Shite in Miniature II

[Tenmil Socket]

15 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Here's a small Carmichael kit I have 

Crikey, that is small! 

It would be my type of kit in a larger scale though simply gluing 6 wheels on 😂

[flat4alfa]

On 07/05/2024 at 10:48, Tenmil Socket said:

I think there’s a light blue one too?

It seems during the original production (Lesney / Matchbox International crossover period) were just the Police (with or without Rescue tampo) and Fire service liveries 

They had a roof ladder fitted throughout, although there was this water cannon idea done as a pre-production.  I think this would look good on @eddyramrod’s ‘Battle of the Beanfield’ Camper version

The casting was resurrected for Bulgarian 1990s production which saw plenty more variations and fitted with a pair of roof sirens instead 

[bunglebus]

Dinky Ghia has had lots and lots of filing and sanding. There are still some areas with obvious defects but I don't like using filler, it always causes me problems. I've either got to live with them or build up some primer to sand back

[bunglebus]

Bit of etch...

...prime...

Now decision time. I really want to two tone this something era correct like this

Shame the whitewalls @MiniMinorMk3 sent me don't quite fit in the arches (well not if I want it to roll)

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

13 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Shame the whitewalls @MiniMinorMk3 sent me don't quite fit in the arches (well not if I want it to roll)

 

When I sent them I thought they might be a bit big. With a bit of colour on the body shell they'd still look good.

By the way, are the tyres loose on the rims. If so you could cut a small segment from the tyre and re-stick with super glue onto the rim, they may get you some clearance.

[bunglebus]

Saw a few bits in a charity shop earlier

Far eastern Golf

Unknown Bugatti

And this - got very excited until I saw the £40 £30 price 

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

got very excited until I saw the £40 price 

It says £29.99 and has a date from a few weeks ago, so if you ask the manager/pricer they may be open to offers as they’ve had it a while taking up space and stock needs rotation/clearing

Or just use your Jedi Mind Trick, because after all, CR is run like a corporation these days

[RoadworkUK]

Bugatti is a Bburago, shirley?

[MiniMinorMk3]

14 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Unknown Bugatti

And this - got very excited until I saw the £40 £30 price 

 

 

42 minutes ago, RoadworkUK said:

Bugatti is a Bburago, shirley?

Yes Bugatti is 1/18th scale Bburago

BURAGO 3012 Scale 1/18 | BUGATTI F1 GRAND-PRIX N 14 1935 DARK YELLOW (carmodel.com)

[junkyarddog]

Some recent finds in no particular order. 

Burago Merc 190,this was covered in waterslide "Rally" decals,but a soak in water and a good scrub removed them.

Burago BMW 3.0 CS.

Corgi Elan S2 hardtop.

Removable chassis version. 

Matchbox superfast Mercedes 300se in silver,never seen one this colour before, any rarity value is offset by the slightly  squashed roof. 

Dinky Roller with the full complement of opening flappage!

This thing is heavy!

Dinky Mercedes 600,again with full opening flappage!

Corgi juniors Ford D series transporter with the earlier rubber tyres,and the plastic wheel chocks still attached. 

A few random Regular wheeled matchbox. 

Lastly this Daf car transporter made by Lion Car.

Made in Holland. 

Some nice additions to the ever burgeoning collection. 

I'm going to have to stop soon I think. 

Waaaay to much stuff!!🙄

[MiniMinorMk3]

2 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Matchbox superfast Mercedes 300se in silver,never seen one this colour before, any rarity value is offset by the slightly  squashed roof. 

 

 

The silver 300SE was part of a multi-pack. Mint ones are worth £50-£100 at auction.

 

[bunglebus]

Dinky Ghia put me in a huff last night, or more specifically the etch primer did. The finish is like sand, so even after a couple of coats of primer it looked terrible. I nearly stripped the lot but decided to try wet sanding it first, problem is there are a lot of nooks crannies and intricate bits to try and smooth out!

