Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

24 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Nice haul there @bunglebus. 
I don’t know why the purple Pontiac seems to be sought after and more valuable. Is it really that rare?

Seems to be. I think it may have only just made it into the Superfast era then been replaced.

According to Wiki, the red and purple Superfasts were all 1970 only - also suggests there are red and purple Superfasts with opening doors, now I've got yet more varations to find!

[MiniMinorMk3]

The Reds were pre-production models and a very rare.

Purple one with opening doors are even more rare. The last time Vectis had one for sale was in 2008.

 

For the ulitimate in Pontiac No.22 rarity you need to find a red car with opening doors in one of the original transitional boxes. I saw one about 20 years ago. They are very rare indeed as I can not even find a picture of one on the internet.

Transitional boxes are called thus because they usually feature the original regular wheel car colour on the box.

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Colour changer 

 

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Just noticed the different wheels too.

Ooh different colour windows too

 

[egg]

1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

Opening tailgate!

Brave chap to open anything on a vintage Norev! Nice to see it with a pal.

[FakeConcern]

18 minutes ago, egg said:

Brave chap to open anything on a vintage Norev! Nice to see it with a pal.

That's nothing...

[bunglebus]

Day 12, another car? Mattel you are spoiling us!

[sierraman]

16 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The Reds were pre-production models and a very rare.

Purple one with opening doors are even more rare. The last time Vectis had one for sale was in 2008.

 

For the ulitimate in Pontiac No.22 rarity you need to find a red car with opening doors in one of the original transitional boxes. I saw one about 20 years ago. They are very rare indeed as I can not even find a picture of one on the internet.

Transitional boxes are called thus because they usually feature the original regular wheel car colour on the box.

Duly goes into workshop looking for some radiant rad aerosols… 😂

[andrew e]

I’ve been on the continent (and I will post up my varied spoils later) but in the “cars loaded to the roof your fifty now etc category”  were these delightful service stations in Auchon supermarket. The ones that got away!

Hopefully some young french kid gets blown away on Christmas morning 🎄

[Tenmil Socket]

Anyone seen the GTE with these wheels before?

 

[Tenmil Socket]

I received a delivery from @bunglebusearlier which meant I could do this with the one I received from @Datsuncog a while back.

 

[bunglebus]

22 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Anyone seen the GTE with these wheels before?

Yep!

 

[danthecapriman]

It’s been quiet on the models front here for a while with moving house. Unpleasantly quiet!

But I have been getting a few things in when I can, mostly eBay buys. 
One I had to get posted to my sisters house as the delivery date was right in the middle of the move, but I haven’t picked it up yet. 
Some 3D printed truck cabs for future conversions which I’m yet to even open. 
And this,

Absolutely lovely Altaya/IXO Ford C series. As usual not available in the shit hole UK so I had to get it from a French seller. 

 
Really nice little artic semi model. It is significantly smaller than some of my other US trucks but that’s how these were. The C series cab had a very long lifespan being in production from the 60’s to the 90’s with only minor changes over that time. I think this model is a mid 80’s version. They were very very popular with US emergency services as fire trucks etc which probably explains their long production life.
Really captures the low squat looks of the real ones I think.

I got a seller offer for another truck on the ‘hit list’ this morning at a fairly hefty discount so pulled the trigger on that too. It’s coming from Spain though so it might take a little while to arrive. But when it does it’s destined for respraying as I have a specific use for it!

[danthecapriman]

Couldn’t help myself! 
I’ve opened up the 3D prints!!

These are absolutely fantastic. From the same place that did my AEC & Leyland Ergomatic cabs before.

Foden S80.

Dennis PAX.

Leyland Bison with chassis.

 

Plenty for me to be doing with these and the remaining unbuilt ones from last time. Just got to find time and space now. Hopefully in the new year.

[Split_Pin]

This jumped out at me because it was the artwork I saw first and I thought it was an Oldsmobile Tornado.

Alas no but it's handsome nonetheless and will go with my earlier moving parts Riviera which I still haven't opened yet.

Can't sniff at £1.69. Yesterday's prices. Today.

[flat4alfa]

🙂

[ETCHY]

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Couldn’t help myself! 
I’ve opened up the 3D prints!!

These are absolutely fantastic. From the same place that did my AEC & Leyland Ergomatic cabs before.

Foden S80.

Dennis PAX.

Leyland Bison with chassis.

 

Plenty for me to be doing with these and the remaining unbuilt ones from last time. Just got to find time and space now. Hopefully in the new year.

They're sodding brilliant !

[eddyramrod]

4 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

It’s been quiet on the models front here for a while with moving house. Unpleasantly quiet!

But I have been getting a few things in when I can, mostly eBay buys. 
One I had to get posted to my sisters house as the delivery date was right in the middle of the move, but I haven’t picked it up yet. 
Some 3D printed truck cabs for future conversions which I’m yet to even open. 
And this,

Absolutely lovely Altaya/IXO Ford C series. As usual not available in the shit hole UK so I had to get it from a French seller. 

