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  1. I finished the Transporters today One of them had a hole in the screen on one side which I replaced with some clear plastic, one of the horn units is from something else I don't remember and the other is two broken horns botched together Obviously I had to set up a one make load
  2. I've been working on quite a few projects at once lately as more get held up as I continue to avoid making a Steve Flowers order. So I have two Corgi Carrimore Transporters that I bought very cheap and decided to to a cheapskate retoration and spend as little as possible. Neither of these had mirrors or an exhaust so i decided to make them from bits and bobs I already have The mirrors are plasticard with kitchen foil on them clipped to a bit of wire and more plasticard for the frames, I toyed with cutting the centre out to make them more realistic, but decided they'd be too weak or I'd fuck it up and have to start again The exhaust is soft iron wire with plasticard brackets and wire insulation for spacers The lower mirror brackets have to bend down inside the cab and are held in by the windows. I heated the plasticard with Mrs Concern's hairdryer to bend the plasticard. One of the trailers had a broken "hydraulic" strut so I made one from some sprue and wire It even works haha I don't have enough tyres for both of them so one is still going to have to wait on the Stevie baby order. It all looks a bit clumsy, but I've had fun making it and I think it'll be better when painted as well.
  3. We went to a toy fair we'd not been to before, it was quite small and probably at least half was train stuff. we didn't come away with all that much, but few nice purchaces were made I got these three nice Corgis for £15, Stingray bought for the roof panels more than anything, 2+2 E Type in blue, I have my childhood red one so another colour is good. I noticed when I got home that it has one front wheel that is a solid cast one rather than the "wire" wheel it should be so if you'd like this factory error you can take it for £50. The Thames Caravan caught my eye being the rather nice mauve and it has the table and foam seat still inside. Mrs Concern has a turquoise one already. i picked up the service ramp and repainted Dinky 914 and while looking at them the seller said £5 so I had them! The 914 is the exact same shade as my mates 1/1 version so I'm going to paint it again in a bright yellow or green just to annoy him. The ramp is a Crescent and has the handle missing so I'll see if I can fix that soonish. The next seller had one complete for £15, but I turned it down. I really want a Corgi ramp, but never seen one. Mrs Concern found a big bag of Britains horses for her sister marked at £6 and I spotted a Corgi Wicker Mini and Whizzwheel VW both marked £6 as well and we got the lot for £15 which was ok Lastly this Corgi Land Rover and a Majorette trailer for a canoe were picked up for £4. I'll repaint the LR as a Chipperfields one and Mrs Concern has three Majorette canoes so one can go on the trailer. It wasn't that busy and nothing was super cheap,but still fun!
  4. Not really dumped, but was stolen last night and being recovered this morning as I went by on my bike..
  5. My parents had a hearth rug with a geometric design on it, the shapes on it became the roads for my cars!
  6. I can tell you what your doing with your life-enjoying yourself! Keep it up, you're a long time dead...
  7. Not sure it keeps moving, The start of Wartling Road is where it was when I saw it. Mick Gould is a commercial recovery firm in Flimwell (about 25 miles from where it was) they use fantastic looking US wrecker trucks (International? Mack? Not sure). I'll try and take a cycle ride over to Hastings later in the week and see if its still there.
  8. I noticed it had gone a couple of days ago. I'd be interested to see where in Hastings it is, I don't recognise the place from those pictures and I couldn't find out with a number plate search on the FB group. Hastings is about 15 miles from the place where I saw it, but depends where in Hastings. The last time I saw it the doors had been kicked in and some of the windows smashed.
  9. I borrowed one of these (same colour as well) from a mate when my GTis gearbox exploded, I hated it. Obviously I have no taste!
  10. We didn't get to the toy fair today as something else came up, but as we passed the junk shop that I got a big pile of er junk in last week we popped in again. I had half rememberd seeing a digger thing in the big cardboard box I had picked all the stuff including the Corgi Heavy Machinery transporter so had a look and found it still in the box. I also rummaged about the bottom of the box and found the locating plate and capstan thing also for the transporter and the bonus was the door to the MGC! I need to make a rear window for the MG and work out how to thread the cotton on the digger, but I'm pretty happy with that and I'm sure there'll be another toy fair soon!
