The QOS Aston DBS-
I was hoping it will have a figure of Bond in it.
Otherwise they just produce the CR one with a different number plate!
Yeah i was really hoping for it to be different i.e. smashed up and scratched. I am surprised that it is not to be honest, as the few seconds when the DBS is not smashed up, it not even on screen.
But on the other hand, at the risk of sounding a massive car nerd, the DBS from CR is different in many ways to that of QoS.
In CR it was a striped-down DB9 with DBS shell on it. And i believe that in QoS the DBS has rear seats.
also the cars are different colours in each film in QoS it is a lot darker, almost black.
At least we know that they will be a figure in side this one, as DG is always in the driving seat. (apart from when he gets out ) )
I have just received issues 48 and 49, in a larger box - complete with a second magazine holder!
Although I have managed to fit all of the mags I have received to date quite comfortably into the first holder, it looks like those of us who have a subscription can rest easy for now!
hackettOdds change the numbers remainPosts: 197MI6 Agent
The full 70 list.
Although 63 and 67 read the same
Issue Car Film Scene
01 Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Swiss Alps. Displaying the lethal tyre slasher, following Goldfinger's RR III.
Gift 1 Gyrocopter Little Nellie You Only Live Twice No diorama.
02 Aston Martin Vanquish Die Another Day Ice Lake. With target seeking bonnet guns and torpedoes, chase with Zao's green XKR.
Gift 2 Renault 11 Taxi A View to a Kill Paris. French taxi halved chasing descending May Day through crowded street.
03 Lotus Esprit The Spy Who Loved Me Underwater mode with full front and rear armoury; shoots down the chopper with underwater missile.
Gift 3 T55 Tank GoldenEye No diorama.
04 BMW Z8 The World Is Not Enough Dual rocket launchers with stinger missiles. Destroyed by King's tree buzz-saw attack choppers.
05 Citroën 2CV For Your Eyes Only Bullet holes and damage from olive grove chase; Melina Havelock's car.
06 Jaguar XKR Die Another Day Zao's Jag with missiles & mini-gatling gun, used near Ice Palace for scene with Bond's Vanquish.
07 Toyota 2000GT You Only Live Twice Japan street. Aki's 200GT with surveillance gadgets.
08 Lotus Esprit Turbo For Your Eyes Only Cortina d'Ampezzo. Winterised with ski racks.
09 BMW Z3 GoldenEye With interior all-points radar screen.
10 Ferrari 355 GoldenEye Xenia Onatopp's Ferrari mountain race with Bond in the DB5.
11 Aston Martin DB5 Thunderball With water cannons & bulletproof shield; replacing his Bentley Mark IV.
12 Aston Martin DBS On Her Majesty's Secret Service Bond drives on the beach to save Tracy Di Vincenzo. With glovebox sniper sight.
13 Mustang Mach 1 Diamonds Are Forever Las Vegas. Tiffany's Mach 1 with decals
14 Aston Martin V8 Vantage The Living Daylights Ice lake. Ski out-riggers & Q-branch weapons; eluding the Soviet military pursuing.
15 BMW 750iL Tomorrow Never Dies Hotel car park. Car attacked but impenetrable to Carver's henchmen.
16 Lotus Esprit The Spy Who Loved Me Helicopter chase. Rear cement jets.
17 Sunbeam Alpine Dr. No Jamaican dirt mountain road.
18 Triumph Stag Diamonds Are Forever Commandeered at Passport Control from diamond smuggler Peter Franks, used in Amsterdam.
19 MGB The Man with the Golden Gun Hong Kong street. Mary Goodnight's MGB; pulls up in front of hotel's chaffeur-driven Green Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.
20 Aston Martin DBS V12 Casino Royale Car sent to Bond by 'M' for use in mission; parked in Casino Royale car park.
21 Mercury Cougar On Her Majesty's Secret Service Tracy Bond's red Cougar. Damaged in ice track race, with custom ski rack.
22 Corvorado Live and Let Die New York street. Whispers' Corvorado with dartgun that kills Bond's CIA chaffeur to Felix's location watching Kananga.
23 Mercedes-Benz 250SE Octopussy Soviet General Orlov's staff car, Bond steals and drives along railtracks.
24 Mini Moke Live and Let Die Harbour side. Bond and Rosie Carver.
25 Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Bullet holes & ejector seat.
