What is the most well, unusual model have you seen commercially available?

[rickshaw]

So, what is the most well, unusual model have you seen commercially available?

I'm not talking about the salacious "Phoenix Follies" sort of thing, I'm talking about a model you were really surprised to see having been commercially released.

This is one I've just found.   A figure, in 1/43 scale of "Dear Comrade, № 1 (LI Brezhnev)":



I know there have been figures of Stalin, Hitler, etc. but this is the first one I've ever seen of Brezhnev.  I suspect it would be ideal for the Moscow Parades diorama, on top of Lenin's Tomb, taking the salute. 

Can't help but think a 1/72 or 1/35 figure would have been useful though.  You know, for the really BIG parade?   

[Weaver]

Preiser do all sorts of oddball figures, usually including the current US prez:



Okay, not exactly obscure, but where exactly do you use them in a typical railway layout?  

And on a similar note:



Bleesing a new papal train maybe? Or maybe he's just seen this one, which is possibly not worksafe (or wifesafe for that matter).

[TallEng]

Is it me
or does  Mr President look like Wallace?
(of the Wrong Trousers fame) 
Regards
Keith

[Thorvic]

Is it me
or does  Mr President look like Wallace?
(of the Wrong Trousers fame) 
Regards
Keith

Nope its not you i thought exactly the same 

[Rheged]

Is it me
or does  Mr President look like Wallace?
(of the Wrong Trousers fame) 
Regards
Keith

Nope its not you i thought exactly the same 

I  think that you could be right! 

But if Wallace is President, that probably means that Grommit is actually in control,  which sounds like a very good idea to me!

[rickshaw]

Okay, not exactly obscure, but where exactly do you use them in a typical railway layout?  

On a Grassy Knoll? 

I'll just grab my hat and coat...

[Alvis 3.14159]

Well, there's this:

http://robot4less.com/bandai-injection-machine-160

Yes, a model of the machine that makes models! I think they also did a model of the tool making machine as well. I have the injection machine model, i need to make little 1/60th scale boxes of the kits they make with the machine. Maybe even little boxes of this kit. And inside of them, models of the machine that makes the model of the machine that..ow! My brain just popped!

Alvis Pi

[PR19_Kit]

Well, there's this:

http://robot4less.com/bandai-injection-machine-160

Hm, yes, that's JUST the sort of thing the nutters at Bandai would make!  

[Hobbes]

In the same vein there's the Fine Molds scale model of a milling machine:

[PR19_Kit]

Well I'll be damned, that's a smaller version of the one I mentioned in the F-35 thread that Rolls-Royce use to machine the lift fans! 

[NARSES2]

Verlinden do quite a few 1/35 scale machine tools of WWII vintage. I suppose they are intended for dioramas featuring bombed out factories