Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

55 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I also have a really weird Hotwheels cabriolet version with a blue driver 🤷‍♂️

Can't say I've seen that - but I forgot about this one

 

[bunglebus]

Upcoming Hot Wheels Volvo Drift Wagon with trailer, maybe a Team Transport?

[bunglebus]

Boot sale seller just sent me this, 1:18 Matchbox? No price yet...

[andrew e]

Didn't @danthecapriman have a huge Tyco matchbox?

[danthecapriman]

14 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Didn't @danthecapriman have a huge Tyco matchbox?

That big Chevy Suburban fire department one? 
I can’t find a pic of it now, but @Datsuncog got it for me from the market. It’s a bloody lovely model. Can’t remember how much it was now?

Edit; found it!

[bunglebus]

He wants £40 for that one...

[danthecapriman]

24 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

He wants £40 for that one...

Jesus!

I definitely didn’t pay that. I’m sure it was a tenner I payed, possibly £15? 
 

[bunglebus]

There's another premium set coming out, Nissan Drift Wagon included

[sheffcortinacentre]

13 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

When I was little I had road mat for my toy cars.

It wasn’t one of those new fandangled ones though made out of carpet or whatever, it was like a thick polythene sheet with the roads and buildings all printed onto it. 
Obviously it disintegrated many years ago but I’ve never seen one since, or even a picture of one. No idea who even made it.

Anyone else seen or remember them?

Matchbox did some in the late 70's like that ( village  sort of layout & I think an airport or docks),earlier ones were card with popup buildings ( farm, motorway & building site).

[danthecapriman]

3 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Matchbox did some in the late 70's like that ( village  sort of layout & I think an airport or docks),earlier ones were card with popup buildings ( farm, motorway & building site).

Mine was literally a thick polythene sheet with roads, buildings etc all printed onto it. No 3D bits at all. It could well have been Matchbox I suppose. I can’t find anything at all about them anywhere though. 
I can’t imagine many are still around though, being polythene they’ve probably all fallen to bits by now and been binned.

My dad seems to think it was Matchbox though so maybe…

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yep sounds like the later matchbox one.

[bunglebus]

Mine was shiny card that slotted together, similar to this

[155V6]

30 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Mine was shiny card that slotted together, similar to this

I've got a couple of sets similar to that,I think one came from @Datsuncog 😀

I did spot this one on FB marketplace @danthecapriman ,it's only in Waterlooville,& it's free.....

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/7329723957109881/

[Spottedlaurel]

24 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Mine was shiny card that slotted together, similar to this

Hmmm, I think I had a similar one. IIRC the card was fairly thick, and the lanes not much wider than the 1/64-ish cars? Sadly it hasn't survived, nor did the wider, thinner card Roadways/Roadmaker set I had. Have since bought a couple of boxed packs.

It's a real shame the Tomica Hypercity range is no longer sold here, that had a lovely set-up of roads and buildings. Master SL ended up with quite a bit, I don't this was all of it:

The Honda showroom is particularly nice.

[Spottedlaurel]

This week's acquisitions, all I could find of interest from the new batch in Lidl and making use of the £5 5-packs in Tesco:

Already have one of the Nissan sets, but surely worth getting another for the sake of a fiver? Maybe I'll crack it open and have a play....

300ZX was the main item of interest in the other pack, but the Mustang is particularly nice with sensible-sized wheels.

Also, in having a sort-out last weekend I found that I have all these as duplicates:

I don't have the energy to start a proper for sale thread at present (although I probably should), but is there any interest in any of these at £1.50 each?

[andy18s]

9 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There's another premium set coming out, Nissan Drift Wagon included

I'm still on the lookout for the Group B set but Smythes don't offer free postage now.

[quicksilver]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Mine was shiny card that slotted together, similar to this

I had one similar to this from the Early Learning Centre. Not exactly the same as it was printed in grey and some of the pieces were different shapes, but the tab and slot assembly system looks very similar. Spent many hours building different layouts with it on a large piece of cardboard on the living room floor.

[flat4alfa]

On 22/03/2024 at 19:08, bunglebus said:

Here we go, three of a kind. I think Hot Wheels did it first, followed by Johnny Lightning, with Corgi bringing up the rear.

Twin engined Beetles were certainly a popular idea in the 70s, even if they couldn't possibly have actually worked in the real world.

And the modern version of the JL. It's completely different.

