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Birthday excitement this morning, these were wrapped up for me (actually my choices from the shop in Evesham visited last weekend):

Two of them are the same age as me, and I suppose the VW and Alpine A110 could be too. The latter looks better in metallic blue than the orange version, although the wheels are still a little too large.
Got a bit of birthday cash to spend at the toy fair in Norwich, and I'll also visit some of the shops - I'm particularly keen to find the Majorette Toyota 5-pack.

Happy birthday 😁

I've found a diecast in Spain too. Just wandering along the beach and spot this among the seashells 

I think that's her car.

Well look what I found.

Attached to this.

She does a chatline too?

For identification purposes.

Kirstie Allsop regretted taking the shortcut.

Had a little box arrive today from @AndyW201


A rather lovely Capri! Im well pleased with it. A+ better than described would use again etc 👍

Been out Hunting this morning, Entertainer had some good stuff - no time to photograph these individually now as I've got to catch a flight...

We've been out of the house mostly, for two days this week.  Naturally on Monday Royal Mail tried to deliver me a parcel.  They said they'd try again yesterday.  Well you can guess how that worked.  So today I went to the Collection Office and picked it up.

Some ebay bargains, 99p each plus post.  They're all in rather nice condition, I doubt I'll be repainting any of them.
Then on the way back I stopped in at the Salvation Army and spent a whole £2.50.

Most of these I just grabbed because they were reasonable-looking models, which is reason enough for me.  I had no specific purpose in mind, although I did think the tanker might be transferable to a better chassis-cab.  But look in the bag: there's a ladder truck that goes with the Fire Department box van, and I have a cabinet full of Fire trucks.  The rest of the bag can go in my sale stock.
I'm getting serious Cold Shoulder now...

'That's the oar nicely stored, now where are we going to put the boat?'

We've been out of the house mostly, for two days this week.  Naturally on Monday Royal Mail tried to deliver me a parcel.  They said they'd try again yesterday.  Well you can guess how that worked.  So today I went to the Collection Office and picked it up.

Some ebay bargains, 99p each plus post.  They're all in rather nice condition, I doubt I'll be repainting any of them.
Then on the way back I stopped in at the Salvation Army and spent a whole £2.50.

Most of these I just grabbed because they were reasonable-looking models, which is reason enough for me.  I had no specific purpose in mind, although I did think the tanker might be transferable to a better chassis-cab.  But look in the bag: there's a ladder truck that goes with the Fire Department box van, and I have a cabinet full of Fire trucks.  The rest of the bag can go in my sale stock.
I'm getting serious Cold Shoulder now...

Am I missing something?
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/312769064924359/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3Ae9e5c725-a69f-4b68-848d-f8ee46c1f57b

We all know these little ambulances, I think...

Many years ago (1984-90) I worked for a local produce wholesaler in Southport, and among the vehicles I drove for them were two T25 diesel pickups, A369 GFV and C279 KCK.  I actually remember the second one arriving in early 86.  Now... I can't think of a readily accessible model in any scale, of the T25 as a single-cab pickup.

So I made my own!  I've been working on these, on-and-off, for several years, entirely from memory.  They are, of course, the ambulance cut down.

The pickup beds are the two halves of a small-scale plastic artic trailer, chopped to length.  

Signwriting is by Fineliner pen.  It's not perfect but a damn sight better than I'd be able to do by brush these days.  Those phone numbers were correct, but no longer exist as shown.

We've been out of the house mostly, for two days this week.  Naturally on Monday Royal Mail tried to deliver me a parcel.  They said they'd try again yesterday.  Well you can guess how that worked.  So today I went to the Collection Office and picked it up.

Some ebay bargains, 99p each plus post.  They're all in rather nice condition, I doubt I'll be repainting any of them.
Then on the way back I stopped in at the Salvation Army and spent a whole £2.50.

Most of these I just grabbed because they were reasonable-looking models, which is reason enough for me.  I had no specific purpose in mind, although I did think the tanker might be transferable to a better chassis-cab.  But look in the bag: there's a ladder truck that goes with the Fire Department box van, and I have a cabinet full of Fire trucks.  The rest of the bag can go in my sale stock.
I'm getting serious Cold Shoulder now...

