Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

10 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Another new one on me, possibly connected to Solido

Yes indeed - Verem's product line consisted of remanufactured Solido castings, with no additional detail but packaged in an acrylic box and charged at mucho moolah.

I bought a Verem Renault 30 in Saumur c.1995 and I think it cost me the thick end of thirty quid, even then - a figure of 280FF sticks in my mind, at a time when you got about ten Francs to the Pound Sterling. No more Orangina or pommes frites for me for the rest of les vacances.

Seems that Verem was a separate imprint devised by Majorette after they bought Solido in the late 80s, to monetize otherwise obsolete castings - in the same way that Eligor started off using old Norev and Quiralu moulds.

I picked up a few more Verem over the years, but given that original Solido remain quite affordable even now, I'm not sure what the point was for collectors!

[Split_Pin]

I didn't know that about Eligor, my friend had a few in the late 1980s when the best I had were Superkings.

[bunglebus]

On 11/30/2020 at 7:01 AM, Split_Pin said:

Yes the trucks are in great condition. The Foden appears to have a gear at the larger end of the cement cylinder but I can't work out how that connects to the wheels. 

 

On 11/30/2020 at 3:27 PM, Datsuncog said:

I'm not sure about that either, though I spent quite a while trying to figure it out - I can see there's a tiny plastic nub at the upper end of the mixer cylinder that's broken off, so it doesn't spin smoothly (but could possibly be fixed with a tiny self-tapper inserted through the diecast support).

I'd quite like to take a look at an earlier Regular Wheels version, as I've a sneaking suspicion that any mechanism to make the cylnder revolve may well have been removed for the short-lived Superfast version...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264968265381

Needs a lick of paint

 

[Split_Pin]

Superfast or otherwise that is an exceptional little casting. I wasn't really aware of it until I bought mine from DC.

[bunglebus]

I bought this my favourite charity shop last night. It's very much of it's time but Jada really went to town with the detail on these

oh and it does this

[Amishtat]

Just spotted this lot in a local charity shop. 

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, Amishtat said:

Just spotted this lot in a local charity shop. 

Crikey, I hope the new owner can get those sticky labels off without ripping the box to bits!

Tenner for the Sierra in launch box certainly not bad; Corgi Classics appealing too though upper-end prices- but hey, it's all for chariddee, innit?

[Datsuncog]

6 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Superfast or otherwise that is an exceptional little casting. I wasn't really aware of it until I bought mine from DC.

The Foden mixer really is superb; I hadn't realised either just how nicely done it is until I really looked at it while I was wrapping it. The detail to the cowling for the mixer motor is just brilliant; it's everything you'd want in a toy.

I now have my eye on one for myself, too...

[RoadworkUK]

Can't remember offhand but I think that's how much I stumped up for the same Boxed  yellow launch Sierra. Not sure what other colours were offered in that format. Yellow seems a strange choice of colour to show the car's form. Was the bronze a launch colour (and was its box similarly colour co-ordinated?).

[Amishtat]

I've been undecided whether to go back and get it while I'm still in town.. Don't need it as such, but I have been missing small tat-there doesn't seem to be a lot for sale up here. 

[Datsuncog]

Mmm... although it's kind of a weird colour for a 2.3 Ghia, should you happen to buy it and later decide you don't much fancy it, I could be interested...

I've seen early Sierras like that in flat red, flat yellow, and metallic silver paint - and later ones in light metallic blue and metallic navy blue. (Obviously lots of different racing, police, taxi and pace car versions also made).

Can you guess I had some decent unboxed examples that I now regret selling?

[Amishtat]

 

32 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Mmm... although it's kind of a weird colour for a 2.3 Ghia, should you happen to buy it and later decide you don't much fancy it, I could be interested...

I've seen early Sierras like that in flat red, flat yellow, and metallic silver paint - and later ones in light metallic blue and metallic navy blue. (Obviously lots of different racing, police, taxi and pace car versions also made).

Can you guess I had some decent unboxed examples that I now regret selling?

I already have two good unboxed , my red one from forever ago and a silver example I bought from Bramz a couple years ago. However, with my usual steely resolve (and after a couple of pints just up the road) it's currently sitting next to me in the pub in a carrier bag. . Pictures to follow provided I can get sufficient light in our temporary lodgings, it looks like the sticky label will come off without too great a fight. 

[155V6]

A few Corgis arrived today,I only bought them for the Rockets trailer.

They often go for over £20.00 on their own,so I was happy with this tatty one for under £8.00 posted for the lot.

[Spottedlaurel]

I was happy to get my decent Sierra in a tatty box for a fiver.

