Shite in Miniature II

[Lord Sterling]

Excellent! Will do. I'll bet you'll be coming back with more tempting offerings though!

[Tenmil Socket]

I vaguely remember having a play-set which included a drive through car wash which you could put water in?

[Datsuncog]

7 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I vaguely remember having a play-set which included a drive through car wash which you could put water in?

Wasn't this one, was it?

I think it featured some sort of pump to squirt jets of water onto the cars coming through, before subjecting them to a 'spin dry' which, at full-scale, would likely have popped the unlucky drivers' eyeballs out with the G-force...

46 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

Excellent! Will do. I'll bet you'll be coming back with more tempting offerings though!

Yeah, y'know I really should drag out all my stuff earmarked for re-homing, and post it up here so everyone can have a digital rummage... though it probably won't stop me from lurking at the market stall.

Watch this space!

[Tenmil Socket]

Indeed, that's the one!

[sheffcortinacentre]

Cheers it's to mount a Cortina on like the super/speed kings one I did abit back.

I'm looking for a matchboxish size 100e as for years I've been trying to get one of each (pre 2000) UK ford in that & 1/43 scale & its one of the few I'm missing aswell as mk1Zcar in 1/43.

[Split_Pin]

Got my box from our MK2_Craig this morning, excellent stuff.

Can't wait to pass the Polistil 740 and the smaller Majorette to our Cms206 tomorrow as I know he has been looking for these for ages.

[sierraman]

18 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I vaguely remember having a play-set which included a drive through car wash which you could put water in?

I’ve got that. All the belts have perished now though so it doesn’t exactly work as intended. 

[Datsuncog]

Two from Home Bargains yesterday...

Purely opportunistic, and I'm not quite sure why I snaffled them - although the VW SP2 does look rather nice in metallic beige (dare I say, nicer than a real one does) and the S3 Landie is fairly well done too.

I know these things are churned out by the million and, because of opportunistic collectors, only ever 'valuable' where there's a local scarcity (see the Mk1 Escort mania from a few years back) - yet I'm oddly reluctant to pop the packaging and free these, Dunno why. I should just enjoy them for a bit.

[Split_Pin]

HWs are great, it's like a little victory every time you find one you habe been looking for at a regular shop price.

I got those two a few weeks ago as well, nice pieces.

They only become scarce when greedy bastard buyers (note I have not called them collectors) take multiple examples of the same item to use in a trade, likely grossly biased in their favour and ripping someone else off. 

So nothing wrong with grabbing one or two while you can. The HW Audi Sport Quattro is another one, I managed to get a couple,  one to open and another to keep in its packaging with the rest of the collection. I even felt a bit guilty for that.

Enjoy!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

12 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Two from Home Bargains yesterday...

Purely opportunistic, and I'm not quite sure why I snaffled them - although the VW SP2 does look rather nice in metallic beige (dare I say, nicer than a real one does) and the S3 Landie is fairly well done too.

I know these things are churned out by the million and, because of opportunistic collectors, only ever 'valuable' where there's a local scarcity (see the Mk1 Escort mania from a few years back) - yet I'm oddly reluctant to pop the packaging and free these, Dunno why. I should just enjoy them for a bit.

Ha! I bought that S3 earlier from Lidl (£1.45) and saw the VW too. The Land Rover is quite accurately detailed around the tailboard and grille,.

i know nothing about Hot Wheels and took a picture in case anybody wants any or if anything is "rerelease" . 

Let me know and I can grab them when I collect my breakfast pastries on Saturday"

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Don't know what rerelease means but I meant rare!

[DoctorRetro]

Lidl you say? I must pop in there on Friday when I get paid! 

[egg]

I had the matchbox playtrack, but my younger brother had the much cooler Hot Wheels construction site (top toy that)

[Tenmil Socket]

Shite In Miniature You Didn't Realise Existed Until Recently...

Majorette MK1 Mondeo

[Tenmil Socket]

On 5/21/2019 at 3:32 PM, Tenmil Socket said:

I'm aiming to source all the MK3 Corgi Escort hatchbacks.

Can anyone tell me if I've missed any off the list...

Corgi Escorts

1:36

Met Green - Beige interior – Got.

Met Blue - Black interior – Got.

Solid Blue - Beige interior

Solid Red - Beige interior - White stripe

Police Car (2 versions) – Got the one with the white doors.

