Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

2 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Talledega please!

Is there a Twin Mill??

No - shame I didn't know earlier you were looking as QDs have had stacks of them for months, mostly gone now. 

Got the Talledega tho

[bunglebus]

Entertainer had more Audis if anyone needs one still?

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Entertainer had more Audis if anyone needs one still?

Yes I am still Audi-less

Assuming you mean the IMSA 1990 Audi...

When Joachim Stuck did this

And again

 

[AndyW201]

Absolutely nada still around my area for any of the latest Hot Wheels, all of the usual outlets being content instead with regular restocks of case C. To think I reckoned I'd never be able to get hold of the Volvo gasser or blue Toyota van. I must have seen hundreds of the bastards...

Not all was lost though. Local Tesco had their first new case of Matchbox for yonks,

The Ami is kind of a folk hero on here, so I had to get one. Obviously it's tiny but very well rendered.

Front view... No, back... Er, hang on...

Yep, that's deffo the front, now the rear,

I'm finding myself liking more electric cars as they come onto the market. Our local Ford dealer has a couple of Mustang Mach-Es as demos in funky colours and, I hate to say, I quite like them, despite the slightly dodgy use of the Mustang name...

The Matchbox one is a little belter, miles better than the Hot Wheels racing version,

Not dissimilar to the Mach-E, another fairly interesting looking one is the new Mégane. I've always preferred miniature versions of normal family cars, and Matchbox again have put in quite a bit of effort with the detail on this one.

Bit different to the Mk1 Mégane my dad bought new in 1996 though...

It's been said before many times on here, but the cars  coming out of Mattel nowadays are often like proper tiny collectors models rather than £2 toys nowadays.

And after the revelation about this trailer being made to partner up with the Nissan Cycle Runner hardbody, I had to grab one to pair up with the truck I got a few weeks ago. Love the number plate...

 

[FakeConcern]

This is a strange one, a while ago I won a Corgi Monte Mini (a pretty shit one) on ebay for £2.95 +p&p.

After a few weeks it hadn't turned up & the seller told me Evri had lost it and I was refunded.

This was it...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Corgi-Toys-Mini-Cooper-Rally-1960s-/165960437369?nma=true&si=IMjdDwdKAQG9DHwb6mKAN8YcdTo%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

So today I was looking at ebay again (!) and saw this with £4.95 starting bid...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166026040421?hash=item26a7ec5465:g:uicAAOSw72FkNFCB&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0AQKNtPCo4IwpAzYHfEbvOA760LTTvgJzSA%2FLaP4kCa%2BXtdEdXZ1VvuPAU9RNWX%2Fn01%2BuxoXMVR6ncMBhRdfvh7ODyDrajMegYoM6vPaFaK49iwYtw8Z6Jrhq%2B9Fl%2Bw%2BpWVQ60kbUC12OMZQljqrcygILhOjcKg8IYy8TmLrOPopKBdZ%2BxoCoLWuys2BfXJJPBRhc4LXqP39ZSQ8XwTqfx0mehB3VXIorWDCABNGOhUWjZcsg89xcNSkUjsaOPA5H1w%2BTY3g%2F53LQ%2B4GqAkPUfA%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9qss77vYQ

So what ya all reckon?

[Dick Longbridge]

42 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

This is a strange one, a while ago I won a Corgi Monte Mini (a pretty shit one) on ebay for £2.95 +p&p.

After a few weeks it hadn't turned up & the seller told me Evri had lost it and I was refunded.

This was it...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Corgi-Toys-Mini-Cooper-Rally-1960s-/165960437369?nma=true&si=IMjdDwdKAQG9DHwb6mKAN8YcdTo%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

So today I was looking at ebay again (!) and saw this with £4.95 starting bid...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166026040421?hash=item26a7ec5465:g:uicAAOSw72FkNFCB&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0AQKNtPCo4IwpAzYHfEbvOA760LTTvgJzSA%2FLaP4kCa%2BXtdEdXZ1VvuPAU9RNWX%2Fn01%2BuxoXMVR6ncMBhRdfvh7ODyDrajMegYoM6vPaFaK49iwYtw8Z6Jrhq%2B9Fl%2Bw%2BpWVQ60kbUC12OMZQljqrcygILhOjcKg8IYy8TmLrOPopKBdZ%2BxoCoLWuys2BfXJJPBRhc4LXqP39ZSQ8XwTqfx0mehB3VXIorWDCABNGOhUWjZcsg89xcNSkUjsaOPA5H1w%2BTY3g%2F53LQ%2B4GqAkPUfA%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9qss77vYQ

So what ya all reckon?

It has a 'Make Offer' option so offer £2.96 to show your generosity. If the seller declines, ask if your original sale price of £2.95 still stands. If not, I'd be asking for his advice on how to do magic as he's clearly very good at recovering items which have vanished* into thin air. 

[sierraman]

Some people fundamentally don’t understand the concept of an auction do they. It sells for whatever it sells for! 

[FakeConcern]

In other news, I've been doing a resto on several models & actually finished this Corgi Mini Countryman...

