Shite in Miniature II

[eddyramrod]

I too was surprised by the lack of bling on the 2000E.  The one I owned in 1982 seemed awfully bare, but a neighbour had a much nicer example and his was equally devoid, so it must have been right.

[Bren]

My latest purchase -

Dinky joe 90 jet car. The flashing light still works - I now have all the Gerry Anderson Dinky toys.

[Junkman]

I found Dinky steering quite odd, because the car leaned the wrong way when making a turn!

That's why I learned how to drift at age 4.

Btw. the best steering of evah was provided by Tekno.

 

 

Corgi springs were indeed notably stiffer, but they managed to achieve a nice degree of squishy "ride" with the '59 Impalas although most of the examples I have had picked up a port-side list

So did the real ones.

 

 

I must have been a peculiarly pedantic child as I never played with anything that I deemed to be "unrealistic" and even at a pre-school age apparently would not play with Matchbox and Dinky cars together due to the scale discrepancies.

Mixing scales for playing was completely unacceptable even when I didn't play alone.

If anyone brought the wrong scale models to a session he was immediately excluded.

 

I am glad that I reached sufficient maturity to stop playing with them just as all the low-friction axle stuff came out - they wouldn't have done at all!

I'm young enough that that low friction stuff tried to invade my childhood.

I didn't let it. Throughout the remainder of my childhood there was the hunt for leftover models with proper wheels.

This continued seemlessly through adolescence and adulthood, when it became retermed 'collecting'.

Contrary to many other collectors I know, there never was a phase in my life when I didn't collect model cars.

[eddyramrod]

 there never was a phase in my life when I didn't collect model cars.

 

Aha, you must be my brother!

 

[Junkman]

Amen, brother!

[Split_Pin]

The best suspension is the Dinky Citroen Dyane which performs similar to the real car. Shame I didn't get one until I was well past playing with cars.

[mercrocker]

They fell apart like real ones too, my French edition lost its pale grey bonnet a long time ago and is still wearing the incorrect UK bronze metallic one that I found somewhere.  I haven't the heart to repaint it after all these years.   It lost its roof panel too but that turned up in a box of junk at my Mother's after she moved 3000 miles away..... 

 

Speaking of family and specifically brothers, I am glad I had no male sibling.   My sisters were a pain but never touched my die-casts......

[Split_Pin]

My younger brother was never interested in cars so mine stayed untouched. Even my 4 year old takes no notice of them or his own cars.

[junkyarddog]

Some recent finds,

 

Dinky BMW,very tatty will repaint this.

 

 

It has a party trick though,

Unusual for a BMW it comes with working indicators

 

Dinky NSU,

Also with a party trick,

 

 

 

 

Dinky Jensen,badly repainted,but all there.

Will strip and redo it sometime.

 

 

Matchbox car transporter,

 

Some dragsters,

Love the "organ grinder" Mustang,

 

Matchbox Dodge van,towing a Corgi caravan,

 

Some various others,

 

[Felly Magic]

Corgi copied that lights thingy with their MG Maestro. What make are the BMW and NSU? Never seen them before and they are lush

[59Impala]

The BMW and NSU are Dinky Toys from around 1968, I know because I bought them both back then (after mum gave me the shillings needed). I still have them in splendid condition in their boxes. 

[mercrocker]

They did an Eldorado too, with working interior light.  Also a Merc 250SE with working brake lights..... 

 

Love that Jensen - proper 1970s Finnegan's Hammerite Green that looks like, great the way they went round the number plate!

[cms206]

Modern tiny tat in Morrisons; Opel Adam and Pug 508SW.

 

I have misplaced the HotWheels Datsun 240Z and Gran Turismo R32 GT-R I grabbed in Tesco. Bother.

 

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[sierraman]

Matchbox Superkings restored Sierra Cosworth. Thought I'd do it in an actual Ford Colour. Fairly impressed with the results!

[junkyarddog]

Badly repainted Dinky Jensen Interceptor

 

Body in white,

 

Repainted,

 

 

 

 

Very pleased with it.

[eddyramrod]

So you should be, except it's not an Interceptor.  It's an FF (note the double row of gills in the front wings).

[/pedant]

But very suitably slinky, nonetheless, well done with it

[Felly Magic]

Jason King tastic

[Felly Magic]

I have an old Minichamps Mk1 Mondeo hatch mint in box on it's way to me, I think I will need to make little strips of gaffer tape to make it look authentic

[Skizzer]

Badly repainted Dinky Jensen Interceptor

 

Body in white,

 

Repainted,

 

 

 

 

Very pleased with it.

Lovely job.

 

It's possible that Jensen isn't strictly a repaint - they did those in kit form in a bubble pack with a little bottle of enamel paint for DIY painting. I know because I had one; the original paint was doom blue but I did mine in a rather fetching two tone blue over silver. It looked a bit shit though because I was seven. This would have been about 1976 or so.

 

I believe there were others in the DIY series but I don't remember what.

[eddyramrod]

Indeed there were.  I never had the Jensen, but I did have the Merc 600, the Transit, Escort, Beetle and Phantom V.  IIRC there was a single-deck bus and a Ford D-series tipper truck, but I never had those.

[Felly Magic]

They also did the Daimler Fleetline that was badged as an Atlantean as well

[mercrocker]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Jensen kit...explains those number plates which were evidently stuck on after the paint job.   I had the Escort as well (with Mexico stripes I seem to recall) but subsequently set fire to it in a temporary anti-Ford revisionist phase when I was 12.

[junkyarddog]

Lovely job.

 

It's possible that Jensen isn't strictly a repaint - they did those in kit form in a bubble pack with a little bottle of enamel paint for DIY painting. I know because I had one; the original paint was doom blue but I did mine in a rather fetching two tone blue over silver. It looked a bit shit though because I was seven. This would have been about 1976 or so.

 

I believe there were others in the DIY series but I don't remember what.

Interesting,

This one was yellow to begin with,a bit of looking on the net shows they came from the factory in that colour.

 

It was then painted blue,then the green!

It was in very good condition overall,so well worth a little effort to tidy it up.

[Spottedlaurel]

I still have my yellow factory-built FF. It's suffered a bit over the years, with a hole in the rear glass, collapsed rear axle and a missing headlight. Oddly the front suspension/steering arrangement still works OK, and given that it unscrews I'm sure the rear end could be fixed.

[Felly Magic]

Minichamps Mundano mk1s. Just got the blue hatchback today. On my mobile to see if this shizz works

 

 

 

[Felly Magic]

Yay it works.Arse end shots now

 

[Felly Magic]

Sodding phone made the hatch look black, it's mid blue

[Felly Magic]

Better photos of the Mundano. Got a black mk3 LX on its way to me. I got this as it os the same shafe of blue the FiL's pld mk1 that was K regd, was written off when a bint reversed into it. The car was mint as well.

 

 

[junkyarddog]

Another tidy-up,

This time a corgi wizz wheels Transit.

 

It was missing the rear door,

so I made a new one from an old Nylon body filler applicator,and a wire axle from a Matchbox car.

It works and looks ok.

 

 

 

[mercrocker]

Nice job!    Those rear doors are always missing so its a good tip.