Shite in Miniature II

[egg]

As a result, I've picked up on my 'in progress' restos, made a list of tools and parts to expand my skill set* in 2019, and put it all away for now. Start again in the Spring. Learnt a lot this year, but rattle cans at this time of year is probably not sensible.

 

A winter of Norev hunting instead I think!

[Junkman]

It's no big deal. Strip it and repaint it again.

[Junkman]

Do you rip them out of the packaging or not?

 

Of course you do. If you leave it in the packaging it's impossible to play with it.

[egg]

It's no big deal. Strip it and repaint it again.

 

Indeed. I'm having a childlike temper tantrum and pretending my brother did it 

[Christine]

This was going well until I I dropped the f-ing thing!

 

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You're not the only one... I was just  about to ebay it too  . I think    it's      was  the second rarest one    Red wheels or something..

 

 

 

 

[Christine]

Mods are gunna go potty because off topic  !   This is a vintage Tomy toys Busy biplane . About 30 years ago , my best mate bought one for his little boy ( my God son) ,but wouldn't let him play with it ..    just let him watch his Dad play with it . Such a cool toy ,I rushed out and bought one ..and it wasn't easy to find one either .  It takes 2 AA batteries, the what looks like a "clockwork key"   isn't a key , it's a pull start !!  You give it a tug and the "engine "  will splutter but not start, pull a little quicker,  maybe it will start .. maybe not  keep tugging it it eventually  runs    . And it vibrates.. Like a real 2 stroke ! Prop goes round and you push the pilot forward , and it'll taxi on high throttle   . I took it to club night at the RC flying club I use to go to,  and one of the heavyweights was convinced it was a real engine ..ha ha !   Ace toy 

 

Sadly the tailplane has snapped off ,because I let my daughter have it when she was small . I'll have to glue it back on.

 

 

 

[Burnside]

Got another 1:43 model for sale if anybody interested?

 

It's a Royal Mail Land Rover Series III by Universal Hobbies. Outer Card sleeve has some wear but is otherwise excellent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you can get over the LHD shocker it's a rather smart model. £15 inc postage?

[Christine]

And I will do the Eagle  1:18   109   AA   one for £45 posted ! 

 

 

[morrisoxide]

Right I might as well start posting some of my custom miniature shite. 

Started out looking like this.

 

 

I have a few of them so I was just going to repaint it. Until I cracked it open and saw the Dog and a box of bottles hidden in the back! 

 

It had to be a Pick up so you could see the Dog. I wonder why Matchbox bothered to detail the back, you can't see them inside the van?

 

I wasn't sure about the split back window but now I think it works.

 

I also lowered the roof a tad to make it look more like a pick up. Still need to get the front window sitting right.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That's fantastic!

[sheffcortinacentre]

The mk1 escort was available from airfix as a std car (ive got one) came as a set with a Herald & a tr4 or 5 .

[eddyramrod]

TR4A, yes.  All three were sold individually in the 60s, I built many.  Likewise the three that Airfix did offer in their rodded set.  The wheels they used (slot mags) had been made for the Bugle Beach Buggy kit and shamelessly re-used for these others.

[Christine]

I had several Airfix Bond Bug kits in polythene bags

[RayMK]

I think we (probably my son's) have got unmade, boxed Airfix models of an MG BGT and a Citroen DS from Christmases past.  I have two or three unmade, boxed aircraft kits from the 1980s, possibly earlier.  I think one of them is a Russian Flying Boat and it may even be a Russian kit.  I'll have a look when I go upstairs. 

[eddyramrod]

Thinking about it, there might have been an MGB roadster in that triple set rather than the TR4A; Airfix did both.  They never did a Citroen though, so I reckon that might be a Heller.  I know they did a CX.  They were sold here under the Humbrol brand.

[RayMK]

Thinking about it, there might have been an MGB roadster in that triple set rather than the TR4A; Airfix did both.  They never did a Citroen though, so I reckon that might be a Heller.  I know they did a CX.  They were sold here under the Humbrol brand.

 

I'll ask my son to have a look.  Heller does ring a bell.

[RayMK]

I'll ask my son to have a look.  Heller does ring a bell.

