Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

22 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Similar, although the green on the left of the original photo is more like what I'm after. 

VW Cyber Green?

Maybe Ford Outrageous Green?

[MiniMinorMk3]

48 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Similar, although the green on the left of the original photo is more like what I'm after. 

Ford Ultimate Green

Honda Snakeskin Green

[AndyW201]

Seat Lima green?

[AndyW201]

Page 1980, and a notable car launched in 1980,

[junkyarddog]

1 hour ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Similar, although the green on the left of the original photo is more like what I'm after. 

Renault absinthe. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Stuff launched in 1980

Austin Metro

Fiat Panda

Range Rover

Mk1 Astra (Opel Kadett D)

Audi Coupe and Quattro

Renault Fuego

Renault 5 Turbo

TVR Tasmin

[Tenmil Socket]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Toy fair

What’s the Sierra?

[junkyarddog]

37 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

What’s the Sierra?

Slot car.

Think I've got a similar one.

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said:

What’s the Sierra?

 

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

Slot car.

Think I've got a similar one.

Indeed, so we might as well start there

Made in Hong Kong, and I do believe I have another one stashed away too

These next were all picked up thinking one of you lot might want them. Rover jam sandwich, devoid of roof lights but what do you expect for a quid?

Bburago Escort Cosworth with tasteful 3 spokes and mystery stains. Maybe it's just completed a rally stage

Psychedelic Dinky Studebaker. Maybe this should join the wall of shame along with the other weird customs I've acquired over the years, but if you want it let me know

Rather impressive Corgi Major trailer

Slightly broken Bburago F40

All the above were £cheap, like 50p - £1 cheap

I paid three English pounds for this still sealed Matchbox set, thinking @Datsuncog might want it. No obligation of course 

[Noel Tidybeard]

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Stuff launched in 1980

Range Rover

don't think so somehow 🤦‍♂️

[eddyramrod]

@bunglebus SD1, Studebaker and Express trailer please, if possible!

[bunglebus]

Let's have a look at some bigger cars, finally found a decent example of the silver mini I remember buying as a kid with my Premium Bond money. Forward vision might be a slight problem though

Is this where my love of silver/red interior started?

Corgi Rolls, not a bad example

Good amount of opening stuff and detail

Not as funky as the bad taste custom version though

Blue Thames van with red innards is a new version for me

I think it's been dropped on one of the rear doors unfortunately 

Another Mini, one of a trio of Police vehicles I bought at the toy fair, all half the marked price. This one was probably the least bargainous, costing me a fiver

Yet another red interior 

It does make a nice before/after with my restored one

Range Rover was a boot sale bargain, and is peak Dinky. Opening stuff, tilting bits, full metal construction. This was a damn cool toy in its day

Zephyr has had a tough life, but looking closer it's only missing a single door card, all the lights etc are all there, not bad for £2.50

I prefer the later MK1 Transit, but this is another one that was well worth grabbing, as it's complete,  £5 is well below online pricing anyway

Driver has some serious anatomical problems 

Here's the Studebaker again, just so you can enjoy the funky paint scheme

The Mrs picked up this Princess at the boot sale, I bought that and a load of other bits including the Range Rover, Corgi Major trailer and Bburago F40 for silly cheap

This one was my most expensive buy, on the stand of a guy who always has a ton of fantastic, boxed Dinky, Corgi, Matchbox etc - with prices to match. £8.00 for a Politoys NSU seemed fair enough to me

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

don't think so somehow 🤦‍♂️

Ten years before

[bunglebus]

What else? Matchbox! Caravan still in its blister

Not bad little 1100...

But yet again, a broken base. They offer seem to suffer this for some reason 

I don't care, I like them

This is Matchbox on good form, what a great bit of engineering

There seems to be quite a lot of pink today, for some reason 

Bought two very good condition Ford Group 6s, which have black/grey bases

More base shenanigans with this Mustang Wildcat Dragster 

Just a cool wagon

Tidy Lamborghini 

Exceptional SD1

Nearly just put this one in the sell pile, before noticing it has a plastic base, not something any of my others have had

Unusual Jag came from the toy fair, need to look into this one a bit more. Nicely detailed but the wheels look like they're off a Poundland cheapo

'3i cab could be a good one to make into a phantom Graffic Traffic 

Connectibles aren't something I usually pick up, but all the bits were there, so why not?