Repainte in Humbrol red and rear door made from venetian blind...

As I'm currently doing budget restos I had a limited choice of colours and chose yellow

I didn't buy a new window unit and made the rear side windows from some clear plastic packaging

The woodwork is mixed from Humbrol Nut Brown and Yellow and tbh not my finest hour, my hand is still steady, but my eyes are not great close up any more..Also the Steve Flowers repro doors don't fit very well...

Here with Mrs Concern's Summer House Surfer...

I did fill in the roof rack and aerial holes

THe original doors actually do fit properly

Joined by some other Corgi friends

and Dinky

Here's all my Minis

Not finished the Magnifique yet

I cut the axles 5mm and used spacers (some sanded down beads, but it needs to be a bit narrower in the track so it will fit my Transporters. It isn't finished yet as I need to make some bumpers and a grill, pretty much all the chrome plated plastics had fallen apart even though the body was in good condition with the green paint mainly ok I stripped it anyway

[danthecapriman]

15 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

In other news, I've been doing a resto on several models & actually finished this Corgi Mini Countryman...

Repainte in Humbrol red and rear door made from venetian blind...

As I'm currently doing budget restos I had a limited choice of colours and chose yellow

I didn't buy a new window unit and made the rear side windows from some clear plastic packaging

The woodwork is mixed from Humbrol Nut Brown and Yellow and tbh not my finest hour, my hand is still steady, but my eyes are not great close up any more..Also the Steve Flowers repro doors don't fit very well...

Here with Mrs Concern's Summer House Surfer...

I did fill in the roof rack and aerial holes

THe original doors actually do fit properly

Joined by some other Corgi friends

and Dinky

Here's all my Minis

Not finished the Magnifique yet

I cut the axles 5mm and used spacers (some sanded down beads, but it needs to be a bit narrower in the track so it will fit my Transporters. It isn't finished yet as I need to make some bumpers and a grill, pretty much all the chrome plated plastics had fallen apart even though the body was in good condition with the green paint mainly ok I stripped it anyway

Love your Mini fleet!

Repaint job looks great to me. Shame the repro doors don’t fit too well though. Maybe making your own out of plastic card might be a better bet?

[FakeConcern]

Other ebayers do the doors, but not sure if they are still by Steve Flowers. I don't think I'll be doing any more and CBA doing this one again and thanks for your feedback! @danthecapriman

[bunglebus]

Corner shop type business has added these to the stack of Days Gone they still haven't sold

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

my eyes are not great close up any more..

Welcome to my world!

Currently on +5 ...but still useless

[FakeConcern]

1 minute ago, flat4alfa said:

Welcome to my world!

Currently on +5 ...but still useless

I was going to do a Haha/like thing but maybe a bit insensitive so I'll just say I feel your pain!

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

rear door made from venetian blind...

Perfectly authentic material for Summer House Collection.  Win Win.

[FakeConcern]

2 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Perfectly authentic material for Summer House Collection.  Win Win.

In the bin bin now!

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

Not finished the Magnifique yet

I cut the axles 5mm and used spacers (some sanded down beads, but it needs to be a bit narrower in the track so it will fit my Transporters. It isn't finished yet as I need to make some bumpers and a grill, pretty much all the chrome plated plastics had fallen apart even though the body was in good condition with the green paint mainly ok I stripped it anyway

Looks great.  And why not, Carlos would be proud!

Because Carlos never travelled by Car Transporter.  You see, he was a privateer and DROVE to his race meetings.  His shortcoming was he chose to go through farmland and not keep to the main roads.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

Here's all my Minis

 

There is this idea when Magnifidango is finished

The eye strain will thank you

[eddyramrod]

An appealing idea, but... the Van and Traveller bodies have the tail canted forward a little; the doors are not upright.  The tail of the Pickup is vertical.  There's a bit more engineering required than a first glance would suggest.

[flat4alfa]

2 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

An appealing idea, but... the Van and Traveller bodies have the tail canted forward a little; the doors are not upright.  The tail of the Pickup is vertical.  There's a bit more engineering required than a first glance would suggest.

The eyes are so bad they will not notice!

[bunglebus]

Remember this sorry looking Matchbox VW Dormobile, a twin pack release from the fantastic year of 1977?

I stripped it and considered doing a resto - but then decided mild custom would suit it much better, especially after finding a set of wheels that matched the blue windows nicely

You can tell the casting isn't as good as the previous two I've mucked about with, it's clearanced inside the arches for the big Superfast wheels though, which made life a bit easier.

Still not sure why they put that big single exhaust on it though

[Datsuncog]

 

[Zie]

My first thought this morning was" Oh good its Tat Friday" what have you all done to me? 😆

[Datsuncog]

Cold and frosty morning, despite the sun.

Precious minutes were wasted guddling in the garage for another can of de-icer... minutes which could have been more profitably spent at the other end.

