Shite in Miniature II

[Sudsprint]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Is the Type 3 Karmann Ghia original paint? I've got one the same, it's so nice I was convinced it was a resto, no-one else bid on it either

 

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No, not a repaint. I have had an orange Karman Ghia from when I was a boy and thought that was the only colour. Then I discovered a photo of a three year old me in 1965 playing with a cream one so I was on a mission to find one..

[Sudsprint]

Picked this little beauty in a swap for some LLedos from an antiques bloke who I get the odd car from.

Just shows how much better in estate form that Zephyr is.

[Amishtat]

Love that Dinky Victor 101! One I'm still semi - seriously looking for 

[Sudsprint]

14 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Love that Dinky Victor 101! One I'm still semi - seriously looking for 

Back in the '60s mine came in a gift set with a Gold Chinese Eye RR, a pale blue Austin 1800, and a Gold/White Mk 1 Cortina. 

[junkyarddog]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

The base on my Dodge dragster was beige, only a previous owner took a pot of matt black paint to it... ?

 

Ever see any in the tat box MrCog?

[quicksilver]

4 hours ago, Sudsprint said:

Another spend up at the Maidstone vintage toy fair last Saturday. The Jag is a repaint but for a fiver I couldn't resist it's charms..

 

 

I had a Commer and a Heinkel exactly like those. They now live with Mr and Mrs Six-cylinder and I was playing with them when I went to visit last week

[eddyramrod]

I had that Commer from new; it got several repaints!  I've now got it in the resto fleet (and a fairly-good replacement on display).  I also have a Heinkel, unrestored, and two of the Jag, both restored in different colours.  Somewhere I'm sure I have the KG too.

From the Dinky selection further up, I have the blue Triumph in need of a bonnet, and a Zodiac police car.  Should have a plain one somewhere too.  Never had the Tina or the 101, sadly.

Yes, I'm another who prefers the "normal" day-to-day cars!

[quicksilver]

23 hours ago, Amishtat said:

Off topic I suppose but my mate used to own PVW620R and I drove it myself many times. 2200 manual, it went like fuck and would cruise at 75-80 even without a fifth gear. Anyway, as you were.. 

One of the things I like about Oxford is that they give their models identities of real cars (unlike Dinky with their INJ plates) and that often leads to comments like this from people who knew the real thing. Good to hear PVW620R drives as well as it looks, and I'm happy to report it's still alive and well according to DVLA records. I must have mentioned somewhere in this thread that Oxford's beige Fiesta (BLC660S) is modelled on my actual car that I passed my test in.

[eddyramrod]

I was in Tesco the other day and suffered* a failure of willpower...

Sadly no w123 estate, nor the HW Volvo.

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

I had a Commer and a Heinkel exactly like those. They now live with Mr and Mrs Six-cylinder and I was playing with them when I went to visit last week

 

Mine aren't quite so nice!

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[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, Sudsprint said:

Picked this little beauty in a swap for some LLedos from an antiques bloke who I get the odd car from.

Just shows how much better in estate form that Zephyr is.

 

 

Again, mine have had a hard life

 

20191119_195355 by RS, on Flickr

20190923_101218 by RS, on Flickr

[Amishtat]

3 hours ago, Sudsprint said:

Back in the '60s mine came in a gift set with a Gold Chinese Eye RR, a pale blue Austin 1800, and a Gold/White Mk 1 Cortina. 

Thanks for clearing that up for me, I showed this to my Dad earlier in the year when I bought it and he recalled it being part of a set but not what with. 

[bunglebus]

Good luck if you're going to the tat market today Mr DC, if the weather's anything like it is here ?

[sierraman]

Oh yeah it’s Diecast Tat Friday! 

[Datsuncog]

So here it is, kids - Merry Tatmas.

Actually not a bad day in Belfast.

And look, you can see the market from here.

There it is:

Everybody wave!

Well folks, the last tat market of the year...

Hang on...

That's not the kind of tat we're here for.

 

THIS is what we're here for.

Quite a collection of very dusty, slightly tatty Bburago 1/24.

These did set my heart a-flutter, somewhat - the Lancia and Peugeot 205 especially, though the BMW M1 was also quite nice.

While not really my bag these days, I felt sure that they would have some takers on these pages, and I was twitching slightly at my wallet...

Oh... right.

£10 each.

Hmmm.

Any takers at £10? They're missing things like windscreen wipers and mirrors, with a few chips here and there.

At £3, absolutely. At even a fiver, well maybe.

But I think £10 is a touch steep here.

But if you think otherwise, happy to return!

 

Lots of militaria stuff too, though again it's not something I'm all that keen on.

Corgi Jags are certainly nice, but still a tenner too.

 

Smaller tat, then?

(Am I the only freak who tidies up stalls before taking a picture?)

I thought I was onto a Lesney winning streak here with a Mini Ha Ha for @flat4alfa, and possibly a Commer milk float for @egg...

But £5 each?

HFM??

Dude, you've had too much mulled wine. Seriously.

Especially since that blue and yellow Corgi bin lorry has been kicking round the 50p tat box since February.

The Mini has, of course, bent axles.

The Blaze Buster was pretty much mint, but I kinda hate them on principle.

Harrumph. Not really feeling the Christmas spirit here, to be honest.

 

What else?

New Ray? Meh. Sorry, but meh.

 

It was up to the tat box to turn things around...

Hmmm...

Can't get all that excited about the Majorette yanks, or the 911.

Super GTs were also in evidence - Alfa Carabo and Hairy Hustler in a previous life.

I've been looking for a Merryweather AEC fire engine since I started nosing around the Ergomatic variations a few weeks ago, but this one looks like it's had a bad time of it.

