Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

18 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I think I'm going to save the earlier Mini, 

I like the red interior but don't think it'll work with a blue car. Do I leave it as an old Mini with an odd door or give it a lick of paint though?

Save them both!

Maybe ask Eddy if he wants swaps on the Whoop! Whoop!  first, as he likes the odd Austin-Morris, as well as Police cars?

Keep their matching interiors!

(Well, you did ask)

[Amishtat]

Don't think I've ever seen one of those Bentleys before, I assumed it was the Mercedes 300 at first glance. Very nice! 

[eddyramrod]

37 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Save them both!

Maybe ask Eddy if he wants swaps on the Whoop! Whoop!  first, as he likes the odd Austin-Morris, as well as Police cars?

Keep their matching interiors!

(Well, you did ask)

Nice thought, thank you, but I already have two of the Clubman version dressed as pandas, which I haven't quite finished yet.

[bunglebus]

Well for now it's got an odd door, white interior and a new headlight - 3.5mm rhinestone seems to be the right size for this one. I even found a steering wheel in the spares box

 

[egg]

14 hours ago, barrett said:

Hey @egg! You need this in your life https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOREV-3-Step-Display-Unit/264748867012?hash=item3da4431dc4:g:4bUAAOSwZ19e07hb

Thanks @barrett - watched with interest.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

5 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Well for now it's got an odd door, white interior and a new headlight - 3.5mm rhinestone seems to be the right size for this one. I even found a steering wheel in the spares box

 

Love it as it sits. Don't do any more to it! Have you got much in the way of spares for this model? I've got the same one which I unsympathetically stripped down around thirty years ago and could do with a few bits...

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Have you got much in the way of spares for this model? I've got the same one which I unsympathetically stripped down around thirty years ago and could do with a few bits...

Well the rest of the police one. I'm not sure whether I should re-do it using the red interior in maybe an off-white?

The bonnet doesn't seem to stay in place on the white one, but nothing's broken

[Dick Cheeseburger]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Well the rest of the police one. I'm not sure whether I should re-do it using the red interior in maybe an off-white?

The bonnet doesn't seem to stay in place on the white one, but nothing's broken

Fairy schnuff. I need a door for mine iirc - thought I'd ask in case the other one was for pillaging.

[bunglebus]

You can buy the doors off eBay/Steve Flowers but I don't know how robust they are

Here's a few I'd not come across and couldn't resist;

Lucky Toys Cougar looks just like the Matchbox ones

This is I'm sure also modeled on a Superfast - anyone care to name the model?

Lastly a Universal 240Z with some sort of non functioning motor

Next up, some early Matchbox. MK3 Zephyr is a great looking car

Didn't have a Superfast GT40 - odd looking base on this one

I've got a few commercials but not seen this Bedford with tipping cab before

See, I had a plan all along with the doorless Caravelle. But do I buy an aftermarket one and fix this one too? It's not as tidy as yesterday's one

Last of the Lesney ones has long been on my hit list, I have a battered one I literally unearthed years ago, now I have a good one to accompany it

20190604_122711 by RS, on Flickr

Husky RO80 joins my Corgi versions - still need the large one

This Siku Tempo Matador is missing a dor door

Last but far from least, having accidentally sold my Marx Eldorado 4 pennies to another member, I had to replace it at far greater cost

[Bren]

The model the yellow car is based on is the gruesome twosome.

[Burnside]

On 8/3/2020 at 8:26 PM, flat4alfa said:

Which leads me to thinking the larger Matchbox CF2 would be better

But the only one I have is a bit too nice to mess with 

Anyone go a spare rough one?

 

I might still have one that's in pieces, as I brought it from a car boot as a kid. Then had the idea to take it apart and make it into a civilian van. Hopefully it survived our family house move from 2000. I'll check next time I'm in the loft and report back. 

[bunglebus]

20 minutes ago, Bren said:

The model the yellow car is based on is the gruesome twosome.

Yep, somewhere between this

 

20191014_130016 by RS, on Flickr

 

And this

 

20191113_104422 by RS, on Flickr

 

That Cougar definitely looks like these, especially the Speed Kings

 

20190925_103245 by RS, on Flickr

20191017_151026 by RS, on Flickr

[andrew e]

@Datsuncog Happy to oblige ? 

I also had an incoming package today - which somehow unfathomably was not destroyed in the post despite being wrapped in *just* a plastic bag ?

 

Its a lovely thing, the same colour as one I had 40 odd years ago - best bit was £7.99 posted! 

Its also one of the few corgis I think those (corgi cub?) wheels actually work on. I don’t remember the fixed parcel shelf either.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Well that escalated quickly. You complete bastards. All of these were purchased within the last two weeks. I don't need them. I don't have room for them. Mrs Dick hasn't visited the garage recently either... ? It's all this bloody thread's fault!

Bugger! 

Some of them are a bit lovely to be fair.

 

[Split_Pin]

It's like that film Bird Box. Unless you board up your phone screen, once you see The Diecast Tat, you can do nothing to stop yourself walking towards it and being engulfed by the smell of dusty Zamac.

[Amishtat]

It's also why I only dare go to one boot sale per week.. 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Is that a US market Matchbox Model A? Nice.