Datapost – Got.

RS1600i

Ilford Touring – Got.

Brooklyn Touring – Got. Solid Yellow

(+ Numerous Vans)

1:64

Duckhams (2 different wheel types) – Got both of them (Thanks Amishtat).

Red XR3i – Got.

Blue XR3i

Police car

Met Green – Beige interior – Got.

Met Blue – Beige interior

Solid blue – Beige interior

Solid blue – Grey interior - Got (Thanks Amishtat).

Ilford Touring

Total Touring

Datapost Touring

Solid White

Solid Green Fahrschule

Updated...

[Datsuncog]

 

 

 

No sign of Market Blokey this morning.

His customary stall of diecast delights had been claimed by an adjacent tat-trader, and was instead covered in fishing rods.

I did not miss my train due to an accident, take a lengthy detour, and get soaked in the pissing rain to look at fishing rods.

Presumably, Blokey's grown so vastly wealthy from all my 50p purchases that he's taken early retirement to his private island in the Gulf of Mexico, and I will never again have the opportunity to purchase further shonky-axled Rolamatics with cracked glazing from his old tomato boxes of tat.

That can be the only explanation.

 

It's actually slightly worrying that this Friday-morning browse has seemingly become the highlight of my week, and I'm now sitting here feeling genuinely quite bereft.

I may need to reconsider my priorities, rather.

I know things haven't been brilliant of late on quite a few fronts, but maybe this lays bare the extent to which I've been trying to fill a hole.

Hmm.

 

Perhaps I should start an unhelpful diecast-based amateur psychotherapy thread...

[sierraman]

I feel bereft that the Diecast man hasn’t turned up. Maybe he’s lobbed the lot in a skip and I’m some twist of fate you’ll find them. 

 

High point for for me during the week is looking through the boxes of tat on the Market on Monday so you are not alone there. 

[Amishtat]

You're certainly not alone, on a Wednesday morning there's a boot sale literally on my way to work. That and this on a Friday morning are some of the highlights of my week.. 

[bunglebus]

Right, Flickr seems to be back again so I'll try not to bore you all shitless with the thousands of die casts I have - if you're really interested they're all here;

 

https://www.flickr.com/gp/bungle_bus/iDue73

 

My main interest these days is Hot Wheels, Matchbox when I can find them (almost impossible in the UK it seems). Luckily my work takes me into Germany a lot, where the availability of die cast cars is much better.  I also pick up older Corgi, Dinky, Matchbox, HW, Majorette etc etc if I see them at boot sales or on fleabay for sensible money.

I customise and restore them too, there are some great YouTube channels covering this if anyone's interested.

I'll stick up a few pics of my older, more interesting stuff.

Oh and I had the Roadbuilder track as a kid, loved it!

 

I have all of the original 16 Hot Wheels from 1968, all fairly play worn although I have since restored the grey Baracuda and found an original replacement too - seemingly the hardest one to find.

 

16 002 by RS, on Flickr

 

Got to have a Beach Bomb too right?

 

Mattel 013 by RS, on Flickr

 

This is one of the Matchbox flip-body funny cars mentioned a few pages ago;

 

20181001_204917 by RS, on Flickr

 

I'm really into these Blackwall era HW, as they were current when I was a kid;

 

20190425_144655 by RS, on Flickr

 

20190322_161740 by RS, on Flickr

 

I had some of these, they have a rotating part that "dents" when the car is hit. Finding them in good condition is obviously difficult - still hunting for the pickup truck with it's top intact.

 

20180712_174038 by RS, on Flickr

 

Yum

 

20190322_161631 by RS, on Flickr

 

Love this one, still hunting for a Pepsi Challenger;

 

20190425_144449 by RS, on Flickr

 

"Hi-Raker" Corvette with adjustable rear suspension;

 

20171116_121705 by RS, on Flickr

 

34 Ford from the same series;

 

20190309_214845 by RS, on Flickr

 

A rarity - Hot Wheels branded but larger scale. Very nicely detailed;

 

20180221_211329 by RS, on Flickr

20180221_211302 by RS, on Flickr

 

ERTL General Lee - crap quality but you have to have one!