Like the aforementioned Blaze Buster, the Fire Chief Car was another of those fantasy vehicles that made me irrationally furious as a child.

I just couldn't work out what it was meant to be. The ventilation louvres in the bonnet and in the boot were maddening. Front engine? Rear engine? Both? Neither??

What are you trying to do to me, Matchbox?

My rage ought to have cooled by now - but apparently not.

Majorette Range Rover fire tender wasn't in bad nick overall.

I didn't even notice the Corgi Citroen Dyane underneath until I was reviewing the pics. Well, duh.

 

So, for the first time in a while, I sloped off disconsolately without a wheeled item or ten in my pocket.

Tat Santa had not delivered.

I must have been a bad boy.

Could the other tat stalls make up for it?

This rather nice Lesney Major Scammell rig was on one of the many militaria stalls, but there was no-one around so I couldn't get a price.

That's The Giffer in the background, by the way.

I happened to get talking to him about some 2000AD comics he had on his stall, and he's actually quite nice.

One of the other Kollectablez stalls had these - thought at first they were MoY special editions, but there's no maker's name on them. Pewter, possibly? They were pretty heavy.

Alan's Emporium had only a modern Poundland-grade five-pack of assorted vehicles to interest me, none of which were identifiable - and so lost my interest rather quickly.

 

I trundled round to the Charity Stall...

Not the very best assortment, then.

 

Hold on - STOP THE FUCKING BUS.

Quite literally.

Well well well, I think we just solved the mystery of who bought the job lot of buses off Market Blokey last week.

It's the chappie who runs the Charity Stall, plus his own collectables stall alongside.

Oho. Just what @cms206 was looking for.

And the Greater Glasgow livery seems to be factory, not a Code 3 - the box sticker claims it is a GG Atlantean. You can see the milky window problem too.

But on enquiring....

Yeah, it's a tenner too.

I bit my lip to refrain from blurting out "they're the ones you bought off Miller for £3 last week, am I right?"

Maybe he's been googling them for values; maybe not. That's capitalism, kids.

If anyone wants any of these - at ten of your Great British Pounds - then I will certainly return and make enquiries, but I reckon he's asking a bit much.

Knowing that he's trying for a 200%+ markup is slightly galling - but then I did get all those Lesneys off him for cheap the other month.

 

Golly gosh. 

So where was all this seasonal price-gouging leaving my festive spirit?

"Turn the heating off at the orphanage, Cratchit - if the brats want to stay warm, they'll just have to unpick oakum faster."

 

So I went and bought myself a box of donuts instead.

Ho ho ho, indeed.

Sorry I couldn't manage a more uplifting finale to a year of market tat - but I'll maybe try for a retrospective next week?

Because, rather incredibly, there's now been 38 weeks of this utter nonsense!

Hopefully, New Year = New Tat.

Merry Tatmas to all... and to all some good tat!

[Split_Pin]

Merry Tatmas to you too Tim, thanks for making our Friday mornings great again!

[egg]

+1.  And for the brilliant write-ups too. If I get a spare day at home over the winter, I'll hobble down to a local tat shop to see if I can do a one-off 'special' tat day.

[Datsuncog]

16 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

[Dodge Dragsters]

Ever see any in the tat box MrCog?

Yep - I bagged mine back in February, for the princely sum of 50p.

Repainted base and missing stickers, but otherwise complete and very nice.

Looking back at these pics, I can't help but feel that the quality of the 50p box has gone downhill a little of late...

[flat4alfa]

Oh well

 End of an era 

[bunglebus]

I'll have the Majorettes if you can, especially the nine-one-one!

 

Also - what is that?

[Datsuncog]

2 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I'll have the Majorettes if you can, especially the nine-one-one!

Ooh, let's see what I can recall:

- Corvette x2 (black, different decals)

- Pontiac Firebird

- Mustang SVO (missing bootlid)

- Porsche 911

- Jeep Wagoneer

- Range Rover Fire Tender

Any/all of these??

[Datsuncog]

13 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Also - what is that?

Nothing too exciting, I'm afraid - it's a Corgi Juniors Aston Martin DB6!

[Datsuncog]

8 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Oh well

 End of an era 

Nah, just the end of the year.

Come January and February, with the house groaning under a load of plastic tat amassed over Christmas, many people will frantically clear out their attics, garages and sheds, happy to get a coupla pennies for 'all those silly old toys you'll never look at again'.

And lo! The Circle of Tat is unbroken.

[bunglebus]

21 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Ooh, let's see what I can recall:

- Corvette x2 (black, different decals)

- Pontiac Firebird

- Mustang SVO (missing bootlid)

- Porsche 911

- Jeep Wagoneer

- Range Rover Fire Tender

Any/all of these??

All except the broken one and the Rangie please - I have that one

[sierraman]

Does he actually ever sell anything the diecast tat man? 

[flat4alfa]

Does Waggoner have the doggie in the window?

[flat4alfa]

*Wagoneer I meant

Waggoner was a country singer I think

[Datsuncog]

****AAAARGH CHRISTMAS MIRACLE AAAARGH***

More to come!!!

[MarvinsMom]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

 

 

This rather nice Lesney Major Scammell rig was on one of the many militaria stalls, but there was no-one around so I couldn't get a price.

 

 

oh now THAT is one Lesney i'd give my spleen to have in the collection......

 

[big_al_granvia]

bollocks to that, would have pitched him at a fiver a piece for the efe buses ans said i knew he only paid 3 quid a bus from diecast dude, a tenner is taking the piss, possibly give 7 quid tops if it was 1 i wanted.... i have got to the stage now i pay only what i want to pay.... tbh i really need to have a clearout myself on the railway side of things