Shite in Miniature II

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Managed to piece together the wrist racer and the wind-up Chargers. 

[matt79]

Kicking myself for missing out on a cheap 1/24 General Lee on Vinted recently, specifically this one -

I'd have quite happily displayed this one as is, in all it's playworn and battered glory.

[bunglebus]

Basildon adventures today. Absolutely nothing new to be found, and Poundland have shut down suddenly too, landlord dispute apparently. 

A box of crap arrived though, with nothing protecting the cars - I suppose I should be grateful for the box at least

What's the Corgi Racing Car Trailer for?

Another Majorette Moto-Leige was included

As was a pretty decent Twinmill, well worth the price of admission. It's definitely "Twinmill" too, rather than "Twin Mill" as the later ones were designated 

[FakeConcern]

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What's the Corgi Racing Car Trailer for?

The later red ones from the Lotus Gift Set are longer and have chocks for the wheels built in.

The later still red ones with the cross hatch on them and a plastic tow hitch are for the racing cars with wider wheels and tyres like the 

[Zie]

Another Aldi find. 

Two more from the random box of inheritance.  

[morrisoxide]

Went to Rufforth autojumble on Saturday first time in years as they bumped the prices up and people stopped going, this time was a good one for miniature tat. 50p each for this mixed bag of goodies.

Best find for me is the Norev Floride looks to have a lump of metal for an interior.

The big blue Supra? thing is friction the makers mark is a shark? 

The Camaro police car does wheelie doughnuts and Lotus goes like the clappers it shot right under the fridge first go.

I had the plastic tipper lorry as a kid, so that brought back memories of days out in the Lake District.

[Reluctant Adult]

Recent toyfair purchase; never seen a Corgi Juniors Terrier with anything other than a black base?

[bunglebus]

2 minutes ago, morrisoxide said:

The big blue Supra? thing is friction the makers mark is a shark? 

Looks really familiar but it's not coming to mind at the moment 

[junkyarddog]

28 minutes ago, morrisoxide said:

The big blue Supra?

Looks more like a Matra Bagheera to me.

[bunglebus]

Pontiac J2000, I knew I recognised it

 

[Split_Pin]

3 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Pontiac J2000, I knew I recognised it

 

Ive had that since I was about 3 years old and never knew what it was!

[morrisoxide]

15 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Pontiac J2000, I knew I recognised it

 

I would have never guessed Pontiac. I was thinking TVR Tasmin for a while.

[Christine]

Some say  ... it would  convert into a Ferrari  lookalike ..

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 minutes ago, Christine said:

Some say  ... it would  convert into a Ferrari  lookalike ..

That was fiero

[bunglebus]

I'm going by what I was told. There are other images of it out there calling it a Lotus, and a Marz Karz or a Summer. The wheels look like Kai Yip but I've only even seen three cars with that name on

https://boonsartshop.com/product/marz-karz-lotus-sport-car-friction-toy-model-1970s-s-m-co-ltd-summer-metal-products/

https://ebay.us/m/zOjJRx

Here's the base if anyone recognises the logo

 

[sierraman]

10 hours ago, Reluctant Adult said:

Recent toyfair purchase; never seen a Corgi Juniors Terrier with anything other than a black base?

I have that one but black base. To be fair at Corgi I think they just went with whatever they had on the day in terms of colour for Juniors. 

[bunglebus]

New Silverline series imminent. There's one on Vinted so must be in store somewhere 

 

[andrew e]

Had some eBay postal Russian roulette arrive today! Despite the gamble of brown wrapping paper slipped round a thin piece of bubble wrap they arrived intact 😳  Still at least eBay/seller only charged me only one postal charge so that was a win on an already very keen auctions price! 

For the base perverts the 23:16 got a smaller back box!

[bunglebus]

I also did a boxed Corgi buy, as spotted by the previous poster, and it arrived in a sliver of bubble  wrap and brown paper

Yes another Kays special special for my daughter. No numbers on the box

[bunglebus]

Other boxed buys include some more of the 1:50 Hot Wheels VWs, in Karmann Ghia flavour this time 

A further Red Edition, also VW

And about the only MK1 I didn't have

[bunglebus]

Charity shop had reduced the Meteor tin plate Beetle, so I brought it home.

Behold the awfulness 

It's also FWD

Box used to say Metal Toy rather than Metal Cars, not really sure why they put the stickers over the original print

[bunglebus]

Picked this Corgi up on a charity shop, amazingly only the second one I've ever found

Quite impressed that it has three opening bits

Shame the headlight and one mirror are AWOL. Amusingly my partner overheard the shop staff whispering to keep an eye on me as I'd picked it up and was standing right by the door without buying it. What I was actually doing was trying to get some phone signal to check my Flickr in case I had it already

Another shop had a load of partworks in the window, and this little Guiloy R4 van tucked away among them

Postal arrivals included the BMC Pininfarina with original Gulf stickers 

Annoyingly it's got that problem where the door spring comes adrift and you can't close them fully

Shocking pink Dodge Charger MK III

More Matchbox goodness in the form of the Porsche everyone loves to hate

All red (well pink now) interior, and tidier than my current one

Hot wheels 'Vette

And Kafer Racer from a multipack

[bunglebus]

I was mooching about on eBay the other day, and I found something completely unexpected 

Yes folks, that's an Impulse Pinch Popper, in Norev packaging, something I had no idea about. Bearing in mind the cars within are copies of Matchbox, that's a very strange bit of cross-pollination!

I wanted to free these and see if they were marked Impulse on the base, but they're sealed in a blister

I have more on the way!

