I recently bought three more “ordinary-looking” Matchbox scale models.
This seems to be the first time Matchbox has issued a 1979 Chevy Nova. The metalflake light blue color is really beautiful. (The card shows light blue; the actual color on the model is closer to cerulean, which I like more.)
This 1976 Honda CVCC in white is very nice. There is a metal column in the rear seats to provide structural support for the scale model. As a child, scale models that had this column bothered me a lot, as I tried and failed to invent an in-universe reason for the column’s existence.
I initially didn’t plan on buying this 1957 Dodge Sweptside Pickup because it didn’t look “ordinary.” (It would have looked more “ordinary” if it was in only one color.) But the matte ivory paint and the glossy “red” (more of a reddish-brown, actually) paint was so beautiful that I convinced myself to buy it. I never had a pickup truck scale model when I was a child, and that made me a little sad because I had lots of stories that involved transporting objects and a pickup truck would have been perfect for them. I now have a few pickup trucks, and they’re 1950’s (’56 Ford Pickup, 1956 Powell Sport Pickup) and 1960’s (1961 Ford Ranchero) American makes.
As a child, I only had a few scale models (perhaps less than 20) and one of the “stories” I wanted to play was “traffic jam.” But some of my models didn’t belong to that story (a forklift, a tank, etc.), so I didn’t have enough models to create a realistic traffic jam. I now have enough models to create a traffic jam in theory. (But I would need to remove the models from their packaging for that to happen.)