Shite in Miniature II

[Split_Pin]

I always wanted the pneumatic Technic stuff but never got it. Looked ace.

[Pillock]

The pneumatics were excellent, I had a set when they first came out. Late 80s?

 

My mum dug them out for me last year, they still work

 

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[RoadworkUK]

I had the Technic "Test Car", Red thing with V4 engine, independent suspension, working 3-speed box and pop-up headlamps.

 

Annoyingly, I used one corner of the suspension at uni to mock up a retractable suspension system for an amphibious car. And left it there. Like a twat.

[mercrocker]

I was at the folks today with the wee man and he's old enough to play with Lego now. I noticed that in the box there were large chunks of a Leyland FG truck that I built to a scale of approximately 1/18 over 20 years ago but which I thought had been broken up by my wee cousins.

 

As I already have the big Mini Cooper and Ferrari F40, my dad and i decided to rebuild it, alongside making robot wars robots for my son.

 

I remembered how it all went together and I took it home. I'm actually so happy about this LOL:

That is awesome!  

 

Somewhere in my box of old Lego I have clear curved bricks to replace the blue ones.   If I ever find them I would gladly donate them to such a worthy cause!

[RoadworkUK]

That FG got me remembering one of the highlights in my valuable* collection of automotive literature:

 

 

Full writeup for interested parties.

[mercrocker]

Nice brochure.   Trouble is, they are only valuable when you buy them.

[oldcars]

I always wanted the pneumatic Technic stuff but never got it. Looked ace.

My parents must have this somewhere, sure i had it. Need to ask.

[sierraman]

My eldest has just got into Lego. So I'm enjoying building odd stuff like flats and lock ups out of Lego. Finding it very therapeutic!

[andy18s]

The pneumatics were excellent, I had a set when they first came out. Late 80s?

 

My mum dug them out for me last year, they still work

 

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I had 1 of the 1st kits when they came out IIRC, it was the logging truck/refuse bin collected set up

I believe it ended up being the only kit where the air reservoir was designed into the kits,and was a separate tank on later kits

I sold it as part of a clear out 2 years ago and it went for over £200 on the bay....

[Split_Pin]

That is awesome!

 

Somewhere in my box of old Lego I have clear curved bricks to replace the blue ones. If I ever find them I would gladly donate them to such a worthy cause!

That would be brilliant! That has always bugged me about about this model since I built it 😀

[Split_Pin]

That FG got me remembering one of the highlights in my valuable* collection of automotive literature:

 

 

Full writeup for interested parties.

I have a fair few FG brochures and original factory spec sheets, so I'll enjoy looking at this.

[Six-cylinder]

My latest purchase was a broken Peugeot Eylseo 50 so I had to get a model!

[Felly Magic]

Lego is great for brain therapy, it is often used when people have suffered head trauma to aid recovery, as it stimulates the brain. Have used it a lot when battling illness, and my consultant actively encouraged it. Once again phwoar on that FG, deffo needs a crane on the back for Legoshite recovery

[RoadworkUK]

Those little Maisto bikes are GR9.

 

I bought a BMW C1 to match one an old work colleague rode

 

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[MarvinsMom]

now lego, there is something.....

 

i've got loads of it, the pnuematic excavator that i never could get to work properly,

and the yellow jcb thing which was a slightly later pnuematics set, which always worked perfectly!

 

i've also got the early '80s car chassis, with a working gearbox, adjustable seats and a flat 4 engine

 

and then going even further back, any one else had the galaxy explorer set?

 

or cos i've always had a thing for trains

 

and this one to?

i got myself the Super Chief too, on the one and only time i visited Paris i saw this in Galleries Lafayette Hausmann, and, well, i ended up buy the whole train. i dunno what the check out girl said to me, cos, well my o-level french is crap. i think it was along the line of you nutter or similar. needless to say the rest of the holiday passed real slow cos i waited till i got home BEFORE opening them up and building it, it was torture!!

and this one, maybe?

and this

remember when lego figures didn't have separate arms and legs?

and who else remembers ets like this?

 

who else has had one of these?

 

and this too?

 

which of course would do this!

 

funny thing been that i got the recovery wagon for xmas when i was, maybe 9 or 10 years old. unfortunately i decided that this was what i wanted on december 23rd. (or something like that) so, my dad had to take the scalextric my parents had already bought, back to the toyshop for a refund on christmas eve, and even now (i'm 42) it is something that i still get reminded of. while everyone else was going to the pub, mt dad was carrying a damn great big box up the road to Romer Parrish cos i had changed my mind!!

 

i've got other sets, but these are the ones which i remember straight off, and when compared with some of the new ones, such as the Mini Cooper, these old ones are, shall we say, unsophisticated. those new sets are bloody amazing.

 

i had hoped that the god son or the nieces would get a lego bug, but sadly, Sam is more interested in video games and the girls prefer Playmobile....

[Split_Pin]

Whoa bloody Nora, I remember those Technic sets!!!