 

20190320_150017 by RS, on Flickr

 

And this too of course;

 

20190525_095655 by RS, on Flickr

 

Right, Majorette. Lovely castings from this era;

 

20190523_172008 by RS, on Flickr

20190319_155503 by RS, on Flickr

20190319_155953 by RS, on Flickr

20190403_113313 by RS, on Flickr

20190403_113356 by RS, on Flickr

 

Thought this was some kid's paint job but I've since seen another one;

20190403_114312 by RS, on Flickr

 

Siku are nice too;

 

20190523_172107 by RS, on Flickr

 

More later...

[Tenmil Socket]

Fantastic. I remember those crash cars!

[danthecapriman]

I got a couple of new models recently. Not exactly models of the usual stuff!

 

I’d never heard of SSM models before, and I don’t think they’re common in the U.K. so these came from Estonia and Poland. I got a pair of Soviet MAZ 537 heavy haul military tractors in 1/43. I love the real ones so couldn’t help myself!

 

They’re really nice models. Loads of details and well made too. I’ve got a ZIL 131 6x6 fire truck on order too, currently coming over from Moscow!

I might well be having a look at more of these!

[Datsuncog]

Cor, that's some collection, BB! Thanks for sharing, and look forward to any more pics...

25 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Fantastic. I remember those crash cars!

Heh, I really loved those too - they were sold as 'Crack-Ups', round about 1985. There was a TV ad with an annoying jingle... it wasn't this one, but you can just imagine the lightbulb moment at the Mattel R&D meeting when someone twigged that kids love nothing more than smashing toy cars into each other...

I had the taxi, but lost it in a hedge, tragically. I picked up a Fire Chief version of the same casting recently, though. I also had a green 2-dr coupe thing (same as the one on the top row, centre) where the damage was on the rear panel.

Apparently over twenty models in the range at one point, plus various racing tracks and 'crash test' playsets...

 

Who knew having serious accidents could be so much fun...?

[paulscavalier]

Mrs cav had the white car from the wipeout set. She thought it was great

[egg]

On 5/30/2019 at 11:14 AM, Tenmil Socket said:

Shite In Miniature You Didn't Realise Existed Until Recently...

Majorette MK1 Mondeo

And Siku did one too I've just discovered.

 

[bunglebus]

Corgi AMC Pacer...Party on!

 

20190511_103334 by RS, on Flickr

 

Not got many Corgis as they never appealed to me as a kid, and still don't really. They just feel a bit cheap and poorly made

 

20190422_204120 by RS, on Flickr

 

One of the nicer ones

 

20190319_160321 by RS, on Flickr

 

20190319_160345 by RS, on Flickr

 

20190422_204859 by RS, on Flickr

 

OK into Matchbox. They make some lovely licenced castings, yet 90% of them seem to be bloody tractors, boats and diggers etc

 

DSC_0139_zpsiilnai2c by RS, on Flickr

 

DSC_0101_zpsjg71bfgc by RS, on Flickr

 

Back into older stuff

 

038_zps9rg5ep9y by RS, on Flickr

 

DSC_0154_zpsmclbhm2r by RS, on Flickr

 

I repainted this one but the casting was pretty corroded. Looks loads better though

 

DSC_0082_zpsltc71nuh by RS, on Flickr

 

Bit of an oddball but the condition appealed to me

 

20190519_201049 by RS, on Flickr

 

DSC_0070_zpspxmv50ae by RS, on Flickr

 

DSC_0151_zpstee1va68 by RS, on Flickr

 

20190319_155236 by RS, on Flickr

 

20190319_155413 by RS, on Flickr

 

20190319_172209 by RS, on Flickr

 

20190319_172254 by RS, on Flickr

 

Really love Mercury Cougars, much as I like the stock models, hot rods and customs are great

 

20180903_181649 by RS, on Flickr

 

20190403_113744 by RS, on Flickr

 

Another oddball

 

20190422_205439 by RS, on Flickr

 

Didn't these come up earlier in the thread?

 

20190422_205616 by RS, on Flickr

 

Here's a better version of that crane;

 

20190422_204949 by RS, on Flickr

 

More to come - haven't even started on the VW stuff yet!

[bunglebus]

Husky. Lovely, and fairly hard to find

 

20170917_102235 by RS, on Flickr

 

20181001_205110 by RS, on Flickr

 

Lesney Angular etc;

 

20181001_205208 by RS, on Flickr

20181001_205140 by RS, on Flickr

20181001_205238 by RS, on Flickr

064_zpszqjspfth by RS, on Flickr

066_zpsapljiafi by RS, on Flickr

067_zps7wzpju17 by RS, on Flickr

071_zpsajwvkv20 by RS, on Flickr

 

Kingsize/Superkings - love these 240 estates

 

20190422_204805 by RS, on Flickr

20170629_163634_zps587uq3dk by RS, on Flickr

20190425_144403 by RS, on Flickr

More 014_zpsaadb8rfw by RS, on Flickr

 

This one I restored, from this...

