Shite in Miniature II

[Zie]

Needed some gardening bits today and they were still there, so grabbed them for you. 

In my rush I said no to a receipt like a jelly Brain and still have no idea what they cost. @bunglebus 😕

[Bren]

These arrived today - 

 

[Datsuncog]

32 minutes ago, Zie said:

In my rush I said no to a receipt like a jelly Brain and still have no idea what they cost.

The HW Flying Customs in my local B&M were never priced on the shelves either, for some reason.

Receipt shows they were a bit dearer than the mainlines, at £1.99 each - would that tie in with your overall spend?

[155V6]

35 minutes ago, Bren said:

These arrived today - 

 

Very nice,there is a matching camper for the second caravan

[bunglebus]

Corgi Mini, oddball Majorette, Corgi fox Mustang and a Mini Bus with only slightly cracked window - but £6.00 for the bag!

Even my favourite charity shop has done away with the basket and has translucent bags with 5 or 6 cars in now

[sierraman]

They’re crafty fuckers, they’ll mix in all the crap with something vaguely decent then pluck a number off the highest figure they’ve seen a boxed one listed for on eBay 

[Zie]

36 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

The HW Flying Customs in my local B&M were never priced on the shelves either, for some reason.

Receipt shows they were a bit dearer than the mainlines, at £1.99 each - would that tie in with your overall spend?

Only went in for Grass Seed and those Cars. Spent £40 with random extras. 😆

[flat4alfa]

40 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

The HW Flying Customs in my local B&M were never priced on the shelves either, for some reason.

Receipt shows they were a bit dearer than the mainlines, at £1.99 each - would that tie in with your overall spend?

Flying Customs (2021) and Orange and Blue (2021) and were old line series though, sort of bulk clearance

These Hot Ones are 2023 series  https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Ultra_Hots_Series_(2022)  (scroll down to 2023 section)

Never seen one though and don't want to either! 

La la la not listening...

[bunglebus]

25 minutes ago, sierraman said:

They’re crafty fuckers, they’ll mix in all the crap with something vaguely decent then pluck a number off the highest figure they’ve seen a boxed one listed for on eBay 

The kingfisher blue Cooper seems quite sought-after but it's not exactly a minter. I'd quite like the Majo Motor...

[155V6]

Sun was out this morning,so I stopped off at the car boot on the way to work.First impressions were good,there were about 25 stalls(5 times more than last week),but I ended up coming away empty handed.One stall did have some loose 1/43 cars,but nothing I really fancied.

Never mind,I called in to pick up a DanBox after my last deliveryNice to see you again @danthecapriman

I though that was it for the day,but when I got home there was a box from eBay which had come quicker than I expected.The first thing I looked for was this Corgi Juniors Capri

This is from the Wall of Death Rockets set,it's the only one that doesn't have a towbar

I thought it may have been repainted,& I was going to paint it purple as I can't seem to get an original one for a decent price,but it's too nice for that

Next was this Siku Volvo tractor unit,I think this may have come in a dealer box?

Lesney  Morris Cowley is not really my thing,but my Dad's one was one of the 1st toy cars I remember playing with so it'll be staying

Superfast Land Rover is a keeper too

Ertl Corvette & Corgi van

Larger Corgi emergency vehicles

Flying stuff

Army stuff

Matchbox stragglers

And a hood from a Tonka Beach Buggy to finish

[danthecapriman]

Good to you again @155V6 glad you like your box!

That Corgi Capri looks really good. I’ve never noticed the tow bar thing on them. I’ll have to dig mine out and have a look. 
Siku Volvo F12 looks great too.

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Corgi Mini, oddball Majorette, Corgi fox Mustang and a Mini Bus with only slightly cracked window - but £6.00 for the bag!

Even my favourite charity shop has done away with the basket and has translucent bags with 5 or 6 cars in now

That Kingfisher blue is a later version.

I have a couple of pre-production models on the shelf and it is interesting to see how they differ.

Pre-production model with Whizzwheels

Production version with Minilites (and plenty of dust).

Pre-production Amaranth car (with gold one). Note W prefix reg no, painted grill and no mirrors, only holes.

Production version is T reg, grill is chrome

[bunglebus]

42 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Production version is T reg, grill is chrome

This one's R reg - there are a couple of boxed ones on eBay for about £50 for some reason

[bunglebus]

This arrived in the post today. I really admire these old Lone Star models

[FakeConcern]

5 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Have never been

Was the Spot On collection broken up?  It's mentioned on the website, but this article isn't good

https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/index/Category:The_Spot-On_Collection_(display)

I don't think there were any Spot On cars at all, the only thing they had was the Arkitex buildings. I think someone mentioned them on here fairly recently.

These were great!

I'd love one of these

[FakeConcern]

We were out all day today and on the doorstep when we got home was a Flat(4Alfa)pack addressed to me in the Summer House (haha). Mrs Concern was intrigued despite the inquiry “what have you been buying now?”

So it was a nice selection of Corgi Minis (you can’t have too many!) a Corgi Ferrari I’ve never had before, a gawky Dinky Stingray I’ve never had either and a lovely Polistil Alfasud!

Strange rear treatment of the Alfasud, would the lights have been painted on originally?

Also totally not expecting a couple for Mrs Concern to put in the Summer House!

She absolutely loves them!

Thank you so much @flat4alfa

[sierraman]

My old school looked like it was made from Arkitex. Sounds great stuff but I expect it was pretty bloody expensive back in the day as I believe Bayko was. 

