Shite in Miniature II

[Datsuncog]

1 minute ago, egg said:

For extra pleasure, something for the weekend, Sir?

Happy Friday, indeed...

[bunglebus]

Going though some Matchbox and just remembered I was looking at registrations.

Mini Ha Ha DHK 161N

Racing Mini AJN 391H

Jeep CJ6 SPB 41S

Mercedes 350SL DLK 257M

Vantastic 969-302 which is an odd one

Monteverde Hai OHV 386

Field Car TF 886

Dodge Challenger PDB 7

Lamborghini Marzal TO 1149

Hot Rocker and Capri BYN 623J

Jaguar XJ6 just says JAGUAR

At some point they pulled the ol' switcheroo and started putting tampo plates on, such as JPC 1975 on the E Type Jag  

[sierraman]

It’s funny how the number plates stick in your head from being a kid, RSH88T for the Cortina I think it was. 

[Datsuncog]

GNF 40T on the No.39 Silver Shadow, if you haven't already got it!

(Bloody useless phone camera)

[155V6]

Something arrived yesterday which I've been after for a while,a purple Corgi Capri

Ok,it's not exactly mint,& it's a Junior rather than a Rocket,but I'm still pleased to have it.I spotted it at the back of a lot of Juniors & got it at the top of my budget.

It does mean that I've got a load more cars which I don't need,so these will be added to my diecast sales thread

[Spottedlaurel]

I had a Cogbox arrival earlier this week:

Ooh, the anticipation.

Some pages from CCW and a 2022 copy of the Plymouth Herald, they'll be handy for lighting the woodburner.

Carefully wrapped, as ever.

Yay! The Shinsei Fuso truck is a lovely thing, pretty weighty and nicely detailed. 1/64 scale, so it'll sit nicely alongside Tomicas etc. Random Majorette for the random Majorette collection (which will hopefully be bolstered when visiting France soon).

Great to have the Dyane (or Diane as it says on the base) so I can do this:

Box containing a CX was acquired from @eddyramrod a year or two ago. Great that @Datsuncog then found the little kit that should be inside it on a market tat stall.

Hang on though, it was originally 40p, and I paid 50p.

Cost of living crisis gone mad.

The Dyane lends itself well to the crude way these kits/toys are put together, more so than the likes of the Renault 14, CX etc also in the range. Opening front doors, bonnet and tailgate are rather bold. Grille and bumper moulding is missing but I think there's scope to paint and detail this little thing so it would make an effective display piece in the cabinet, a nice reminder of French trips.

Sadly that might mean I'd lose the cute duckling sticker on the bonnet, so it's not a project to be started lightly.

[Datsuncog]

Glad it all showed up safely for you! The Shinsei Fuso really is a nice bit of kit, and it makes me needlessly pleased to reunite an empty box with a boxless model... enjoy!

[Remspoor]

On 6/29/2023 at 11:03 PM, Remspoor said:

My phone camera is not great, especially indoors.  I took a lot but most were blurred. These were taken at a Carrefour. I wanted to also go to the Toys R Us but I was not allowed . Ours, here in Spain, never closed down.

I have maybe found the reason why Toys R Us never folded  in Spain.

They owe the taxman a lot of money.  Just over 3 million €.

Link in Spanish. https://www.elmundo.es/economia/macroeconomia/2023/06/30/649ec9cb21efa04b1b8b45de.html

[Datsuncog]

With that in mind, I did take some patio pics of the Fuso with its other Shinsei Mini Power compatriot before parcelling it up...

(Note - not actually a patio, so much as a lump of cracked concrete we haven't got round to breaking up yet.)

Although the GMC Crane Augur truck doesn't have any indication of scale on the base, it looks to be maybe slightly larger than the Fuso's declared 1/64.

These are both such nice models.

The Fuso has quite a neat hitch mechanism, whereby a flat sliding panel behind the cab releases the trailer pin.

The flip-down support legs on the trailer are a nice touch too.

It's unusual for a manufacturer to make the trailer with a plastic base and a metal body - most seem to do it the other way around. It's weighty!

The separate tail lights are a great feature too. Annoyingly there's a lower bumper bar which is partially broken; but the rest is in surprisingly good shape.