 
Really nice little artic semi model. It is significantly smaller than some of my other US trucks but that’s how these were. The C series cab had a very long lifespan being in production from the 60’s to the 90’s with only minor changes over that time. I think this model is a mid 80’s version. They were very very popular with US emergency services as fire trucks etc which probably explains their long production life.
Really captures the low squat looks of the real ones I think.

I got a seller offer for another truck on the ‘hit list’ this morning at a fairly hefty discount so pulled the trigger on that too. It’s coming from Spain though so it might take a little while to arrive. But when it does it’s destined for respraying as I have a specific use for it!

You do know the C-series is the truck Clint drives under the opening credits of Every Which Way But Loose....?

[danthecapriman]

7 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

You do know the C-series is the truck Clint drives under the opening credits of Every Which Way But Loose....?

Now there’s a film I haven’t seen in years! I’d completely forgotten about it tbh. Can’t remember many of the cars etc in it either.

But, you’re right!

Earlier version, but it makes bugger all difference!

Also, for those that didn’t know. 
The Ford C series cab was also used on the Ford H series… aka the tractor unit Corgi used for the Carrimore transporter, blue sliding side truck and Holmes wrecker. 
Ford raised the cab up higher on some additional bodywork to fit the H series bigger engines in, but if you look at the side of the H series cabs you can still see the C series wheel arch now halfway up the body! Now repurposed as a stowage locker!

 

[flat4alfa]

SINGALONG NOW

https://youtu.be/2MhJxx6A7dE?si=NhPqhS0SyxnCWyZW&t=59

[FakeConcern]

12 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Now there’s a film I haven’t seen in years! I’d completely forgotten about it tbh. Can’t remember many of the cars etc in it either.

But, you’re right!

Earlier version, but it makes bugger all difference!

Also, for those that didn’t know. 
The Ford C series cab was also used on the Ford H series… aka the tractor unit Corgi used for the Carrimore transporter, blue sliding side truck and Holmes wrecker. 
Ford raised the cab up higher on some additional bodywork to fit the H series bigger engines in, but if you look at the side of the H series cabs you can still see the C series wheel arch now halfway up the body! Now repurposed as a stowage locker!

 

That's amazing! Thanks for that info. As a kid I'd noticed that the trucks looked similar, I knew the Corgi was the H Cab as it was in my Observer's book of Commercial Vehicles and I'd seen the C cab in various films on TV, but didn't know what it was. That's just crazy the way the wheelarch shape is left in the panel haha!

[Christine]

I want , i want .. Is Aliexpress easy , risky , scammy ?  Do i have to open an account like  ebay? 

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005479976712.html?src=google&pdp_npi=4%40dis!GBP!9.58!7.89!!!!!%40!12000033252024450!ppc!!!&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=494-037-6276&isdl=y&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&aff_platform=google&aff_short_key=UneMJZVf&gclsrc=aw.ds&&albagn=888888&&ds_e_adid=&ds_e_matchtype=&ds_e_device=c&ds_e_network=x&ds_e_product_group_id=&ds_e_product_id=en1005005479976712&ds_e_product_merchant_id=109209351&ds_e_product_country=GB&ds_e_product_language=en&ds_e_product_channel=online&ds_e_product_store_id=&ds_url_v=2&albcp=17859500389&albag=&isSmbAutoCall=false&needSmbHouyi=false&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-rzH6JCjigMVaJRQBh07pg8YEAQYASABEgLEmPD_BwE

[ETCHY]

5 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

It’s been quiet on the models front here for a while with moving house. Unpleasantly quiet!

But I have been getting a few things in when I can, mostly eBay buys. 
One I had to get posted to my sisters house as the delivery date was right in the middle of the move, but I haven’t picked it up yet. 
Some 3D printed truck cabs for future conversions which I’m yet to even open. 
And this,

Absolutely lovely Altaya/IXO Ford C series. As usual not available in the shit hole UK so I had to get it from a French seller. 

 
Really nice little artic semi model. It is significantly smaller than some of my other US trucks but that’s how these were. The C series cab had a very long lifespan being in production from the 60’s to the 90’s with only minor changes over that time. I think this model is a mid 80’s version. They were very very popular with US emergency services as fire trucks etc which probably explains their long production life.
Really captures the low squat looks of the real ones I think.

I got a seller offer for another truck on the ‘hit list’ this morning at a fairly hefty discount so pulled the trigger on that too. It’s coming from Spain though so it might take a little while to arrive. But when it does it’s destined for respraying as I have a specific use for it!

I had a big tipper truck version of the C series back as a kid in the early 1970s.  Similar size to a big Tonka truck. It was pale green & real heavy steel. Not sure who made it.

[IronStar]

15 minutes ago, Christine said:

I want , i want .. Is Aliexpress easy , risky , scammy ?  Do i have to open an account like  ebay? 

