RE: MY COLLECTION OF 1/43 COACHBUILT ROADGOING SPORTS CARS 1935-1970

That Spark model is just stunning. To my eyes one of the prettiest yet posted, Thank you. 🙂

6 months ago
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RE: MY COLLECTION OF 1/43 COACHBUILT ROADGOING SPORTS CARS 1935-1970

Some quick pics of the Lopresto by Gulp Models   A PIC of the 8C 2300 Berlinetta Viotti 1935. Not by Kess. The builders name is on the...

6 months ago
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RE: It's a Duesey!

@randyrusk You are a Lucky man Randy, wish I could have seen and heard them.

6 months ago
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RE: It's a Duesey!

Randy, Have you ever heard one when it fires up? Pun intended. Those Duesy's had race engines in them and they sound like it. I don't remember ever ...

6 months ago
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RE: MY COLLECTION OF 1/43 COACHBUILT ROADGOING SPORTS CARS 1935-1970

Looking forward to the Alfa's, the favorite marque of my teenage youth. 🙂

6 months ago
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RE: Off the Shelf: The Lasting Measure of John Quilter

Another wonderful Bio Randy though sadly, also a tribute. John was quite a guy, and his contributions to several organizations as well as the modelin...

6 months ago
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RE: MY COLLECTION OF 1/43 COACHBUILT ROADGOING SPORTS CARS 1935-1970

@gdh Thank you for your kind comments GDH, have been much blessed. I saw the Corsica at Pebble Beach, sitting alone on the golf course in a swoopin...

6 months ago
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RE: MY COLLECTION OF 1/43 COACHBUILT ROADGOING SPORTS CARS 1935-1970

These are the third and last of my 1/43rd scale Bugatti models. Both are by Heco, b...

6 months ago
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