Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

Found you 33.33% of the set living in Monmouthshire  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363091851432

and Kent  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354375178181

Pretty likely parted-out some time ago because of the lust for Duckhams Sierras!

This one lives in a collection in New South Wales, Australia

alongside the Transit

[danthecapriman]

There’s a good chance I won’t be getting that one then!😁

I’ll have to be happy with this one, which is still nice.

 

I’m guessing it was only this one and the plain white one that were made in uk? 
Most of the others seem to have slightly later dates so must all be Thailand/Macau/China made.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

2 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

There’s a good chance I won’t be getting that one then!😁

I’ll have to be happy with this one, which is still nice.

 

I’m guessing it was only this one and the plain white one that were made in uk? 
Most of the others seem to have slightly later dates so must all be Thailand/Macau/China made.

That's the same as mine, although I'm pretty sure mine is Macau built.

[FakeConcern]

After all the help choosing colours you all gave me I thought a quick pic to show progress was in order so here's my drying rack

I have just been working on restoring a Corgi Camaro. It wasn't awful and I didn't take many before pics

No windscreen (obv) and the dash was broken with brown suede stuck to it. It was also stuck down on the floor as carpet and on the door card armrests and the centre consol. The roof was broken and Humbrol matt black was used to give a nice tide mark all round the car and also painted on the interior behind the back seat. The headlight blinds were missing and the chrome yellowed.

Most of the black paint came off quite well using various techniques

 

Steve Flowers screen fits really well, shame I didn't notice the little bit of flash on the top right corner before I looked at these photos. I had filed the other corner already.

It's a bit chipped in places, but not too bad at all.

The rear panel was black and came up pretty well, but the repro hood not a great fit.

All the red interior came up much better than I expected, shame someone cleaned the black off the steering wheel, left it on the draining board then placed a heavy saucepan on it! It did glue back together.

Lights closed

Lights open!

Looks pretty much like the real thing

Very pleased to have made them.

The dashboard got patched up with red plasticard and really looks fine behind the repro screen.

Firebird sits much higher, presumably because of Whizzwheels

You can see how good the Steve Flowers windscreen is compared to the firebird original

For some reason the Camaro is on what I take to be Hunter Minilights, the 11 yr old me must have done that along with the other mods, I don't remember and don't seem to have the originals anywhere either.

The same, but different!

[bunglebus]

Thailand;

England;

Macau;

 

[flat4alfa]

28 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I’m guessing it was only this one and the plain white one that were made in uk? 
Most of the others seem to have slightly later dates so must all be Thailand/Macau/China made.

White ones first release 1983 with Made in England on base

The silver with those graphics production transferred during 1985, so both.  If you have a Made in England silver one, then it was a 1984 until then.

From then on was Made in Macau until 1990 when the Thailand factory started production

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Heh, didn't even notice it

Do actually have a Crescent Toys Mercedes Benz 2.5 Litre back here anyhow...!  😇

It lives on the back of this transporter

Along with a Crescent Aston Martin DB3S, a Spot-on Jaguar XK SS and a Corgi Lotus Mark Eleven

No I don't know why I haven't got round to repainting them either

Tucked on the back of a transporter, they've been forgotten about.  

But I am on the look-out for the Crescent D-type Jaguar to complete 'the set', if anyone has a rough one looking to pass on

New Ford D-series livery idea!

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

White ones first release 1983 with Made in England on base

The silver with those graphics production transferred during 1985, so both.  If you have a Made in England silver one, then it was a 1984 until then.

From then on was Made in Macau until 1990 when the Thailand factory started production

Mines definitely a made in England one, so it’s an early one.  
Im going to have to keep an eye out for the others I’m missing now. Pretty sure my chances of getting a blue one are zilch but you never know!

@FakeConcern that Camaro & Firebird pair look fantastic! Nice job👍

[155V6]

13 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Do actually have a Crescent Toys Mercedes Benz 2.5 Litre back here anyhow...!  😇

It lives on the back of this transporter

Along with a Crescent Aston Martin DB3S, a Spot-on Jaguar XK SS and a Corgi Lotus Mark Eleven

No I don't know why I haven't got round to repainting them either

Tucked on the back of a transporter, they've been forgotten about.  

But I am on the look-out for the Crescent D-type Jaguar to complete 'the set', if anyone has a rough one looking to pass on

New Ford D-series livery idea!

