Shite in Miniature II

[andrew e]

Shouldn’t there be clubman’s on page 1275?

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, Fennec said:

One of my more successful custom jobs.

 

I like that, it’s ‘what could have been’ if they carried it over to Whizzwheels.

[flat4alfa]

49 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Shouldn’t there be clubman’s on page 1275?

Funnily enough, I realised I still don't have one of these.  Anyone got a spare for sale?

[flat4alfa]

But do have all these, twice-over for my sins

[flat4alfa]

Massive modern cars shocker

[flat4alfa]

Here's one I never made earlier.  Maybe it should be done with a Corgi Metro donor

Or maybe not

[FakeConcern]

Massive modern

and again

Of all the toy Minis I have I don't have any Clubmans (Clubmen?)

I never finished any of the models I started of my real ones either or the MG Metro also 1275.

Tamiya half converted to 1275GT

I think the Corgi was more or less done, but only have the cut down base painted Tara Green and part of the interior left...

 

[500tops]

33 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Funnily enough, I realised I still don't have one of these.  Anyone got a spare for sale?

@MiniMinorMk3

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, andrew e said:

Shouldn’t there be clubman’s on page 1275?

An Allegro, Marina or Midget would have worked equally well...

[MiniMinorMk3]

Never seen a metallic green Dinky. I'm guessing that it is a factory trial. I have the bronze in jewel light and solid light and various box version. I also have one example of the rare red one. I hve all the Scalextrics.

and here's a few 1275s and Clubmans from my collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Amelia]

Some pics of my tat - diecast/Lego/other stuff.

 

[flat4alfa]

Another.  Mattel designer Brendon Vetuskey's '67 Pontiac Firebird

[flat4alfa]

And designer Alton Takeyasu's Datsun 240Z

I'll go now...

[Amelia]

As we are posting metros...

 

[sierraman]

Poverty spec Sentra. 

[Nibbler]

I love this thread! It’s an endless source of joy! 

A couple of days ago I set out on a quest. To find myself a Hot wheels Cadillac Seville. I scored in the last shop I visited. During my quest I picked up a couple more...

[bigstraight6]

3 minutes ago, Nibbler said:

I love this thread! An endless source of joy! 

A couple of days ago I set out on a quest. To find myself a Hot wheels Cadillac Seville. I scored in the last shop I visited. During my quest I picked up a couple of other vehicles.

I must get one of those Majorette Citroen DS’…

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

I like that, it’s ‘what could have been’ if they carried it over to Whizzwheels.

They did, just not those Whizzwheels 

[Surface Rust]

As there seems to be some slot car love here, I thought I'd share this.

I got bored during the long winter nights and thought I'd revert to a favourite pastime of my youth, customising Scalextric cars.

Sadly none of those creations survived the last 30 odd years, but I thought I'd still maintain the connection and make some cars from my youth, in particular, vehicles produced in Northern Ireland.

A dim recollection from a visit to the Ulster Transport Museum in about 1989 was that Northern Irish automotive output was limited to:

Some kind of steam powered horsey horseless thing from 18somethingorother

Various armoured Land Rover products from the RUC workshops in Belfast 

DeLoreans

This didn't give me many options to work with, and as I didn't even know what the steam contraption looked like, the list narrowed further.

Eventually I settled on making both of them.

Fortunately Scalextric had saved me a lot of effort by already making a Delorean, unfortunately it was plastered in BTTF guff, like every Delorean you see at a car show. I wanted the pure design intent so had to carefully remove all the Mr Fusion stuff and file the body smooth for a quick stainless steel* paint job.

Anyway, that wasn't the exciting one.

 This was.

Not terribly accurate, but a lot of fun to build. I was always fascinated by the Tangis when I was young, they used to sweep past my dad's Volvo 240 at what seemed like outrageous speeds for a big Land Rover, accompanied by a lovely V8 roar.

The inaugural Norn Iron street racing championship was a predictable affair, the Delorean streaked away thanks to modern Scalextric 'sticks like shit' handling , however the Tangi had me giggling like a school kid as it slo-mo drifted round every bend. Eventually, due to its weight, I had to give the motor and controller a rest as they smelt HOT, but it's a firm favourite already.

