Some photos of Mark Sterling's toy cars, predominantly Lone star cars and trains.

I work in museum display. Looking specifically at how the car is mounted within it's acrylic box, I would suggest that it has been screwed in to small piece of acrylic rod.

I remember when I was younger and I used to play with metal military miniatures.

The first instances of painting with Falu Rödfärg Paint date back to the 16th century, manufactured as a by-product of the mining process in the copper mine in Falun.

Never mind the Scanning Electron Microscopse - forget the Pigment analysis here is the real science. Delivered directly to the Object Retrieval bus this morning was a "Household Lead Test Kit".

Another famous Toots of course is Toots and the Maytals. And just for Object Retrieval, the attached Christmas number features all sorts of American cars.

For methods on how to create a portal see Pataphysics:

The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, was the last and the greatest of the nineteenth century's World's Fairs.

A cut-out full scale version of the toy car.

Instructions:

We are making replica copies of the toy car from the stunt copy that we have.