advocado: I think good paint and airbrushing skills can achieve the effect.
REALCollector: Lazy to take pics lah.
Will try and take a group photo tonight and post it here.
About the McLaren F1 GTR, I think Minichamps have already produced them in 1/43 scale already. Just not yet in 1/18 scale.
AMG_soh: Where to find additional rims to mod?
myke: Aiyoh, POISON lah you.Â
Yeah, very good guess about the CLK AMG.
Speaking about 1/12, my recent haul below should shock and awe you too...
Anyway, another arrived in today from UK.
Any guesses? They are Bimmers. One is a 1/12 scale and two 1/43 scale.
Actually, this one has a story. The seller from UK seller TNT Express for shipping from UK using the Economy Express option. Using this option, I'm told (by TNT Malaysia) that the package will land in Singapore and brought in by truck to KL.
To my surprise, I got an invoice yesterday to pay the tax totalling RM 91.56. I argued that goods totalling less than RM 500 would not usually be taxed. TNT claims that since goods were brought in by truck from Singapore, any amount would be taxed on taxable goods. Secondly, I mentioned that nobody came to inform me that I had goods belonging to me that I need to clear myself or appoint a forwarder to clear it for me as what Pos Malaysia does it for my other stuff. I usually go to KLIA personally as I usually do not trust the forwarders to do it for me. They would just accept what the Kastam prints on paper and add their clearance chargers on top of it. But TNT claims that for goods below RM 500, they will automatically clear the goods on behalf of the recipients without asking.
So I ended up paying RM 91.56 of which RM 35 is their clearance charges, RM 1.75 for tax on top of tax and RM 54.81 for the duties. I also argued that the duties should be less since it should only be based on the declared GBP 40 value by the seller. But TNT claims that Kastam takes CIF (Cost Insurance Feight) as the value to be taxed. So the tax was based on RM 353.58 (231.91 from GBP 40, RM 2.32 for insurance and RM 119.35 for shipping).
The RM 54.81 duties were calculated as follows;
(353.58 x 0.05) + (353.58 x 1.05 x 0.10) = 54.81
Just thought I share this and hope those who go this route will be aware that cheap is not always good as it will turn out that you pay the same thing at the end of the day.
Jchue73: I can feel how frustrating having paid those extra cost... I did kena stamp duty before for getting a handful of HW 1:64 frm overseas... since then I know how to counter them...
From my experience: You never ever declare the goods according to it's original value: But you have to consider what if the item loss? You will receive the compensation according to the declared amt. There are trade off between them... so you need to take some risk at times... Just like what I did, if you want to save.. go for Royal mail (Normal - NOT INTERNATIONAL SIGN FOR)... but no tracking no., normally takes abt 14 days. Make sure you tell the seller to write Contact No. on the shipping address.... I still prefer the ROYAL MAIL INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR - normally cost 8pounds for 2 pcs 1:43 models.... So it's never easy to buy frm overseas...
Sep 15 2009, 08:45 PM
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... Wonder where are those regular collectors... Guys come on spam more photos here... don't be shy 
... spam more photos 
... like Myke said... if you are die hard collector... you got to pick up one or two models that specifically made for dedicated collectors... e.g. BBR... 
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... your car gonna melt under the extreme heat there... 
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... don't worry, those IXOs are cheap stuff... I'll post some photos soon ..
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