26 Lada 1500 The Living Daylights Police car cut along with lazer by Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
27 Ford Thunderbird Die Another Day NSA agent Jinx's car outside Graves' Ice Palace in Iceland.
28 AMC Hornet The Man with the Golden Gun Landing after the 360• rotation with Sheriff J.W. Pepper falling into rear seat.
29 Tuk Tuk Taxi Octopussy Driving through Indian marketplace, Bond shooting with Walther PPK on rear seat; throws rupees out to halt Prince Kamal Khan's henchman, Gobinda chasing him.
30 Ford Mustang Convertible Thunderball Parked in front of hotel.
31 Moon Buggy Diamonds Are Forever On film set of Moon expedititon, Bond drives offsite into desert.
32 Mercedes-Benz 600 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Blofeld is in front driving and Irma Bunt in rear shooting; leads to death of Mrs Tracy Bond after she's shot through windscreen of Bond's DBS.
33 Chevrolet Bel Air Dr. No Roadside fight with Mr Smith.
34 Range Rover 4.6 HSE Tomorrow Never Dies Carver's henchmen chasing Bond & Wai Lin on BMW R1200C through Saigon marketplace.
35 Ford Mustang Convertible Goldfinger Tilly Masterson in this car has her tyres slashed by Bond in the DB5.
36 ZAZ-965 A GoldenEye Driving through derelict building yard.
37 Chevrolet Corvette A View to a Kill Night scene.
38 Maserati Biturbo 425 Licence to Kill Parked at roadside displaying stinger missiles in boot.
39 Lamborghini Diablo Die Another Day Parked in hanger bay of the Antonov An-225 owned by Colonel Moon.
40 Citroën Traction Avant From Russia with Love SPECTRE Agent Grant follows Bond and Ali Kerim's son in this who are in the Rolls-Royce, Grant stole after killing Belgian agent.
41 Jaguar XJ8 Casino Royale Mr White's Jaguar, parked outside his luxury estate; Bond shoots him in the leg.
42 Ford Thunderbird Goldfinger In a KFC car park.
43 Chevrolet Nova Live and Let Die Car chase through San Monique.
44 AMC Matador The Man with the Golden Gun Through streets of Bangkok.
45 Land Rover Series III The Living Daylights On the Rock of Gibraltar, Bond and fellow agents are training, agent gets killed and assasin escapes in this with Bond on roof.
46 Willys Jeep M606 Octopussy After Bond ambushes the henchman.
47 Ford Fairlane Die Another Day As Bond drives through the streets of Cuba.
48 Lincoln Continental Goldfinger Oddjob, Goldfinger's henchman chaffeurs Mr Solo's car to be scrapped and to Solo's death.
49 Daimler Limousine Casino Royale Picks up Bond and Vesper after Eurostar journey to take them to Hotel.
50 MP Lafer Moonraker Rio - Ipanema beach road.
51 Range Rover Sport Casino Royale Bond is thrown keys as he's mistaken for a valet; he uses Sport as a distraction at the Hotel.
52 Ford GT40 Die Another Day As Bond blows up the briefcase with diamonds in.
53 Renault 11 A View To a Kill As it slides down the stairs.
54 Chevy Impala Live and Let Die (Unknown at this time)
55 Dodge Monaco police car A View To a Kill (Unknown at this time)
56 Aston Martin DBS V12 Quantum of Solace After it loses its door in chase with the Alfa 159s.
57 Toyopet Crown You Only Live Twice (Unknown at this time)
58 Ford Ka Quantum of Solace Driven by Camille.
59 Ford Fairlane Skyliner Thunderball As it follows Bond in the DB5.
60 Cadillac hearse Diamonds are Forever In the airport; the family firm of funeral directors for the real Peter Franks' body.
61 Alfa Romeo 159 Quantum of Solace Chasing Bond on the hillside through the tunnel crevice, chase when DBS is damaged.
62 Leyland Sherpa van The Spy Who Loved Me Jaws pretends to be telecommunications engineer and steals the submarine plans and escapes in the Sherpa to the Pyramids.
63 Alfa Romeo GTV6 Octopussy Bond steals from German woman, as she occupies the phonebooth he steals her car to be chased by German Police to USAF base.
64 Ford Edge Quantum of Solace As Bond leaves Greene in the desert with a barrel of oil.
65 Mercedes S-class Tomorrow Never Dies Elliot Carver's henchmens' car who chase Bond through the car park.
66 Hispano-Suiza Moonraker Parked in the woods.
67 Alfa Romeo GTV6 Octopussy Unknown at this time
68 Land Rover 90 The Living Daylights In the airfield battle, trying to catch up with the Soviet aeroplane as flown in with Georgi Koskov onboard.
