Paul's Model Art of Aachen trading as Minichamps had a huge catalogue with probably over a thousand offerings, makes 1970's Corgi or Dinky catalogues look like the leaflet's they were!
But it's a different landscape now, with
online sales allowing vast numbers of what are mostly just paint-variations of
a few basic castings - a production model you have to add to a collecting model
that has field of adult collectors who will be trying to buy all Senna,
Schumacher or Hamilton-related or all Ferrari or Beneton-logoed
examples or all the 1997-grid teams, across the various manufacturers or
scales/materials; no one actively tries to get all the Minichamps, or all the Corgi
aeroplanes; the odd IT-millionaire maybe!
However, there were a few figures on show,
like the Jada Man Bats (sorry - posts out of order now!), just standing
next to their 'wheels', but unlike the Jada
sculpts, these are plastic and smaller at 1:43rd scale, or O-gauge compatible;
equating to 40mm for the 'average' man.
There was also a sub-line of Valentino
Rossi models in various scales and full figurines in resin; a line which was
not clear from the catalogue, but seems to offer, or be planning to offer
figures in 1:8th (nine/ten inches?), 1:12th (six inch) and 1:43rd scales.
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