without watching the film again, did it ever appear at any time with whitewalls and black bonnet? Personally speaking, I think it actually looks slightly better that way!
No, the car wasn't repainted during filming, we only see it with the yellow bonnet. Seems that Fabbri took a closer look at the film (that wasn't always the case, most horrible being the "Audi 200" which is an Audi V8, introduced two years after TLD).
Corgi didn't bother too much about the film and simply made their model as the car appears today:
Although I would agree that the car looks better with whitewall tyres and the black bonnet (looks more like a Swiss Post bus than a Rolls-Royce in Goldfinger), I still do not understand why an owner would choose to alter the appearance of such an iconic car during restoration. Perhaps the goal was to bring it back as it left the coachbuilder Barker in 1937?
without watching the film again, did it ever appear at any time with whitewalls and black bonnet? Personally speaking, I think it actually looks slightly better that way!
No, the car wasn't repainted during filming, we only see it with the yellow bonnet. Seems that Fabbri took a closer look at the film (that wasn't always the case, most horrible being the "Audi 200" which is an Audi V8, introduced two years after TLD).
Corgi didn't bother too much about the film and simply made their model as the car appears today:
Although I would agree that the car looks better with whitewall tyres and the black bonnet (looks more like a Swiss Post bus than a Rolls-Royce in Goldfinger), I still do not understand why an owner would choose to alter the appearance of such an iconic car during restoration. Perhaps the goal was to bring it back as it left the coachbuilder Barker in 1937?
That's a tough one. Perhaps it has more value as a perfectly restored Rolls Royce than it would do as a movie vehicle? Or maybe the owner wasn't keen on Bond movies? Either way at least it gives us JB die-cast collectors a valid reason for owning both the Corgi version and the JBCC version!
without watching the film again, did it ever appear at any time with whitewalls and black bonnet? Personally speaking, I think it actually looks slightly better that way!
No, the car wasn't repainted during filming, we only see it with the yellow bonnet. Seems that Fabbri took a closer look at the film (that wasn't always the case, most horrible being the "Audi 200" which is an Audi V8, introduced two years after TLD).
Corgi didn't bother too much about the film and simply made their model as the car appears today:
Although I would agree that the car looks better with whitewall tyres and the black bonnet (looks more like a Swiss Post bus than a Rolls-Royce in Goldfinger), I still do not understand why an owner would choose to alter the appearance of such an iconic car during restoration. Perhaps the goal was to bring it back as it left the coachbuilder Barker in 1937?
[quote=Rainier Wolfcastle. Seems that Fabbri took a closer look at the film (that wasn't always the case, most horrible being the "Audi 200" which is an Audi V8, introduced two years after TLD).
It's a good point about the Audi 200. I did some digging and it seems there was a version of the 200 that looked an awful lot like the V8 (and the car in the film): 2 pics here of a 200 appear fairly similar to the car in the film.
Also here's someone who videod the real Bond 200. The V8 has quite a different grille to the 200, and the model certainly has the older style 200 type grille (the black grille is in line with the lights on the 200; on the V8 it is slightly higher and has a separate elongated oval surround and a smalln strip of paint visible between the lights and the chrome grille surround).
You are correct that the model is meant to represent a later version of the 200 than I had in mind. I always thought the 200 looked like this, with the flat, square wheel cutouts (and I was certain the car in the film looked exactly the same - although I have to admit that I am wrong, especially with the rear wheel cutout of the film car). The car in the film is an Audi 200 Exclusiv which differs from the standard 200 in having flared fenders and the BBS wheels:
However, the model looks nothing like the film's 200 and more like a V8 (except for the front, but this is much more slanted and wrong, too)
Compare to the model:
When you look at the black parts of the bumper it becomes clear that the model is a V8 except for the grille - look at the front indicator lights which are lower than the black bumper and the circular rear wheel cutout that's more pronounced than on the 200.
I think there has been a certain amount of artistic license on this one. I owned an Audi 100 which isn't that disimilar to the 200. The model they have produced is from a poor cast . The car looks like a mix between the audi 200 we were expecting and the new Audi 100 series 4 . Not great i guess but acceptable???
Rainier W, well done - you are quite right, and it's good to see some reasoned analysis on this board. It does indeed appear to be an imaginary car, an Audi V8 with a 200 grille, a hybrid car that does not exist.
I posted a while back about my personal bete noir of the series, the Daimler from Quantum of Solace. The car in the film is the X308 generation of Jaguar XJ8 / Daimler V8, a steel bodied car made from 1998 - 2002. The model made by Fabbri is the much larger, aluminium, X350 generation of Jaguar XJ/Daimler made from 2003 - 2009 which has almost nothing in common with the X308 at all. It is disappointing, but Fabbri re-used the casting from the Casino Royale Jaguar X350 and hoped no-one would notice. Sadly not the case!