69 La Salle hearse. Dr No In pursuit of Bond in his Sunbeam Alpine, assassins in hearse fall off hillside and explode.
70 BMW 518 Octopussy Following Bond to the circus.
This has been discussed on previous pages. Unfortunately Rolls Royce demand high prices to those who wish to make a model of one of the cars. Clearly Universal hobbies and/or GE fabbri are unwilling to fork out on such things, as ultimately the price would have to be payed for by us. The cheapest 1:43 rolls that i have ever seen is about £30!
Have we now somehow caught up with france?
Over on the french forums they are talking about getting issue 49 as we speak.
Yet back in june 06, when on holiday in corsica, i purchased issue 2, the vanquish, from a magazine shop.
And yet over here it didn't start until about Feb 07!
i dont understand how this can have happened...
Anyone got any ideas?
i have started to make a replacement background for the daimler limousine to put it in the tomorrow never dies police escort scene....
As you can see, it is far from perfect. It still has the CR number plates and at the moment it still says Hotel Splendide on the side, but i think i might put the SIS logo or something on top of it.
also, and most noticeable is the fact that it has no people in the car. but i have no idea where i could get 5 figures to go in it?:)
If anyone would like the background with the police bikes that i made, feel free to ask.
how can you get people inside???.are the doors not sealed????:):007)
You really should open your cars from the plastic cases Dokk )
It is hard to see the models and all the detail with the temporary plastic on.
You dont know what you missing!
no they are sealed but i believe that it is possible to unscrew the cars from there chassis, as other modifiers have done, to put people inside. Like this http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=voituresdejamesbondcasivu4.jpg
however i have never got as far as screwing the cars out from the plastic base. the screw-head is triangular ?:)
But on the other hand perhaps this is a blessing, as other wise the cars would become damaged!
No thanx...think I'll just keep them in original condition....might have to sell in years to come...with the bloody credit crunch..Oh! I wish I had money!, so I could moan about being poor!!:007):))
Here are the backdrops that i used, if anyone wants them...
i used photoshop to make and print them, this might mean that you have trouble printing them out at the right size.
what i would suggest is that you copy these into Word or something then use the onscreen ruler to make it 6.5 by 23cm.
and the car and film name to 7mm by 14.5cm. Oh and use card for the main bit!
once you have printed it out, put a real background on top of it and draw around it. Use this a scissor guideline.
as a finishing touch you might want to scan the back of another TND car (eg the BMW 750il) background and stick that to the back of mine.
I jsutw ant to tell you about a really nice experience I had yesterday with the subscription line for these models.
About 3/4 weeks ago I called them as I'd not had about when I complained that 4 weeks ago that the last issues I'd had were 40 and 41 (Mr White's Casino Royale Jag and the Citroen Grant drives in FRWL). It was because my bank card had expired. They took the new details and told me all of the models would be on their way soon.
Anyway to cut a long story short, still hadn't got them and talked to a lady and mentioned in passing I still needed to order issues 2 3 4 and 5 as back issues too. She reassured me at they had my correct card details and the models were in the middle of being dispatched and I could call and order the back issues at anytime as they had plenty in stock.
Job done. Or so I thought.
Less thn half an hour later I had a call back from the same lady. She told me that there'd been a bit of a mistake and because of an administrative error they'd only got half of the models ready for me! She'd made sure that they were all going to be on their way and she also told me that by way of an apology for the inconvenience they'd send me issues 2 3 4 and 5 that I needed free of charge.
I work in the customer service industry and I think that this was a demonstration of excellent customer service on their part. Going right back to the begining where there were the problems with the packaging it's great that there has beena company that has been keen to take onboard customer feedback and to help keep it's customers happy. :007)
Have we now somehow caught up with france?
Over on the french forums they are talking about getting issue 49 as we speak.
Yet back in june 06, when on holiday in corsica, i purchased issue 2, the vanquish, from a magazine shop.
And yet over here it didn't start until about Feb 07!
i dont understand how this can have happened...
Anyone got any ideas?
I think you have one of the early French trial models. In France the 007 car collection started in 2006 but was discontinued after only five issues (the 5th being Zao's Jaguar XKR and not the 2CV). These early French models can be most easily identified by gold print on the base of the display case, and the name of the film in French.