[RoadworkUK]

6 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Ah crap I never noticed that! I didn't know Jotus made their own models but then it's a while since I've been on there.

If @Rover414 doesn't want it and it's a tenner or under I would be interested.

Oh, crikey, well spotted, @Rover414 on that one! I dismissed it as an ECW Bristol VR at first, but yeah, it's rather rarer than that.

[Datsuncog]

In the interests of full disclosure, some purchasing was done earlier.

This lot.

See, I felt a bit sorry for the Limeflower Marina, rattling round loose in its box, so felt it incumbent on me to perform a rescue of sorts.

In fact, most of the hard-boxed stuff today was unsecured and bashing around inside along with the screws and plastic spacers, which wasn't really helping matters for anyone.

All for the want of a small screwdriver.

I've already a Marina 1.8 in Teal in the Cog Collection, but I kinda like the little split nose seen on the early 1.3 versions. I'd noticed a pale Marina just about visible in the pics and hoped it was the Sandglow version - but Limeflower's still pretty good.

Other than a slightly wonky wiper, it's in good shape.

Ditto the Oxford Daimler DS420 limo.

Just as the actual car's a monster of a thing, so's the model.

I'll post up some better pics of these two at a later date, sure.

The Pat Moss Monte Carlo A40 for @AndyW201 is in fairly decent fettle too.

The 'collector card' is a bit creased, but still present.

One of 1,500, apparently.

Collect 'em all, kids.

And a quick stop-off at B&M Newtownabbey yielded these on the Matchbox clipstrips:

Yup, that's a Carrera for @eddyramrod - assuming I've got the right model, I'll be able to get your latest tat box packed and sent!

I just like the Mk1 Civic; and I don't have a red one yet.

But I do now.

[eddyramrod]

That's the one!  Top work young man  

[eddyramrod]

A delivery has arrived, which means I'm in the doghouse again...

Dinky AEC tanker is one I never had when they were current. Ford tilt-cab is one I had as a kid and wrecked.  Boxed DAF 95 is one I've never even seen before, and it's by Tekno!

They're lovely!

[500tops]

Surprise charity shop find in a box of generic Chinese rubbish 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

14 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

A delivery has arrived, which means I'm in the doghouse again...

Dinky AEC tanker is one I never had when they were current. Ford tilt-cab is one I had as a kid and wrecked.  Boxed DAF 95 is one I've never even seen before, and it's by Tekno!

They're lovely!

Are they from Dan? I'm having to carefully stash mine in darkened corners.

He's got a lot to answer for! 🤣

[eddyramrod]

No, these are not from Dan, amazingly.  These came from Jon (dugong/alcyonecorporation) over Facebook.  I love a clearout, as long as it's someone else's!  He had some 1/18s too, a couple of which I really fancied, but I couldn't afford them.  Which wasn't surprising, I know that what he was asking was realistic.  Never mind...

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

 

Dinky AEC tanker is one I never had when they were current. Ford tilt-cab is one I had as a kid and wrecked.  Boxed DAF 95 is one I've never even seen before, and it's by Tekno!

They're lovely!

Those Tekno trucks were very sort after 20 years ago, then Corgi started releasing their trucks and the prices started to drop.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Some more Vanguards Marinas

The best colour combo, Teal with Limeflower chairs

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

By the way, Corgi are still on their stupid path of pandering to fans of Fords. Of the latest 2023 releases shown on their site, only 1 of 13 is a non-Ford. It is a new colour for the Triumph Stag. They have announced that they are releasing a Red Astra Mk2 GTE, but the next two new castings are again Ford, Mk2 Capri (so they can release three car sets featuring all 3 marks) and the latest Mustang Coupe. They just are not listening to collectors who are bored to the back teeth of Fords.

[quicksilver]

Was going to say it's nice to see the early J-reg Marinas correctly modelled with the right-way-round wipers, but it seems most Vanguards Marinas are like that and therefore wrong