 

I always wanted the Jeep thing but never got it. I did however have the car chassis and I haven't seen a picture of it since it was built nearly 30 years ago! God it looks crude now, wonderful!

 

Felly I have been looking on eBay for Lego bits to add to the FG. A recovery crane would be ace.

[Split_Pin]

I have a fair few FG brochures and original factory spec sheets, so I'll enjoy looking at this.

Corneramic indeed! If you like FGs, Dave Fawcett has compiled a massive collection of FG pictures on his Traveller Homes site, some quite recent. Some of the paint jobs are fantastic and others delightfully shite. I think he might be a member here actually.

[Junkman]

I had that Lego railway when I was a kid. I also had those electric conductors down the middle and I could thus run it with a transformer.

I mean these:

 

 

That Lego transformer I still have, it is actually quite good. I use it for my H0 DC models now.

[Junkman]

Received my Italeri reissue of the old ESCI Transit today.

 

 

It follows the current trend of European kit manufacturers to needlessly increase your postage costs by using boxes twice as big as necessary:

 

 

Body parts are moulded in white plastic this time around:

 

 

 

 

The rest is moulded in black, except of the clear parts, of course:

 

 

It does still include LHD and RHD dashboards:

 

 

There are 5 vinyl tyres included:

 

 

They do have sidewall detail:

 

 

They are the wrong size and load rating for a van.

 

The decal sheet includes signwriting for British Gas and a lot of numberplates from various countries, most of them in wrong formats and with wrong fonts:

 

[Split_Pin]

But the UK has SERCK font, surely that's a bonus. I must get one of these!

[Junkman]

The UK plates are not in a valid format.

[Felly Magic]

Yup that reg ends in BF8. Knuckleheads. And being a gas board van, surely it would need the ladder/roof racks on as well, in a similar style to those fitted to BT vans of the era, and a utility van wouldn't have had wheeltrims either

[Felly Magic]

Whoa bloody Nora, I remember those Technic sets!!!

 

I always wanted the Jeep thing but never got it. I did however have the car chassis and I haven't seen a picture of it since it was built nearly 30 years ago! God it looks crude now, wonderful!

 

Felly I have been looking on eBay for Lego bits to add to the FG. A recovery crane would be ace.

 

Have you searched the excellent Bricklink site? Often tons cheaper than evilbay

[Split_Pin]

The UK plates are not in a valid format.

I did not spot the rogue 8. Shame though.

[Split_Pin]

Have you searched the excellent Bricklink site? Often tons cheaper than evilbay

I shall go there. eBay is dear.

[Vin]

From my childhood experience of their truck kits, Italeri were always pretty poor when it came to correct number plates for the model...

 

As regards lego pneumatics, I still have, somewhere, the fork lift truck I got at Christmas 1985...

[Junkman]

Yup that reg ends in BF8. Knuckleheads. And being a gas board van, surely it would need the ladder/roof racks on as well, in a similar style to those fitted to BT vans of the era, and a utility van wouldn't have had wheeltrims either

 

There never was a roofrack with this kit and to tool one up for this issue would have hardly been feasible.

Let's be glad that they reissued it at all.

Use Evergreen to make a roofrack if you must. And all you have to do re. wheeltrims is leave them away.

 

This is Mark Reeves' build:

 

 

And this is by Adam in Denmark:

 

 

He modelled it after this one:

 

 

 

Despite the kit is actually early Eighties vintage, it has great potential.

[danthecapriman]

Received my Italeri reissue of the old ESCI Transit today.

 

 

It follows the current trend of European kit manufacturers to needlessly increase your postage costs by using boxes twice as big as necessary:

 

 

Body parts are moulded in white plastic this time around:

 

 

 

 

The rest is moulded in black, except of the clear parts, of course:

 

 

It does still include LHD and RHD dashboards:

 

 

There are 5 vinyl tyres included:

 

 

They do have sidewall detail:

 

 

They are the wrong size and load rating for a van.

 

The decal sheet includes signwriting for British Gas and a lot of numberplates from various countries, most of them in wrong formats and with wrong fonts:

 

Thanks Junkman for posting that.

Suitably inspired by it I've just ordered one off ebay! They're not expensive either.

 

Just need to decide on a colour/livery for it now...

Of course if it was a high roof LWB model I'd make a copy of my own van!

[Felly Magic]

I was doing a bit of detailing today to my Lada 1500 & 1600 models, and noticed they are completely different castings. Different shaped petrol doors, side trims and indicators, even the bonnet vents are different. The glazing also differs with the 1500 having open windows. The base plates are also completely different too. Bizarre that for a cheap partwork model they went to all that trouble to make a new casting for basically the same car. I've attached photos of both, look closely at the photos to notice the subtle differences. Well done DeAgostini I say

 

 

 

[rainagain]

I do model Railways in my spare time. Cars are key to giving the layout that period feel.

 

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Is your layout Everard Junction?