Baffling that I've never encountered this maker before, and now two have appeared in short order.

The crane augur's a great toy too, and complete bar one of the stabilising legs and its pair of plastic telephone poles (though some bits of wooden dowel would probably make an acceptable substitute).

Still available at £5, if anyone's feeling especially flush/ weak-willed...

I'd received a few queries about the size of the Fuso, so here's a few other more familiar items to compare:

Next to the Corgi Ford Transcontinental container truck, it looks rather tiny! But then, the Ford is pretty massive... this is my childhood original, missing one of its containers annoyingly (but a Matchbox equivalent provided a reasonable stand-in).

Compared to the Matchbox Superkings Scammell container truck (or some demented hodgepodge of at least three different models, which is what mine is), the Fuso still looks a bit small - but it's not far off.

But it's a fair bit bigger than anything from the Matchbox Convoys range - or the 1-75 range.

A brilliant little toy though, and hopefully a nice addition to the @Spottedlaurel collection!

Keep on truckin', kids...

 

[egg]

46 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

The crane augur's a great toy too, and complete bar one of the stabilising legs and its pair of plastic telephone poles (though some bits of wooden dowel would probably make an acceptable substitute).

maybe someone here with a 3D printer could at least copy the stabiliser? Just a thought.

[MiniMinorMk3]

18 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Bung, bung, bung, bung, bung, bung
Bung, bung, bung, bung, bung, bah-bunng

 That looks quite good for £9. They have been climbing steadily for a while. I have a few buried in boxes, including one of the elusive red ones. If I find them I'll post up some pics.

17 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Going though some Matchbox and just remembered I was looking at registrations.

Mini Ha Ha DHK 161N...  

Talking of cast plates on cars, it wasn't just Matchbox that did it.

Here's a couple of Mebetoys with Italian plates

Poorly proportioned Innocenti Mini Minor Mk1

With Milano plate on boot lid.

Innocenti Mini 90

From Milano as well.

 

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

I have maybe found the reason why Toys R Us never folded  in Spain.

They owe the taxman a lot of money.  Just over 3 million €.

Link in Spanish. https://www.elmundo.es/economia/macroeconomia/2023/06/30/649ec9cb21efa04b1b8b45de.html

Well their department inside my local WHSmiths was slightly underwhelming. 

Glad I decided to have a lay in this morning rather than getting there for 8.30 as planned

[bunglebus]

Postie had left me a parcel in my absence.

Don't know why I keep buying these Dinky buggies but it's not a bad one 

I also have a pretty nice Dinky Notchback, but this one has "resto" written all over it

They were joined by this cute 1981 Takara penny racer 

[bunglebus]

Updated CMC list - VW pickup and Golden Jacks Rover to look forward to!

[Noel Tidybeard]

i think i will give a miss to the hq staff car & fire chief

[FakeConcern]

My contribution following on from the recent posts about the Dinky Mini Clubman...

I’ve owned three 1:1 Mini Clubmans (Clubmen?) two 1275GTs & an Estate, but only recently have I acquired any model of one.

My first 1275GT was this Tara Green one.

I couldn’t live with the bright green colour, much brighter in real life so sold it at a loss and bought a black one.

Here with Mrs Concern

 

The Estate was a tatty Limeflower and this is the only picture of it.

Now I have these Dinkys

Bronze with jewelled lights

and ex Police with plain lights and already stripped.

So the plan is to strip them and paint one black and one Tara green

[sierraman]

I stripped the Revell 850i down to respray it, dipped the panels and shell in brake fluid, no matter how much I wash it there’s some sort of contamination on the shell that keeps bleeding through the paint. Beginning to wish I’d left well alone!!

[eddyramrod]

Mini Clubman?  Yes please, at least 3 for restoration purposes.

Today I was at the Lakeland Motor Museum and as usual, opened my stall on the bonnet of the Jag...

I did quite well this morning!

Now... mention was made the other day of a gluebomb Anglia van that @Datsuncog rescued and sent to my rehab centre.  Well...

It was a bugger to strip, and the grille moulding just broke up.  What's there now is mocked up from a scrap Crown Vic police car, which pretty-much fits the available space.

There's been some drilling action too...