I've got that transporter,not seen another one until now

 

[flat4alfa]

15 hours ago, 155V6 said:

I've got that transporter,not seen another one until now

Ah but you have, way back when it was doing this

What a racket

[flat4alfa]

Post Lady™ delivered these recently

The Matchbox Diecast Toys - The First Forty Years book.  It weighs over a kilo and a half!

And also succumbed to the eBay trigger finger with one seller who had these boxed as new, but ran to well under half the price from Oxford Diecast direct

From their 1:43 range.  Bedford CA and Morris Minor ICE CREAM VANS

Were bought to join the shelf collection of other ICE CREAM VANS but I'm too embarrassed to show them too

[flat4alfa]

On 4/27/2023 at 2:20 PM, Datsuncog said:

Though I kinda liked sorting stuff on a Friday night while MrsDC was away out with her knitting group - I could put a great/terrible DVD on like Smokey & The Bandit, pour a beer, and spread out a load of diecast and cardboard boxes on the floor to get stuff cleaned up and allocated...

A happy place, of sorts.

Thought the two up on the right looked familiar....!   They live back here now

Corgi Hillman Hunter and Tonka Ground Pounder (AMC Gremlin)

Procured from 'Market Blokey' at £2 each, on Tat Friday March 6, 2020, no less!

The Hillman now has a full set of Golden Jack wheels, but otherwise untouched and sits on a shelf.  The Gremlin has been - ahem- played with a few times and has clouted the skirting boards, a few times.  After taking apart and oiling the friction motor, it flies you see

It sits on a shelf in a different room (overspill...) alongside the remaining Tonka 'Scrambler' and 'Clutch Popper' buddies.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

22 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Thought the two up on the right looked familiar....!   They live back here now

Corgi Hillman Hunter and Tonka Ground Pounder (AMC Gremlin)

Procured from 'Market Blokey' at £2 each, on Tat Friday March 6, 2020, no less!

The Hillman now has a full set of Golden Jack wheels, but otherwise untouched and sits on a shelf.  The Gremlin has been - ahem- played with a few times and has clouted the skirting boards, a few times.  After taking apart and oiling the friction motor, it flies you see

It sits on a shelf in a different room (overspill...) alongside the remaining Tonka 'Scrambler' and 'Clutch Popper' buddies.

Blue Scrambler? I've not seen one of those in my searches. I thought they were all green or beige. Unless it's a repaint?

[flat4alfa]

On 1/12/2023 at 4:59 PM, Datsuncog said:

It's a big Kirk/ Model Products Ford D-Series brewery wagon, in Tuborg Grøn colours.

Also dug out that Tuborg Grøn TEKNO Mercedes-Benz L-series mentioned on Wednesday.

Clearly not in anywhere as good condition paint or decal-wise, but it was nabbed off a stall on Winchester market in February - for £4 !

As mentioned, there's some weight to these isn't there!

The plastic beer crates are long gone, and one of the pull-down side panels has escaped

But that doesn't matter because it now carries Lancias!

[flat4alfa]

On 4/28/2023 at 11:59 PM, Dick Longbridge said:

Blue Scrambler? I've not seen one of those in my searches. I thought they were all green or beige. Unless it's a repaint?

My paint choice repaint.  Probably didn't have any yellow on the day.

[sheffcortinacentre]

11 hours ago, 155V6 said:

I've got that transporter,not seen another one until now

 

Me too & never seen another.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

12 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Do actually have a Crescent Toys Mercedes Benz 2.5 Litre back here anyhow...!  😇

It lives on the back of this transporter

Along with a Crescent Aston Martin DB3S, a Spot-on Jaguar XK SS and a Corgi Lotus Mark Eleven

No I don't know why I haven't got round to repainting them either

Tucked on the back of a transporter, they've been forgotten about.  

But I am on the look-out for the Crescent D-type Jaguar to complete 'the set', if anyone has a rough one looking to pass on

New Ford D-series livery idea!

“ Accurate designs even to brake drums” 

Yeah, about that. I’m pretty sure every schoolboy in the 50’s knew D-Types had those fancy new Dunlop disc brakes.

[MiniMinorMk3]

18 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I'm gonna say the green van as I don't recognise it

It's a Corgi 450 Austin Mini Van

17 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Metallic Green one wears Countryman grille, despite being the Austin Van body

Metallic Green one also has poor radio reception and no woodworm.

