Die-cast Shinkansen E3 Tsubasa

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Apparently I found something notable in our local online market. Someone is selling their used model of a Shinkansen E3-1000 series, and, of course, "I have to get that!" Here's what it looks like, two days ago.
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I would say it has a decent weight, some scratches and marks here and there, the wheels are metal but rusty, but it's a second-hand, can't ask more (after all, it costs only 4 USD (90000 VND) for me!)
It has logo stickers on both sides, for some reason, because the real counterpart does not have such, but I appreciate it anyway, that's some extra recognition nevertheless.
What I don't like, however, is the yellow headlights. It does not look well on silver color of E3-1000, so I took some time and paint them black like how Plarail did. Looks much better.

Here's what the original packaging looks like. (I taken this from Google)
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The thing is, it's extremely hard to find more info about this set, as currently the number 71 has been replaced with E3 with newer purple/white paint job. 
What we do know is that this is an N-scale model, the price would be around 1254 yen/11 USD/250000 VND

And it fits with the blue plastic track, but just barely. Here's it next to E3-0 Plarail Advance on the track.
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Looks very good together, with Advance station, not gonna lie.
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Hunting Shinkansen for life (but not at all costs) :>



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