 

[Split_Pin]

On 12/7/2020 at 11:58 AM, TheDoctor said:

Charity shop finds today. 

SUMMER Toyota Crown

ERTL Pontiac Trans Am (with added red paint to make it a fake KITT) 

Both available if wanted, they were the only ones worth having. 

 

Hey, assume you are keeping these now you have found out they are worth a wee bit? Haven't heard back from you.

[DoctorRetro]

41 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Hey, assume you are keeping these now you have found out they are worth a wee bit? Haven't heard back from you.

No, I'm just a disorganised mess at the moment, will post ASAP. 

[Split_Pin]

No rush at all, please sort everything else out first and I haven't paid for anything yet either! Happy to leave till after Xmas or whatever!

[flat4alfa]

On 12/6/2020 at 10:55 PM, Noel Tidybeard said:

oh course i want it

i have a problem

The Corgitronics Maestros are coming to get me too

[flat4alfa]

After weeks of being a good boy, I succumbed.

To a plastic Cortina Mk3 with a friction motor, for two of the Queens' pounds.

No brand on it, just 'Made in Hong Kong 7195'. 

In the meantime, the MM-Toys Bedford TK popped over to say hello.

The photos were poor, so doubly pleased to see it's a Cortina, not a Taunus.

Measured it, and it's accurate to 1:32 scale.  Excellent.  It's a bit brittle though.

[junkyarddog]

I got this in the post yesterday, 

Really nice,but it's a bit fragile though.

Not like the Dinkys of old.

Not a problem as I'm an "Adult" but wouldn't have lasted 5 mins when I was a pup.

🤣

[Tenmil Socket]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

After weeks of being a good boy, I succumbed.

To a plastic Cortina Mk3 with a friction motor, for two of the Queens' pounds.

No brand on it, just 'Made in Hong Kong 7195'. 

In the meantime, the MM-Toys Bedford TK popped over to say hello.

The photos were poor, so doubly pleased to see it's a Cortina, not a Taunus.

Measured it, and it's accurate to 1:32 scale.  Excellent.  It's a bit brittle though.

Pepperpots on a Cortina!

[Tenmil Socket]

Would anybody be interested in this Lamborghini RC car? It's quite a big model and nicely detailed.

[bunglebus]

Popped into two local charity shops this afternoon. One had this which was tempting for 50p but had the top deck missing.

The others were all christmas cracker quality stuff but I did buy this Super GT...

...purely because this arrived the other day 

Next door had those irritating mystery bags so you can't chose which cars you want

still, at a pound each I didn't do too badly

so,  Maisto Porsche, Matchbox Peterbilt and 911, a Hot Wheels 850 with opening doors, a couple of Corgi F1 cars that I suspect were giveaways, Matchbox Amigo AKA Frontera and T3 ambulance, and another ERTL KITT but with the Knight Rider sticker on the nose rather than the rear quarter panel. Not a bad little haul.

 

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Really nice,but it's a bit fragile though.

Not like the Dinkys of old.

Looks to be one of the French Dinky castings sourced from Auto Pilen?  So a Franco-Spaniard really and never set foot in Binns Road.  

Looks nice though.  Don't drop it!

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Popped into two local charity shops this afternoon. One had this which was tempting for 50p but had the top deck missing.

Ken was wondering who made off with his trailer!

So now he knows.  It's in Essex.

[bunglebus]

Doing a bit of Googling on those F1 cars I bought earlier reveals they were among the castings that Hot Wheels later acquired and re-branded. Having an idle look through the other ex-Corgi castings reveals why the BMW 850 has opening doors - it's also ex-Corgi. Quite pleased to have found that as the only ones I've ever found before are 911 Carerras

 

Cheeky buggers even re-used the packaging!

 

[antony denman]

here my tate spot on morris minor and joblot off 3 worthless model off yesteryear and truc i never seen befor,but its common looked online its budgie truck ,and jensen,all on top off factory workshop manual for my mazda witch i won,done 2 cars from my last batch,merc am happy with but mini probaly do again,abslute pain had trim window down,and went bit cloudy sure bakeing soda when super glued it only way could get bottom on,front grill and bumper was metal one was stopping bottom caseing going in,so i ordered plastic front grill and cleaning original windows.start again as the white got my finger prints on roof dope,

[Frogchod]

Another Buick. 

This time a white box Riviera. 

 

 

[antony denman]

1 minute ago, Frogchod said:

Another Buick. 

This time a white box Riviera. 

 

 

that nice i like it

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Ken was wondering who made off with his trailer!

So now he knows.  It's in Essex.

Another Bedford TM popped over later to catch up about old times

...and congratulate the tractor unit on finding its long lost trailer.