Shite in Miniature II

[ETCHY]

On 08/11/2024 at 14:45, warch said:

Another impulse purchase via me supporting a new toy shop that’s just opened in my local town. 
 

The Oxford Diecast 1/76 Austin Metro. Based on the real life 1980 1.0L bought for Diana Spencer by Prince Charles. I’m not a royalist especially and I expect this car which is now in Coventry Transport Museum was just a good exemplar to base the model on. 
 

I think it captures the shape rather well. Boggo BL cars are rather underrepresented in diecast form, with most models based on the 6R4. I quite fancy the O D Maestro to go with it.

It does capture the shape well. Early Metros always looked a bit barrell sided with wheels a bit too small & they've captured that well. I like that.

[quicksilver]

On 08/11/2024 at 19:53, RoadworkUK said:

Good job... except for painting Mk2 facelift lights onto a Mk1. Bit ug.

I'd have gone for Citrine yellow paint and made a bodykitted Si.

I'd have gone for Cayman Blue for obvious reasons. Anyone spotted Matchbox's error? The base says it's a Mondeo Ghia but it can't be as it hasn't got a sunroof.

[eddyramrod]

5 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

I'd have gone for Cayman Blue for obvious reasons. Anyone spotted Matchbox's error? The base says it's a Mondeo Ghia but it can't be as it hasn't got a sunroof.

Impressive nerdity there!

[MiniMinorMk3]

14 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

I read that Pilen did a copy of the Corgi Mini Magnifique, I'm sure @MiniMinorMk3will be along shortly to tell us the story...

 

If it is true I need one...

Here's a direct comparison between the Corgi Magnifique and the Pilen Mini (Cooper) 1275 GT. By the way, the Pilen is a model of the Spanish built 1275 GT that was built at the Authi factory.

13 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There seems to be quite a lot of mystery around Pilen, with most (if not all) of their castings originating elsewhere - and yet they were clearly capable of good work, with the added opening doors etc as discussed above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen

I thought my Adams Probe was a Pilen but it's a Joal. Spain seems to have been a bit of a hotbed of copying/borrowing/inheriting castings for a while!

 

A Pilen Adams Probe for comparison

[Tenmil Socket]

13 hours ago, sierraman said:

Look at these bargains in Blackpool! £1.50 each for unboxed tatty Days Gone. My pockets weren’t big enough to cram them all in… 🤣

Is that the shop that’s next to a McDonalds?

[Tenmil Socket]

2 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Is that the shop that’s next to a McDonalds?

The McDonalds is just around the corner to this one that I’m thinking of.

 

[quicksilver]

26 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

It does capture the shape well. Early Metros always looked a bit barrell sided with wheels a bit too small & they've captured that well. I like that.

It's not a bad effort for such a small scale but something about it doesn't look quite right to my eyes. It seems a bit top heavy so perhaps the glasshouse is a tad too big and the wheels too tucked under. Compared with the 3D print the windscreen especially is a lot bigger and my memory of Metros is of the screen being quite small.

[bunglebus]

Toy fair day. I almost didn't go as I was supposed to be demolishing my dad's shed, but he got the delivery dates wrong. Good job really as there was a lot to see. I came home with these

Pretty restrained for me? Yeah except just as I was leaving I stopped to dribble over two large trays of very tidy Matchbox. I was going to take just four, but came to an agreement with the seller - and took the lot!

Don't think I'll be going through them all straight away, as I'm on a job for a few days from tomorrow morning. Hopefully by next weekend I'll have them catalogued

 

[danthecapriman]

14 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Toy fair day. I almost didn't go as I was supposed to be demolishing my dad's shed, but he got the delivery dates wrong. Good job really as there was a lot to see. I came home with these

Pretty restrained for me? Yeah except just as I was leaving I stopped to dribble over two large trays of very tidy Matchbox. I was going to take just four, but came to an agreement with the seller - and took the lot!

Don't think I'll be going through them all straight away, as I'm on a job for a few days from tomorrow morning. Hopefully by next weekend I'll have them catalogued

 

Nice!