Just wanted to say that Corgi has produced 3 different sets of James Bond models. 2 of these sets have included a model of Goldfinger's Rolls Royce. In the Ultimate James Bond collection the Rolls Royce appears without whitewall wheels and in the other collection James Bond The Directors Cut the Rolls Royce appears with extra detailing including whitewall wheels and a figure of Oddjob. Corgi also released a smaller scale Rolls Royce too.
The Rolls has finally made its 'packaged' debut along with mag on eBay:
Can't really see the diorama in this shot, but it looks like the regular size case again which, speaking for myself, I prefer to the huuuuge one! Hopefully we'll get some closer pics from MiG 29 Fulcrum if we ask him nicely...
The Rolls has finally made its 'packaged' debut along with mag on eBay:
Can't really see the diorama in this shot, but it looks like the regular size case again which, speaking for myself, I prefer to the huuuuge one! Hopefully we'll get some closer pics from MiG 29 Fulcrum if we ask him nicely...
As soon as I receive my copy, I will kindly oblige my friend. Hopefully I will get it either Saturday or Monday if the postman is on time???
I too am anticipating my Roller anyday now - fantastic to have the Rolls Royces appearing at last!
One thing I can't understand, why put such a major prestige model as this into a standard size box?? From MovieCarFan's photo it looks bit squashed in that size box. Whinge whinge. It would have looked great with a big diorama.
The Binz ambulance looks brilliant in the long box and that vehicle is 5.3m long life size (according to the JBCC mag) whereas the RR Phantom III is a longer vehicle around 5.5m life size ... (I think, the Internet isn't always reliable on such info).
So why didn't GE Fabbri put the RR into the bigger long box and make a big deal of it?? I might swap mine into a big box. However ... bring it on!!
I think it depends on the manufacturer. Nowadays the models aren't all made by Universal Hobbies anymore. The models in the large boxes are made by Ixo, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong), so the Rolls has probably been made by UH, not by Ixo.
Hi there can anyone help me please! I have just taken my collection out of storage to display in my 2 year olds bedroom. The problem is I found the box they were stored in under several heavy items in my dads garage, (Lots of broken perspex cases!) Can anyone advise me where to purchase some new cases, I have 85 cars and only 22 good cases HELP!!!!
Hi there can anyone help me please! I have just taken my collection out of storage to display in my 2 year olds bedroom. The problem is I found the box they were stored in under several heavy items in my dads garage, (Lots of broken perspex cases!) Can anyone advise me where to purchase some new cases, I have 85 cars and only 22 good cases HELP!!!!
there are a couple of options here, 1, you could try to obtain new parspex cases (good luck on that one, I contacted fabbri a couple of years back for the same reason). The other option is to pick up a couple of pre-started collections on the bay of E - say issues 1-29 or something and use the cases from those.
sorry i can't be of more help but that's the only way i found to get round it, other than buying a whole other collection from ebay (which is what I did in the end)
Hi Guys,
As promised from entry 1,966, the postman did arrive on time and here are the photos of Auric Goldfinger's Rolls Royce Phantom 3, with Oddjob at the wheel. I hope you like them.
By the way, the next model in the series is Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky's Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II from "The World Is Not Enough"
You can see a great photo of it in the previous entry, made by "Canuck007".
Hi Guys,
As promised from entry 1,966, the postman did arrive on time and here are the photos of Auric Goldfinger's Rolls Royce Phantom 3, with Oddjob at the wheel. I hope you like them.
By the way, the next model in the series is Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky's Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II from "The World Is Not Enough"
You can see a great photo of it in the previous entry, made by "Canuck007".
Can't wait. As always, keep them coming!!!
Thanks for the great pix! The Rolls looks brilliant with the end panel image behind it rather than in front of it - a real gem in the collection. Liking the look of the TWINE Roller, too. Good to see the collection as a whole going out with a bang rather than a whimper as far as the later models go
Hi there can anyone help me please! I have just taken my collection out of storage to display in my 2 year olds bedroom. The problem is I found the box they were stored in under several heavy items in my dads garage, (Lots of broken perspex cases!) Can anyone advise me where to purchase some new cases, I have 85 cars and only 22 good cases HELP!!!!
I spoke to JBCC 'Back Issues' dept a few months back and asked about replacement plastic cases - they said the regular size ones were available as of then but the larger types wouldn't be available until the whole thing finishes. I'd try sounding them out first to see if they can help.
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No, the car wasn't repainted during filming, we only see it with the yellow bonnet. Seems that Fabbri took a closer look at the film (that wasn't always the case, most horrible being the "Audi 200" which is an Audi V8, introduced two years after TLD).
Corgi didn't bother too much about the film and simply made their model as the car appears today:
Although I would agree that the car looks better with whitewall tyres and the black bonnet (looks more like a Swiss Post bus than a Rolls-Royce in Goldfinger), I still do not understand why an owner would choose to alter the appearance of such an iconic car during restoration. Perhaps the goal was to bring it back as it left the coachbuilder Barker in 1937?