 

014_zpszwrvqjhq by RS, on Flickr

 

... to this

 

001_zps87e9rbgg by RS, on Flickr

 

20170629_164545_zpsrkkmd3lz by RS, on Flickr

 

Needs resto but can't bring myself to do it;

 

20170629_163543_zps4xh3p9m8 by RS, on Flickr

 

Love this Crapi dragster

 

Cars 009_zpsl16p8v0e by RS, on Flickr

Cars 006_zps8tsvtgj1 by RS, on Flickr

 

Got this bad boy too

 

20180828_194553 by RS, on Flickr

 

This is currently in primer, taking ages to get rid of the casting marks to my satisfaction

 

006_zpsubjxijiq by RS, on Flickr

 

Back to 1/64 (ish)

 

Cars 014_zpspimxwhck_1 by RS, on Flickr

 

And into tiny Marx cars - this is a Camaro apparently!

 

20190104_205519 by RS, on Flickr

 

The Cougar is much nicer (especially now it's restored)

 

20190112_202550 by RS, on Flickr

20190226_094125 by RS, on Flickr

 

And of course the Beetle

 

20190104_205334 by RS, on Flickr

 

Stand by for VW heavy content

[155V6]

Loving your collection bunglebus,some very nice stuff there ?.

Just in case anyone is interested,Hotwheels are doing a Volvo 850 Estate next year.

[bunglebus]

Lovely type 3 Karmann Ghia - sure this must be a resto but it's beautifully done

 

20170525_140605_zpslxk5tafd by RS, on Flickr

 

Siku Trekker/Thing/181 etc

 

20190523_172119 by RS, on Flickr

 

Hot Wheels do one too

 

006_zpsxqxftakl by RS, on Flickr

 

And so do Matchbox

 

008_zpsrfstisao by RS, on Flickr

 

This one's not very Autoshite but I love it, completely bonkers and extremely hard to find;

 

20180903_181755 by RS, on Flickr

 

Trying to not post too much custom stuff but the latest incarnation of the type 3 Squareback is great;

 

20190211_205249 by RS, on Flickr

 

Mind you so is this 

 

026_zpsdx3tsgxk by RS, on Flickr

 

Small scale plastic splitty - think this was a licenced VW product

 

017_zps2deahc3w by RS, on Flickr

 

Split bug

 

032_zpsg74hinnu by RS, on Flickr

 

Bet half of you had at least some of the Kellog's VW/Minor/Mini/2CV models

 

DSC_0084_zpshfmyml1s by RS, on Flickr

 

But they were used for other promotions too

 

DSC_0085_zpsnlhsr9dl by RS, on Flickr

 

This is what I mean about how good a job Matchbox can do on proper cars;

 

035_zpso72r7wyn by RS, on Flickr

038_zpsrjrlwqsv by RS, on Flickr

009_zpsmd3jvsg4 by RS, on Flickr

 

My favourite as a kid;

 

048_zpsnrbzcb4w by RS, on Flickr

 

056_zps35az2zlr by RS, on Flickr

 

058_zps9qiag4lo by RS, on Flickr

 

P3270002_zpsiofsa7ru by RS, on Flickr

 

NSU RO80 (counts as a VW)

 

20171209_145609 by RS, on Flickr

 

This is a beauty - light travels from a panel on the roof...

 

20171209_145322 by RS, on Flickr

 

...to do this;

 

20171209_151236 by RS, on Flickr

 

Working steering, opening decklid and luggage compartment

 

20190415_155022 by RS, on Flickr

 

Toys 001_zpsz1kcheb9 by RS, on Flickr

 

Lone Star.  Quite unusual

 

Toys 009_zpsb58qyasz by RS, on Flickr

 

Lowlight Karmann Ghia

 

20171124_165212 by RS, on Flickr

 

Matchbox Fastbacks are nice - they're releasing a new version but it lacks the detail inside the doors

 

20190527_122415 by RS, on Flickr

 

P4240008_zpsn3j20lae by RS, on Flickr

 

010_zpsdslmybtt by RS, on Flickr

 

The Golf is nice, wish they'd done a 3-door though

 

VW 004_zpssuvh3uvu by RS, on Flickr

 

Here's the Beetle dragster mentioned earlier - the green one is common, but there's Big Blue and Hot Chocolate too. I'd love to have either.