Late GMC pickup is tidy

As is this transporter 

Golf is one of those castings I just can't seem to leave behind, like that damn red BMW cabrio I bought another two of today

Found the back of the Roadblasters Peterbilt! Same seller, different boot sale. I've run into him three times in two weeks now, he has some good stuff

[bunglebus]

Found a few Corgis including a Rockets C111

Have I got this Carrera? Probably...

I got rid of most of my XJSs recently, but for some reason this bronze one caught my eye

Pretty good example of a police Regal, with the jacked-up suspension 

Tatty Capri in yet another colour combination I. Didn't have

X1/9 after a good clean

Anyone want a Majorette Focus?

I'm keeping the others, such as this Sterckerman Lovely 400 Caravan

Lite Ace

You can buy this Norev Clio though!

Maisto XJ220 is fairly cheap and nasty, but I was absolutely besotted with the real thing as a teenager, and I'm not a supercar person, never have been

Lock Ups. Unlocked, no tyres

Guisval Land Rover

I don't remember Boss Hogg's Caddy having a vertical windscreen, but this one seems to

Also by ERTL, but somewhat more unusual is this Manta. Need to research this one

Found two Hot Wheels police cars today, plastic bases but Real Rider rubber tyres - another one I need to find out about

Can't leave a Hi-Raker Corvette behind

This is where it gets weird. Merc looks kinda like the Corgi one, but it definitely isn't

Just...don't ask

Summer Capri

This excited me far too much, found a whole bunch of fake Hot Wheels 

@andrew e already found me the Karmann Ghia, boxed

[morrisoxide]

This weekend was a good one for smoll tat.

From two different charity shops. The monster trucks are near mint but the pooch is missing from the Wagoneer.

What's inside the box...

 

 

Boo! That emoji is laughing at me for finding the shittist one! Still quite cool though.

But this makes up for it. From Poundland for £2 each.

[bunglebus]

Oooh the red Jag! Proving difficult to find at the moment.

The series three Tune-Ups are a bit annoying as you can't decode what's inside as far as I know

[Split_Pin]

Rich can you please add the Escort Cosworth to my box please?

[Spottedlaurel]

Best HWs I could find in a number of shops:

And been making progress on various 1/24 kits:

Tamiya Subaru Alcyone (XT Turbo to us). Almost done,just decals and a little touching-up to go.

Mitsubishi Galant GTO by Hasegawa, to be built as a loose replica of a 1:1 I saw at a couple of shows back in the '90s.

Fujimi Skyline GT-R, which will be something like this:

[Datsuncog]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I paid three English pounds for this still sealed Matchbox set, thinking @Datsuncog might want it. No obligation of course 

Crumbs, yes please!!!

[AndyW201]

Latest delivery, 

Thought it was about time I made anpther 190-shaped purchase. Having had so many 1:1 scale examples my diecast collection is still pretty sparse in comparison. However this new Ixo release appealed, (along with a money off coupon from ebay and being able to stick it on clearpay!) I've not had many actual Ixo branded and packaged models, the majority of the ones I have are all ex-partwork models, mostly form overseas sellers 

This one appealed because it's a proper memory jogger for me, back to the mid 2000s - early 2010s when I owned these cars. They were cheap, and reliable enough to use as daily drivers, with a bit of '80s retro cool. There was also a cracking owners forum, where the emphasis was all about getting out in your 190 and using it and having fun in it. Standard and modified cars were welcomed and celebrated in equal amounts. A few of mine were subtly modified, I was more about the Euro/OEM+ approach though, rather than anything extreme, but I admit, with the three Sportline Pack cars I had, I left those alone...

So this one brings back happy memories of those times, because although it is of a 2.3-16 "Cosworth" variant, there is no way that it is an original one, just like a lot of them were back in the day, before prices start to rise. Even the base proclaims that it is a "customised" version. The colour of this one is amazing, my camera doesnt do it justice. It is a bit like Almandine red, an original MB colour, (that wasnt available until the later 2.5-16 was launched though), but much more vivid, with a bit of chrome-effect to it. The colour-coded bumper inserts and black striping aling the side skirts also mark this one out as modified.