These are what I started with ^ and these are the bodies:

This might interest some of you...

You're looking at an old Corgi or Dinky (I actually can't remember and it doesn't matter) four-wheel trailer which is probably going to end up as a lorry body.  Behind it is a lorry looking for a body: a much-abused Dinky Albion cement mixer which had no drum.  I plan to Dremel off the redundant mixer superstructure, leaving a chassis that will take a "new" (eg dropside?) body.  It won't be this trailer, the wheelbase isn't quite long enough, and fortunately I already have a suitable body that I've recently painted.

And finally for today, some randoms I've recently completed.  The Rambler Cross Country station wagon came from one of my friends here, it's a Lone Star and looked awful, but was intact under the Humbrol.  The Riley is one I did some time ago and just decided to recolour; the Consul is a fairly recent ebay purchase that came with almost no paint on it.

[quicksilver]

Quicksilver buys modern Matchbox shocker!

Having only recently said how much I dislike Mattel's modern offerings and how little they appeal to me, why did I find myself looking at the Matchbox pegs in No-Longer-A-Poundland and actually buying something?

They're not just random purchases and there is a good reason: as a modeller of fairground transport, I need plenty of pickups around 1/76 scale as every showman has one nowadays. Some of the Matchbox pickups, although described in the usual fashion as 1/64, are actually scaled down to somewhere between 1/72 and 1/76 to fit the packaging. These two (Rivian R1T and Ford F150 Lightning) fit the bill although I'm not sure electric vehicles would be very practical in fairground use so I might have to pretend they're diesel. They're perfect towing vehicles so I find it bizarre that Mattel didn't bother including a tow hitch on either; if/when they appear in Hitch & Haul I expect they'll retool the base at vast cost to add one instead of just including it from the start as that's the sort of daft thing they do. They could perhaps do with some smaller wheels but I can't be bothered to drill the rivets and replace them.

They join this refugee from a DanBox, an older F150 by Motormax. This one has had its enormous pimp wheels replaced and looks much better for it.

 

[flat4alfa]

Hot Wheels Volvo Amazon Wagon

Didn’t  know of this one

[flat4alfa]

On 6/30/2023 at 9:37 AM, Datsuncog said:

This Britains Bedford S (?) dropside lorry was also new to me:

Quite small scale. And surprising detail showing the AWD transfer case and props.

Britains produced this 1:76 Bedford as part their Lilliput range, to accompany OO railway layouts.

1956-60

If it is there next week…

[bunglebus]

I've seen on FB that there are boxes of Hot Wheels in the stockroom at Aldi - none on display in mine and nothing on the website either.

Picked up a few bits at the boot sale beforehand though

[MiniMinorMk3]

52 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Hot Wheels Volvo Amazon Wagon

Didn’t  know of this one

Looks a bit like Guy Martins wagon

The Fastest Car in Britain? TV Presenter Guy Martin Takes Delivery of the VOX Volvo Amazon | SwedeSpeed - Volvo Performance Forum

[bunglebus]

I've got the green and custard colour Amazons 

[bunglebus]

Some boot sale highlights;

1968 Custom Fleetside came as part of a package deal. Got a handful of early redlines in similar condition 

Crack-Ups has certainty been enjoyed

I found five of these the other day, so of course I needed another 

This is one of my best buys today, lovely Corgi Mini

And this is the other, very tidy Rockets Aston

Matchbox were mostly the usual suspects but I'd not seen this Bronco before 

Tidy AMX 

10p's worth of DAF

Scammel crane isn't one that's passed through my hands before, front axle is sprung by a tab that pokes out of the base

Got one of these, but you know...

[eddyramrod]

You know where to send that CF if you're not establishing a fleet...

[AndyW201]

Slim pickings again this weekend, did find this though, yet another '80s collection re-colour, suppose I was lucky as these seem to be popular with the scalpers,

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

You know where to send that CF if you're not establishing a fleet...

I'll check out my other one, pretty sure it's about the same 

[155V6]

Corgi Juniors added to my Sales thread https://autoshite.com/topic/54528-155v6s-haphazard-diecast-sales-corgi-juniors/?do=getNewComment

[eddyramrod]

Either will do!  Keep the best for yourself, obviously.