My son will oblige with photos soon.  The MGB is indeed a roadster.  He denied all knowledge of the Citroen - it turns out that it is mine and a Heller.  The 'Russian' kit was in fact a GDR Playfix kit of a Russian flying boat and the other aircraft kit was a 1/72nd Heinkel 111-H by Matchbox. Also nestling in the dark top  shelf of my wardrobe was an incredibly cheap and nasty boxed playmat (plastic sheet printed with road markings etc.) together with a motley collection of frail plastic vehicles and accessories.  Normal life expectancy of the latter boxed set with a child would be 10 minutes at a pinch.

[Split_Pin]

I've never been much good at the old model kit building. I can neatly glue the parts together OK but I'm not very creative.

 

The most recent I built was the Revell 1/24 MK1 Golf. That was actually a joy as its a lovely model and very accurate in my amateur opinion. Before that in about 2015, there was a 1/24 scale Revell Kenworth tipper kit in TK Maxx. Nobody would touch it because the box had been opened and must have assumed that parts were missing. I sat on the floor of the shop, ooened the box, spread out all the bags of parts, confirmed against the supplied inventory that nothing as missing and handed over the £10 being asked for it. Another nice model with an attractive chrome tipping body.

 

Apart from some 1/24 cars including a Matchbox branded Escort XR3, a few more 1/24 trucks, I have a few waifs and strays from the 1980s amd 1990s, such as an obscure Japanese Mini, a Heller Renault 30 and an unidentified Audi 90.

[eddyramrod]

Now that you've seen one, I suppose I should show you what's in the other glass cabinets. 

So this is the 1960s...

...including the Batmobile up top, because although it was a 1955 Lincoln, it only became the Batmobile in 1966.  Well that's my reasoning anyway.

Now for the 70s...

And finally the modernz.

As you can see, late 90s/early 2000s.  That's modern to me.  I think that, as three of them are copcars, I can be forgiven the indulgence.

 

There are some 50s and 70s cars out on open shelves, plus all the (five) non-Americans.

[rainagain]

Can you print me some 1/24 R16 TX wheels?

If you send me a design I’ll see if I can sneak it on the machine when no one is looking.

[mercrocker]

NIce display there, Eddie - I certainly get the appeal of big scale.....

[Amishtat]

About twelve years ago you could get the Airfix Herald, Escorts and Viva as a set. I have one but haven't a clue where it is. Always wanted them to reissue the Rapier and Zodiac but didn't realise the tooling was sold off.

[RayMK]

Here are the two car kits I was on about yesterday.  

[RayMK]

....and the two aircraft kits.  The flying boat is a Be-6.  Below the aircraft is the cheap and nasty playmat and accessories.  Made in Denmark apparently.  The vehicles are approximately Matchbox size but the motorcycles and people are tiny.  I could not make the people stand up for long.  A child would probably eat the lot out of frustration.

[mercrocker]

I used to have those cars on birthday cakes as a kid!   

[Christine]

Cars had been invented then ?

 

 

Beach buggies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mercrocker]

Cars had been invented then ?

 

 

 

 

Only proper ones....

 

Those buggers - are they 3D print thingies?

[mercrocker]

Here is some more woeful smol plastic shite....

 

I bought this somewhere or other.... 

 

Box looks hopeful and I hadn't seen one like it before.....

 

 

 

 

What's inside? 

 

Hmm....Ok   Spot-On used to do that, I'm still in....

 

 

 

Where's the Morris?    shake,shake....WTF? 

 

 

 

 

 

Wait, there's something else in there.   Oh.  Not hungry, thanks...

 

 

 

 

Verdict - box is best bit.

 

 

 

 

 

[RayMK]

Here is some more woeful smol plastic shite....

 

I bought this somewhere or other.... 

 

Box looks hopeful and I hadn't seen one like it before.....

 

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What's inside? 

 

Hmm....Ok   Spot-On used to do that, I'm still in....

 

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Where's the Morris?    shake,shake....WTF? 

 

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Wait, there's something else in there.   Oh.  Not hungry, thanks...

 

 

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Verdict - box is best bit.

 

I've kept a few items of such rare quality over the years, on the basis that few can possibly have survived.  Obviously, I'm not alone.  I like the mains radio as well.  I've got my parents' Ambassador Bookcase Radio from 1948 (it has shelves for books beneath the works).  I have not dared to plug it in for at least 15 years but last time I did Vera Lynne was singing....spooky!

[mercrocker]

1952 HMV....has "Late KGVI" on the Royal Warrant....It's waiting for a repair or at least waiting for the money for a repair.....I might get a discreet MP3 input on this one.