  11. X Ambassadors-Half Life
  12. @danthecapriman we defo had those wheels in the UK on the last version MkIV XR3i with the this rear spoiler @bunglebus what is this fabulous colour? Talking of colour, I've used BLMC Tara Green on my Corgi Camaro and rather strangely it was on the shelf in the local Halfords! The Firebird is Ford Vision Blue I'll also be able to use Tara Green when I find another Dinky Mini Clubman to model the one I owned. If anyone has one I could have plz PM me. I stripped off a Bburago 900 Turbo the other day, I think it really captures the look well, but the casting had this strange lump on the rear quarter and another on the bonnet, neither showed before hand as it was covered in race decals I have finally finished the black 1275GT model of the one I owned. I spent ages making the number plates in the correct Serck font. I was in two minds about putting the nudge bars on it as it kind of tips it from a toy into a "scale model" which isn't what I want I suppose Dinky could have put details like that on and made it more robust than I can I didn't cut the sunroof out, it's a sticker a bit like some model Volvos (Kingsize?) have. I think the best thing about the whole thing is the 1275Gt stripes on the side! I didn't try to replicate the wheels, just refinished the original Dinky ones Here's a couple of pics of the real car, with me in France and Mrs Concern in Germany I forgot to show that I did paint the interior to represent the stripey deck chair style seats.
  13. That is great, really well done! I love and hate in equal parts converting models to represent my own 1/1 cars (and I'm currently working on three!) as even when finished you always notice other things that could be done better. Can't see any on yours though... That is a lovely model I would only notice the wheels being slightly wrong. I have my original white VW that came with the Lotus Racing Gift Set and amazingly mine still has the tool box cover attached. I did have the tyres, but they went hard and brittle and fell to bits. I have another couple now, one I've painted and made a tool box cover, the other just has a full load of tyres!
  14. Been in this field for years, I'd have expected more of it to have been pinched
  15. @danthecapriman I've kind of lost track of what's happening with the Corgi Porsche you sold on your sale, but if the original people who wanted parts ( @bunglebus & @eddyramrod) are getting the bits they need then if @andrew e sends me a PM I'll send the interior as I've now popped it apart and got the boot/bonnet/trunk/hood/engine cover/whatever that I want off.
  16. Blimey, two years and no change in attitude by most road users. The Govt. promised to publicise these changes and they haven't done this. It has only been organisations such as the AA and GEM who have been trying at all and of course the dreaded Ashley Neal...
  17. I thought that pillar was meant to be the wiper motor housing! Great attention to detail, I thought to myself...
  18. Are you getting that from Dan? I totally lost track of who wanted what, but I think @bunglebus wants an engine cover/boot/bonnet/whatever @eddyramrod wants seat backs & @andrew e wants complete interior, is that right? If so there isn't enough Porsche to go around on @danthecapriman's one so I'm happy to donate an interior to whoever still needs one. Here's my green Porsche that I cut the targa top out off when i was a kid, I got this in a swap with the boot/??? already missing. I already had the blue one in a box from new. That one is far from perfect despite the box and the doors just flop open all the time...
