"Corgi Fighter Scramble Is Back" Topic
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zippyfusenet | 22 Aug 2015 7:42 a.m. PST |
Back in the early 2000s, Corgi produced several series of small scale pre-painted diecast toys that were inexpensive, plentiful and good for wargaming. They've been mostly OOP for some years, and I sometimes meet collectors and wargamers who are hunting for a supplier. They're back. I see every Corgi Fighter Scramble, History of Aviation and Fighting Machines toy that I can recall listed as in-stock at Aiken's Airplanes. They cost more than they used to, about $10 USD a pop, but that's competitive with similar product, and attractive if you paint as slowly as I do. Lookahere: link |
Allen57 | 22 Aug 2015 9:43 a.m. PST |
I am not familiar with these. How big are the airplanes? Any consistency in scale or are they all over the place? |
Space Ghost | 22 Aug 2015 9:47 a.m. PST |
Hmm, what stores in the States might carry these? |
HistoryPhD | 22 Aug 2015 9:48 a.m. PST |
Most seem to be 1/144, but I don't see much in the way of $10. USD Most seem to be $40 USD-$100 each |
deephorse | 22 Aug 2015 9:56 a.m. PST |
There are quite a few models at $9.99 USD, and that's just page 1. Especially useful if you want Lancasters. |
zippyfusenet | 22 Aug 2015 11:17 a.m. PST |
The bigger scale Corgi models, 1/72, 1/48, 1/50, even their 1/144 4-engine bombers, are quite expensive. The Fighter Scramble, etc., are mixed in this catalog with the higher priced models. Fighter Scramble etc. is a box-scale series. Most of the single engine WWII fighters measure out between 1/110 and 1/130, so they don't match either 1/100 or 1/144 very well, but can be mixed with some Dyna-flite and MPC diecasts that are similar in scale. The P-38, Ju 87 Stuka and Mosquito are all 1/144 or close enough to mix with that scale. The Lancaster is just about 1/285 scale. The B-17 and B-24 are about 1/260 and 1/270 respectively. They work well enough in 1/285 collections, provided you don't mix them in games with 1/300 models of the same types. I used to see Corgi diecasts in big-box toy retailers, like Walmart, Toys-R-Us and Michaels. I haven't seen them on the shelf in a long time, so I was excited to find them in the Aikens catalog. Aikens has provided good mail order service to me. I'll be surprised if the retailers bring these back, this seems to be a dull period for war toy sales in the US. |
MacrossMartin | 22 Aug 2015 9:12 p.m. PST |
Thanks for spreading the word, Zippy! Although I imagine my wallet is cursing you roundly right now… where is it hiding…? |
VonTed | 23 Aug 2015 4:21 p.m. PST |
Ohhh….. Corgi Abram's tank as well :) |
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