 

VW 007_zpszczfsyw8 by RS, on Flickr

 

There are loads of variations of this, and I think the casting got sold on too

 

VW 009_zpsjnq9e0qy by RS, on Flickr

 

This is one of the oldest die cast I have

 

VW 010_zpszbc0xsi4 by RS, on Flickr

 

Along with this

 

VW 029_zps4yl9sulr by RS, on Flickr

 

VW 015_zps3h6zoivn by RS, on Flickr

 

Siku LT is nice and quite unusual

 

VW 031_zpswrvw0yaq by RS, on Flickr

 

VW 030_zpssedmap16 by RS, on Flickr

 

More to come...

 

[bunglebus]

Siku bay crewcab

 

20170804_151127 by RS, on Flickr

 

And air cooled T3

 

20170801_122907 by RS, on Flickr

 

Think this is meant for model railways

 

20170801_122824 by RS, on Flickr

 

Tiny Karmann Ghia

 

20170805_114318 by RS, on Flickr

 

Matchbox splitty - this has recently been re-cast with a plastic upper body, apparently to allow two tone paint...hmm

 

20171015_002437 by RS, on Flickr

 

Just bought this, got couple of other but this is the nicest

 

20190526_161107 by RS, on Flickr

 

Moving into my customised ones now, bare metal lowered Majorette R4 van

 

DSC_0075_zpsmpzhbt0p by RS, on Flickr

 

Modern Majorette, only custom as I painted the roof to match a friend's car

 

20180410_182549 by RS, on Flickr

 

Re-painted Corgi E-type

 

DSC_0079_zpsjgjgfjoh by RS, on Flickr

 

If you watch Roadkill you'll know what this is about;

 

20190511_134703 by RS, on Flickr

 

And this

 

20190324_190543 by RS, on Flickr

 

Sparkly VW Brasilia

 

20190418_121609 by RS, on Flickr

 

Couldn't resist making a blasphemous pink DB5

 

IMG_20190502_175318_695 by RS, on Flickr

 

Gulf MK1

 

20190310_181435 by RS, on Flickr

 

And a Mexico

 

20190301_134729 by RS, on Flickr

 

Just a wheel swap really, but the Hot Wheels T2 single cab is a great casting

 

20190321_115329 by RS, on Flickr

 

Re-did this Esprit in green for my friend, need to work out how to make custom cards to match

 

20190126_224041 by RS, on Flickr

 

One is a new HW casting, but of a WW2 era factory van, the other is one of those Kellog's giveaway cars

 

20190303_232242 by RS, on Flickr

 

Did this Cossie for a friend, really wish I could make custom packaging!

 

20190219_232210 by RS, on Flickr

20190220_075230 by RS, on Flickr

 

Still trying not to post too much Yank/Hot Rod type stuff, but who doesn't love a Gasser?

 

018_zpsypncp13t by RS, on Flickr

 

Despite the wheels, this started as a HW 58 Plymouth. No prizes for guessing which book/film inspired this one

 

041_zpsnhzjhbt9 by RS, on Flickr

 

Roof removed, repaint etc

 

073_zps5kdywudn by RS, on Flickr

 

More sparkliness on this Corgi Cougar;

 

20180313_194601 by RS, on Flickr

 

You guys like rust, right?

 

008_zpsmbbvsixu by RS, on Flickr

 

Not quite so sparkly, but very pink HW 240Z

 

003_zps1uyohsvs by RS, on Flickrasting is a

 

More rustiness on the lovely Majorette Bay panel van

 

P4210006_zpsy1v2plja by RS, on Flickr

 

Painted my blue Matchbox T3 green - then Matchbox released a green one!

 

012_zpsmnsfgb2m by RS, on Flickr

 

Did this as a replica of the ex-wife's Frontera Sport - actual casting is an Isuzu

 

P1010003_zps708680ff by RS, on Flickr

 

More another time!

 

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Spotted in the reception at French Car Specialists. They actually produced a diecast model of an Oltcit/Citroen Axel!