Shite in Miniature II

[sheffcortinacentre]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Huge haul of 5 from the boot sale today, a solitary MB Airport Coach in a different livery

All the rest are Majorettes, such as this Minibus

Depannuse (surely a Chevy C10?) is the first I've found with the hitch arms in place

  Cherokee with amputated dogs feet

Lastly a Turboom 205

Probably a blazer  than a C10 by the length ( ooh matron).

[stuboy]

Couldn't just leave it with mini stuboy, so I made it disappear... 40 years ... wanna keep it safe.

[Spottedlaurel]

Care package arrived from @bunglebus, with things I haven't been able to find for myself. One of the MR2s has gone to Miss SL's BF, as he has a Mk2 and is building up a bit of a HW/MBX/Majorette collection of his own.

Popped into PoundStretcher and got another one from the Mountain Drifters range, to go with the Celica I got last weekend:

 

Had a quick look in the local Aldi yesterday, nothing there. Will try and look at others on my travels, got a trip out on Tuesday PM....

Also managed to find a bit of time to move this 1:24 project on:

 

Can't remember if I've shown it here before, but it's an Accord Wagon on NSX underpinnings to make it mid-engined. Like a grown-up version of the Renault 5/Clio.

Paint is BMW Boston Green from Halfords. Wheels and seats are aftermarket items, rear vents are from a Monogram Chevy Citation (really), the rest is just merging parts from the two kits. Floorpan had to be trimmed on the sides and lengthened, but the track seems about right and so far it seems to be going well. It's due to be finished by early December for a community build on a modelling forum. All the major stuff is done, it's now mainly detailing and final assembly.

[FakeConcern]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Think I have an Elan-less chassis somewhere if anyone has a chassis-less Elan

If no one else wants it, I'd be keen as I have everything else for another Lotus gift set!

(except the box)

[FakeConcern]

A bit more detail on what I picked up at the toy fair, I didn’t go mad this time!

First I had been bidding on a Dinky Chinese eye Rolls and got out bid pretty quickly so when I saw this I wanted it..

£10 though..

Knocked down to a more reasonable £8, only when I got home I noticed the missing (indicator?) light. Never mind still pleased with it.

Next two from before I was born both £3, a heavily play worn Corgi Bedford CA AA van & a nicely repainted MGA. I may paint the roof black again on the Bedford, not sure. I Know the MGAs are cheap, but I couldn’t do such a good job at only £3.

The Marinas at £3 each wasn’t bad, I have a nice yellow/green one already, but was silly money, £20 I think so happy with these.

Dinky DB6, I have been outbid on several of these recently so went for this with missing rear wheels and a seat back and light jewels as well as broken front bumper for £3, especially as I got a set of the correct wheels and tyres plus the Corgi boat trailer for £3 as well. Anyone know how to get the Dinky wheels off of the axle?

I’ve fancied a Corgi Mack truck for a while, but not found one cheap until this one for £4 including the Carrimore Transporter. I have several Corgi Trailers this could be paired with. It has been re painted and has the air intake and part of the exhaust stack missing, but the bonnet (hood?) release opens with a twang!

Most interesting was this lovely little Alfa Spider

Missing screen and steering wheel

But opening bonnet, boot & doors

Don’t know what the scale is, but it is tiny compared to some other sports cars

It’s an Impy, but bigger than the Impy/Lone Stars I had as a kid, but still tiny if you see what I mean!

I paid £2, but when i washed it all the layers of sticker showing £6, £4, & £3 came off haha

[andrew e]

I did not needlessly spend half hour re jigging  these shelves earlier 😁 

No rhyme or reason, just things I enjoy in matching colours!

[FakeConcern]

6 minutes ago, andrew e said:

I did not needlessly spend half hour renigging these shelves earlier 😁 

No rhyme or reason, just things I enjoy in matching colours!

I love stuff like this!

[eddyramrod]

Nor did I, needlessly* spend 90 minutes swopping cars between two cabinets and a stack of open shelves.  So now my Film/TV cars have a little more space around them, as do my Personal collection.  My repainted American cars are a bit squashed-together, but considering they were previously in the roomiest cabinet, that isn't much of a surprise.  I might have to do some more yet, because I think I'd like a bit more space for my ambulances now...

[bunglebus]

What kind of weirdo arranges cars in colour order?

[bunglebus]

There's that pop-up trailer I was talking about, I knew I used to have it!

Pic was taken probably 15 years ago, had a bit of a life laundry after that and sold all those Hot Wheels as well as my Beetle and Bus, plus a load of other changes

[flat4alfa]

On 05/01/2023 at 23:36, flat4alfa said:

This week some more Lone Star models appeared after a Post Lady visit.  Yes, she is still around and as friendly as ever.

