Shite in Miniature II

[Junkman]

Anyway, look what Bachmann had on its stand.

 

 

[Junkman]

Belkits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If they can bring out the 2017 WRC winner now, then what's taking Revell 51 years to release a '68 Chevelle, ffs?

[Junkman]

Would you buy a model from these men?

 

 

 

This air racer looks interesting.

 

[Junkman]

Soon a partworks in a country that doesn't post to you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's 1:4 scale!

[Junkman]

Some interesting aeroplanes.

 

 

 

 

That Savoia Marchetti is to die for.

[big_al_granvia]

thanks to tim (cant remember his handle) and some rummaging in my scrapbox it looks like Rawtenbottom has some travellers for company. 

 

 

 

 

oh and under the name on the red truck it says Sanitation Engineers

[Felly Magic]

One of my mates has a Sunstar 1/18 scale RS16001 mk3 Scrote and it is riddled with zinc pest, the bonnet is buggered, and one of the doors has warped alarmingly, not good. 

[vulgalour]

This has promise.  Mocked it up with some large Husky wheels and axles and haven't yet chopped down the base to get a more proper ride height yet.  The nearest I can find to what the truck might be, or be based on, is a Ford Courier, most of the details line up with the exception of the grille which should have little square sidelight/indicator pods.  Anyway, the eventual goal is to take this from brodozer to gramp's old truck and maybe paint it B  R  O  W  N.

 

[Mr Lobster]

Meanwhile I was able to talk to my agents and they confirm we aren't the only ones underwhelmed by the half arsedness the manufacturers and redistributors displayed at the fair - and in business in general. Mind you, one of my men in the field is a dealer who buys model cars literally by the container load, so you would think they listen to him. But no, arrogance prevails. The to tone at the fair was accordingly toxic.

 

Mr Lobster, is this in line with your professional experience?

 

 

Basically, yes. 

 

Business is very difficult and there's no realistic sign that 2019 will be any brighter. Number of reasons - consumer confidence amongst them but theres an amazing lack of anything really good that will really grab people and get them spending.The higher priced super cars do sell but I do sometimes wonder how. Horses for courses though. Its not difficult to work out what would sell - and it isn't, despite how many people tell me they'd like to see them,  1:43 Metro, Maestro and Montego models - but seemingly only Oxford are listening as the 1:76 range is consistently excellent. But you've got to sell a lot of 1:76 Oxfords before you start troubling the taxman.

 

But otherwise, there's very little that excites me generally. Solido will be ok, Norev 1:43s are generally good news (though I've heard little of new stuff from them for beyond mid 2019) and other smaller ranges - Odeon etc as they are nice, niche lines but there's nothing at all that screams 'volume seller' at me. 

 

I had a look at the 2019 Revell catalogue last week. They're back to doing diecast again although its largely re-issued 1:24 US stuff and the inevitable 1:18 Isetta thus far. Again, not that much to get excited by.

 

Overall, 2019 worries me. I'm hoping that we see a couple of good partworks come through that might do decent numbers because otherwise it looks a bit bleak.

[Junkman]

I had a look at the 2019 Revell catalogue last week. They're back to doing diecast again although its largely re-issued 1:24 US stuff and the inevitable 1:18 Isetta thus far. Again, not that much to get excited by.

Revell has a surprisingly high number of new tooled stuff in its portfolio. More than those slowpokes from Round 2 or Dave Metzner's bunch of dropouts.

I'm surprised that Revell has any 1:18 tooling left at all. They sold a shitload of it to Jadi late last century.

 

 

[155V6]

This has promise.  Mocked it up with some large Husky wheels and axles and haven't yet chopped down the base to get a more proper ride height yet.  The nearest I can find to what the truck might be, or be based on, is a Ford Courier, most of the details line up with the exception of the grille which should have little square sidelight/indicator pods.  Anyway, the eventual goal is to take this from brodozer to gramp's old truck and maybe paint it B  R  O  W  N.

 

Truck-1.jpg

There's a camper version of that too,with normal ride height 

[Junkman]

There is a company called Dreampower.

