Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Do any of you take premiums out the box? I have a couple that I'm itching to open but the packaging is really nice as well.

Yep I decided a whole back they look better on display, I did cut the blisters off carefully and keep the cards though

 

[Split_Pin]

27 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

cut the blisters off carefully

How did you do that without pulling the laminate off the card?

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Do any of you take premiums out the box? I have a couple that I'm itching to open but the packaging is really nice as well.

Yep, I tend to unbox everything, premium or mainline.

If I get something home and don't feel excited to open it right away, then it usually means I'm not all that fussed on it and it goes into the 'trade' pile for swapping.

I try to release the blisters from the backing card as neatly as possible using a plastic 'spudger',  just enough to get the model out, then the models go into a carry case and the boxes go into a storage container in the attic.

I do like the artwork, and feel it's somehow a part of the whole package. At some stage, I might return them to the boxes for display, if I ever get round to figuring out what I want to do with them all.

Ideally I'd probably buy two of everything - one for opening, one for keeping - but that's a bit financially beyond me, especially for premiums...

[Split_Pin]

22 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Yep, I tend to unbox everything, premium or mainline.

If I get something home and don't feel excited to open it right away, then it usually means I'm not all that fussed on it and it goes into the 'trade' pile for swapping.

I try to release the blisters from the backing card as neatly as possible using a plastic 'spudger',  just enough to get the model out, then the models go into a carry case and the boxes go into a storage container in the attic.

I do like the artwork, and feel it's somehow a part of the whole package. At some stage, I might return them to the boxes for display, if I ever get round to figuring out what I want to do with them all.

Ideally I'd probably buy two of everything - one for opening, one for keeping - but that's a bit financially beyond me, especially for premiums...

Thanks Tim, I have wee plastic trim tool for car interior dismantling, that'll do!

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

How did you do that without pulling the laminate off the card?

I literally cut around the sides of the blister, leaving the outside edge still glued on. No-one's found a way to completely remove them without damage yet as the back of the card is glossy, so no acetone/thinner tricks 

[sierraman]

I’m one of these that rarely keeps the box now, I’d need a 3,400 sq ft warehouse to keep them all in! I do keep the old stuff in boxes as it’s part of the charm but the blister packs na…

[sierraman]

Couple of old crocs I’ve bought lately, both French releases of 1/36 Corgi. 

[Split_Pin]

The Corgi 505 is a belter.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Just cleaned the AEC ESSO Tanker.

Before

After

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After

The hatches open

Great decal on the back

The trailer catch is very good.

Both parts have cast titles on the bases. Also all the tyres are in great condition with no cracks.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Also the De Tomaso has had a spruce up.

Before

After

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After

I like these Dinky's that can be dismantled with a twist of a screw driver. It makes cleaning the insides of the window and seat a doddle.

All back together.

WHere the dayglo paint is chipped you can see the pale pink undercoat.

The tyres are in great condition. Also note the slightly wider tyres on the rear.

One the bottom of the box base is a faint ball point pen price of 10/9 (that's 53 1/2p for the young uns), so this must be from 1969 or 1970.

 

[sierraman]

17 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

The Corgi 505 is a belter.

I have the cycling support, Red, red and silver and the taxi so I’d call that a full set. 

[bunglebus]

Had a few more bits arrived in the post (I can tell when I've been bored at work)

How exciting! 

Well not really, it was in a job lot with this

I was going to take it completely out of the packaging, but didn't want to disturb the original tape...

Do you think I'd get a response if I posted this back?

Another job lot had some unidentified cars within, so I took a chance. Slightly battered Solido Lancia Gama

And a 550

Plus this Eligor Bentley, annoyingly missing 25% of it's wheels

Lastly in that batch was a Budgie FX4, possibly one of the only castings of these that doesn't have opening doors

This came separately for custom purposes - one of the earliest releases of this Hot Wheels VW, with the opening decklid

[bunglebus]

I also put in an order with Modelmatic for this set of Boulevards. I'd already bought the Transit

So that's gone to a mate. Here are the rest

Is that a UK number plate?