[FakeConcern]

The cheap Corgi Lamborghini Muiras I find usually have the spare wheel missing (or are the later ones with a wheel as part of the body casting) I'm trying to find enough to make a Golden Jacks version of one. I think I have three wheels so far.

[bunglebus]

The tyre has a weird bulge or misshapen area for some reason 

[AndyW201]

Delivery from Ana's Hot Wheels site. Mainly Matchbox though...

Moving Parts Mitsi Evo IV, from a mix I presume we never got over here, as I've not seen this one before.

As usual, the underbonnet detailing is nice 

Again, one that I was unaware of, a Power Grabs BMW M2, a nice modern equivalent to the old 1M casting which they're still knocking out new releases of.

One that I've been after for years,  a nice tribute to the original Superfast VW Type 3 and a precursor to today's Moving Parts range. Blister is absolutely mullered, but it was cheap.

Ovlov 850 from yet another Car Culture range that the shops in my area never got a sniff of. Nice faintly BTCC-reminiscent livery on this one. 

[AndyW201]

It's taken a while for these to filter through to the local shops. For a while, there were only the crap castings like the doughnut available, but a few weeks ago, I found the Skyline in Asda.

I was pleased to find it, as I've been intrigued by these XL Hot Wheels and the Skyline is the casting I really wanted from that mix.

Like a few people, I'm not really sure what to make of these. As someone who collects both  1/64 ish Hot Wheels  and others, and really detailed 1/43 scale models, these are a weird mash up of the two. The 1/43 Premium range I can understand as the  level of detailing means they can stand up next to 1/43 model from other manufacturers. But these are literally smol Hot Wheels blown up to a bigger scale, and they seem to have gone to great lengths to deliberately make them faithful to their smaller relatives.

Detailing is still nice though, despite it being limited to tampo printing. And this Skyline is a really good casting anyway, being blown up to a bigger scale hasn't harmed it. I was tempted by the Supra but as mentioned on here, the lack of detail at the rear was off putting. But again, you have to remind yourself it's meant to be like that, as it's just a big version of the 1/64.

So, I was happy with the Skyline, it's a bit of a curio and at £6.47 for a 1/43 car, it's not exactly dear. But I couldn't see myself going for any more.

Then I saw the next mix that had come out, including the Merc W124 and BMW E30...

Asda obliged again.

One of my favourite smol Hot Wheels castings of recent times, I had to have the XL version. I daresay with a set of more realistic rims like a set of AMG Monoblocks from a Minichamps, this would possibly sit nicely with most 1/43 stuff.

And I couldn't leave the Mustang behind. Love the colour and graphics on this one, although that does mean it's  not as detailed as the others.

That was an expensive "just nipping to Asda for a couple of bits" trip on my day off!

[bunglebus]

Ah I still need that Mustang! My big arrival is this Maisto Squareback, there have been quite a few of these for sale recently, most got snapped up quickly but I got this one that doesn't seem to have even been out of the box

Only slight problem with that is it still had the clear band holding the bonnet closed, and I've seen those stick to the paint on some 100% Hot Wheels cars, not good. Much as I appreciate originality, I carefully cut it off and no harm has been done

I've said it before, but it's very strange that these have a separate, hinged tailgate with a bit of trim added inside so you can't open it. I think on the custom versions with the chrome wheels they do open and reveal extra detail

[Split_Pin]

46 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

It's taken a while for these to filter through to the local shops. For a while, there were only the crap castings like the doughnut available, but a few weeks ago, I found the Skyline in Asda.

I was pleased to find it, as I've been intrigued by these XL Hot Wheels and the Skyline is the casting I really wanted from that mix.

Like a few people, I'm not really sure what to make of these. As someone who collects both  1/64 ish Hot Wheels  and others, and really detailed 1/43 scale models, these are a weird mash up of the two. The 1/43 Premium range I can understand as the  level of detailing means they can stand up next to 1/43 model from other manufacturers. But these are literally smol Hot Wheels blown up to a bigger scale, and they seem to have gone to great lengths to deliberately make them faithful to their smaller relatives.

Detailing is still nice though, despite it being limited to tampo printing. And this Skyline is a really good casting anyway, being blowing up to a bigger scale hasn't harmed it. I was tempted by the Supra but as mentioned on here, the lack of detail at the rear was off putting. But again, you have to remind yourself it's meant to be like that, as it's just a big version of the 1/64.

So, I was happy with the Skyline, it's a bit of a curio and at £6.47 for a 1/43 car, it's not exactly dear. But I couldn't see myself going for any more.

Then I saw the next mix that had come out, including the Merc W124 and BMW E30...

Asda obliged again.

One of my favourite smol Hot Wheels castings of recent times, I had to have the XL version. I daresay with a set of more realistic rims like a set of AMG Monoblocks from a Minichamps, this would possibly sit nicely with most 1/43 stuff.

And I couldn't leave the Mustang behind. Love the colour on this one, though it's not as detailed as the others.

That was an expensive "just nipping to Asda for a couple of bits" trip on my day off!

The HW XLs seem to be aimed squarely at Bburago cars which are still made in that scale and basically detailed. Not something I'm attracted to unless a Saab 93 convertible showed up at an earthly price.

[Tenmil Socket]

20 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Charity shop had reduced the Meteor tin plate Beetle, so I brought it home.

Behold the awfulness 

It's also FWD

Box used to say Metal Toy rather than Metal Cars, not really sure why they put the stickers over the original print

It looks like it’s been hammered from sheet metal. Reminds of that Peugeot advert with white 206.