One is the seemingly uncommon Alfa Romeo [Giulietta] Spider.  Uncommon, in that it still has all its opening things and it does retain both its headlamp jewels, being an early Impy with the steering chassis.  Pleasingly, the paint is reasonably unscathed.  Steering wheel has escaped, have a similar Lone Star donor.  Will need to do something about fabricating/donating a screen though, as I hoped (assumed!) it was the same as fitted to the Rolls Royce that Steve Flowers recently introduced and the eBay trigger finger was applied.  Never mind, it was bid to just £4, a surprise!

Also separately was the Jaguar MK X, a Flyers range car with the wheels I prefer.  It has more chipping, but also complete with all its opening things and nothing missing.  It is also much nicer than either the Matchbox or Husky offerings.  Even better than that it was BIN £1.99 !

Scaling is a bit off though.  The Jaguar states 1:64 scale, but measures to 1:67.  The Alfa just states 'scale model' and measures to approx 1:51, so perhaps it was intended for the larger Roadmasters range rather than Impy?  Perhaps they worried the American market would find it too weedy.

Tiny Tom wonders why I am buying Lone Star examples when I told myself I would clear out the small cars and concentrate on 1:48, or not at all.  I blame you lot.

^^ Lone Star Alfa Romeo got scale measured here

Paragraph 4

measures to approx 1:51, so perhaps it was intended for the larger Roadmasters range rather than Impy?

[junkyarddog]

Another of yesterday's finds.

Budgie toys Salvage crane.

Amazing how well this fragile thing has stood the test of time.

"I'm not as fragile as I look M8"

[junkyarddog]

Another exciting* find is the Site hut truck,complete with hut!!!

"I can barely contain myself M8"

[bunglebus]

Site Hut Truck seemed to always turn up in job lots. The hut, not so much - I have one 

[Spottedlaurel]

I don't remember ever having the site hut with the regular wheels truck I had as a kid, maybe it came to me from a jumble sale or hand-me-down? It still made for a useful little flatbed however, should still be in a box somewhere.

Do have a MIB Superfast version complete with hut, probably purchased back in the '90s when no one was very interested in them. I think that even has an elastic band still with it (which hopefully hasn't caused some unpleasant reaction with the plastic).

[danthecapriman]

Don’t think I’ve ever had one with the hut, always seem to be missing. See also, skip trucks! Loads of them around but almost always missing the skip. It’s taken me ages to find the skips for some of the older ones. 

[junkyarddog]

Some more...

Auto Pilen Renault 12-S

Norev Renault 17 TS.

I was going to leave Smoll Eddy out of these pics because he's the wrong scale but...

"You'll never sack me off,I'm omnipresent in your collective consciousness M8"

[bunglebus]

That's cool, I really love the styling of the 17. Until I few years ago I'd never seen one

[MiniMinorMk3]

 

50 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Some more...

Auto Pilen Renault 12-S

Norev Renault 17 TS.

I was going to leave Smoll Eddy out of these pics because he's the wrong scale but...

"You'll never sack me off,I'm omnipresent in your collective consciousness M8"

Not seen a Rallye Pilen 12 here, I've had a chrome one

And on the Norev front here's a Renault 15.

[sierraman]

This arrived today for equivalent of a £1 when the others were factored in. 

[flat4alfa]

@danthecapriman 

Bedford J-type spotted in SEB photo on far right

So there's another conversion* to enjoy for your SEB Diorama

[flat4alfa]

HUSKY Catalogue 1966

[FakeConcern]

For Volvo 240 fans...

 

[bunglebus]

I found a fairly rare one the other day, hopefully it should be here soon

[bunglebus]

In the mean time, Matchbox Model A Ford - the van especially must be one of the most produced castings they ever made. Who's got what?

[junkyarddog]

More....

Hot Wheels Larry's towing,Peugeot 505 and Packin Pacer.

You like a towing rig don't you Smoll Eddy,what's your favourite from these?

"The Pacer,'coz like me it's packin M8"

😲

[bunglebus]

16 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Yours hasn't got it, but the first version of the Larry's Towing truck (Ramblin' Wrecker) had Larry Wood's actual phone number on it - and loads of people called him! It used to be where the blue bit is above "Larry's"

[flat4alfa]

First call was on Christmas morning.  He received a call from a boy in another state, calling long-distance!

It was put on as a joke and was never meant to reach production

[sierraman]

The hot wheels fold away garage has a Larrys Towing. 

[junkyarddog]

Corgi and Spot on Renault Floride.

The Spot on was ridden hard and put away wet.

"Don't they put Floride in the water M8"