Shite in Miniature II

[sierraman]

Unless there is some hyper inflation going off in Northern Ireland at the moment I’d say his prices are pie in the sky. 

[eddyramrod]

I have to say, I fancied some of those dusty cars, but not at that price.  They would need to come in pairs or even trios to be worth my while spending a fiver.  Thanks for posting them up though!

[Sudsprint]

I won an Ebay job lot for £80 (plus p&p) and it turned up yesterday. I wanted the Spot on Minx and Zephyr (to change to red), the rest were just for fun.

Anyway, they were better than I expected. The Dinky car transporter is a great old truck and the sausage wagon is a hoot with swivelling barista.

Interestingly the Nash Rambler estate thingy is a Lonestar, not a Dinky.

I also can't work out the white tyres on the Corgi Mini??

The three modern LLedos are not too bad really.

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Unless there is some hyper inflation going off in Northern Ireland at the moment I’d say his prices are pie in the sky. 

 

48 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I have to say, I fancied some of those dusty cars, but not at that price.  They would need to come in pairs or even trios to be worth my while spending a fiver.  Thanks for posting them up though!

Agreed - the pricing seems waaaay off on these - only a few months back he was knocking out mint/boxed MoYs and Lledo for £2 a throw; so a fiver for a really scruffy unboxed example is Not Good.

Still, it's dynamic pricing, or so it seems - if he's selling at £2, he likely paid a pound each. If he's looking a fiver, he probably had to shell out £2.50 each or thereabouts to secure this job lot, so I s'pose it's market forces at work...

It would cost him nothing to dust them, mind - unless he's going with the OMG BARNFIND school of sales...

There's a chance he may drop the prices a smidge to clear some stock, so by all means let me know if anyone's interested in anything and I'll do my darnedest to secure them at target price next week, all being well!

28 minutes ago, Sudsprint said:

I won an Ebay job lot for £80 (plus p&p) and it turned up yesterday. I wanted the Spot on Minx and Zephyr (to change to red), the rest were just for fun.

Anyway, they were better than I expected. The Dinky car transporter is a great old truck and the sausage wagon is a hoot with swivelling barista.

Interestingly the Nash Rambler estate thingy is a Lonestar, not a Dinky.

I also can't work out the white tyres on the Corgi Mini??

The three modern LLedos are not too bad really.

What a fantastic haul - and, even including a fair old whack for posting that lot, I'd guess the whole lot came in at £notmuch each. The Spot On Minx looks especially alluring.

Top darts!

[Sudsprint]

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

 

Agreed - the pricing seems waaaay off on these - only a few months back he was knocking out mint/boxed MoYs and Lledo for £2 a throw; so a fiver for a really scruffy unboxed example is Not Good.

Still, it's dynamic pricing, or so it seems - if he's selling at £2, he likely paid a pound each. If he's looking a fiver, he probably had to shell out £2.50 each or thereabouts to secure this job lot, so I s'pose it's market forces at work...

It would cost him nothing to dust them, mind - unless he's going with the OMG BARNFIND school of sales...

There's a chance he may drop the prices a smidge to clear some stock, so by all means let me know if anyone's interested in anything and I'll do my darnedest to secure them at target price next week, all being well!

What a fantastic haul - and, even including a fair old whack for posting that lot, I'd guess the whole lot came in at £notmuch each. The Spot On Minx looks especially alluring.

Top darts!

Fair play to the seller - P&P for the whole lot was £8.95

[Rover414]

@Datsuncog I'd have the Nat Ex if its still available, there was some other good buses there... if they're available next time let us know. I have sent you a PM anyway!

[Amishtat]

2 hours ago, Sudsprint said:

I won an Ebay job lot for £80 (plus p&p) and it turned up yesterday. I wanted the Spot on Minx and Zephyr (to change to red), the rest were just for fun.

Anyway, they were better than I expected. The Dinky car transporter is a great old truck and the sausage wagon is a hoot with swivelling barista.

Interestingly the Nash Rambler estate thingy is a Lonestar, not a Dinky.

I also can't work out the white tyres on the Corgi Mini??

The three modern LLedos are not too bad really.

Keeping the Merc coupe? 

[Sudsprint]

Yes I will keep both. Interestingly the boots are quite different (cream one has front wheels that steer as well).

[Split_Pin]

Gah, been flat out with work today and missed the tat.

Those HK buses are good for a fiver, I have a few of those from back in about 2000. @Datsuncogif  you are there next week could you nab the gold Dennis Trident for me please? 

[bunglebus]

4 hours ago, Sudsprint said:

I won an Ebay job lot

Ah man, I've been trying to track one of those down for ages

I also did a buy which I'll post up shortly.

Saw these Color* Shifters which I liked but at £6 a pop they stayed on the shelf

 

[bunglebus]

So I was naughty and did a purchase on eBay. It was local but on a BIN and I saw it late at night so just hit the button including postage to stop anyone else nabbing them.

Seller ignored my messages about collecting them so I've been watching nervously for the postman

So, various makes and scales of moderately interesting stuff

didn't know Lone Star did trains

I like Zylmex but I'm not a plane enthusiast 

here's the ones I was really after

all four bumpers intact but of course missing the hoist

I did have a Tomica bus but this one's loads better

why did I buy this? Because it was made for Magnet Southerns so goes with the ex-Corgi Mazda pickup. Should look like this

But I figured as a flatbed I could display the pickup on it. Scale is of course totally wrong!

 

[RoadworkUK]

Nice haul, especially the Scania.

Do you know who made the Elan? I have the same one – iirc it was a freebie at the Esso garage. It has a pull-back motor for minutes of fun.

