Shite in Miniature II

[FakeConcern]

I saw a load of interesting models at a boot fair this morning, but managed to resist them all as I don't really have anywhere to put them. However I picked up this book, not because I want to get back to modelling, more that this sort of thing is dying out as everything is on the internet now.

 

Nice book anyway!

[toejam]

Common as cornflakes I know  

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

Got my Isetta, completing the Messerschmitt, Goggomobil, Isetta Revell bubblecar triumvirate.

 

 

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Nice little model. They do a version with a mini camping trailer included, but It's got a weird slumbering 1:18 scale dude inside and I'm not into 1:18 voyeurism.

 

This is mine.

 

 

I just had to have this version.

White and blue for Bayern, where I grew up, Berlin plate for the first place I lived after I left my childhood home

and "Der gelbe Koffer" (The Yellow Suitcase) was (is?) my favourite fairy tale.

[Split_Pin]

SL those are ace models, the Bburago Guilia is a new one on me, I will need to watch out for it.

 

At the time, Corgi usually released a model at the same time that the real car was launched and as such yours could be early ones. The Escort and Metro were other examples.

[Felly Magic]

Close up of Vanguardshite, note how both Overs are still branded as Lledo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

Might have to get myself one of those SD1s, that's a very detailed model and hard to get right.

[RoadworkUK]

Hmm. SD1 is another that I'd have difficulty resisting a 1:18 Otto release of.

[toejam]

Sudden Lledo price surge ! Buy buy buy whilst they're cheap !

[Felly Magic]

Profile and nose shots of this batch of chod. I do like the SD1, it's a decent model tbh

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

Yep that's a cracker.

 

Where did you get the Bedford CF or whatever the Opels called it.

[sierraman]

Array of Matchbox Matra Ranchos I've collected.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Opel blitz

[Felly Magic]

Yep that's a cracker.

 

Where did you get the Bedford CF or whatever the Opels called it.

Ebay France,  it was an Opel-Bedford Blitz, was about £20 with shipping, it's been released as an Ixo in blue and white for nearer £40!

[Split_Pin]

Thanks, I shall keep a look out.

 

Anyone know if there is such a thing as a Renault/Dodge S56 or S75 model? I have the EFE Plaxton bus version but that's it.

[Felly Magic]

Not seen any Dodge 50 series models about ever

[MarvinsMom]

SL those are ace models, the Bburago Guilia is a new one on me, I will need to watch out for it.

 

At the time, Corgi usually released a model at the same time that the real car was launched and as such yours could be early ones. The Escort and Metro were other examples.

as i recall Corgi also did a Triumph Acclaim and a mark 1 Honda Prelude, again these appeared at around the same time as the real cars.

 

given the speed at which the models appeared i wonder if BL or Ford had given Corgi either a set of drawings or access to the real cars before they went on sale. be interesting to know one way or the other.

 

certainly there were occasions when BR did this with Hornby. The HST, class 58, class 90 and 91 models all appeared in the shops before the real locomotives took to the rails. which also explains why hornby's class 58 was substantially different to the real locomotives as the design developed while the engines were been built.

[mercrocker]

It was quite common in the 1950s/60s for firms like Dinky and Corgi to get manufacturer access to still-secret models.   Think the first example was the Dinky Herald - on sale the day the real car was released and available in authentic colours.   It was the same with the Mk 1 Escort which I can remember being in the village hardware store the same day Ford released their version....

[rml2345]

Dinky might have had a Standard Triumph tie in as they did it with the 2000 too. Not sure about the other Corgis but the Sierra model was definitley developed with access to secret Ford information and they made quite a big thing about it at the time.

[danthecapriman]

Yes!!

 

One of my 1/16 scale tanks has arrived!

 

It's the Tiger tank.

 

 

Fully metal tracks, with metal wheels and fully independent suspension on each wheel.

 

I got the battery charged this afternoon and had a quick play with it. The radio controlled mechanisms work really well and runs and drives around very realistically.

This version even has a recoil effect on the gun, and the entire tank 'bounces' slightly as the gun fires! Very realistic.

 

I'm going to try it out in the garden sometime over the next few days but I'm very pleased with it so far. The other one similar to this I've ordered should be here in the next few days.

I've also ordered a kit in the same scale of a world war 2 German Elefant tank destroyer which should be fun to put together and motorise for radio control.

[Split_Pin]

It was quite common in the 1950s/60s for firms like Dinky and Corgi to get manufacturer access to still-secret models. Think the first example was the Dinky Herald - on sale the day the real car was released and available in authentic colours. It was the same with the Mk 1 Escort which I can remember being in the village hardware store the same day Ford released their version....

How cool would that have been to have one of those on the launch day!

 

I got a Solido Renault Clio model before they came out in the U.K. which I recall being excited about but the car had already been on sale in France for some time prior.

[MarvinsMom]

^^ nice tiger.....

 

[sierraman]

That was when a new Triumph Herald was topic worthy. Can't see myself stopping in the newsagents to talk to some randomer about the new Fiesta.

[toejam]

Yes!!

 

One of my 1/16 scale tanks has arrived!

 

It's the Tiger tank.

 

 

Fully metal tracks, with metal wheels and fully independent suspension on each wheel.

 

I got the battery charged this afternoon and had a quick play with it. The radio controlled mechanisms work really well and runs and drives around very realistically.

This version even has a recoil effect on the gun, and the entire tank 'bounces' slightly as the gun fires! Very realistic.

 

I'm going to try it out in the garden sometime over the next few days but I'm very pleased with it so far. The other one similar to this I've ordered should be here in the next few days.

I've also ordered a kit in the same scale of a world war 2 German Elefant tank destroyer which should be fun to put together and motorise for radio control.

 

 

 

Avoid dog shit.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Corgi had the mk3 cortina in showrooms alongside the real mk3 cortina at launch.

They turn up on ebay mustard yellow Inc base with black roof I have a lhD one in my collection.

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Profile and nose shots of this batch of chod. I do like the SD1, it's a decent model tbh

 

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Love the prices tucked under the window wipers in arfurs' garage.

 

Top effort!

[UmBongo]

More dioroma pics please, Felly.

 

I wish I had a diorama for all mine, so I do.

[Felly Magic]

I shall take more shots of the diorama of automotive shite later. Need to get hold of a 1/43 scale figure of a bloke in a sheepskin coat and trilby

[Junkman]

Thanks, I shall keep a look out.

 

Anyone know if there is such a thing as a Renault/Dodge S56 or S75 model? I have the EFE Plaxton bus version but that's it.

 

Which scale?

I once entertained the idea to make one from a US Dodge van kit in 1/25 scale, but that would be a very involved conversion.

 

Something like this:

 

 

From this:

 

[Felly Magic]

Matchbox did the earlier shape of US Dodge van in their Kingsize range, that could probably be made to look like a UK Dodge 50, but I have never actually seen a real van except those huge high roof vans loved by the water board and councils, I think it was a K 11 Superking model

[Spottedlaurel]

I once entertained the idea to make one from a US Dodge van kit in 1/25 scale, but that would be a very involved conversion

 

Funny how my old photos turn up! I drive past that garage most days, sadly the Dodge/Renault has gone and has been replaced by an Iveco breakdown truck.