
This is the Mercedes-Benz W196
70 years later and this thing still looks futuristic 😮💨🏎️
One of the oldest models in my collection.

70 years later and this thing still looks futuristic 😮💨🏎️
One of the oldest models in my collection.
The color looks absolutely insane in person. Definitely one of my favorite Technic models so far. Worth every hour of building
Lamborghini Sián FKP 37
Cataloged my die-cast pile this weekend. Most of it’s still sealed.
One rolling cart, years of accumulation, and a Saturday morning with coffee. I went box by box trying to remember when I bought each.
I couldn’t. Not for most of them.
Some of what I rediscovered:
A Schuco Studio IV Bugatti from a flea market — remember the seller, not the year
Small-scale buses still wearing shop price tags from places I don’t remember visiting
An Absima RC car, never opened, from a brief phase where I was going to “get into RC”
Two Lenovo tablet boxes filed in with the die-cast. That’s when I knew the system had collapsed.
The cart is basically a timeline of my life in cardboard. Boxes from the year I changed jobs, a holiday I’d half-forgotten, a model shop where I lost 90 minutes while my partner waited outside.
Did it for two reasons: insurance (photo + record of every piece if something happens), and memory (I want to know when I got these, not just have them sitting there).
Anyone else cataloged a mostly-boxed collection? Curious what percentage of yours is still sealed.
Cataloged with a scanner app I found called KitSort https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/kitsort/id6760932584 — mentioning it because people always ask, not selling anything.