Ive got one of those big Triang BMC trucks here somewhere waiting its turn for restoring. They’re an impressive looking toy!

Is that an AMC Gremlin I can see there too? Green in its box.

[bunglebus]

3 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Nice!

Ive got one of those big Triang BMC trucks here somewhere waiting its turn for restoring. They’re an impressive looking toy!

Is that an AMC Gremlin I can see there too? Green in its box.

That Triang, and most of the loose cars were 50p each. I wasn't leaving it behind at that price.

The AMC came from a seller with lots of oddities, I could have bought various other things but was trying be restrained! Here are some pics I took today 

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Is that the shop that’s next to a McDonalds?

There’s a McD just down the road, it’s behind tower. Did get a Black AMX Javellin for £1.50 though! Couldn’t leave empty handed 😂😂

[barrett]

15 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There seems to be quite a lot of mystery around Pilen, with most (if not all) of their castings originating elsewhere - and yet they were clearly capable of good work, with the added opening doors etc as discussed above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen

I thought my Adams Probe was a Pilen but it's a Joal. Spain seems to have been a bit of a hotbed of copying/borrowing/inheriting castings for a while!

 

Here's my most recent Pilen list. Without comparing some of the castings directly I can't be certain about some but I think this is pretty accurate as to the source of their castings.

The original castings are particularly lovely – probably the nicest mid/late-70s toys out there when all the other companies were in full-on cost-cutting mode. The remakes are usually better quality than the prototypes, too, as they all have accurate wheels and really nice colour schemes. The one downside for collectors I guess is the fairly limited colour pallete – quite a few were only ever produced in one colour from what I can tell so there isn't much variety.

Here are my two most recent buys, both ex-French Dinky

The CX has been touched in with a bit of detailling but it actually looks quite neat. I love the wheel castings which pretty accurately denote it as a 1976 Pallas (iirc). I recently packed most of my diecast stuff away in boxes but I've kept the Pilens out as I like them so much.

[MiniMinorMk3]

A couple missing from your @barrett list.

Volvo 66 was a Pilen original

Buggi Playeroo

 

Lotus Elite pull back

Porsche 917

Porsche (906) Carrera 6

Range Rover

Renault R5

[155V6]

I went over to the dark side today.After looking round the car boot for an hour,& not buying a single thing,I paid 10p for this Oxford (Austin?) van just because I like crows 😆

[155V6]

3 hours ago, quicksilver said:

I'd have gone for Cayman Blue for obvious reasons. Anyone spotted Matchbox's error? The base says it's a Mondeo Ghia but it can't be as it hasn't got a sunroof.

Pretty sure the 1st BTCC Mondeos were badged as Ghias,but obviously a race car wouldn't have a sunroof.It wouldn't have had 5 seats either though 🤪

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, barrett said:

Here's my most recent Pilen list. Without comparing some of the castings directly I can't be certain about some but I think this is pretty accurate as to the source of their castings.

The original castings are particularly lovely – probably the nicest mid/late-70s toys out there when all the other companies were in full-on cost-cutting mode. The remakes are usually better quality than the prototypes, too, as they all have accurate wheels and really nice colour schemes. The one downside for collectors I guess is the fairly limited colour pallete – quite a few were only ever produced in one colour from what I can tell so there isn't much variety.

Here are my two most recent buys, both ex-French Dinky

The CX has been touched in with a bit of detailling but it actually looks quite neat. I love the wheel castings which pretty accurately denote it as a 1976 Pallas (iirc). I recently packed most of my diecast stuff away in boxes but I've kept the Pilens out as I like them so much.

Wait! Dinky Fiesta?? 
Dinky didn’t do a Fiesta did they??

[bunglebus]

Much want

 

[danthecapriman]

2 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Much want

 

Wow!! That is a handsome little thing!

Ive never seen or heard of those before. I’m guessing it’s a rare one they didn’t make for long?

[barrett]

Oh yeah the Daf in particular is one that I really want. Annoyingly I missed this auction recently - the same day a Fiesta on its own (in box, admittedly) sold for £55 so I'm really annoyed by my own laziness

[barrett]

1 minute ago, danthecapriman said:

Wow!! That is a handsome little thing!