  19. We had a friend staying with us this weekend, but we dragged her along to a toy fair anyway! It did cramp my style a bit. These were 50p each These the Caravan for £2 and Camping thing in mint cond £5 are Mrs Concern's along with the speed boat which was £1 along with the others. I like the plastic Norevs very much and I'm pleased with Pug here. The Corgi Poodle Club I hope to repaint as the Chipperfields one. These were £2 each, Mini van was pretty good for that as complete including doors Two Corgis for £3 This A55 was stickerd at £8 and I paid £5, I felt a bit bad as it is for Dr Banados! I have one in silver and green already This Dinky Taunus started at £15 and I paid £8 and I love it i thought it should be a French Dinky as we had the Cortina and Corsair, but it has a British plate (B 64) Another plastic Norev CX for £5, I really like this too! Hopefully I can use the rear bumper on this as a template to replicate the missing one from last time! Next I wanted to buy a Spot On Anglia and PA Cresta, but the ones on offer were unusual colours and so too pricey for me, plus I'd have felt bad re painting them! Anyway I got talking to the seller who tried to sell me these two Zodiacs for £20 and after missing out on the one Dan had yesterday I was interested. He told me I could make one good one from the two and dropped the price to £15 Still too much so as I went to go he said £10, I know it's still too much but i cracked and have them! On the way home we stopped at a junk shop in Storrington and I spotted a big box of tat, asked the lady at the counter who said £5 each or £40 for the lot. Managed to get these for £25 so about £2 each although some obviosly worth more than others. I thought the Lancia was a re paint and bought it to use the grill and a light on the orange one @Datsuncog has for me. It's actually a faded yellow and black one! The Mack and Bedford transporters both had their trailer wheels rolling around the bottom of the box-result. I know I said i wouldn't get any big scal Corgis, but picked up the X/19 anyway, if you want it let me know otherwise it can go in my growing collection of that scale! Here's the lot together
  20. That is SOOO good! I love it! Everything works so well, the wheels look just right on it and it manages to look like the period pics of those race transporters absolutely. i love the Ramrod company livery too. We have a friend staying with us so wasn't able to spend much time looking at tat when we went to Hastings yesterday, but took a couple of pics of some interesting stuff. Three lovely garages in one shop Out of my price range! This looks pretty old Also saw this Matchbox Motorway set in a a place that's usually pretty cheap I didn't see any price and no one around to ask, plus we were with our friend, but I noticed there was an extension set as well, but I'd go back and see if anyone is interested The only thing I bought was a Corgi 911 with an engine cover to put on my childhood green one. I did see a couple of the Corgi XJCs one a plod one and one in blue I think, but I'm holding back on the larger scale models so left them.
  21. I have no idea what that is meant to be...
  22. I love stuff like the sunroof on the Celica!
  23. Car magazine dubbed these "Hormone Replacemnt Vehicle"...
  24. Recently looking back at @eddyramrod's excellent "Life of Shite" thread and then seeing the excellent work on Minis by @MiniMinorMk3 I was inspired to get on with turning a beaten up Dinky plod Mini Clubman into a replica toy of my old black 1275GT. Here for reference (with Mrs Concern) It was mostly stripped of paint when i got it so a rub down before filling the roof holes didn't take much time and then I got the black paint on with a suitably authentic BLMC orange peel finish. The first thing I did after painting was try making the 1275GT stripes for the side as without them I may as well give up. After a few tries I got the size ok and stuck them on I'm still sticking with my usual idea of keeping it pretty toy like rather than an accurate scale model however the doors are a really sloppy fit (Dinky's quality control must have been worse than BLMC) and the hinge lets them drop and fall half open all the time. Not sure how to fix that, maybe try running some glue in the holes where the pins sit? Anyway it does mean the stripes line up when the doors are held in shut then as soon as you let go it's like this Well today I knuckled down to painting on some details, I used to be pretty good at this when i was young, but now the eyes don't see so well as they did and the hand doesn't do what I tell it plus every paint brsh seems to have five hairs sticking out at right angles! So as my Clubman was a late one with the more delicate Leyland badge and only a couple of grill bars picked out in chrome I decided to print that centre part of the grill and paint the other bits. The rear bumper of the Dinky had over riders cast into it which I had to file off, took way longer than I wanted. I don't remember any Clubmans/Clubmen (?) having them IRL, perhaps @MiniMinorMk3 can tell us if they did? Either way mine didn't. I wish i could have thought of aneasy way to remove the raised number plate and make a recess like the real thing. I could only think to cut it out completely and fix a new flat plate set back, but decided I CBA so left it. Painting the rear lights sent me cross eyed... Now I can't decide whether to just re silver the wheels or if I should make them look more like the MiniLite replicas (Mistrals maybe?) I had on mine Well it's been keeping me out of trouble anyway!
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