Shite in Miniature II

[Junkman]

As many of you know, me is more a plastic man, I.

Imagine my increasing frustration in view of yet another round of disappointments from this year's fair.

 

So let's start without any further ado.

 

 

It looks like the old Accurate Miniatures Corvette Grand Sport and Mc Laren tools are now with Academy:

 

 

 

This Daimler chassis #1 is said to be 1/18 scale. If it isn't a new tool, which I'm not convinced it is, its life started at Gakken in the Seventies and it's 1/16 scale.

 

 

 

 

This is made by a company called AMMO. Sadly all the military stuff is in the wrong scale, otherwise I'd have this, despite pacifist.

 

[Felly Magic]

Blimey this thread has hit 'Dusty Bin' status, I had more arrivals today, an 'Odeon' branded Ixo Simca Horizon in red from China, and a kit form Gama Astra GSi spares car from Burnside, photos once I have put the asta back together, I only wanted that Astra for it's dash, it came without wheels, but thanks to a bit of swappage I had a spare set of Opel Astra wheels

[Junkman]

Aoshima also released some newfangled tosh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are prepainted preassembled, but sadly 1/32 scale.

 

 

 

 

A welcome reissue are the MGBs, the rubber bumper version now finally containing Rostyles.

Why they keep reissuing that terrible ex IMAI Beetle is beyond me, though.

 

 

 

 

They also showed these modern JDM cars in 1/32 scale snap kit flavour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

Love the Rubber Bumper MGB

 

Every man and his dog has done a Chrome Bumper but RB and Rostyles........................

 

Nice!!!

 

 

I'm not every man and I'm allergic to dogs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the record: the issue I built this from contained the bits for both versions!

 

I hope this time around Aoshima doesn't only throw Rostyles in the RB version, but also the updated seats and the dashboard.

 

Note: For the chrome bumper version you'll have to lower the model, which, considering the way the chassis is designed, is not an easy task.

[Junkman]

My OCD!!! That horn push isnt straight

 

 

It's there. That was difficult enough for me. Shortly after I built this model, I got my first pair of spectacles.

[Junkman]

You really have OCD, do you not.

 

 

Anyway, back to Nürnberg.

 

 

Airfix, once famous for its wonderful politically incorrect box art by Roy Cross, which sold them many kits to people just for that, is now demonstrating how to make box art so extremely naff that a lot of people won't buy them regardless what the contents are. Fucking bravo.

 

 

 

 

 

Hasegawa meanwhile follows Aoshima's trend of releasing the right kits in the wrong scale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome reissues of their 360 and LB110 kits sadly come in the meanwhile customary for Japan child porn flavour, which makes them unsellable in any other countries.

 

 

 

 

Imagine what the box art will look like. You can't carry them through a shop to the checkout without ending up on the sex offenders list.

[Junkman]

This is all I got fed back from Heller so far. Impressive, isn't it?

They are teasing me with that C4 Hotel Taxi for two years now!

Not a word about the Estafette kit they announced repeatedly.

 

 

 

 

ICM announced to release their brass era Renault taxi in 1/24 as well (it was hitherto only available in 1/35 military scale), but failed to bring an example to Nürnberg. So the only new 1/24 offering from them shown is this figure set.

 

 

This is not good enough!

Where are the 1/24 Mercedes 770K, Packard V12 and all the other correct scale stuff they announced years ago?

[Junkman]

Italeri releases the 1/12 scale 500 in Abarth flavour, which I like. But going by the price of the regular 500 kit, it'll remain a pipe dream. I might no longer be able to resist to pull out my wallet, if they follow it up with a Steyr Puch version.

 

Apart from the Abarth, there is little that interests me, except the reissue of the 1/16 Gullwing, which had been out of production for so long, that few people actually remember that it ever existed. I might be tempted by the reissues of the German WWII stuff, but sadly they are now void of any authentic insignia that could be considered offensive by those PC wankers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[vulgalour]

 

This is coming along.  Trying out my Husky wheel swap idea too, since they look pretty reasonable for a Cadillac wheel trim.  I did learn that Husky models have two different wheel sizes, the ones I'm using are the smaller ones.