We've been out of the house mostly, for two days this week.  Naturally on Monday Royal Mail tried to deliver me a parcel.  They said they'd try again yesterday.  Well you can guess how that worked.  So today I went to the Collection Office and picked it up.

Some ebay bargains, 99p each plus post.  They're all in rather nice condition, I doubt I'll be repainting any of them.
Then on the way back I stopped in at the Salvation Army and spent a whole £2.50.

Most of these I just grabbed because they were reasonable-looking models, which is reason enough for me.  I had no specific purpose in mind, although I did think the tanker might be transferable to a better chassis-cab.  But look in the bag: there's a ladder truck that goes with the Fire Department box van, and I have a cabinet full of Fire trucks.  The rest of the bag can go in my sale stock.
I'm getting serious Cold Shoulder now...

Had a delivery today.
A few years ago, there was a glut of Opel dealer  models flooding onto eBay at heavily discounted prices. I had a Vauxhall at the time, (now the wife's car), and with the majority of them being made by Minichamps, and I can't resist a cheap Minichamps model, I snapped quite a few of them up. This was one I didn't manage to at the time, and has since proved quite hard to track down.


This particular model appeals to me on a few levels, a love of sporty cars that you wouldn't expect to see a sporty version of, cars that answered a question that nobody asked, and cars that were everyday street furniture right up to the point when they suddenly weren't.

So, a version of a car normally found in supermarket or garden centre car parks, but with a 178bhp turbo engine, low and stiff suspension, 17" wheels and batwing Recaro seats. It wasn't a bad time for Vauxhall back in the mid 2000s, with a modicum of BTCC success, and the whole VXR thing  giving their image a bit of a shot in the arm, but the Meriva and Zafira VXR & OPC suggested something a bit stronger than Golden Virginia being passed around the table at Vauxhall/Opel marketing meetings...

So, the Meriva could probably never be described as pretty but it looks pretty purposeful with the OPC (VXR to us) paraphernalia attached. One thing Minichamps manage to do well is capturing the lower ride height of the sporty models.

Detailing is good, particularly the front and rear lights. Nice to see actual miniature Opel badges, rather than tampo printed, and the correct OPC tailpipe.


The snowflake alloys are done well, with discs and nice painted calipers beneath.

Even chassis and suspension detail is pretty good.


Usual Minichamps detail inside, including those Recaro seats. Having owned a new Corsa C SXi many years ago, the dash is all familiar stuff. Being a reduced price dealer model, it is all a bit black and plain. I've seen the proper OPC-branded version in Arden blue and that has nice colour-coded seats and trim, but I'm not paying the price people ask for that version...

Only problem with this is with paint imperfections, which seems to be a thing with Minichamps. A few of mine have gone like this, including this car's bigger brother, the OPC Vectra, which is the same colour. But they were a fraction of usual Minichamps money, so I'll live with it.
This should go well with the rest of the All Voxalls R Shit collection, I've got a black Corsa C by Minichamps that I've had since I owned the real thing, which fits nicely with this, as well as a Vectra C OPC and OPC versions of the Astra H and J. I'm on the lookout now for the Minichamps dealer Zafira OPC, but seeing the prices people want for them, it'll take a while...

Here’s the other versions I’ve got.
Mk1 diesel, lwb, tailgate, solid side door on correct side.


 
Mk2, lwb, double rear doors, window side door on correct side.

And another one of the blue French rally vans. Somewhere!

Possibly should be some susie coils on the back of the cab with some coloured wires representing the trailer air lines? I've got the Corgi Brian Harris ERF with crushed car load and the susies are on a small plastic block pushed into a hole in the rear of the cab.

Then again,  I can't see any small holes in the front of the trailer that the other end should push into.
Bloody nice truck though, I love the styling of the Ergo cab.

Yep was just plain white so no clue.
At one point ford used to say no 2 transits were the same spec as you could order just about any combination of mechanical or body spec & they'd build it.

Lightweight exhibition units, perhaps?