I have the same problem, I get FOMO if I don't hunt out tatty diecasts that no-one cares about.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Is that a US market Matchbox Model A? Nice.

I didn't have a problem. Not until I spent too much time on this thread!

How can you tell the Model A is Us market?

[bunglebus]

54 minutes ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

I didn't have a problem. Not until I spent too much time on this thread!

How can you tell the Model A is Us market?

I don't think we got jazzy paint jobs like that, there are loads of funky looking ones in the Matchbox books I have that were only intended for the USA. I guess we don't "get" hot rods over here

This is it, 1995 USA 5 pack

 

[Volksy]

In current project shenanigans, I picked up one of these for my lockdown kits. From 'The Range' it'll match the three smaller ones in the living room....

They're nicely built and fit a 1/24 model perfectly, obviously it will be going on the wall. (please excuse the horrific crumbling walls, its  a rental house and the upstairs will be refurbed next year)

 

I battered this BMW for my other half for his Birthday. It was a prebuilt 1/24 that I attacked with a dremel and some paints. Turned out pretty well I think:

He liked it anyway!

 

And finally, I was looking at building a diorama for the Renault 4, and a mate whom is a gardener inspired/persuaded me to go down the 'live route' and build a Terrarium instead....

So a £4 fishtank from gumtree was sourced, a £4.99 chopping board as a lid and some shower seals from screwfix....

and I ended up with this...

Going to locally scavenge plants, mosses, live soils etc from woodland, and see how it develops...

All for this:

 

Hopefully it'll grow into something interesting!

 

 

[bunglebus]

Excellent. I have a battered Matchbox Caravelle that I deliberately rusted up and made it look abandoned. It used to live in a plant pot but is currently homeless, I'll have to find something like that on a smaller scale

[Volksy]

11 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Excellent. I have a battered Matchbox Caravelle that I deliberately rusted up and made it look abandoned. It used to live in a plant pot but is currently homeless, I'll have to find something like that on a smaller scale

There are plenty of tutorials on the 'oohtube as to how to do these for free or minimum expense.. 

 

[Datsuncog]

6 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Husky RO80 joins my Corgi versions - still need the large one

Oh, nice find. These late-era Huskys are really starting to grow on me - the two-piece wheels look so much better than the all-black plastic ones fitted to earlier models, and I think we can all agree that Whizzwheels and Rockets were principally built to go fast and delight six-year-olds, rather than faithfully represent real-life cars...

On the hunt for some of these myself, now...

10 hours ago, Amishtat said:

Don't think I've ever seen one of those Bentleys before, I assumed it was the Mercedes 300 at first glance. Very nice! 

It's an unusual choice of model - and the whole Cars of the 50s range was a bit odd, really.

I may try to track down a few more - there were only six different basic castings in the range, in a variety of colours and hood up/hood down configurations, plus some variations like the Rolls Royce Silver Dawn and the Bentley R Series, which were the same thing except for the grille.

I'm currently making a few notes on how the Cars of the 50s range came about, and then turned into Corgi Classics... and also where the wretched Corgi Cameos and the el cheapo Motoring Memories series fit into the story (suddenly, it all makes sense).

It actually is quite the tale, so hopefully I'll be able to do it justice.

I'll leave you with this little research nugget for now: the range came into existence because Mettoy's attempt to buy Solido fell through...

[antony denman]

am new on the site and i started doing models again cause off the lockdown,love spot on range,yes spot on shelfs are held up lego bricks lol,sad git i know,put my dinky coach in with spot on think its good scale.

[Spottedlaurel]

7 hours ago, Volksy said:

I battered this BMW for my other half for his Birthday. It was a prebuilt 1/24 that I attacked with a dremel and some paints. Turned out pretty well I think:

Looks excellent, I remember tatty '02s in the 1980s.

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, antony denman said:

am new on the site and i started doing models again cause off the lockdown,love spot on range,yes spot on shelfs are held up lego bricks lol,sad git i know,put my dinky coach in with spot on think its good scale.

You've got some lovely stuff in there, maybe you should put up some individual pics, especially of that red Mercury Cougar! 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

2 hours ago, antony denman said:

am new on the site and i started doing models again cause off the lockdown,love spot on range,yes spot on shelfs are held up lego bricks lol,sad git i know,put my dinky coach in with spot on think its good scale.

Stunning collection! I've got a Dinky Duple Vega coach too -  cracking model isn't it? 

I asssume that's a long-term collection  you've put together?

[Tenmil Socket]

12 hours ago, Dick Van Diesel said:

Well that escalated quickly. You complete bastards. All of these were purchased within the last two weeks. I don't need them. I don't have room for them. Mrs Dick hasn't visited the garage recently either... ? It's all this bloody thread's fault!

Bugger! 

Some of them are a bit lovely to be fair.

 

That black Sierra is lovely!

[bunglebus]

I've been having a Google looking for a value on the Lucky Toys Cougar from yesterday - found this one branded as a Arco

 

[Datsuncog]

4 hours ago, antony denman said:

i started doing models again cause off the lockdown,love spot on range

You've come to the right place... fantastic collection, and welcome aboard!