Up front we have clear indicators (once guilty of that, m'lud) and a very nicely detailed colour coded grille shell and strips,(usually done with a Schatz glassfibre grille shell). Of course, to be competely period, they could have added an SEC style 'Big Star' grille insert, but fortunately they chose not to. I mean, who'd be stupid enough to drive around in a red 190 with one of those monstrosities?

 (I did frisbee it once I started tidying the car up, and got hold of a standard insert...)

At the rear, a nice standard twin-pipe back box and its nice to see some period smoked tail lights, which are still a sought after mod today,

I was lucky enough to score these genuine Hella smoked clusters (NOS, still in original box) for £50 for my Nutriabrun 2.0. You could easily pay ten times that or more for a used set now.

Attention to detail includes the correct early single washer jet and early skinny single wiper set up.

Early 190s lacked the ingenious 'hop up &down' mechanism of later cars which allows the single wiper to reach across the whole screen. Early cars had a single conventional wiper arm which went around the outside  of the screen, and an inset tiny wiper blade which cleared the inner part,

Wheels are a typical 90s split-rim design, which are a very close match to OZ Futuras, which along with the Polaris by the same firm, were bolted to many modified 190s.

Most Ixo road castings started off as motorsport versions, like the 190, and a lot of them are let down by still having race interiors. Fortunately with this one, they've gone to the trouble  of recreating the 16 valver's 2+2 Recaro based sports seats with individually bolstered rears. The plastic's not too shiny either, so they look a fair bit like new leather.

The early optional airbag steering wheel features here, and some nice dial detail. Sadly, like Minichamps, they've ballsed up a bit and used the clocks from the early base models, with a big clock instead of a rev counter!

All in all, a good job by Ixo. Finally I have a nice, detailed 190E in 1/43 scale and a nice reminder of some good times had in cars (which seem to be fewer and fewer these days...)

[sheffcortinacentre]

5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Found a few Corgis including a Rockets C111

Have I got this Carrera? Probably...

I got rid of most of my XJSs recently, but for some reason this bronze one caught my eye

Pretty good example of a police Regal, with the jacked-up suspension 

Tatty Capri in yet another colour combination I. Didn't have

X1/9 after a good clean

Anyone want a Majorette Focus?

I'm keeping the others, such as this Sterckerman Lovely 400 Caravan

Lite Ace

You can buy this Norev Clio though!

Maisto XJ220 is fairly cheap and nasty, but I was absolutely besotted with the real thing as a teenager, and I'm not a supercar person, never have been

Lock Ups. Unlocked, no tyres

Guisval Land Rover

I don't remember Boss Hogg's Caddy having a vertical windscreen, but this one seems to

Also by ERTL, but somewhat more unusual is this Manta. Need to research this one

Found two Hot Wheels police cars today, plastic bases but Real Rider rubber tyres - another one I need to find out about

Can't leave a Hi-Raker Corvette behind

This is where it gets weird. Merc looks kinda like the Corgi one, but it definitely isn't

Just...don't ask

Summer Capri

This excited me far too much, found a whole bunch of fake Hot Wheels 

@andrew e already found me the Karmann Ghia, boxed

Ertl manta was probably a TV tie-in ( red) for Hardcastle & McCormick.

[ambassador84]

11 hours ago, morrisoxide said:

This weekend was a good one for smoll tat.

From two different charity shops. The monster trucks are near mint but the pooch is missing from the Wagoneer.

What's inside the box...

 

 

Boo! That emoji is laughing at me for finding the shittist one! Still quite cool though.

But this makes up for it. From Poundland for £2 each.

Wow! What's this witchcraft I see before me! This year the UK has only missed out on one batch and with new releases crossing over into the following batch by my reckoning the only release we never got was the white Acura Integra from Case C. Previous years we Brits would be lucky to get 3 assortments in one year!!

