Shite in Miniature II

[Amishtat]

Just out of interest, has Market Stall Blokey ever question how it is that you turn up most Friday mornings, take photos and buy a few things, then come back at lunchtime to get more? 

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Some hot Corgi BENZ action.

eBay trigger finger purchase W114 DIESEL RALLY CAR arrived yesterday

That rally variant of the Merc really is the nuts - I had the Corgi Juniors version, but the 1/35 is on my want list for some point in the future. Top buying!

I look forward to seeing the Bonna ambulance in its new incarnation too...

I have my eye on some 3-pointed star loveliness from Corgi too... three hours til the auction closes on this one.

43 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Thanks very much DC! 

You're more than welcome! Just pleased that, for once, the models you're after weren't sold by the time I got back over!

[Datsuncog]

Just now, Amishtat said:

Just out of interest, has Market Stall Blokey ever question how it is that you turn up most Friday mornings, take photos and buy a few things, then come back at lunchtime to get more? 

Oh aye, I told him at an early stage that I buy some for my own collection, but there's a group of people on a particular online forum who collect other stuff - and so I post the pics up for their perusal, and then come back over for anything they're after.

He's yet to complain - must be something to do with the £20 notes I keep stuffing into his hand... ?

[Datsuncog]

Which actually reminds me, while I was back over at lunchtime Market Blokey pointed out to me some Dinky stuff he'd just that minute bought off a fella who'd wandered in with a carrier bag full... 

I agreed that it wasn't my sorta thing, but said I'd gladly share it out online just in case someone else fancied it.

It's kinda internet selling by proxy, really...

Anyway: £20 each for these:

£40 each for these (they're far from mint inside the box, I'm afraid):

£15 takes this late Dinky helicopter with the all-too-fragile dome packaging:

£5 each on these Models of Yesteryear

(which always seem criminally undervalued for models that are approaching 60 years old in some cases, but then they are everywhere - and usually mint/boxed.)

Further inquiries welcome!

[sierraman]

The stall I pass on a Monday has/had loads of models of yesteryear, sat unsold even at a quid a go for a minter. There’s no market for them, which is a shame as they look so 70’s in the really out of character metallic colours you could get them in.

[Amishtat]

There's always loads at the boot sale, a few boxed mint examples and an absolute horde of them in the tat boxes. I find them a little appealing in the metallic colours but not enough to actually part with money for them. 

[Datsuncog]

Yeah, I think I feel the same way about them... they're kinda nice, they're proper old, and the batshit metallic purples and turquoises are quite appealing... but not quite enough to persuade me to put my hand in my pocket, even at a pound or two. Madness, I know.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

now I can do a comparative photoshoot for the Mk1 Range Rover in Matchbox, Corgi Juniors, Lone Star Impy, Majorette and Siku formats

Not until you fetch one of these you can't

[flat4alfa]

Or the Play-Art one ?

[flat4alfa]

Interesting that Matchbox did a completely different front end casting for this 

[59Impala]

Some more stuff that I have acquired in past weeks etc. Includes stuff made by those foreign chappies with warped Estafette for comic value. The garage is another addition, I really like old examples like this one. 

 

[flat4alfa]

ahem.....

There's a Tomica effort too

 

[sierraman]

Majorette did a 1/36 5 door version

[Sudsprint]

14 minutes ago, 59Impala said:

Some more stuff that I have acquired in past weeks etc. Includes stuff made by those foreign chappies with warped Estafette for comic value. The garage is another addition, I really like old examples like this one. 

 

Lots of loveliness there ...a Spot On S Type, a (Politoys?) Alfa 2600 and a Corgi Muira that looks like it met a bulldozer in a tunnel..

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

 

So if anyone wants the Riviera, Commer and/or Thames Camper, I paid Market Blokey £5 each for them - and I'm offering them out here for the same money.

[EDIT: Thames has been snaffled!]

Is the Commer still up for grabs? Been on my wish list for years!

