Having been moved on to a quieter side street, business is as brisk as ever. I do love the attention to detail in these 1:43 models. The maker has included deep-fryers, mesh scoops for the chips, buckets of chips on the counter and, though you can't see it here, a mesh rangehood screen over the deep-fryers. The Peugeot van itself is nothing special at all, in fact it's a bit knocked about, and one of the wheels is a bit wobbly. What the maker must do is find old models cheaply, then transform them into his little dioramas. The guy who makes them is in France, his name is Daniel Lardon, his business is called Maquettes Collections Passion, his eBay shop is called Passion1948, and he has a blog at maquettescollectionspassions.unblog.fr |
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Feeding the masses
Having blogged about the Peugeot J7 van in the movie 'The Grocer's Son' a while back, this is something like Part Two of that little obsession, as I have added two more French foodie vans to my diecast cabinet, and I love them both. Let's start with the Peugeot J7 van.
My only problem with these lovely models is a relative lack of both finance and space to have as many as I'd like. I can imagine the many hours of work that go into hand-making each model, and so I don't begrudge Daniel Lardon a single Franc of his fee. I have two of Mr Maquette Passion's dioramas, plus the previously featured Charcuterie van from Atlas. That might almost be enough for now, but 'never' is a fateful word to risk uttering, and so there's just a slim chance I might bump out the foodie van collection to four or, what the heck, five models, but with a lack of both money and space, the next ones will have to be good to merit inclusion alongside the wonderful trio I already have.
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