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005479976712.html?src=google&pdp_npi=4%40dis!GBP!9.58!7.89!!!!!%40!12000033252024450!ppc!!!&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=494-037-6276&isdl=y&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&aff_platform=google&aff_short_key=UneMJZVf&gclsrc=aw.ds&&albagn=888888&&ds_e_adid=&ds_e_matchtype=&ds_e_device=c&ds_e_network=x&ds_e_product_group_id=&ds_e_product_id=en1005005479976712&ds_e_product_merchant_id=109209351&ds_e_product_country=GB&ds_e_product_language=en&ds_e_product_channel=online&ds_e_product_store_id=&ds_url_v=2&albcp=17859500389&albag=&isSmbAutoCall=false&needSmbHouyi=false&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-rzH6JCjigMVaJRQBh07pg8YEAQYASABEgLEmPD_BwE

Not really risky or scammy, but you do need an account. 
 

 

Picked up these two today. Priced same as mainlines.

 

[bunglebus]

19 minutes ago, Christine said:

Is Aliexpress easy , risky , scammy ?  Do i have to open an account like  ebay?

Biggest risk is the cards getting bent, as they send things in a kind of heavy duty bubble wrap, sort of like a sheet of air filled tubes they wrap around your stuff

[andrew e]

Been in france for a few days and picked some Norev beauties up in the Peugeot  museum, (which had its card terminal been working would have been a lot more! I was sadly limited to the euros in my pocket!!!) I wont upset anyone by saying they were just €2.50 for the regular ones…. 

https://laventure-association.com/en/live-aventure-peugeot/

First up the 307, a right little cracker and only grabbed because I saw a loose roof in one box! This has got a metal base and scale towbar that would pull a 40 footer! Roof is plastic.

Next up the 508 twins - saloon and estate, back to plastic bases this time. Not normally my thing but I thought they looked great together.

Next up at nearly €5 (!) was the white 205 which I'm sure would be better in pretty much any other colour, but still under a fiver so I buckled 😇 

Finally the 1/43 Lazer green GTI. There used to be one of these at the top of my road brand new when I first passed my test, I always thought it was a brilliant combination, especially when it got lowered one day. Another Norev for the rather quite palatable €12 this time, its a little cracker and detailed just right - model fineness but with toy heft. The wheels on both 205 are a very good representation of the 15” GTI alloys. There on sale here reasonably:

https://www.modelcarworld.com/en/prod/247340/norev-peugeot-205-gti-metallic-green-1992-1-43?srsltid=AfmBOoo0GmQVyoe2J_VKlfACbYblwRKhMyATUfx2KhbIFPRrsMlNW1sUzKk

 

[bunglebus]

Was in London today doing a job, decided to go the slightly longer way back and visit the shopping area that seems to provide decent diecast finds.

Picked up this one out of yet another F&F set, looks remarkably like the silverline version but obviously on Real Riders. I should line both up together really

Also found one of the new Matchbox 5 packs 

Think this one needs opening - but having got stuck on the M25 for many hours today, it can wait. Typically if I'd gone the other way home I'd have only had minor delays 

[bunglebus]

On my way home I picked up a job lot of boxed cars I'd won, most were just absolute jollop that I'm not wasting pixels on, including a few Days Gone.

These are some of the better ones!

Knackered despite being sealed in its blister

Kinsmart Beetle isn't bad

This one is a Zylmex/Motormax casting, D107 which is a Mitsubishi X2S apparently, and I had to look that up!

This leaflet fell out from under the car

Still sealed Realtoy - most of the boxes are like this or worse, and all filthy 

Now we get to the main targets. Impy "GT Rally" which is of course a Corvette

I've replaced the plastic window in these Lone Star boxes before, it's not too difficult 

Thankfully I don't need to do very much at all to the one I was really after, boxed Playart Kubelwagen

I think someone else spotted it too as I very nearly got outbid

[bunglebus]

A few bits were waiting for me when I got home, Corgi Reliant, mainly as that rare front bumper/track guide bit was in place

Matchbox Choppers Jumbo Jet

Replacement Corgi F1 Racer so I could line it up with the eraser

And this freak. I like weird toys, especially strange plastic ones, and I like beach buggies. This one came all the the way from Italy

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, ETCHY said:

I had a big tipper truck version of the C series back as a kid in the early 1970s.  Similar size to a big Tonka truck. It was pale green & real heavy steel. Not sure who made it.

Most likely the Louis Marx as they made them at the Swansea factory.  Does it look familiar?

Otherwise the Nylint, but less likely as these were made in USA

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

The Ford C series cab was also used on the Ford H series… aka the tractor unit Corgi used for the Carrimore transporter, blue sliding side truck and Holmes wrecker. 
Ford raised the cab up higher on some additional bodywork to fit the H series bigger engines in, but if you look at the side of the H series cabs you can still see the C series wheel arch now halfway up the body! Now repurposed as a stowage locker!

THEY DID WHAT

I won't ever be able to unsee it now