Quite different

I wonder how the Hot Wheels Real Riders retool compares side by side.  Quite similar I reckon, they even reproduced both the sunroof and non-sunroof castings

Notice the roof driver names ‘R Adler’ and ‘J Ludwig’.  Someone must have got a pay rise as Ray Adler is Vice President at Mattel, while John Ludwig was the Senior Marketing Exec that set up the Neo Classics ranges that incorporate Anniversary series, Collectables etc

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Mine was shiny card that slotted together, similar to this

Oohhh I had that.  I remember Bus Stop and the Give Way triangle sign at the junction, when I had no idea what that meant

Must have been a cut-down set as there was no car park in mine

[flat4alfa]

On 23/03/2024 at 10:38, Jon said:

Currently for sale here (but not cheap!):

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354917947701

Came as part of the Corgitronics Leyland truck set, which IIRC had a couple of interchangeable covers for the rear trailer and a clicker thing, to make it turn, or something.

Certainly, I remember playing with the mat and truck (both my older brother's), with Yorkie liveried box on the back and although the clicker still existed, it was long defunct.

Had one of those Leyland Yorkietronic sets a while back

In the box was this

Waited until the wife went to bed and took advantage of the kitchen floor

Then the wife walked in looking for Paracetamol, saw what was going on and lost it

[hennabm]

12 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Matchbox did some in the late 70's like that ( village  sort of layout & I think an airport or docks),earlier ones were card with popup buildings ( farm, motorway & building site).

May have been a Husky roadmat.

That was definitely made from thick poly with a foam backing IIRC.

[bunglebus]

Been to two boot sales this morning. VW nemesis turned up at the second one and somehow netted a box of around 20 mint looking 70s Matchbox and a few Corgis for a bloody fiver, he did give me the Derek Fiske Corgi Rockets out of it for free when I mentioned it was one I didn't have.

I think I got some bargains too, but it did mean having to buy several large bags of cars as a lot

Almost all of those were in the bags, with a couple of loose ones from elsewhere plus some boxed Superfasts for a fair price...

[flat4alfa]

ANOTHER Leyland MX...?

I don't know how you do it

The Car Boots around here are just rained-on stolen hifi, piles of knock-off trainers, trashed Dyson hoovers and everyone speaks broken English with a south eastern-European accent

[bunglebus]

Let's start with these, boxed Superfasts. Bit of a sad tale for the first, apparently someone at another bootsale decided he wanted to look at it and ripped the end flap off the box, and couldn't understand why the seller was annoyed

[Richard_FM]

My brother had one of those jigsaw roads, that was ruined when he set it up one our patio one summer's day, only for a sudden rain shower to soak it!

One of my cousins had one of those play mats with the road network on.

[bunglebus]

Next up, a bunch of Rockets.

Derek Fiske roundy racer donated by the Nemesis out of his £5 box of loveliness

Cougar has seen better days but is complete and restorable 

Best finds are the Escort and Capri though. These three were all in the plastic bags

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, hennabm said:

May have been a Husky roadmat.

That was definitely made from thick poly with a foam backing IIRC.

1968 Husky Catalogue shows this Playmat.  I think I've still got those socks.

I've seen pictures of the row of garages before, but it seems there was also a bridge over to a petrol station and car park extension for it as well

The road signs at bottom corner I presume were just static decoration?

[bunglebus]

52 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

ANOTHER Leyland MX...?

Yes - missing the drop gate thing but that's the same as the regular version

One of these Matchbox MAC weirdos

A Battle Kings hovercraft

Majo Reno

Not a bad Corgi Buick with Trans-O-Lite

Colour changing Baja - didn't realise these were plastic bodied

And a no name MK1 Golf with mismatched wheels

[flat4alfa]

I wondered what the blue and white coach/van in the photo was.  Realised it was this Duple Coach coach casting that went over in Corgi Juniors

and given daft Carlos Fandango wheels on my example

Also has punched-in grille, even though it is part of the bumper casting and that's fixed as factory

[quicksilver]

A few more CMAC 3D prints that had been hanging around for a while waiting for the finishing touches. The Wolseley 6/90 comes in two versions: the police car has a bell and a plate on the grille but the civvy saloon has two foglamps and no plate - that's the beauty of 3D printing as it's so easy to make tweaks like this.

Marina estate. The grille appears to be wrong as all estates seemed to have the grille style of the 1.8 saloon regardless of engine, so this one must have had a transplant.

Another Mini, representing one my parents had. The colour and fake wood trim are wrong for S-reg but it was apparently a 1973 car registered in 1977 for some reason.