Correct, van has incorrect grille casting from the surfer boys Countryman.

I had a look on Vectis to see what was the rarity. Out of 48 examples:

42 had the correct Van style grille

 

and 6 had the Countryman type

So it's not that unusual, but a variation, if you are into that sort of thing.

Then I took some more comparison shots with the other two

Standard green van does not have dog guard like Police version

They all have a small tab on the right side rear door so you have to close them in the actual cars order

All the bases are the same, with just the name casting changed on the Countryman

The Countryman incorrectly has the roof vent casting still in the roof...

but does have a nice detail of the Austin Mini script on the right side rear door and it also has a little cast blob for the fuel cap that was seen on what is know as the Internal Tank Countryman. For those that are not Mini Nerds like me, the early Mini Countryman and Mini Travellers had an internal petrol tank on the left side of the rear cabin, and not the floor type tank seen on the vans and pick-ups.

And a word of warning. If you leave your rubber tyred cars for too long without moving them the tyres can get flat spots on them.

[MiniMinorMk3]

After comparing Corgis I thought I'd line it up with some Spot-Ons

The Corgi is slightly larger in both length...

and width.

The Spot-On has just one roof vent, just like the real thing, I've never understood why Corgi put two on theirs. I like the side window detail on the Corgi, with the open rear pane effect.

The rear on the Spot-On has better rear bumper detail, and the rear lights are a better effort

But I think the Corgi is better overall as the proportions are better. The Spot-On looks a bit narrow and pinched.

By the way, Spot-On called theirs a Morris, but they didn't put a badge casting on the bonnet.

 

[bunglebus]

Think I was quite restrained at the boot sale 

First time I've been to the one in a field - it was a bit* soggy

[andrew e]

Lupo, Mach 1 stang and a General Lee - need more Gazelle action 😉

[bunglebus]

This wasn't from the boot sale - very brown Hot Wheels Jag XJS

This was though - I've seen this type before but need to do some detective work on it. Roof pops up if you push the tailpipes in. Think it had a bonnet that did something similar too

Matchbox Veedubs look like multipack versions

And yes, another Welly Lupo

Plus a "Champer" from Maisto

A couple of Majos

Yee-haw!

Zee Toys Crazy Wheels Ford Pickup has had an eventful life

Corgi P1800 is I think less common in red

I've got loads of Buick Regals but no white ones until now 

Jeep 

This is my best buy - £1 for this K-10 Scammell with all the usual broken bits intact 

More Matchbox in the form of ¾ of a Major pack - what should the tractor be?

Tidy trailer

Boss Mustang is pretty clean

Think this is the only Super GT that eludes to the casting it started life as

To tidy to leave in the 50p box

80s excess

Typical, Unimogs are like buses - only got one of these the other day

Later versions of the Blazer and Chevy 4x4 van

And lastly, a Trickshifters RX-7

[flat4alfa]

Chev van variation is one I don't have

[danthecapriman]

Found this today!

[Datsuncog]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

More Matchbox in the form of ¾ of a Major pack - what should the tractor be?

Think it should be a Bedford Type S with this Major No2 set -  the small wheels version, rather than the bigger wheeled tractor unit which came with the Transporter set.

Some good finds there!

[bunglebus]

5 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Think it should be a Bedford Type S with this Majors No2 set -  the small wheels version, rather than the bigger wheeled tractor unit which came with the Transporter set.

Some good finds there!

Well that's excellent news as I have a couple! 

[Tenmil Socket]

My first charity shop finds in ages!

The Hot Wheels is plastic bodied and manufactured my year of birth.

 

[bunglebus]

6 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

The Hot Wheels is plastic bodied and manufactured my year of birth.

Rapid Transit, that version was released in 1990. Didn’t realise you were so youthful! 

I have this one from 1988

[danthecapriman]

Another find today, I actually wasn’t going to keep this one, but someone convinced me otherwise! 

Solido 1/43 Talbot Horizon. My grandad had a T reg one in pea green with a tan interior many years ago. The first car I ever sat behind the wheel of actually! So this will become that car eventually!

[Tenmil Socket]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Rapid Transit, that version was released in 1990. Didn’t realise you were so youthful! 

I have this one from 1988

@bunglebus It has 1981 on the base?