I have a black Escort cabrio from the same source. Again 1:32ish scale and a pull-back motor, but less well modelled. Especially around the headlights.

[bunglebus]

The Elan is an MC Toys, as is the 911

I'll be putting the Elan back on eBay unless anyone fancies it

[bunglebus]

Someone really needs to start making repro hoists for these

 

[eddyramrod]

On 12/11/2020 at 11:28 AM, Datsuncog said:

If they're still there next time, and he can do four for a tenner, I would very much like please...

The Rextoy Cadillac, the blue Chevy copcar and the Renault Trafic...

And I know it's hard to see, but there's another Chevy copcar here in green and white with black wings, as opposed to the all-green-and-white on the other side of the display.  I already have a mint one of those, but not the one with the black wings, which is an old NYPD livery.  I don't mind speculating a brownie on those four.  (I already have a couple of the Rextoy Cadillacs, different models, and they are nice.)  I'm assuming there's nothing missing from any of them of course!

 

And somehow I've managed to put my whole message inside the quote.  Silly bugger.

[Noel Tidybeard]

kojak seems to still have red beacon

[Datsuncog]

14 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

And somehow I've managed to put my whole message inside the quote.  Silly bugger.

Not a bother - have jotted those down, and will see what I can do!

12 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

kojak seems to still have red beacon

It does, and the Crocker figure in the back... maybe I should have picked it up for £3, despite the glazing malfunction!

[junkyarddog]

"Not another box M8?"

Um,yes Smoll Eddy.....

"Gizalook M8"

Tomica Datsun 240Z,one of my all time favourite cars.

You like it Smoll Eddy?

"I'm nursin' a semi M8"

😯

 

[AndyW201]

Wow! Can't compete with these lovely Tomicas but managed to grab a bit of JDM loveliness today, that I've been hunting for a while,

Nice to finally see it as a mainline.

Got a few others. I'm  liking this Chevelle, sadly it's not the STH version,

Another .nice recolour for the Monte Carlo,

And a nice version of this later Chevelle. Pretty subtle for a Crass and Spurious version,

Nice to see at least some late 2020 HW hitting our shops. Two cases behind the latest releases isn't too bad for round here....

[Mr Laurence]

I know that a few others here make model kits, so I just wanted to share the joys of Tamiya X-19 Smoke. A bottle is less than £2, and it’s fantastic for adding details - it just goes on with a paintbrush. I suspect it’s also quite good for diecast restorations too.

(No doubt this is common knowledge and I’m the last person to find out about it)

[bunglebus]

British Horsepower series coming soon. Including a Land Rover...

 

[eddyramrod]

Ummm...  I've just won another 1/18 on eBay.  Somebody please buy something from my sales thread so that MrsR doesn't murder me!

[bunglebus]

You're on your own pal!

[bunglebus]

Corgi Dodge Magnum arrived from 155V6, and I bought a selfie light to try and improve my pictures

I wonder why this was such a short lived casting?

[flat4alfa]

17 hours ago, bunglebus said:

British Horsepower

The British horsepower in the McLaren is from ze Germans

[flat4alfa]

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

Batman!

[eddyramrod]

What the.....?

[Tenmil Socket]

15 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

Batman!

Link?

[Datsuncog]

8 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Corgi Dodge Magnum arrived from 155V6, and I bought a selfie light to try and improve my pictures

I wonder why this was such a short lived casting?

Not entirely sure why it was only available for the 1980/81 catalogue year, but the Bill Manzke book has this to say:

"In the early 1980s, the American market grew to be a much bigger share of Mettoy's sales, especially in the Juniors range. American kids were now too young to remember Corgi's heyday in the 1960s, having been born after the first Hot Wheels were introduced. American kids wanted Hot Wheels-sized cars. Mettoy responded by expanding their offering of Juniors vehicles familiar to the American market.

The sales growth that was started in the late 1970s with Batman and Spiderman would need to be sustained with other new products. Mettoy would also come to rely more heavily on the new large mass-market chain stores, which kept prices low by buying in bulk. Small toy stores would struggle to compete, since the wholesale price of Juniors in small quantities would often be more than the final sales price at the large chain stores.

A number of American cars were introduced during this period. Some, like the Dodge Magnum, did not last long in the product line. Others, like the Ford Mustang Cobra, Pontiac Firebird, and Chevrolet Corvette would be used extensively in many different paint schemes."

I'd also add the Ford Thunderbird and Chevrolet Bel Air to that list of yanks from the early 80s, both of which were US TV show tie-ins (Vega$ and Simon & Simon, respectively).

At a guess, the Magnum was nowhere near as sporty as the Mustang, Firebird or Corvette, and even with the opening bonnet just didn't generate enough enthusiasm in kids to pull in the sales. It also looked a bit like the ex-Starsky &Hutch Ford Torino casting that was still kicking around the standard range, wearing Fire Chief stickers - so maybe that also played a part.

Regardless, that's a nice one to have in the collection!

[andrew e]

Another one I bought in the early 90’s - a genuine USSR Volga!

Lovely box art and I’m making a wild guess that ‘86’ stamp inside the box is when it was made.

In Aeroport livery, everything opens - it would give a Dinky Galaxie a run for its money! Oddly no zinc pest, and it’s been missing that mirror all the time I’ve had it too. 

Separate steering wheel, good dash moulding and even authentic holes in the floor 😁

Very finely detailed running gear, and back suspension that’s factory knackered for good measure - it’s like a Ruskie Hearald 😂

 

To compliment the roof mounted “Follow me” the rear window I have had translated to “The Pubski - Vodka’s on me!”