Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

Now that’s dediCATion 😁

[bunglebus]

Didn't come home with a lot this morning 

[bunglebus]

Bit of a curve ball 1st courtesy of @dan95x

95% complete and disassembled despite undrilled rivets!

Boot sale stuff consists of a couple of MB VWs

A tidy Hi Trailer

Unusual Holden 

Pop-up camper with glow in the dark bits

And a Premier Collection 56 Ford Pick-up

Don't quite know why I decided I wanted these two Lone Stars 

Or this Crescent

But the Dinky's rather nice. Don't know much about this particular one, mechanism to release the trailer is neat though

Looks like one of those precariously loaded vehicles you see headed for Africa

[flat4alfa]

[bunglebus]

Maybe I should have picked up the third car to complete this 3 pack - lady said she had the torch somewhere 

The Dune Buggy just struck me as very cheaply made though

Glow test:

[bunglebus]

Hirohata Merc Super Treasure Hunt coming to shop near* you soon

 

 

* on the same planet

[andrew e]

So today a huge parcel arrived!

Doing my best @eddyramrod and protesting “I won it in a roffle dear”  I *think* she believed me…. so I found a knife!

BLOODY HITCHHIKERS 🤣

Check this little lot out! Bloody fantastic! Hat tip to @Datsuncog for the excellent roffle and usual quality packaging. But whats this? A bonus Corgi Consul, a proper sweet little thing it is too! Cheers Tim 👍

[andrew e]

If you were in the roffle for the above, I have an announcement!

 

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, andrew e said:

 

lOnE sTaR fIrEnZa?

[Datsuncog]

4 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

lOnE sTaR fIrEnZa?

Tragically, no, not this time...

But there were a couple of other bits and pieces I found, that I'd forgotten you'd asked me for - with the additional Corgi Cubs in my last parcel from you, I think we're all squared up!

[flat4alfa]

[eddyramrod]

I have no idea how it happens, but somehow I've managed to get some model time lately.  So, in my last box from @FakeConcern there was a Corgi Chevy Impala taxi: early issue with the one-piece bodyshell.  So I stripped it and set about correcting something that's always niggled me about this model.  It's the "flat-top" body, which on the real car is a pillarless four-door.  Corgi chose to model it with all the windows up, which is fine, except they then cast in some very heavy B pillars.  They're probably supposed to represent the frames that edge the actual windows, but at this scale, why would you?    They're much too heavy and make it look like a sedan, which has a completely different roofline.  So I cut out the pillars and even filed away the horizontal rail above, giving the side windows a much more pleasing aspect.

Why paint it black?  Because one of my friends in the American Auto Club North West has a black flat-top, because he was so smitten by a real one he saw as a kid that when he retired, he just had to have one.  He's now had it at least 15 years and it's an absolute credit to him.  This model will now go in the Personal cabinet, which not only includes cars I've owned, but also cars my friends and family have owned.

And now to Corgi Juniors, and a Renault Trafic van from @danthecapriman.  This is for the Film/TV collection, you may recognise it...

Zak Dingle's tasteless two-tone van from Emmerdale, of course.

And then the Hero Car (to use the modern parlance) from a very old TV series.  But it was the Hero Car for only one episode, in which it was gratuitously wrecked, before being replaced by the car most viewers would remember.

Yes, it's a Hillman Hunter, the Corgi rally car of course.  Another Dan treasure, this one was aching for some sort of restoration.  So I stripped it, filled in the various holes, painted it blue... and now it's Eddie Shoestring's car from the BBC series.  Mostly he had a red Cortina estate, but this is his previous ride.

[Datsuncog]

Crumbs, I well remember Eddie Shoestring's Cortina estate but I've no recall of his Hunter... must have missed that episode!

Good that someone's around to keep a miniature record of all these things!

[danthecapriman]

Great work @eddyramrod! That Chevy looks brilliant without the pillars.

I can also confirm, that Hunter was an absolute mess before! I think it was clearly someone’s favourite toy way back when, and it’s been played with! A lot! 
Looks fantastic in the blue road car style👍

[Spottedlaurel]

Yesterday's 1:1 car show and autojumble had much more to offer than the toy fair the previous weekend, I could have bought far more than this lot:

Star buys were probably these two for £1 each:

Another seller had a Siku Citroen SM, but they wanted £10.

Great to get such a tidy example of one of the big Majorette trucks, with a rather fancy horsebox.

I have a couple of 3dr Majorette 5s but the 5dr has somehow evaded me until now. Solido version goes nicely with the random French things I have in 1/43.

Catalogue not cheap at £5, but it marks what they had in the range in the year I was born.

Good to see the garage I got last weekend as it should be. Quite a bit I'm missing.

And on the subject of garages....

This was very nice, but I couldn't justify spending that much.

[bunglebus]

52 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

I have a couple of 3dr Majorette 5s but the 5dr has somehow evaded me until now

Me too! Still trying to track one down

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Yesterday's 1:1 car show and autojumble had much more to offer than the toy fair the previous weekend, I could have bought far more than this lot:

Star buys were probably these two for £1 each:

Another seller had a Siku Citroen SM, but they wanted £10.