 

They make 1:6 scale models. Yes, 1:6.

 

 

 

[Junkman]

Ebbro.

 

 

 

I spot a T1 Kombi. Hey, that's not a Samba or panel van.

[Junkman]

Echo Tech

 

 

I have no fucking idea what they are doing.

 

 

 

But I'd buy anything from her.

 

 

 

Anything.

[Junkman]

I received this photo, so I post it.

 

 

 

Then there was Eligor, who is nowadays predominantly doing 1:8 scale partwork stuff we cannot buy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

There seems to be an unofficial contest who can come up with the daftest company name.

 

This one currently leads the race - Glow2B

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly the tram is in the wrong scale. You just can't win.

[Junkman]

A bit more loitering was done at the Hasegawa stand.

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

A company called Hobby Export is evidently not exporting these kits.

 

 

[Junkman]

Pocher is now owned by Hornby, or is it the other way around?

 

Anyway, they have this rather interesting new Ducati.

 

 

[Junkman]

That Eagle transporter is mightily tempting.

 

 

 

 

Master box is catering to those into dolls houses.

 

 

[Junkman]

M & D International makes sure you don't get any Greenlight, Auto World, etc.

 

 

[Junkman]

This Minichamps offering might interest someone.

 

 

 

 

Don't ask me, because I don't know it either.

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

Plusmodel now makes a nice petrol station in the wrong scale.

 

 

 

 

There are few F1 cars in 1/24 scale.

 

 

 

I'll buy everything on this shelf.

 

[Junkman]

Look at the sheer size of the Tamiya booth.

 

 

 

 

It's no wonder this was overlooked by most.

 

 

 

[Junkman]

The Diecast Company is yet another one of those establishments that ensures you can't buy a fucking thing.

 

 

[eddyramrod]

This Minichamps offering might interest someone.

 

MI001.jpg

 

 

 

Don't ask me, because I don't know it either.

 

MO001.jpg

 

MO002.jpg

 

MO003.jpg

Lovely Volvo.

The other is surely the final-year Edsel, 1960, based on the Ford Starliner/Galaxie.

[Junkman]

 

The other is surely the final-year Edsel, 1960, based on the Ford Starliner/Galaxie.

 

Well, dah.

Which scale is it? Who makes it? Where can I buy it?

[Junkman]

Another look at that Trumpeter E Scooter kit.

 

 

 

And then there is this.

 

[AndyW201]

Well, looks like this little lot should be as welcome as a dose of the shits while wearing cricket whites, but what the hell...

Warning! Vanguards content!

Did one of the usual removal and cleans of the main display cabinet contents. I also went for a bit of a root around in the loft to give some hitherto undisplayed stuff a bit of shelf time.

A mate of mine had a couple of The Sweeney-themed models for sale on a FB diecast site, that I've been after for a while. They're unboxed and been in the wars a bit, but together they were a fraction of the price of one mint and boxed example. Mark's an old mate from school so even delivered them to my door gratis! He also replaced the missing mirrors and driving lights on the Granada. The Cortina still has the backs of the driving lights, just need to find something to fill them, and replace the mirrors. It now has a nice supergluey fingerprint over the rear wing, due to dickhead here trying to stick the rear foglight on and failing. If it wasn't a signal yellow mk4 S, it would have had the toffee hammer treatment...




Shut it you slaaag! Get yer traahsers on, you're nicked! etc...
Loosely Sweeney related, I was looking amongst the various Ford stuff in the loft. I remembered I had a nice base spec mk1 Granada in purple velvet that I fancied displaying. However I also unearthed this in another 'fark me, I forgot I had that' moment. A Consul 3000 GT in the 'not at all like the GT in The Sweeney' colour scheme of Copper bronze with matching interior with only the black vinyl roof and 'similar but not that similar' NHK reg number presumably avoiding any licencing difficulties...

[eddyramrod]

Well, dah.

Which scale is it? Who makes it? Where can I buy it?

Oh come on, those questions are far too difficult!