[RoadworkUK]

I've been very good lately. Aside from a couple of opportunistic 50p box finds in scattered emporia, my diecast fast has been pretty successful. 

It was bound to come to an end, though, and I thought, with a CogBox™ en route and a Hotwheels 560 SEC winging its way over courtesy of @bunglebus, that I might as well go the whole hog. So I've gone and bought a Metro. And probably the worst kind.

Yes. That one.

The cheesy souvenir one. One of the very cheesiest and most cynical model releases to ever be foisted upon the diecast-loving public.

Yet, perversely, that rather attracts me to it.

I'm pretty monarcho-sceptic, but I do like acknowledging historical events, and the wedding of he to her was kind of a big thing that year. It being the year that I was manufactured, too, gives this tacky (£2.49 in Gamleys) bit of bandwagon-jumping novelty merchandise extra relevance to me.

It's also a reasonably inexpensive way to obtain a BNIB 1:36 Corgi Metro...

.... Should you want such a thing. 

And you probably shouldn't. I did, though. I owned one once, a metallic blue one, which I think I liberated from the lost property box at the primary school my mum taught at.  Its demise, like many a Metro in the early 90s, came with me making an effort to burn it out in the 12 year-old Essex joyrider mode. I did a pretty hopeless job of it, and ended up  sheepishly binning it lest my mum discover my latent pyromaniacal leanings. 

And I've felt guilty about it ever since.

I quite like Metros. Formative school reading material included The Little Red Metro books by Avril Rowlands, and I've had a fondness for the dreadful, hideous bouncy things ever since.

And this model captures the little shitboxes quite nicely.  The wheels are somewhat over-wide (and amusingly MG Midget Ro-stylesque), and the stance is a bit leaky Hydrogas suspension, but the shape is good, grille-moulding fault and comically large badges aside.

The interior, seemingly cast from Milkybar, is relatively well simulated, with The Big Shelf in full effect, joined by semi-accurate seats with tilting backrests and correctly split head restraints. Hinge doglegs are a bit enormous, though, and the steering wheel is somewhat less horizontal than in the prototype.

This little beauty* cost about a tenner delivered, and I don't massively regret that outlay. As 1981 releases go, they don't come much more Of Their Time than this.

[bunglebus]

3 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

I've gone and bought a Metro

At least it's realistic*

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

gawky Dinky Stingray

Ooh yours has got the stickers!

 

[FakeConcern]

31 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Ooh yours has got the stickers!

 

But this Corgi C2 hasn't

and this only has some of them

somehow I only got one set between them!

as you can see the yellow one needs more remedial work so that can wait

Dinky C3 is massive compared to the Corgi C2.

I really want a Corgi C3 having seen them at the Brighton museum, didn't look huge either

 

[bunglebus]

Good ones are gorgeous in those iridescent colours. This is not a good one

 

[eddyramrod]

The splendid Mr @FakeConcern sent me a spare grille and headlamps for my Corgi Lancia Zagato...

Seen here with my just-completed Corgi Karmann Ghia.

And from the other end...

Thank you kind sir!

[FakeConcern]

5 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

The splendid Mr @FakeConcern sent me a spare grille and headlamps for my Corgi Lancia Zagato...

Seen here with my just-completed Corgi Karmann Ghia.

And from the other end...

Thank you kind sir!

They look great in those colours! Particularly love the purple on the VW...

The headlight made from a 2CV window unit looks fine too haha

[Split_Pin]

Many thanks to @doug for these, very generous indeed, I'm absolutely over the moon with them.

I thought I'd want to part with the prewar stuff but as the models are pretty detailed, I'm all the more intrigued by them. 

All but one of the magazines are present, 79 in total and I already have the missing Nissan Prairie in the loft bringing the total number of cars to 67. That makes just 1 magazine to get (they definitely didn't do 100 issues) and 13 cars.  So I'm going to have to complete the set aren't I?!

Here are some highlights:

 

Some belters in there. The majority are Solido castings and are infinitely nicer and more detailed than the Corgi equivalents. Many of them have nice opening features, detailed exhausts and interiors.

My favourite is the Fiesta, Peugeot 806 and the Taunis 17m cabriolet. The Bugatti Royale is impressive too!

 

So I'm going to hold onto these for now but I think I'll still get a bunch of alternative diecast together and do a charity roffle once the others have completed as there are quite a few on the go at the moment.

Again, absolutely delighted with these and it also meant a nice run out and it was also great to meet Doug and his fleet!

[bunglebus]

I don't do models, but I was very tempted by the Prarie and 928 when I saw them for just £3 each, boxed at a toy fair a few months back

[Ghosty]

My aunt used to have a red Metro like that and her middle name was that of the Queen Mother, lol.



This is my most recent acquisition. The chap had a green one too, that my mate bought.

[bunglebus]

I have got a boxed red one

[sierraman]

I love the naivety on those initial adverts about ‘beating off the competition’

[flat4alfa]

17 hours ago, bunglebus said:

The kingfisher blue Cooper seems quite sought-after but it's not exactly a minter. I'd quite like the Majo Motor...

In that case could be worthwhile

- gain nice colour Mini Cooper

- gain oddball Majorette with some sort of motor inside

- another Fox body Mustang to sell on or customise

- another Camper to sell on or customise

- and not really expensive considering it's in your hand and not need postage costs

But that's the sort of thinking that got me into this mess