Great to get such a tidy example of one of the big Majorette trucks, with a rather fancy horsebox.

I have a couple of 3dr Majorette 5s but the 5dr has somehow evaded me until now. Solido version goes nicely with the random French things I have in 1/43.

Catalogue not cheap at £5, but it marks what they had in the range in the year I was born.

Good to see the garage I got last weekend as it should be. Quite a bit I'm missing.

And on the subject of garages....

This was very nice, but I couldn't justify spending that much.

I love those two service station sets! I could have played with those for hours as a kid! Never seen that JoyToys one though.

The catalog is interesting too, is it just me or are the wheels drawn in very similar style to the old Hot Wheels blackwall style?!

[bunglebus]

19 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

The catalog is interesting too, is it just me or are the wheels drawn in very similar style to the old Hot Wheels blackwall style?!

That's exactly the market Lesney were aiming for, Hot Wheels had taken the toy car industry by surprise and so they were fighting back with the likes of Superfast and Corgi Whizzwheels 

 

[flat4alfa]

Artwork inside too

[plasticvandan]

Here's what I got at Shepton mallet toy fair today,always early bird it,the pleasure of walking round with no crowds,finding any good stuff that's not been snaffled and leaving as the huge queue snakes around outside is worth it.

I have a thing for mechanical horses and scammell scarabs,so that's another one to the collection,the acadiane was £1 and the same colour as one my dad had so had to get that.The ant is to replace one I had as a child that's long lost,happy with that for £6, and particularly pleased with the Anker Trabi,I had been after one for some time,a barkas also on the want list,this was a whopping £12 and is very lovely

[bunglebus]

Today's finds

[egg]

I picked this up from the local toy fair a couple of weeks back

In a kind of madness, I decided to opt to remove the overpaint using various mild abrasives rather than a full restore 

These close-up pics reveal that you could go on forever removing tiny paint fragments

However, to be honest it's now pretty much as good as the one I already have on the left...

[bunglebus]

Bit of a mixed bag today, lots of choice but all the good stuff was at less than bargain prices. 

50p for this even as a donor is alright though

However I got my pants pulled down here - first box I started rummaging in was absolutely full of correct era Matchbox, bought far too many tatty ones and gave an extra £2 for this - only realising later it's got a couple of rather glaring faults...

Bender Dodge Charger is cool for £3 though

Let me know if you've got enough Cubs @Datsuncog. Think I've sent you a version of this but it's very tidy, and devoid of Corgi lettering on the base 

Back to that first box, don't think I've come across this combo before 

They're all pretty well worn

AMX from the same seller as the Charger

I know these aren't well loved, but it needed rescuing from the 50p box

Siku

Weirdest find of the day is this Playart Volvo 340 - broken grille so you get these views instead

Dinky van

Corgi van - sure I've got this one!

And a Majorette Porsche

I suspect many of these will be on my sales thread at some point...

[egg]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I suspect many of these will be on my sales thread at some point...

I know the answer will be 'no', but does the blue removals van have its original opening door at the back?

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, egg said:

I know the answer will be 'no', but does the blue removals van have its original opening door at the back?

Well...

[flat4alfa]

5 hours ago, plasticvandan said:

particularly pleased with the Anker Trabi,I had been after one for some time,a barkas also on the want list,this was a whopping £12 and is very lovely

You might have liked the Anker FIAT 242 I had

[Tenmil Socket]

Would anyone like to run a roffle for me for 6 free tickets?

It would be 50p a ticket or 6 for £2.50 with UK delivery.

2 x free Autoshite stickers included!

Pics below:

 

[danthecapriman]

Reassembled the old beat up Vanguard’s Escort I got earlier this year. 
Done as a low end model and NOT a(nother!) Mexico. 
Still a few bits to paint in but I do like that maroon paint (Tamiya).

 
Resprayed the roof on the BMW too. Somehow overnight it got scratched!? No idea how but it’s fine now.

    
Im feeling the Hun love at the moment so started a Benz too. Not just any Benz but a W114/5 Lang… 

Started life as a Beirut taxi 240D in yellow & white, but I think such a rig deserves better so it’s no longer a taxi and it’s getting a more classy paint job more fitting for the marque!

[andrew e]

So continuing on from my diecast roffle winnings it transpires I have two Bond Aston’s. Now I presumed the recent Corgi Bond release would be the same as the Corgi club release, bar the colour being a flat tone….

Sow why is it bloody larger 😂

Everything windscreen forward is totally different too! The rear window is also a different shape. Did everyone else know this, and it’s just me? So it looks like I’m keeping them both 😁

 

[bunglebus]

The CMC one is supposed to be the smaller first release - the other one looks like the casting used for the later version (271) but incorrectly numbered and painted gold to look like the first type.

*Edit* nope

There have been so many versions of the flippin' DB5 it gets very confusing. I'd trust the CMC one to be correct 

http://www.corgi.free.fr/Pages/261.htm

Is it a gold painted 270?

http://www.corgi.free.fr/Pages/270_V2.htm