A quick boot up the motorway and some audacious parking etiquette saw me skidding through the doors just before 7.30 - at which stage the Tat Stall was still mostly empty, but already The Nemesis was there and browsing through some fresh tat boxes...

Daaah. I knew it would go this way.

Although really, it was more the principal of the thing, as it wasn't like I was being beaten to very much...

Other than some well-used Lesney Superfasts and a few BP-promo era Corgis, there wasn't a massive amount more to tickle my fancy.

The Corgi Cubs Fire Chief car always intrigued me as a kid, as I could never work out what it was meant to be based on.

Viva HC estate? Reliant Scimitar? Ah well.

The big 1/18 Corgi McLaren M23b was impressive, though sadly lacking one rear wheel and with an imposter driver.

Decent overall condition, though.

This one was snaffled by The Nemesis (though he was very nice about it and did insist on giving me first refusal).

There were also these 1/25 and 1/26 scale Polistil racers...

Missing a few spoilers here and there, and with varying levels of paint damage - but not all that common maybe?

Early and later bases show the change from all-metal to mostly plastic.

Probably a fiver each on these.

Otherwise, it was mostly more of the ten-pound Vanguards/ Oxford/ Atlas 1/43 stuff, and to be honest I'm finding it hard to keep track of what we've seen before...

I think we've encountered these on previous weeks.

And these too?

Most of them are still rattling round loose, irritatingly. This Sheerline would have been good, but paint damage to the rear quarters makes it only much good for repainting.

The only bus in this week's pile was this Blackpool Leyland:

As I was snapping away and tidying up, I became aware of a few more boxes appearing on the stall...

Tinplate rail disaster set?

Yes, the taxi was pretty wrecked.

Some more Atlas repro Dinkys, still at £10.

These primer-finished Dinkys were unusual...

Front tractor unit is a French Dinky Panhard; with a UK Guy behind.

In the same box were these Kingfisher white metal trailers/ box van bodies:

Still boxed, and heavy.

Someone's never-finished projects?

This pair were also unusual:

Dinky Minx had a rather skewed roofline following a mishap, while the unbranded Citroen DS was appealing in its simplicity.

Missing rear wheels an annoyance, though less noticeable than on other cars maybe?

All it said underneath was 'Citroen DS - Made In England'.

I thought I'd taken a pic of the underside, but apparently in all the excitement I forgot.

It reminded me of Lone Star/ Crescent/ DCMT, somehow - but I really couldn't place it.

Lastly, some of the dregs from previous weeks reappeared:

Good to see my handiwork's* still holding the exploded Marlin together.

Not much noteworthy here... still can't work out what horrible fate's befallen this Dinky Dodge.

Some paint bubbling suggests it may have been on fire, at some stage?

Weird.

So, I left my (almost) Trainer-Twinsie Nemesis to finish up his purchases...

(he took the Dinky Minx too, along with a Budgie tanker trailer from the same Tat Box as the F1 cars, plus a couple of the £10 Vanguards too)

...and headed off round the rest of the market.

[bunglebus]

ERTL General Lee please if it's still there!

Orange Dinky 914?

is in unusual colours - another to grab if it's sub £5 please...

Lastly the orange Lonesome Onesome ta 

[Datsuncog]

Red Dinky 914 with added decals is a repaint, unfortunately, though complete - the blue one is kinda scruffy with a busted A-pillar and missing glazing - at £5 each.

£1 on the General Lee, though!

 

[bunglebus]

3 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Red Dinky 914 with added decals is a repaint, unfortunately, though complete - the blue one is kinda scruffy with a busted A-pillar and missing glazing - at £5 each.

£1 on the General Lee, though!

 

The red one still has an unusual colour interior - tempted!

Good deal on the General, hoping that red Lonesome Onesome can be saved too as again it's an unusual colour 

[Datsuncog]

 Not a lot else to see on the other stalls today, sadly...

One of the 'proper antiques' stalls had these 1/18 Hot Wheels Ferraris, but at £25 each with no boxes and busted mirrors, I'm not sure if they represented terrific value...

Alan was seemingly away sunning himself in Mauritius on the proceeds of his 50p Tray, as his stall was absent altogether today.

The Charity Stall had no diecast today, after last week's exciting bonanza...

But there were still bargains to be had.

Well, sort of.

The General Tat stall had reloaded on new Vanguards:

Lovely, but at £36.99 they weren't really within reach of my meagre resources...

Some new Matchbox, mind:

But, that might be kinda it for this week, kids...

[Datsuncog]

14 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

hoping that red Lonesome Onesome can be saved too as again it's an unusual colour 

Yeah, I'd thought that was a repaint too - given the blobs of black Humbrol - but it does appear to be an original red version, albeit missing its glazing and an engine... can nab it for you, if you fancy it!

[bunglebus]

3 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Yeah, I'd thought that was a repaint too - given the blobs of black Humbrol - but it does appear to be an original red version, albeit missing its glazing and an engine... can nab it for you, if you fancy it!

Yes please, and the 914 if it's there - it's probably a kit version thinking about it

[Split_Pin]

Thanks as always Tim!