The car collection started in France again in 2007, this time with the same models and English-lettered bases as in other countries.
batester2005Dudley, West Mids, UKPosts: 155MI6 Agent
The collection is looking damn good now. seriously lacking room though. need to buy some extra shelving me thinks.
But you get a free gift of the Renault why make it again
You only get Half a Renault as a freebie:D:D:007)
I don't know if I'm stating the obvious but not everyone who's collecting these models has subscribed and therefore not everyone will have had the model of half a Renault.
Also I really like AVTAK and I know that it's not one of the most popular 007 adventures but nobody can dispute that the car chase through the streets of Paris is a highlight of the movie and I think it warrants the 2 models.
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But on the other hand, at the risk of sounding a massive car nerd,
In CR it was a striped-down DB9 with DBS shell on it. And i believe that in QoS the DBS has rear seats.
also the cars are different colours in each film in QoS it is a lot darker, almost black.
At least we know that they will be a figure in side this one, as DG is always in the driving seat. (apart from when he gets out
Although I have managed to fit all of the mags I have received to date quite comfortably into the first holder, it looks like those of us who have a subscription can rest easy for now!
When do we get Goldfinger's Rolls Royce?
Although 63 and 67 read the same
Issue Car Film Scene
01 Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Swiss Alps. Displaying the lethal tyre slasher, following Goldfinger's RR III.
Gift 1 Gyrocopter Little Nellie You Only Live Twice No diorama.
02 Aston Martin Vanquish Die Another Day Ice Lake. With target seeking bonnet guns and torpedoes, chase with Zao's green XKR.
Gift 2 Renault 11 Taxi A View to a Kill Paris. French taxi halved chasing descending May Day through crowded street.
03 Lotus Esprit The Spy Who Loved Me Underwater mode with full front and rear armoury; shoots down the chopper with underwater missile.
Gift 3 T55 Tank GoldenEye No diorama.
04 BMW Z8 The World Is Not Enough Dual rocket launchers with stinger missiles. Destroyed by King's tree buzz-saw attack choppers.
05 Citroën 2CV For Your Eyes Only Bullet holes and damage from olive grove chase; Melina Havelock's car.
06 Jaguar XKR Die Another Day Zao's Jag with missiles & mini-gatling gun, used near Ice Palace for scene with Bond's Vanquish.
07 Toyota 2000GT You Only Live Twice Japan street. Aki's 200GT with surveillance gadgets.
08 Lotus Esprit Turbo For Your Eyes Only Cortina d'Ampezzo. Winterised with ski racks.
09 BMW Z3 GoldenEye With interior all-points radar screen.
10 Ferrari 355 GoldenEye Xenia Onatopp's Ferrari mountain race with Bond in the DB5.
11 Aston Martin DB5 Thunderball With water cannons & bulletproof shield; replacing his Bentley Mark IV.
12 Aston Martin DBS On Her Majesty's Secret Service Bond drives on the beach to save Tracy Di Vincenzo. With glovebox sniper sight.
13 Mustang Mach 1 Diamonds Are Forever Las Vegas. Tiffany's Mach 1 with decals
14 Aston Martin V8 Vantage The Living Daylights Ice lake. Ski out-riggers & Q-branch weapons; eluding the Soviet military pursuing.
15 BMW 750iL Tomorrow Never Dies Hotel car park. Car attacked but impenetrable to Carver's henchmen.
16 Lotus Esprit The Spy Who Loved Me Helicopter chase. Rear cement jets.
17 Sunbeam Alpine Dr. No Jamaican dirt mountain road.
18 Triumph Stag Diamonds Are Forever Commandeered at Passport Control from diamond smuggler Peter Franks, used in Amsterdam.
19 MGB The Man with the Golden Gun Hong Kong street. Mary Goodnight's MGB; pulls up in front of hotel's chaffeur-driven Green Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.
20 Aston Martin DBS V12 Casino Royale Car sent to Bond by 'M' for use in mission; parked in Casino Royale car park.
21 Mercury Cougar On Her Majesty's Secret Service Tracy Bond's red Cougar. Damaged in ice track race, with custom ski rack.
22 Corvorado Live and Let Die New York street. Whispers' Corvorado with dartgun that kills Bond's CIA chaffeur to Felix's location watching Kananga.
23 Mercedes-Benz 250SE Octopussy Soviet General Orlov's staff car, Bond steals and drives along railtracks.
24 Mini Moke Live and Let Die Harbour side. Bond and Rosie Carver.
25 Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Bullet holes & ejector seat.
