ericmaxman : will maisto make the 370Z in 1:18? Any news?

MasterLaoDa : nice BMW M3 coupe there, i nearly bought one too a few weeks back...will try to catch one sometime in the future

jchue73: Wow another SL65 AMG in silver that's nice. And congrats in getting your Mclaren F1 GTR in papaya orange. This are really rare items to find and get. I'm hoping to get one too soon.

jchue73: I will pass on the SL 65 this time. I'm hunting for the orange papaya beauty which I have been looking for 2-3months now.

I was on holiday in Tokyo Odaiba just last week and I stumbled across a huge diecast shop at Venus Fort Shopping mall. This diecast shop was inside a garage museum which stores some pretty old cars, courtesy of Toyota. The museum is also known as Toyota History Museum. If you're ever in Tokyo and have time to kill u can visit this place. For more info visit this site. This is one of the biggest diecast shops I've ever seen to date and honestly this was one of the most interesting place I visited while in Japan, the best thing of all I stumbled across it without ever researching on it.

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While in Japan I got myself a Japanese made car as well. Will reveal it soon.

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jchue73: Nolah didn't get any Nissan. The Nissan's were quite expensive for my taste. Got something else.... But honestly it was a super duper experience.

I also had the pleasure of visiting Taiwan during my vacation and found another diecast shop as well, it's not as big as the one in Japan but there were lots to see . Thanks to diecastexchange which provided the directions to this shop.

If you're going to Taipei and planning to hunt for some diecast, this will be the place. See this site for more INFO





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jasonist: haha my reveal isn't something rare...quite common actually...was on budget and couldn't buy something rare, besides I couldn't carry back too many cars, you know lah how big the car is with the box. It wouldn't fit into our bag, some more have to carry to so many places.

v26davk: M3 for RM319, that's pretty cheap...where is this BTS 4th floor?

jchue73: wow keng u carried all day long...unfortunately I couldn't do the same with so many luggages to carry. But next time I will pack lesser and save more space for diecast...hehe

Where is this BTS 4th floor? What does BTS stand for? Sorry me not from KL..

jchue73: how much they selling HW Elite F430 Scuderia? is it the 60th anniversary version or the normal version?

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Too bad i'm not in KL would grab one of the scuds....

jchue73: wah u tempting me with mclaren GTR F1 ... im actually close in getting one soon..keke

myke: I didn't really spend a whole lot of time there coz was on holiday and had to quickly move on to see other places but roughly I was in that shop for about 1 hour. I wasn't in Japan for diecast only hehehe...by the way I want an orange papaya too....

lkwanz : Oh really AA producing Mclarens? cool....

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jchue73: yeah had to control myself if not will come back with crates of diecast + a big hole will be burned in my wallet...

Anyway here is my haul from Japan a subaru Impreza WRC plain version...





My haul from Taiwan and my first American muscle car...the Viper





And here are my other hauls in the last Q of 2009







More Mclaren F1 GTR West pics as promised ....





Plus this just came in today...was so suprised this came in so quick



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subaru22b: yup actually was thinking of getting the sunstar subaru WRC with full livery but at the end decided on the AA subaru plain white version. Later in the year will get the sunstar version. But one factor that made me decide on the AA is the nicer rims compared to the sunstar version. One of the sunstar versions has nice rims but is the night version which wasn't really my taste with the big head lamps at the front. Here are the pics of the subaru models for comparison.

With smaller rims....


With bigger and nicer rims but with the huge headlights

jchue73: Learning to take pics of diecast now..it really takes skills. Actually learning from u guys on how to take pics

jasonist: Welcome back hope to see more pictures from you to share to all of us.

myke: No worries there will surely be one out there for you to haul in....

Howard: that's one cool Mclaren..hoping to haul in one too...one day.

For those guessing the package from Holland it is an Orange Papaya....finally got it

So indeed Mclaren is the model of the month.











Enjoy the pics

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lkwanz: yeah pics were too big the first time I uploaded. Anyway pics resized and corrected.

royjepun: Nice....where did you go for travel? and where did u get those AA mind to share?

lkwanz: mines got new wing ke??diecast shops banyak ke? care to tell me more..one day i come to KL i go visit and take a look.

Here is another prancing horse which I got end of last year which I didn't share earlier.





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jchue73: nolah not super elite, it's not worth it for the price..it's a normal elite version. Btw nice haul there....jchue73 the top hauler in lowyat.net

royjepun: hey I nearly bought the same 380RS from japan but decided to go with the subaru instead...btw where you went for holiday? also how much for the crystal case??

LH_430Scuderia : nice collection there....

This post has been edited by khsj: Jan 27 2010, 05:58 PM

wah what happened?.....hmm let me read back a few posts

Happy Chinese New Year...just wanted to share some of pics of my 575GTC



And just to share how my cars are stored....enjoy



This post has been edited by khsj: Feb 12 2010, 02:58 PM

You honeslty want one?

Had some time today so decided to try out some shots of Mclaren F1 GTR Orange Papaya and West Mclaren F1. Here's the result















WRC Peugeot 307 photo shoot







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It won't be dead coz eventually someone will buy a diecast car and post it up here. Also this hobby is slow because as all of u know in Malaysia it is hard to find diecast cars here also it is not like everyday we can buy a diecast car unless you are very rich. So while waiting for a newly bought car to be posted up here why not we just share our collection.

Yes totally agree toycity is a killer....better to get from eBay still cheaper and eBay has more choices.