Buggy is most excellent 

[FakeConcern]

Beta Coupe/pedant

[Zie]

57 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I also put in an order with Modelmatic for this set of Boulevards. I'd already bought the Transit

That's the coolest release I've seen for a good while. 

[AndyW201]

^^^ Nice HW Transit, proper '70s custom style. I had the Mazda on pre order on AliExpress but it got cancelled and went up from £7-odd to over £13. 

Nah!

Must be getting close to Christmas! Not only has local Morrisons started doing HW mainlines again, Matchbox mainlines and Jada Pink Slips,  they've started doing Hot Wheels premiums for the first time. It was the collection with the  Thunderbird drag car and pastel coloured 911. Sadly the 911 and Plymouth Savoy had already gone, which were the ones I was after. Still, if they're selling, hopefully we'll see more in there.

Another first for HW premiums was at one of the B&Ms. Another collection that I've not really seen many of, apart from shitloads of Brasilias in Smyth's.

This, however, is the one I came home with. I like this Golf casting, but so far have only seen the Art Car versions, which aren't really my thing, and the one in German police livery, (which I have, even though I'm still not really keen on it...)

So its nice to have one in a fairly normal, road going version.

The full case was there when I went so hopefully I can grab some of the others as, unusually, I do like all of this collection, especially the Alfa GTV6 and Toyota Supra. Luckily, where this particular B&M is located, its not the sort of location where many  people are likely to pay £9 for a Hot Wheels...

[FakeConcern]

I'm going to have to stop going to toy fairs as I've calculated I now have enough projects to lat me until I'm aged 173.

Starting with Mrs Concern's buys, including repainted Spot On Farina Cambridge with caravan, Triang and Mercury caravans

I usually put the prices on so you can all feel good about yourselves for not spending stupid amounts of dosh on a load of tiny tat like I do. If you find it boring or a waste of space please let me know and I'll stop.

So these came to £10

These were £20, should have been £25, but knocked the seller down, got her to wrap some of them up and then walked off without paying. She had to come after me. Embarrassing!

The Polistil Mini is missing a door, I'll look into making one. The Corgi Cub Mini Van thing @bunglebus has perfect glazing if you want it (was £1) also what is the VW Beetle?

These were part of a buy with Mrs Concern (see above) and work out at £3.50 each. The Renner 12 is Auto Pilen and I now can add it to Norev and Solido versions of the same car.

Seller wanted £6, took £5, brushes work!

One of my fave sellers, always does me a good deal (Mrs Concern's Spot On Cambridge with caravan from him too) various prices, but came to £18 for tat below. Need to see if Mr Flowers does bits for Dinky transporter.

....Stop press @eddyramrod wants some of this shit so bets being taken for what he wants...

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Beta Coupe/pedant

Yes I must learn to read

 

[AndyW201]

Other purchase this weekend came from Lidl. There was a fairly big display stand with Hot Wheels and Matchbox logos on, which I naturally made a beeline for!  Sadly the Matchbox stuff was the Skybuster type planes, no cars.

The Hot Wheels stuff was 3 packs of cars, nothing special, mainly fantasy stuff, and the Track Fleet trucks. After some rummaging, I finally grabbed this,

Been after one of these for ages since bunglebus posted up pictures of one, but there weren't any to be had around here. As usual, Smyths and Entertainer had loads of the other ones, but this and the Optimus Prime one? Nada.

£4.99 from Lidl which didnt seem too bad as they sem to be going for double that on ebay. As pointed out before, this seems to be a completely different casting to the single Volvo Drift Wagon. I do like that casting, but I think I like this one more, I think its the colour and  the fact this one has matching wheels...

The camping trailer is a jolly thing too, I like the retro stripes on it.

Nice roof bar detailing on the Volvo, didn:t notice the bonnet being carbon-look either until I photographed it,

Shame there were no Optimus Prime ones left, but I was happy to grab this one.

[AndyW201]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

 

Is that a UK number plate?

 

German plate by the looks of it, its got the land seal stickers in the middle. That Mazda really is a nice looking thing!

