An update on future Corgi Model Club issues:
It looks like the green #334 Mini will have the wider stripes. For many collectors, I suspect this will be the first they knew about there being two versions of the sliding roof. However, I have to admit to learning for the first time that their blue issue with a silver steering wheel and green one with a gold steering wheel reflect the different components in the original.
Despite my passion for 'variations' in the original models, I have tended not to be too concerned to date with the colour of a steering wheel. This one is a little interesting, though, so now I need to establish whether each colour can have each colour of steering wheel. I have already established that there are both green and blue models with each type of sliding roof. If there is no correlation between colour, roof and steering wheel (and I have no reason to think there should be) then we'll have 2³ different models, that's 8 in plain English, to find! Oh dear!
Back in Model Club land, the models I will be adding to my collection will be the silver grille #270 which, although not marked as a 'member's only' edition was announced as such originally, with the plebs only getting the gold-coloured grille on an order from the shop. I am wondering now whether both might, in fact, be sold via the shop? I shall also get the MGA, suitably clad in Reform Party colours, as I quite like these 'different' models. (OK, I know that all the Club issues are different in one way or another - I am referring here to a totally new colour).
The Aston Martin could be worth getting for the packaging alone, especially if the printer switches to a matt ink (I assume it is the ink that has to change or is it the card's coating?)
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