This tiny Porsche Carrera RS was taken years back when I’ve just acquired the Foldio II. The pictures then sat in the archives until this LaLD event encourage to take a look at them again and publish them here.

My first taste 1:18 GMP models. They are nothing short of great.

It’s a been time since I’ve added any new 1:64 Auto World pieces into my collection, largely due to how they’re not sold in my region. When I was looking to trade away my green machine Hemi Cuda, The Bell King made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.

Or as Tomica Limited Vintage-Neo calls it, the Toyota Cresta Super Lucent Twincam 24. Quite the mouthful, isn’t it? That’s all par for the course with getting long names and boxy design like the many Japanese cars produced in the eighties.

Alfa Romeo conquered the DTM with a car built to the Class 1 regulations, the Italians sweeping both the drivers’ and makes’ titles. And it wasn’t because the competition was weakened by the withdrawal of BMW and Audi, either. Rather, the experience the team had gained with the World Rally programme provided the…

No better day to showcase this TLV Datsun 510 from Mr. K’s selection.

From the 1:43 stables of HPI Racing is this Nismo 400R in QM1 White, complete with all the scoops and vents to keep the beast within cool and under control. Release from the Mirage line, this tuned up R33 is made in resin.

Dear Datsun fans, here is an auction for a Datsun 510 membership car that closes in 2 days. Happy bidding!

Hello dear LaLDers, old and new, I’m Xin from Singapore and have been contributing to this wonderful community on and off for almost four years. Today is Singapore’s inaugural Diecast Expo, a key event I dare not miss. Through my lens, I hope to bring you with me on this visit.

In this forced induction segment of Engine Week, I decided to dig up this Kyosho 1:43 Ferrari F40 from the archive. Almost four years ago, I wrote my first Concours d’Modella and was navigating in this new world of diecast photography.

Where’re the gleaming cam covers? What about the polished intake manifolds? Nope. None of that in this 1:18 Jaguar XJ-S from AUTOart. Isn’t that a terrifying sight? A myriad of vacuum lines and wiring with a V12 somewhere underneath all that. A mechanic’s nightmare had it been a real 1:1 – thank goodness I don’t have…

Forgive the joke headline, I couldn’t resist it. Peeking out of this engine bay is a V10 from a 1:18 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 by AUTOart. I was not actively looking for a Gallardo of this scale, or I thought I was, until chancing upon an eBay listing of this exact model with a starting bid of $0.01 with free…

Proudly displaying its 1.5 liter 4-banger is this 1:18 Honda Ballade Sports CR-X Si from AUTOart. It is hard to think about modern 4 pot engines without Honda in the picture and this CR-X is here to remind us and Honda of the fantastic pocket rockets that cemented the marque’s reputation in the late 1980s and early…

My love of HPI Racing scale models continues in the form of this blue 1:43 Lancia Delta HF Integrale Hi.Fi. This model replicates the extremely exclusive ‘HF Integrale Hi Fi’ version, of which only 20 examples were made for members of Lancia car clubs.

This lime green butaketsu is my first taste of the immaculate selects from Ignition Model, it’s probably a natural segway from HPI scale models. HPI is still around, but it let go of its scale model wing to focus on their R/C business. Majority of these models now live on in Ignition Model, and I’d say these people…

For my silver choice for LaLD Car Week, I have this silver 1:43 Nissan R34 GT-R V-Spec from one my favourite scale model brands - HPI. Hailing from the MIRAGE line, this scaled-down Godzilla is a sealed resin model.

This blue Ford RS200 comes in 1:43 scale from the now-defunct HPI. While built in homologation to race this car in Group B rally, this example is stanced to win the hard parking championship. There is hardly any room between the fender lip and wheel, and I don’t hate HPI’s decision to go that route. The fit and finish…