Would you buy a high quality 1:18 scale 924/944/951/968?
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i would buy one. but i would rather have something a little more exotic, like the 968 turbo s.
i worked for the franklin mint for two years, and some of that time was spent with the die-cast collectibles division (cars and such). it's not easy to make a 1:18 scale model, lotsa steps involved. you'll need more than 100 interested buyers to convince a marketing department to drop a wad on tooling and research of the new model, especially since there are almost no models to pirate specs and tooling from.
i worked for the franklin mint for two years, and some of that time was spent with the die-cast collectibles division (cars and such). it's not easy to make a 1:18 scale model, lotsa steps involved. you'll need more than 100 interested buyers to convince a marketing department to drop a wad on tooling and research of the new model, especially since there are almost no models to pirate specs and tooling from.
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I would be interested, but not likely to pre-pay. Like all of us, I would be most interested if it were to resemble my own car but having a Guards Red '86 NA (the most common 944) I can't understand why they would want to do one like that
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As far as color goes, I would figure that paint is the easiest part of production. Once the tooling is set up they could run off say 5000 cars in the first run and paint them 2 or 3 (or more) colors, say 1500 red, 1500 silver, 1000 black and 1000 white (IIRC these were the most common colors the actual cars were produced in) and as exc911ence said </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva"> I'm thinking Guards Red (the classic 944 colour) or silver (the classic German racing colour!). Wheels should be phone dials but the Design 90 would suffice as well. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Fuchs would work too!
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As far as color goes, I would figure that paint is the easiest part of production. Once the tooling is set up they could run off say 5000 cars in the first run and paint them 2 or 3 (or more) colors, say 1500 red, 1500 silver, 1000 black and 1000 white (IIRC these were the most common colors the actual cars were produced in) and as exc911ence said </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva"> I'm thinking Guards Red (the classic 944 colour) or silver (the classic German racing colour!). Wheels should be phone dials but the Design 90 would suffice as well. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Fuchs would work too!
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Or, perhaps an Alpine White '89 S2 with Design 90 wheels and a SF Giants front license plate?
As to the question - I'd prepay p to $75. Most logical model/color combination would be a Guards Red 85.5 - 89 NA with phone dials. It would be difficult to achieve agreement on anything beyond that.
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As to the question - I'd prepay p to $75. Most logical model/color combination would be a Guards Red 85.5 - 89 NA with phone dials. It would be difficult to achieve agreement on anything beyond that.
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Yes, I want a Guard Red 944 NA. I'd prepay $75 to $100 and I'd probably buy a 951 if that's all they made. I'd suggest factory original with phonedials (though few of us like them much)
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Any type of 944 would be great for me (though 951 is better, 951 Turbo S even better!). I'm going to have to be cheap though, as I'm building a house (and getting married) and say that my budget would only go up to about $50 bucks, anything else is going to be a stretch (and I don't make my own financial decisions anymore..
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yep, definitely would buy one
but good luck - i think instead, we should all email each of these companies and request a 944/968 in 1/18 be made... ill try to figure out all their email addresses... check this post
but good luck - i think instead, we should all email each of these companies and request a 944/968 in 1/18 be made... ill try to figure out all their email addresses... check this post
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here we go...
first, I have created an online petition that we can all sign. Once we have a substantial number of signatures, like a thousand say.. then we can email all the diecast manufacturers the link to the petition.
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/944model/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/944model/petition.html</a>
edit use this new petition which will actually show everyones answers to the 3 questions and email/name if you want it public:
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/944scale/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/944scale/petition.html</a>
thanks
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second, heres a list of all the die cast manufacturers that are worth a damn, email each one with a little generic message about how you would like them to produce a Porsche 924/944/951/968 die-cast 1:18 scale model! yey.
Anson - info@ansonusa.com
AutoArt - contact@gatewayglobal.com
Bburago - bburago@bburago.com
Corgi - info@corgiclassics.com
Ertl - faq@racn.com
Guiloy - guiloy@guiloy.es
Kyosho - webmaster@hobbico.com
( or this<a href="http://www.kyosho.com/suggestion.html" target="_blank"> link</a> )
Majorette - jjorgensen@majorette.com
Revell AG - contact@revell.de
( or this <a href="http://www.revell.de/en/contact/index.html" target="_blank">link</a> )
UT - gateway@gatewayglobal.com.br
(UT is a part of Gateway Global like AutoArt and Gate)
Another good email address: ingrid@gatewayglobal-la.com is Ingrid Ivankova of AutoArt USA. She might actually read the email and see our petition signatures. Everyone can feel free to give her a link to the petition page too, just be sure to tell her to keep checking it to see how many more signatures we get, lets get a lot!
first, I have created an online petition that we can all sign. Once we have a substantial number of signatures, like a thousand say.. then we can email all the diecast manufacturers the link to the petition.
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/944model/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/944model/petition.html</a>
edit use this new petition which will actually show everyones answers to the 3 questions and email/name if you want it public:
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/944scale/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/944scale/petition.html</a>
thanks
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second, heres a list of all the die cast manufacturers that are worth a damn, email each one with a little generic message about how you would like them to produce a Porsche 924/944/951/968 die-cast 1:18 scale model! yey.
Anson - info@ansonusa.com
AutoArt - contact@gatewayglobal.com
Bburago - bburago@bburago.com
Corgi - info@corgiclassics.com
Ertl - faq@racn.com
Guiloy - guiloy@guiloy.es
Kyosho - webmaster@hobbico.com
( or this<a href="http://www.kyosho.com/suggestion.html" target="_blank"> link</a> )
Majorette - jjorgensen@majorette.com
Revell AG - contact@revell.de
( or this <a href="http://www.revell.de/en/contact/index.html" target="_blank">link</a> )
UT - gateway@gatewayglobal.com.br
(UT is a part of Gateway Global like AutoArt and Gate)
Another good email address: ingrid@gatewayglobal-la.com is Ingrid Ivankova of AutoArt USA. She might actually read the email and see our petition signatures. Everyone can feel free to give her a link to the petition page too, just be sure to tell her to keep checking it to see how many more signatures we get, lets get a lot!
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I'd order a 951 in a heartbeat. Prefer Guards Red with Black interior. Would purchase just about any color, then repaint if necessary (but it needs to have a black interior). $75 is fine on the price.
Would be interesting if we could pull the wheels off and replace them with ones off of a 911 1/18 scale model (for those of us with 993 wheels).
Would be interesting if we could pull the wheels off and replace them with ones off of a 911 1/18 scale model (for those of us with 993 wheels).