26 Lada 1500 The Living Daylights Police car cut along with lazer by Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
27 Ford Thunderbird Die Another Day NSA agent Jinx's car outside Graves' Ice Palace in Iceland.
28 AMC Hornet The Man with the Golden Gun Landing after the 360• rotation with Sheriff J.W. Pepper falling into rear seat.
29 Tuk Tuk Taxi Octopussy Driving through Indian marketplace, Bond shooting with Walther PPK on rear seat; throws rupees out to halt Prince Kamal Khan's henchman, Gobinda chasing him.
30 Ford Mustang Convertible Thunderball Parked in front of hotel.
31 Moon Buggy Diamonds Are Forever On film set of Moon expedititon, Bond drives offsite into desert.
32 Mercedes-Benz 600 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Blofeld is in front driving and Irma Bunt in rear shooting; leads to death of Mrs Tracy Bond after she's shot through windscreen of Bond's DBS.
33 Chevrolet Bel Air Dr. No Roadside fight with Mr Smith.
34 Range Rover 4.6 HSE Tomorrow Never Dies Carver's henchmen chasing Bond & Wai Lin on BMW R1200C through Saigon marketplace.
35 Ford Mustang Convertible Goldfinger Tilly Masterson in this car has her tyres slashed by Bond in the DB5.
36 ZAZ-965 A GoldenEye Driving through derelict building yard.
37 Chevrolet Corvette A View to a Kill Night scene.
38 Maserati Biturbo 425 Licence to Kill Parked at roadside displaying stinger missiles in boot.
39 Lamborghini Diablo Die Another Day Parked in hanger bay of the Antonov An-225 owned by Colonel Moon.
40 Citroën Traction Avant From Russia with Love SPECTRE Agent Grant follows Bond and Ali Kerim's son in this who are in the Rolls-Royce, Grant stole after killing Belgian agent.
41 Jaguar XJ8 Casino Royale Mr White's Jaguar, parked outside his luxury estate; Bond shoots him in the leg.
42 Ford Thunderbird Goldfinger In a KFC car park.
43 Chevrolet Nova Live and Let Die Car chase through San Monique.
44 AMC Matador The Man with the Golden Gun Through streets of Bangkok.
45 Land Rover Series III The Living Daylights On the Rock of Gibraltar, Bond and fellow agents are training, agent gets killed and assasin escapes in this with Bond on roof.
46 Willys Jeep M606 Octopussy After Bond ambushes the henchman.
47 Ford Fairlane Die Another Day As Bond drives through the streets of Cuba.
48 Lincoln Continental Goldfinger Oddjob, Goldfinger's henchman chaffeurs Mr Solo's car to be scrapped and to Solo's death.
49 Daimler Limousine Casino Royale Picks up Bond and Vesper after Eurostar journey to take them to Hotel.
50 MP Lafer Moonraker Rio - Ipanema beach road.
51 Range Rover Sport Casino Royale Bond is thrown keys as he's mistaken for a valet; he uses Sport as a distraction at the Hotel.
52 Ford GT40 Die Another Day As Bond blows up the briefcase with diamonds in.
53 Renault 11 A View To a Kill As it slides down the stairs.
54 Chevy Impala Live and Let Die (Unknown at this time)
55 Dodge Monaco police car A View To a Kill (Unknown at this time)
56 Aston Martin DBS V12 Quantum of Solace After it loses its door in chase with the Alfa 159s.
57 Toyopet Crown You Only Live Twice (Unknown at this time)
58 Ford Ka Quantum of Solace Driven by Camille.
59 Ford Fairlane Skyliner Thunderball As it follows Bond in the DB5.
60 Cadillac hearse Diamonds are Forever In the airport; the family firm of funeral directors for the real Peter Franks' body.
61 Alfa Romeo 159 Quantum of Solace Chasing Bond on the hillside through the tunnel crevice, chase when DBS is damaged.
62 Leyland Sherpa van The Spy Who Loved Me Jaws pretends to be telecommunications engineer and steals the submarine plans and escapes in the Sherpa to the Pyramids.
63 Alfa Romeo GTV6 Octopussy Bond steals from German woman, as she occupies the phonebooth he steals her car to be chased by German Police to USAF base.
64 Ford Edge Quantum of Solace As Bond leaves Greene in the desert with a barrel of oil.
65 Mercedes S-class Tomorrow Never Dies Elliot Carver's henchmens' car who chase Bond through the car park.
66 Hispano-Suiza Moonraker Parked in the woods.
67 Alfa Romeo GTV6 Octopussy Unknown at this time
68 Land Rover 90 The Living Daylights In the airfield battle, trying to catch up with the Soviet aeroplane as flown in with Georgi Koskov onboard.