[Amishtat]

59Impala, what's the pink septic with the caravan? Dinky DeSoto? 

[59Impala]

13 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

59Impala, what's the pink septic with the caravan? Dinky DeSoto? 

It's a French Dinky Chrysler Saratoga. The Alfa 2600s (two lurking there) are indeed Politoys, they did some lovely stuff. The Miura is damaged, I bought it as it was cheap.

[Amishtat]

Thought it didn't look quite right for the DeSoto (another one I'm after but haven't found at an agreeable price yet). It's gorgeous! 

[59Impala]

The DeSoto is nice, think I have two in my stash. Green/white and salmon/black if I recall correctly, I'm too lazy to go upstairs to my model room and check. ?

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Interesting that Matchbox did a completely different front end casting for this 

Talking of Range Rovers:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254264008916

And

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254264008916

And

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254264081663

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Is the Commer still up for grabs? Been on my wish list for years!

Certainly is! Will put it to one side for you.

I even found the yellow pick-up back for it too, although the clip to secure it is broken - so you'll have to be very careful when zooming  it round the floor, y'hear me?

[flat4alfa]

SuperKings Saturday Spectacle

1975 'Transporter', I assume a fantasy model despite wearing registration AKB 546M. The load isn't labelled anywhere but I always thought it was the Folland Gnat used by the Red Arrows RAF display team. Arguments welcome.

Aside it is the 1972 'Racing Car Transporter' more likely fantasy but looked period with the grille. This one the more valuable in the white Martini Racing livery. It's lost its canopy and the Martini livery 'Hi-Tailer' load, so I've substituted something else which will win you *ten points* if you can identify maker, range and model !  The excitement heats up.

[sierraman]

A matchbox race and chase Porsche?

[bramz7]

A parcel arrived! 

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

A matchbox race and chase Porsche?

Crikey that was a quick win! I expected the wheels to confuse at it's sitting on a Micro Scalextric chassis.  Race & Chase had the white Corvette, while this is from a Powertrack LaneChanger set, hence the wide front arches

[sierraman]

It’s funny last night I was reading the 1969-82 Charlie Mack book and there were some of the powertrack stuff in there so you posted it while it was fresh in my memory. 

[Jon]

21 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

But then I dug around a bit more, and found a very grimy Transit - not sure if UniChem was a mainline livery, or if this was a Code 2 promotional.

 

 

If I'm right in thinking, code 2 is promotional (official), whilst code 3 is home grown? Not so up on the 'code' system. Anyway, I had an unopened one of these back in my toy Transit collecting days; I remember the LWB Transit (with ace wheel trims) featured on the packaging, which presumably had the 'high speed' blur applied, to try and mask that it was a LWB one, not a SWB as the Matchbox model is.

 

 

I'm guessing these were sold in Unichem pharmacies only, judging by the wording on the packaging and it not coming in a standard MB box.

[vulgalour]

Managed to persuade the engine off the chassis today and tidied up as much of the filler work as I could so that I could get started on paint.

Mercury didn't, to my knowledge, offer a factory tri-tone on this model.  They did offer a two-tone and some fairly interesting colour combinations at that, and none were quite what I wanted.  Packard offered a tri-tone white/black/pink that I did like a lot and given how excessive the styling is on this car I was sure it would pull it off nicely.

I got the front bumper rechromed, there's a couple of spots that need a little more attention, and realised the air cleaner needed some work to fix a previous hack of some sort so that just has a blob of filler on at the moment.  The engine is gold, as per factory, and I'll be doing the rocker covers and air cleaner turquoise, also as per factory.

Interior and passengers are in primer waiting for final colour.  I will most likely do the interior in just black and white with chrome detailing, there isn't really any need to use pink on the inside of the car.  It's going to take forever to do all the brightwork on this thing, there's huge amounts of it.

[Amishtat]

That's going to look so much better than it did before! 

[Split_Pin]

I'm not supposed to be buying things just now but this was cheap for an elderly 1/25 Polistil, Honda Coupe Z.