Ive never seen or heard of those before. I’m guessing it’s a rare one they didn’t make for long?

The same with all those late French Dinky castings which were actually made in Spain by Pilen... the last gasp before Dinky basically collapsed and was reorganised making horrible Bedford CFs and whatnot. They're all quite rare and expensive, but the Pilen-branded versions which carried on afterwards are identical and relatively affordable.

[danthecapriman]

2 minutes ago, barrett said:

Oh yeah the Daf in particular is one that I really want. Annoyingly I missed this auction recently - the same day a Fiesta on its own (in box, admittedly) sold for £55 so I'm really annoyed by my own laziness

That lot of 3 looks like a right bargain someone got.

[danthecapriman]

Only Dinky one I can find on eBay is this in California.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395771201381?_skw=dinky+fiesta&itmmeta=01JCB6J3MRWVTSR270GYPC96G8&hash=item5c25cd4765:g:SWkAAOSwMTJnBCsF

Description is not good and not particularly accurate either though.

[bunglebus]

Here are some of today's finds. Got this Corgi Range Rover for next to nothing due to the broken spotlamps. Didn't expect to find all the bits inside

Most expensive single buy, and I think I might have been slightly hasty. Still, I'd not seen a Dinky Monteverdi before

Still, the cost was offset buy a glut of bargains. This was 50p

Typical Ford boot struts!

£2 for a boxed Corgi '3i - all the others were the common versions. Doors are really stiff, obviously never been opened before

This cost the same as the Dinky above, but I got a few others thrown in for nothing

Seriously spotty!

Another £2.00 bargain 

This was 50p! I had no idea of the make but was too good to leave behind. I know who made it now, do you?

Boxed Polistil Scirocco...

...is a slight improvement from the last one I found

Solido doesn't always do it for me, but this Opel was too good to leave behind 

That awesome Gremlin. Cracked lid on the box I can live with

And a not-Dinky (Cougar) Talbot Tagora

[danthecapriman]

That Gremlin is all kinds of cool! Great colour for it too.

You did well with that lot.

[bunglebus]

Here are a few of the non-Matchbox buys. There was some discussion earlier about the Hot Wheels Cadillac, and it's a casting I've been keeping an eye out for anyway

Welly Lupo...

Because she wants every one on earth it seems. I have one in my own collection, as well as the yellow custom one in addition to these

Siku

Gotta stop buying these!

Corgi Snowmobile had to come home for 50p

Sane for the Husky Jeep, only wanted the windscreen, but it's decent under the dirt

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

32 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Wow!! That is a handsome little thing!

Ive never seen or heard of those before. I’m guessing it’s a rare one they didn’t make for long?

Vectis get them quite often. They sell between £50 and £100. They are known as Spanish Dinky Toys. Quite a few of the Pilen stuff was sold as Dinky Toys in Spain.

Vectis Auctions | Search

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

By the way Pilens are quite affordable at Vectis.

Coming up on Tuesday

Vectis Auctions | Pilen group of (made in Spain) cars -

 

A couple of recent results

With commission about £20 each

again about £20 each with commission

 

[danthecapriman]

14 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Vectis get them quite often. They sell between £50 and £100. They are known as Spanish Dinky Toys. Quite a few of the Pilen stuff was sold as Dinky Toys in Spain.

Vectis Auctions | Search

 

I have seen that Renault 17 before, boxed too. Sadly my pockets weren’t deep enough to take it home!

 

 

[Tenmil Socket]

28 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Here are a few of the non-Matchbox buys. There was some discussion earlier about the Hot Wheels Cadillac, and it's a casting I've been keeping an eye out for anyway

Welly Lupo...

Because she wants every one on earth it seems. I have one in my own collection, as well as the yellow custom one in addition to these

Siku

Gotta stop buying these!

Corgi Snowmobile had to come home for 50p

Sane for the Husky Jeep, only wanted the windscreen, but it's decent under the dirt

 

You got some crackers today!

[bunglebus]

25 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

You got some crackers today!

I'm looking at all these Matchbox and wondering if my phone has enough storage to take pics!