69 La Salle hearse. Dr No In pursuit of Bond in his Sunbeam Alpine, assassins in hearse fall off hillside and explode.
70 BMW 518 Octopussy Following Bond to the circus.
This has been discussed on previous pages. Unfortunately Rolls Royce demand high prices to those who wish to make a model of one of the cars. Clearly Universal hobbies and/or GE fabbri are unwilling to fork out on such things, as ultimately the price would have to be payed for by us. The cheapest 1:43 rolls that i have ever seen is about £30!
Over on the french forums they are talking about getting issue 49 as we speak.
Yet back in june 06, when on holiday in corsica, i purchased issue 2, the vanquish, from a magazine shop.
And yet over here it didn't start until about Feb 07!
i dont understand how this can have happened...
Anyone got any ideas?
I think you mean Wednesday
Sounds like a creme egg ad:)):)) I don't!, mine are in a box in a cupboard as I have no space to display the cars/mags( not opened!!):o:007)
As you can see, it is far from perfect. It still has the CR number plates and at the moment it still says Hotel Splendide on the side, but i think i might put the SIS logo or something on top of it.
also, and most noticeable is the fact that it has no people in the car.
If anyone would like the background with the police bikes that i made, feel free to ask.
You really should open your cars from the plastic cases Dokk
It is hard to see the models and all the detail with the temporary plastic on.
You dont know what you missing!
no they are sealed but i believe that it is possible to unscrew the cars from there chassis, as other modifiers have done, to put people inside. Like this http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=voituresdejamesbondcasivu4.jpg
however i have never got as far as screwing the cars out from the plastic base. the screw-head is triangular ?:)
But on the other hand perhaps this is a blessing, as other wise the cars would become damaged!
i used photoshop to make and print them, this might mean that you have trouble printing them out at the right size.
what i would suggest is that you copy these into Word or something then use the onscreen ruler to make it 6.5 by 23cm.
and the car and film name to 7mm by 14.5cm. Oh and use card for the main bit!
once you have printed it out, put a real background on top of it and draw around it. Use this a scissor guideline.
as a finishing touch you might want to scan the back of another TND car (eg the BMW 750il) background and stick that to the back of mine.
enjoy {[]
About 3/4 weeks ago I called them as I'd not had about when I complained that 4 weeks ago that the last issues I'd had were 40 and 41 (Mr White's Casino Royale Jag and the Citroen Grant drives in FRWL). It was because my bank card had expired. They took the new details and told me all of the models would be on their way soon.
Anyway to cut a long story short, still hadn't got them and talked to a lady and mentioned in passing I still needed to order issues 2 3 4 and 5 as back issues too. She reassured me at they had my correct card details and the models were in the middle of being dispatched and I could call and order the back issues at anytime as they had plenty in stock.
Job done. Or so I thought.
Less thn half an hour later I had a call back from the same lady. She told me that there'd been a bit of a mistake and because of an administrative error they'd only got half of the models ready for me! She'd made sure that they were all going to be on their way and she also told me that by way of an apology for the inconvenience they'd send me issues 2 3 4 and 5 that I needed free of charge.
I work in the customer service industry and I think that this was a demonstration of excellent customer service on their part. Going right back to the begining where there were the problems with the packaging it's great that there has beena company that has been keen to take onboard customer feedback and to help keep it's customers happy. :007)
I want one! I want one NOW!!!!!
Also here is a pic of issue 53 the Renault 11...
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/kingsmodel
But you get a free gift of the Renault why make it again
You only get Half a Renault as a freebie:D:D:007)
Oh yeah
I think you have one of the early French trial models. In France the 007 car collection started in 2006 but was discontinued after only five issues (the 5th being Zao's Jaguar XKR and not the 2CV). These early French models can be most easily identified by gold print on the base of the display case, and the name of the film in French.
The car collection started in France again in 2007, this time with the same models and English-lettered bases as in other countries.
I don't know if I'm stating the obvious but not everyone who's collecting these models has subscribed and therefore not everyone will have had the model of half a Renault.
Also I really like AVTAK and I know that it's not one of the most popular 007 adventures but nobody can dispute that the car chase through the streets of Paris is a highlight of the movie and I think it warrants the 2 models.