I think it helped in the end as 95% of the defects seem to have been hidden by the paint

I couldn't get a really shiny finish from this Holts aerosol, but I'll lacquer it after painting the roof anyway so all should be well

Hubs have been polished

Despite trying to sand the tyres down they still touch the body at the front. I may persevere or just accept it won't roll. Leaving the base bare as I like seeing the patent number detail that was hidden before 

[junkyarddog]

35 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The silver 300SE was part of a multi-pack. Mint ones are worth £50-£100 at auction.

 

So a squished one is worth the €1.00 I paid then😆

[FakeConcern]

A couple of very interesting boxes arrived in the post this week, firstly a genuine Tat Friday Cogbox!

containing a load of tat, most of which I'd forgotten was coming my way

Everything is for a reason, Mrs Concern is having the Matchbox Prefect and intending it to represent one her dad had when she was small (actually she's still quite small)

The Britains Disco I intend to renovate for Mrs Concerns sister who has been making (really rather good) dioramas using Britains toys. The Super 7 is going to become a Danger Man/Prisoner lookalike. The Corgi Mini will join the Mini collection. The Elephant cage will go on the back of a Chipperfields Land Rover. The RS Focus will join some other similar scale and era rally cars. The Dinky Spitfire (with genuine seatbelt!) will join the othet Dinky sports cars. The Elan will join the others. Both the Marcos and the Fulvia will be part of the Tri Deck display.

These four are all really nice!

So at last a genuine almost complete Whizzwheels Fulvia for my Tri Deck and how does it compare to my Fake Corgi one?

The orange is a bit redder and much brighter than the fake, but that already had a Whizzwheels base thanks to Tat Friday and @Datsuncog.

The second package to arrive was labelled thus...

You may remember that I had a spare Corgi Golden Jacks RR & @flat4alfa had as extra Dinky RR with opening glovebox (no gloves included) and a deal was done where I've now got a Dinky RR and a Corgi RR radiator mascot! Another Steve Flowers order is going to happen then!

After I'd taken out the Rollers I found an unexpected extra...

Very kind of you Mr Alfa.

Rather strangely having had so much trouble getting a Whizzwheels Fulvia for my GS20 I did find another one at the weekend for £2.50, so now I have these...

I think I have an old blue one with a grill and lights to donate to the nice genuine one.

So thankyou very much @Datsuncog and @flat4alfa

[andrew e]

Stumbling past my old place of employment whilst helping local publicans (with a 50% existence rate sadly) the Portebello road threw up these well loved gems!

I nearly Siku Mack purchased but figured they end up forgotten in the last pub I just left 😉 

 

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Scammell Transporter deserves Whizzwheels now!

[sierraman]

15 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The silver 300SE was part of a multi-pack. Mint ones are worth £50-£100 at auction.

 

I’ve got one, had it years. They’re very very difficult to find. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

16 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Despite trying to sand the tyres down they still touch the body at the front. I may persevere or just accept it won't roll. Leaving the base bare as I like seeing the patent number detail that was hidden before 

Have you thought about a wash of thinned down Humbrol satin black for the base?

[flat4alfa]

The multipack was produced for 1981

Bulgarian and Hungarian production ran to as late as 1987

Got a first release Lesney pre-Superfast 1968 somewhere.  Opening doors and boot.  Also the 1978 military green Staff Car twin-pack one, sealed doors and boot. Had since a boy.

[sierraman]

I’m just waiting to find somewhere that sells humbrol, I’ve got one that’s had all the paint off ready for painting. 

[bunglebus]

Goodness me, two shelves full of it

[MiniMinorMk3]

Hobbycraft used to do Humbrol, but now sell the Revell range of paints, along with the Tamiya stuff. For Humbrol you could go direct

Humbrol UK - For All Your Model Painting and Varnishing Needs

or use these guys if you want more than just paints

Humbrol Paints I Humbrol Model Paint Range I Next Day Delivery Available (emodels.co.uk)

[Split_Pin]

21 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Some recent finds in no particular order. 

Burago Merc 190,this was covered in waterslide "Rally" decals,but a soak in water and a good scrub removed them.

Burago BMW 3.0 CS.

Corgi Elan S2 hardtop.

Removable chassis version. 

Matchbox superfast Mercedes 300se in silver,never seen one this colour before, any rarity value is offset by the slightly  squashed roof. 

