GTPlanet Scale model thread

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My Hyper Cars have arrived:

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Those Ignition Models are sooooo expensive but oh my god, even that colour alone is insane.

They used to be about half the price they go for nowadays. Has the quality gone up too? Don't know about that.

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Man did I edit photos to be WAY too dark back then. My home monitor has some great colour fidelity to distinguish blacks, but basic monitors interpret all of this super dark black.
 
They used to be about half the price they go for nowadays. Has the quality gone up too? Don't know about that.

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bonnet.jpg


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Man did I edit photos to be WAY too dark back then. My home monitor has some great colour fidelity to distinguish blacks, but basic monitors interpret all of this super dark black.
I can't tell anything about the quality but the proportions looked wrong on most of their recent releases.
 
Detail wise I'd say Ignition is maybe a little better than the older ones, but still not really worth the $300+ USD unless you REALLY like the subject matter. Probably why I only have two of the more recent releases (MNP Nismo 400R and Feed FD3S GT3). Those two in specific seem more or less accurate, though I have not directly compared them to pictures. Anyway got this at Daytona:
 
Here are some more recently acquired VWs for my 1/43 collection, this time it's the 3rd generation of the Golf, starting with the Cabriolet:
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I also have the standard 5-door version, the GL (the one with the most equipment):
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And now, the lovely Bus (or Kombi if you like it better) in its 3rd generation, a vehicle from a very important time for the brand when VW was starting to switch from air-cooled engines to water-cooled engines.

This particular version actually had both available for some time, along with the usual extensive variety of models like the previous generations before it and many equipment options to choose from... they even created a 4WD version, called the Syncro!
Wrap your head around that :eek:
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