transparent/crystal

[Lee]

I see a lot of posts and pictures about transparent vehicle bodies. Eric even has a picture of his collection on the main site. So who has been manufacturing these?

Busch for one, but I see they call them crystal instead of tranparent. Interesting they would say crystal instead of kristall on the box. Neat 1936 racer on ebay 6904618709.

[Marc S.]

Lee,

Busch called their transparent model "crystal" because of the crystal inserts within the transparent material. Other transparent models I am aware of were made by Roskopf (see eBay thread, I think), Herpa (mostly for their advent calendars), and Wiking. Wiking used to check for remainders of wrongly coloured plastic when they changed colours by running a couple of transparent models.

Marc

[Albert]

There is also a Lada 2105 transparent made by SES. A rear model.