Dinky Roller with the full complement of opening flappage!

This thing is heavy!

Dinky Mercedes 600,again with full opening flappage!

Corgi juniors Ford D series transporter with the earlier rubber tyres,and the plastic wheel chocks still attached. 

A few random Regular wheeled matchbox. 

Lastly this Daf car transporter made by Lion Car.

Made in Holland. 

Some nice additions to the ever burgeoning collection. 

I'm going to have to stop soon I think. 

Waaaay to much stuff!!🙄

I love the Bburago BMW CSL, that's a new one on me.

[bunglebus]

As predicted, Smyths have all the Team Transports in now

As well as some new premiums 

Even One Beyond have got proper cars in now rather than Teamsterz crap

[bunglebus]

Hey Beavis...check it out:

It's the Packin Pacer!

Might open that up to compare to the old one

@andrew e found me a carded Majo Volvo on one of his jollies

@FakeConcern kindly sent me this to tug my Pepsi trailer around - cheers!

Bought a few job lots, one turned out to be a load of crap, what I thought was a rare colour Matchbox with its box turned out to be a rubbish repaint with an equally bad repro box, and the others are just junk. I was slightly more successful with this lot, Jimson Mitsubishi in a different colour to my toy fair find 

Those cheeky chappies at Lucky certainly didn't give a hoot about copyright infringement, here's their version of the Corgi Range Rover 

This is an oddball, anyone want a Winross lorry to play with?

Nearly forgot - scored another cheap Spot On. Don't think this one's going to make anyone jealous though

Last mildly interesting item is not a Galanite, which is good as I don't collect them. It's a Tomte Laerdal

[Spottedlaurel]

9 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Hobbycraft used to do Humbrol, but now sell the Revell range of paints, along with the Tamiya stuff. For Humbrol you could go direct

Humbrol UK - For All Your Model Painting and Varnishing Needs

or use these guys if you want more than just paints

Humbrol Paints I Humbrol Model Paint Range I Next Day Delivery Available (emodels.co.uk)

I mostly use Revell enamel nowadays (or email as they call it). Seems to work better than modern Humbrol.

[eddyramrod]

@bunglebus what sort of scale is that Winross?  I could see that among my trucks...

[flat4alfa]

On 08/05/2024 at 20:26, FakeConcern said:

After I'd taken out the Rollers I found an unexpected extra...

Very kind of you Mr Alfa.

Well you see...

A while ago I found this sorry state at I think a car boot fair, can't remember.  Was going to throw it straight back...

..but looked underneath and saw this.  Then I remembered that I knew someone with a fixation* on these sort of bases

So I bought it and kept it back in the parts pile, because I wanted the headlamps off it for the tidier pair on the shelf that have an eye out each.  But not only that the engine piece - representing an iconic canted V4 engine no less - could* be used elsewhere.

Then forgot about it.

Found it again just the other day, and just in time to fling part of itself into a box going out the door.  So the engine and lights might live on back here, while the base went off to the Sussex seaside to be used perhaps to create another Whizzwheel-ified project.  How about a missing-link Whizzwheel 332 Yellow one with black bits to confuse the Corgi Collector market?

[flat4alfa]

17 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

@bunglebus what sort of scale is that Winross?  I could see that among my trucks...

Should be 1:64

[FakeConcern]

5 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Well you see...

A while ago I found this sorry state at I think a car boot fair, can't remember.  Was going to throw it straight back...

..but looked underneath and saw this.  Then I remembered that I knew someone with a fixation on these sort of bases

So I bought it and kept it back in the parts pile, because I wanted the headlamps off it for the tidier pair on the shelf that have an eye out each.  But not only that the engine piece - representing an iconic V4 engine no less - could be used elsewhere.

Then forgot about it.

Found it again just the other day, and just in time to find itself into a box going out the door.  So the engine and lights might live on, while the base went off to the Sussex seaside to be used perhaps to create another Whizzwheel-ified project.  How about a missing-link Whizzwheel 332 Yellow one with black bits to confuse the Corgi Collector market?

Hmm...