Visiting a Diecast Car Museum in Ooty

Diecast car/bike collection is a big time hobby, even in a country like India where words “kitne de ti ya” (whats the mileage) decides buying decision… Passion for cars and bikes is in highest levels! Many diecast collectors including me start very early… what starts as a toy collection grow to be an addiction for […]

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Hummer H1 Wagon and Humvee – Summer Outing

Every offroad driver holy grail is a hummer because of its DNA, which is from a Humvee(HMMWV – High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle) a military vehicle created by AM General primarily used by the United States Armed Forces. Also the civilian version is lighter so more nimble! Recently I got myself a Hummer H1 Wagon […]

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Diecast Year 2011 – Cars

This year(2011) has been a sluggish year for me, both on collection numbers as well as the xDiecast activities!! But with the good number of car in the lot already and the import duties (that I paid on couple of models from US) made me rethink about the patten that I follow this hobby. Though […]

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Diecast Year 2011 – Bikes

I would consider this year as the best diecast year both for bikes and car! Though the number are not doing justice but the model are!! With only 9 bikes/scooters in 1:12 and one each on 1:6 and 1:10 scales. This is one tough photo shoot because I could not find any favorites! because every […]

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Weekend Camping with Beamers – Photo Session

After a couple of busy work days and hectic traffic hyped my blood pressure to a higher level. Finally its weekend and I am bored to death! Why no new movies to no special buddies to go outing with and no money even to go out diecast shopping. So opened my wordpress to post something […]

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Best of Diecast Year – 2010

Its New Year and its time to look back into the year passed before we start this New Year! I being an avid diecast collector turned back into my collection! I have made a tremendous progress to 43 18 scale cars and the overall collection have passed 100. Even this very site came into existence […]

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Visits to Modelart in Bangalore

Spending some time in a diecast store is like a full day stay in paradise for most of the collectors, especially for collectors here in India with a very limited light on diecast hobby and not much when it comes to stores apart from few in some metros. Fortunately one happends to be in my […]

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