Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

Sainsbury's have these 8 packs of Hot Wheels, £18 a pop though

There are also some new MB 5 packs on the 2 for £15 deal, nowhere near the Tesco price though

[ETCHY]

Dinky Humber hawk that landed today.

I like this it's in just the sort of condition I prefer. Used but not knackered.
Nice little casting, pity Dinky didn't put an interior in it. It has got suspension though !
 

[morrisoxide]

Yesterday I went to Doncaster Racecourse Antiques fair and bought these.

£2 a pop for these two. That Zephyr has eluded me for years. 

Then £1 a pop for this lot.

But the creme de la creme is this Vedette!

I folded at £8 for this flimsy plastic wonder. 

[bunglebus]

My Humbers are a mixed bag, police version has interior and occupants

Formerly green one does not

 

[FakeConcern]

Mine has no interior either,

but it does have number plates!

[eddyramrod]

That's a Coventry plate too, how apt!

[flat4alfa]

You’d like to think it’s based on a press car

[flat4alfa]

I can go one better on the Humbers

I have an early one when you didn’t even get glazing.  So no interior to get wet in the inevitable Coventry deluge

[sierraman]

Wasn’t Corgi notable at the time for having glazing and an interior? 

[Dick Longbridge]

If anyone wants to add to their diecast collection, I'm listing 40+ models on a roffle. 

 

 

[flat4alfa]

22 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Wasn’t Corgi notable at the time for having glazing and an interior? 

Yes at launch in 1956. Kicked Dinky into touch.

[FakeConcern]

From The Great Book...

 

[ETCHY]

19 hours ago, bunglebus said:

My Humbers are a mixed bag, police version has interior and occupants

Formerly green one does not

 

Nice to see the Police one, that has my completist personality twitching & Ebay may be looked at later... I wonder why they didn't model the top of the range Super-Snipe instead of the Hawk ?

[ETCHY]

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I can go one better on the Humbers

I have an early one when you didn’t even get glazing.  So no interior to get wet in the inevitable Coventry deluge

Oooh now that is interesting, it says Prov Patent on bottom of mine so I assumed it was early but sounds like yours is even earlier !

[ETCHY]

5 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Mine has no interior either,

but it does have number plates!

Those number plates look brill !

[bunglebus]

Tesco have new 5 packs in, and the £5 deal is still on

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, ETCHY said:

Oooh now that is interesting, it says Prov Patent on bottom of mine so I assumed it was early but sounds like yours is even earlier !

I understood it was the suspension ‘technology’ that was submitted rather than the castings themselves, hence ‘PROV PAT’ (or ‘BREVETE’ for French production) was applied to bases from 1960 and continued through.  This is why Hong Kong production Dinky (the inherited Spot Ons) did not.  Interestingly, Chinese reproduction in recent years under Atlas distribution all stated ‘PROV PAT’ as well and just reproduced the submitted numbers. Perhaps in honour, perhaps in confusion - as there was no need as the max 20 years had passed.

[sierraman]

Those mechanical ones had an oil hole on the base I think? 

[andrew e]

Having an amateur @Jon moment with this Welly Renault 5 I brought when I was supposed to be getting dinner supplies, I blamed the continental language barrier to the Mrs and she just scowled and snatched the rock hard French stick in my other hand 😂

[ETCHY]

10 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Mine has no interior either,

but it does have number plates!

Can I ask would those number plates have been original to it or has somebody added them ?
Is it something you can buy to add to toy cars, I quite fancy doing that if possible ?
Cheers

[flat4alfa]

They are not just ‘toy cars’

They are a lifestyle.

Your home will become a shrine

The Gazelle range by Adidas is worn as part of the sub-culture

Days out become events to experience the wild variations of body odour and halitosis in equal measure

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Those mechanical ones had an oil hole on the base I think? 

Yes.  So you could over-fill with light oil that would then spray about and get up to the glazing and cloud the windows from the inside.

 A style later adopted by Cheech & Chong

[FakeConcern]

1 hour ago, andrew e said:

Having an amateur @Jon moment with this Welly Renault 5 I brought when I was supposed to be getting dinner supplies, I blamed the continental language barrier to the Mrs and she just scowled and snatched the rock hard French stick in my other hand 😂

 

[FakeConcern]

42 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

Can I ask would those number plates have been original to it or has somebody added them ?
Is it something you can buy to add to toy cars, I quite fancy doing that if possible ?
Cheers

I don't know for sure but I'd think they were added by a small child, when I was a kid it was possible to buy sets of those sort of number plates, tax discs, running in stickers and all sorts of other stuff. I did it an I expect many others did too. Now you can get similar from model shops and ebay etc. I agree they look great.

[bunglebus]

Funny enough one of my Hawks has the Running In sticker

And one has appropriate plates

 

[FakeConcern]

Today the Corgi Mini Pickup got some primer, also in the pic you can see that the wheels disolved in cosmic soda! I think someone ( @flat4alfa maybe?) warned me this could happen with some wheels.

The Dinky HA Viva I got the other day missing it's bonnet is now sporting one I painetd satin black ( a bit more shiny than I wanted). I think is quite a good 60s period look

I'm thinking of putting some racing numbers on it as well

One of the Spot On Zephyrs is now black and is going to be re built with repaired original parts while the other one will get some repro bits and be a Z Cars Zephyr again

[ETCHY]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

They are not just ‘toy cars’

They are a lifestyle.

Your home will become a shrine

The Gazelle range by Adidas is worn as part of the sub-culture

Days out become events to experience the wild variations of body odour and halitosis in equal measure

Funnily enough that last line reminds me of the many militaria shows I used to attend. Oh how my long suffering other half enjoyed accompanying me to those..😆.

I think trips to model shows/swapmeets may be her next treat 😉 I just told her that & she's sobbing quietly..

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, ETCHY said:

Can I ask would those number plates have been original to it or has somebody added them ?

As explained above, this sort of thing happened

[andrew e]

2 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

 

STALKER! I picked these up too, they didn’t have the Cairo map in stock 😂

[bunglebus]

Couple of three packs found in France. I collect the VW casting and my mate the Lotus, saw that in the expensive 8 pack back in blighty the other day, bit cheaper getting it this way

There were a few other bits hanging around but not for me