1/6 scale 1932 Duesenberg SJ-Louis Chenot

Every year for the past five years or so at the NAMES show in Detroit and now Toledo, one of the first things many people who attend the show each year want to see is how Lou Chenot is coming along on the Duesenberg project. Most of us, therefore,

1/3 scale fully functional Ferrari racecar-Pierre Scerri

Model engineers in the United States had a rare chance to view the car and to meet Pierre in person at the 2007 North American Model Engineering Exposition in Toledo, Ohio. Pierre was there to accept his award from the Joe Martin

Running 1/8 scale 1936 John Deere tractor-Jerry Kieffer

Photos that follow take you along on the progress of a running 1/8 scale model 1936 John Deere "D" tractor.

Everything on the model is made to 1/8 scale down to the working grease fittings, each with a spring-loaded ball inside.

1/4 scale running 327 Corvette V-8 Engine-Lee Root

More on the Engine:

Corvette V8 in 1/4 scale (Right side)

Lee machined 7075 aircraft-grade aluminum to produce the crankcase, heads, rods and pistons. No castings were used. The cylinder liners are cast iron, and the crankshaft and cam

This is a story of a newborn site... Oh, to be honest diecastlovers.com has a year of life but... is still in beta! Studing mysql database I was interested in categorize my own models. Then I've started creating a database, after some php pages, and, found a name, began to publish some pages

1/14 scale working Bridgeport BRJ Milling Machine--Barry Jordan

Bridgeport milling machines have a special appeal for me since I built my award winning 1/5 scale model back in 1997. I have now built a second model Bridgeport, but this time it is the ultimate in miniatures at 1/14 scale. This

I stood in one of the many toy aisles of my local big box store and was glad to see and hear a few kids looking over and discussing what was pegged on the Hot Wheels display. I couldn't help thinking back to when I was ten and clambering to see what was hanging on the pegs at the Woolworth's. I

At long last I received my green racer and have made a group photro of all three: the blue and green sixty year old originals and the 2009 brand new sandcast aluminium racer.

The new red racer I  bought at the FunHo! Museum which caters for collectors and visitors only. They have a large

This may be a little outside our usual collecting focus, but I couldn't resist snapping some pics of the amazing Radio Controlled models at the fair. Here are the turboprops, gliders, jets, helicopters and a couple of boats from companies like Simprop Electronic, J-Power Group, Ripmax, Topmodel and

Hello,

I wanted to share with you a couple of pictures of Kleeware that I have gathered over the years. 

First some advertisement:

Kleeware also produced plastic models:

These are some pictures of the actual Kleeware products. My favourite one was the nursery and I often wondered