A Special that didn't make it!

Here's a Hot Wheels RLC Corvette that didn't make it stellar. The contemporary '14 Corvette Stringray in metallic blue.

It has almost everything going for itself, but the collector community managed to collectively reject it because it doesn't have a metallic roof.

With just 3000 numbers produced, this is a model that captures all of the features of it's 1:1 counter-part excluding the wheel arches, which has been hotwheelified.

Though it is a stand alone release, I do feel this is a piece that is worthy to be collected just for it's beautiful metallic blue paint and that constrasting red rims.

Metallic top or not, the amount of details that has been tampoed sure makes this a model that is a must-have for collectors who are after detailing.

Feel free to post your comments below if you disagree with me. I would love to discuss this model further in depth.

PS: I also need some suggestions about what kind of backrground theme that I could adopt for this blog. Do suggest!

How do you keep track of your collection?

I have been wondering about this for quite a while, and have asked some of collectors with whom I talk to. How do you effectively and efficiently keep track of my collection?

I would love to find out ways that are easy and quick that you people have been using to keep track of your collection. Let me share the way I have kept track of my collection so far. I enter each models details on to an excel sheet along with details such as card condition, car condition and also the price I paid for buying it.

So far this process has been painstakingly slow and tedious. Even though there are online solutions that offer to let you keep track of your collection, it just is not convenient enough to the extent that I would like it to be.

I have put together a questionnaire which I think would help us collectors to understand the mistakes that we are doing in our hobby. Please follow this link and give your answers. I have enabled results sharing, which will let you see what others have posted as well.

Do post your comments below to let me know if anything in my questionnaire can be improved!