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

The Corgi Cub Mini Van thing @bunglebus has perfect glazing if you want it (was £1) also what is the VW Beetle?

Yes please. Beetle looks familiar but nothing comes immediately to mind, looks a bit like the Polistil ski/snow jobbie I suppose

Nice Zylmex Charger and Matchbox Volvo estate among your purchases

[FakeConcern]

10 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Yes please. Beetle looks familiar but nothing comes immediately to mind, looks a bit like the Polistil ski/snow jobbie I suppose

Nice Zylmex Charger and Matchbox Volvo estate among your purchases

VW Beetle is I think a Sunnyside (couldn't read base last night as tired!).

The Charger is very, better than the yellow one I have already. It's missing the rear bumper, but does have the louvred window.

Let me know if you'd like the Beetle or Charger as well as the Cub. I'll get some pics of them all anyway later on.

 

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Let me know if you'd like the Beetle or Charger as well as the Cub. I'll get some pics of them all anyway later on.

Mine's a little bit tatty, don't mind another one!

No thank you on the Beetle though, bit modern for my tastes

[IronStar]

On 02/11/2024 at 11:34, Datsuncog said:

Yep, I tend to unbox everything, premium or mainline.

If I get something home and don't feel excited to open it right away, then it usually means I'm not all that fussed on it and it goes into the 'trade' pile for swapping.

I try to release the blisters from the backing card as neatly as possible using a plastic 'spudger',  just enough to get the model out, then the models go into a carry case and the boxes go into a storage container in the attic.

I do like the artwork, and feel it's somehow a part of the whole package. At some stage, I might return them to the boxes for display, if I ever get round to figuring out what I want to do with them all.

Ideally I'd probably buy two of everything - one for opening, one for keeping - but that's a bit financially beyond me, especially for premiums...

I saw someone cutting the card to fit the size behind the car on display case, so you get to keep the artwork and cars in case gets cool background. 

[Split_Pin]

39 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Mine's a little bit tatty, don't mind another one!

No thank you on the Beetle though, bit modern for my tastes

Crikey I had one of those which came with a Jeep and a trailer but annoyingly I lost the Charger. The trailer is long gone but the wreck of the Jeep survived at my mum's house up until about last year I think.

[bunglebus]

I've put some Hot Wheels cards in one of mine - I should do the other cabinets too as I have lots of cards stashed away

 

[bunglebus]

Had a slightly odd encounter this morning. In the Post Office queue with a huge bag of parcels to send from this week's eBay auctions, let a guy go in front of me as he just had two boxes. Thought he looked familiar but couldn't think why. 

He was asked about the contents and said toy cars, said oh that's what I'm sending too - turns out he buys and sells lots of diecast stuff that's right up my/our street, so we exchanged eBay usernames, might lead to some new acquisitions. 

Think I've seen him either at boot sales or toy fairs, you know when you realise someone else is looking for similar stuff, so you try and get ahead of them?!

[Tenmil Socket]

12 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Had a slightly odd encounter this morning. In the Post Office queue with a huge bag of parcels to send from this week's eBay auctions, let a guy go in front of me as he just had two boxes. Thought he looked familiar but couldn't think why. 

He was asked about the contents and said toy cars, said oh that's what I'm sending too - turns out he buys and sells lots of diecast stuff that's right up my/our street, so we exchanged eBay usernames, might lead to some new acquisitions. 

Think I've seen him either at boot sales or toy fairs, you know when you realise someone else is looking for similar stuff, so you try and get ahead of them?!

I always say 'model cars' 😁

[bunglebus]

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Had a slightly odd encounter this morning. In the Post Office queue with a huge bag of parcels to send from this week's eBay auctions, let a guy go in front of me as he just had two boxes. Thought he looked familiar but couldn't think why. 

He was asked about the contents and said toy cars, said oh that's what I'm sending too - turns out he buys and sells lots of diecast stuff that's right up my/our street, so we exchanged eBay usernames, might lead to some new acquisitions. 

Think I've seen him either at boot sales or toy fairs, you know when you realise someone else is looking for similar stuff, so you try and get ahead of them?!

You have your own Nemesis?..