That's a tough one. Perhaps it has more value as a perfectly restored Rolls Royce than it would do as a movie vehicle? Or maybe the owner wasn't keen on Bond movies? Either way at least it gives us JB die-cast collectors a valid reason for owning both the Corgi version and the JBCC version!
If that is the original AU1, I may be wrong but I thought it was owned by EON?
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It's a good point about the Audi 200. I did some digging and it seems there was a version of the 200 that looked an awful lot like the V8 (and the car in the film): 2 pics here of a 200 appear fairly similar to the car in the film.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audi_200_quattro_vl_black.jpg
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Audi_200_rear_20070511.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audi_200_rear_20070511.jpg&usg=__f_wqxk9xzIF-lLCQbVTJBuTTxrs=&h=951&w=1667&sz=660&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=a0hMWwIVjTepMM:&tbnh=138&tbnw=211&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daudi%2B200%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GGLL_en%26biw%3D1276%26bih%3D859%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=542&vpy=230&dur=4375&hovh=169&hovw=297&tx=230&ty=99&ei=jAKFTIyeAoTKswbw-L2aBQ&oei=jAKFTIyeAoTKswbw-L2aBQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAt6VE3fbEs
However, the model looks nothing like the film's 200 and more like a V8 (except for the front, but this is much more slanted and wrong, too)
Compare to the model:
When you look at the black parts of the bumper it becomes clear that the model is a V8 except for the grille - look at the front indicator lights which are lower than the black bumper and the circular rear wheel cutout that's more pronounced than on the 200.
V8 photos:
Edit: V8 links changed to Audi factory photos
I posted a while back about my personal bete noir of the series, the Daimler from Quantum of Solace. The car in the film is the X308 generation of Jaguar XJ8 / Daimler V8, a steel bodied car made from 1998 - 2002. The model made by Fabbri is the much larger, aluminium, X350 generation of Jaguar XJ/Daimler made from 2003 - 2009 which has almost nothing in common with the X308 at all. It is disappointing, but Fabbri re-used the casting from the Casino Royale Jaguar X350 and hoped no-one would notice. Sadly not the case!
The latest model out in the collection is 'Issue 96' - the Chevrolet C-10 Ambulance from "Moonraker"
Hope you like the shots.
By the way, our first Rolls Royce of the collection appears as the next model in the series - No. 97 and it is Auric Goldfinger's Phantom 3.
Can't wait...
Can't really see the diorama in this shot, but it looks like the regular size case again which, speaking for myself, I prefer to the huuuuge one! Hopefully we'll get some closer pics from MiG 29 Fulcrum if we ask him nicely...
As soon as I receive my copy, I will kindly oblige my friend. Hopefully I will get it either Saturday or Monday if the postman is on time???
One thing I can't understand, why put such a major prestige model as this into a standard size box?? From MovieCarFan's photo it looks bit squashed in that size box. Whinge whinge. It would have looked great with a big diorama.
The Binz ambulance looks brilliant in the long box and that vehicle is 5.3m long life size (according to the JBCC mag) whereas the RR Phantom III is a longer vehicle around 5.5m life size ... (I think, the Internet isn't always reliable on such info).
So why didn't GE Fabbri put the RR into the bigger long box and make a big deal of it?? I might swap mine into a big box. However ... bring it on!!
Cheers all, keep posting ...
Rhinoman B-)
there are a couple of options here, 1, you could try to obtain new parspex cases (good luck on that one, I contacted fabbri a couple of years back for the same reason). The other option is to pick up a couple of pre-started collections on the bay of E - say issues 1-29 or something and use the cases from those.
sorry i can't be of more help but that's the only way i found to get round it, other than buying a whole other collection from ebay (which is what I did in the end)
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rolls-Royce-Silver-Shadow-II-Bond-007-World-Not-Enough-/350394911970?pt=Diecast_Vehicles&hash=item51952a0ce2
As promised from entry 1,966, the postman did arrive on time and here are the photos of Auric Goldfinger's Rolls Royce Phantom 3, with Oddjob at the wheel. I hope you like them.
By the way, the next model in the series is Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky's Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II from "The World Is Not Enough"
You can see a great photo of it in the previous entry, made by "Canuck007".
Can't wait. As always, keep them coming!!!
No Goldfinger in the backseat ?:)
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Thanks for the great pix! The Rolls looks brilliant with the end panel image behind it rather than in front of it - a real gem in the collection. Liking the look of the TWINE Roller, too. Good to see the collection as a whole going out with a bang rather than a whimper as far as the later models go
I spoke to JBCC 'Back Issues' dept a few months back and asked about replacement plastic cases - they said the regular size ones were available as of then but the larger types wouldn't be available until the whole thing finishes. I'd try sounding them out first to see if they can help.
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Cheers,
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Cheers.
im thinking about 1/12 or 1/10 scale ??