Thursday 10 October 2013

Corgi 1:50 Diecast Tiger


Picked up this little beauty second hand at Rochester Models sans box for twenty sovs.

Perfect for my Bolt Action gaming.

8 comments:

  1. It looks like the original paint job. If someone has retouched it then they did a professional job.

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  2. hello John, any chance you could give me a length and width measure in mm, to compair to my Tamiya 1/48 kit?

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    1. I measured the top hull as that is nice and flat: 100mm by 62mm. Hope that helps.

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  3. Yea they were nice those Corgi die-casts - I have a Churchill from the same series - wish I'd bought the lot at the time! Never imagined they would be so transient. Wonder what happened to the tooling?

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    1. Yeah, I know Rick. I bought none of them on the grounds that they would be sold off cheap eventually. Sigh.

      You have to lurk around eBay and 2nd hand model shops but I have seen popular models change hands for £80.

      I have so far picked up two Churchills, a Soviet Churchill, half-track mover and AA gun, Panther, Centaur, Sherman and now Tiger.

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  4. I have one of those too John. I've been lucky enough to pick up a few of the Corgi vehicles as I stupidly didn't buy any when they were originally on sale. It's a shame they didn't do a more varied range though.

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  5. Yeah, I think we all thought there would be plenty of 2nd hand but they made so few. I would have liked a Cromwell.

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