[flat4alfa]

The McCormick car was red and yes that was the tie-in

Except the film car was a modified Cody Coyote as the Manta Montage kit car had gone out of business by then

ERTL released variations later, in other colours

[flat4alfa]

ERTL also did a 1:16 Radio Control with a poseable McCormick

Now that is one I would love to find

[flat4alfa]

Two ERTL releases of the H&M Coyote - with or without motor

And very different casting/mould

[sierraman]

11 hours ago, AndyW201 said:

Latest delivery, 

Thought it was about time I made anpther 190-shaped purchase. Having had so many 1:1 scale examples my diecast collection is still pretty sparse in comparison. However this new Ixo release appealed, (along with a money off coupon from ebay and being able to stick it on clearpay!) I've not had many actual Ixo branded and packaged models, the majority of the ones I have are all ex-partwork models, mostly form overseas sellers 

This one appealed because it's a proper memory jogger for me, back to the mid 2000s - early 2010s when I owned these cars. They were cheap, and reliable enough to use as daily drivers, with a bit of '80s retro cool. There was also a cracking owners forum, where the emphasis was all about getting out in your 190 and using it and having fun in it. Standard and modified cars were welcomed and celebrated in equal amounts. A few of mine were subtly modified, I was more about the Euro/OEM+ approach though, rather than anything extreme, but I admit, with the three Sportline Pack cars I had, I left those alone...

So this one brings back happy memories of those times, because although it is of a 2.3-16 "Cosworth" variant, there is no way that it is an original one, just like a lot of them were back in the day, before prices start to rise. Even the base proclaims that it is a "customised" version. The colour of this one is amazing, my camera doesnt do it justice. It is a bit like Almandine red, an original MB colour, (that wasnt available until the later 2.5-16 was launched though), but much more vivid, with a bit of chrome-effect to it. The colour-coded bumper inserts and black striping aling the side skirts also mark this one out as modified.

Up front we have clear indicators (once guilty of that, m'lud) and a very nicely detailed colour coded grille shell and strips,(usually done with a Schatz glassfibre grille shell). Of course, to be competely period, they could have added an SEC style 'Big Star' grille insert, but fortunately they chose not to. I mean, who'd be stupid enough to drive around in a red 190 with one of those monstrosities?

 (I did frisbee it once I started tidying the car up, and got hold of a standard insert...)

At the rear, a nice standard twin-pipe back box and its nice to see some period smoked tail lights, which are still a sought after mod today,

I was lucky enough to score these genuine Hella smoked clusters (NOS, still in original box) for £50 for my Nutriabrun 2.0. You could easily pay ten times that or more for a used set now.

Attention to detail includes the correct early single washer jet and early skinny single wiper set up.

Early 190s lacked the ingenious 'hop up &down' mechanism of later cars which allows the single wiper to reach across the whole screen. Early cars had a single conventional wiper arm which went around the outside  of the screen, and an inset tiny wiper blade which cleared the inner part,

Wheels are a typical 90s split-rim design, whick look rather like OZ Futuras, which along with the Polaris by the same firm, were bolted to many modified 190s.

Most Ixo road castings started off as motorsport versions, like the 190, and a lot of them are let down by still having race interiors. Fortunately with this one, they've gone to the trouble  of recreating the 16 valver's 2+2 Recaro based sports seats with individually bolstered rears. The plastic's not too shiny either, so they look a fair bit like new leather.

The early optional airbag wheels features here, and some nice clock detail. Sadly, like Minichamps, they've ballsed up a bit and used the clocks from the early base models, with a big clock instead of a rev counter!

Al in all, a good job by Ixo. Finally I have a nice, detailed 190E in 1/43 scale and a nice reminder of some good times had in cars (which seem to be fewer and fewer these days...)

I remember when people used to fit those big grills, a blast from the past eh! 😂

[MiniMinorMk3]

17 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

don't think so somehow 🤦‍♂️

Yes ten years earlier.

Just checking to see if people are awake. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

15 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Also by ERTL, but somewhat more unusual is this Manta. Need to research this one

 

As seen in the original Gone in Sixty Seconds

Part of the ERTL Racing Champions range

[bunglebus]

I normally use my photo booth for all my pictures now, mainly as I can't see the screen on my phone in bright sunshine - but I felt these two needed a different setting.

Matchbox Roadblasters Killer Zee...

...and Stick-Up Pick-Up

Better known to us as the Datsun 280 ZX 2+2 and Flareside Pick-Up. 

Quite a clever move by Matchbox to use existing castings and only change the window unit, or add plastic armour and guns, I think at the time I was into Britains Space toys, so these would have fitted in nicely with trends at the time. Not that I had any until I was much older!

I still regret selling mint examples of the Mercury police car and Supervan years ago