[Junkman]

I have never even heard of LCD, but they showed this stunning plastic kit of a Japanese locomotive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another company I've never heard of is Model Art. Among their offerings is this part authentic, part fictional kit of a Kugelpanzer I have never heard of either.

 

 

 

 

They also make this bulldozer sadly in the wrong scale.

 

[Junkman]

Meng brought this 1/12 scale Ninja.

 

 

[vulgalour]

That kugelpanzer is brilliantly mad.

[Junkman]

Round 2 models.

 

A company that makes a Godzilla can't be all bad!

Also, the question which Dodge Pick Up they are reissuing is now finally answered by photo evidence and it's thankfully the one we've all been waiting for. There has been a lot of speculation due to the tooling having been modified so many times since the last original release as an annual in 1978 and the latest releases all having been the stepside version, so the wide bed was presumed to be lost. They either found the tool, or retooled it. What apparently hasn't been restored is the side trim it lost somewhen in the 90s, when it morphed into the Warlock and Lil Red Express versions.

 

Anyway. Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

Revell.

 

They went through quite some turmoil lately, but redeem themselves - at least for me - with the newly tooled Deutz tractor and the OLLI.

Yes, it's a new tool 109 Safari Wagon, not a modified repop of the old Italeri kit.

 

And before you ask, Eddy, yes, that's an AAR Cuda!

 

Another thing we haven't seen since the awful AMT annual kit is a proper '68 Chevelle, which is more than sensational.

Hey, we've only waited 51 years for a decent kit, so in model kit manufacturer's terms, that was quick.

 

They also reissue all that Apollo stuff celebrating 50 years of an event that nobody knows whether it has ever happened, but I might pick them up just for my SciFi cabinet of curiosities. That Star Wars stuff looks more like what you can travel to the Moon with.

 

Anyway, enough drivel.

[Junkman]

Trumpeter displayed this magnificient model of a ship that sank and an E-scooter in 1/12th scale.

[Junkman]

Tamiya is Japanese. In English, it means Disappointment.

 

 

[Junkman]

They had a stand, but that doesn't make its wares more available.

At least I am struggling to get this stuff, without which plastic modelling isn't possible.

 

 

[Junkman]

That kugelpanzer is brilliantly mad.

 

It looks like it's part non fantasy.

 

 

http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2-german-prototypes/kugelpanzer/

[155V6]

Too cold to do anything outside,so I took some pictures of some of my 1/87 cars with the Micro Machines racetrack I got from Sierraman 

 

 

 

 

[egg]

Thanks to Vulg and others, getting there with this Fiat roof. Need some finer sandpaper.

 

[bigstraight6]

Night Prowler Ford Zodiac

As you will see the black areas you cant tell the lacquer has yellowed

But Sadly the white areas are a strange Hue

Two Down One to Go

 

I built this kit in 1980, 5 years before I bought my first car which happened to be a MK3 Zodiac. I also built the Cortina and Capri in the series and I recall an old 1960’s issue MG1100 saloon airfix kit that came from a jumble sale (remember them) that I did at the same time....

[Felly Magic]

Thanks to Burnside I was able to do a righ hook swappage of the blue Disatra, and have rebuilt the remains as a left hooker.

 

 

[eddyramrod]

Junkman, thank you!  AAR, lush.....

 

Jo, I built all three of those Airfix rods when they were new, and not once did I paint one to match the instructions.  I probably still have all the decals!  Pretty sure I still have the Capri too; maybe even the Cortina.  The Zody will be long gone.  It used to sit on the dash of my Triumph Toledo, and suffered warpage from the sun.  Silly me.

[Felly Magic]

Pearl and Dean? An ODEON branded Simca Horizon.

 

 

 

 

 

[junkyarddog]

Another customer at Eddys fuels,

 

This rather nice matchbox xk120 in a fetching blue hue,

Picked it up yesterday at the market for €1.00!

 

 

 

 

Fill 'er up mate!

[egg]

My Fiat is now slightly lumpily etch primed, another coat of normal primer and a couple of top coats should be ok.

 

[Junkman]

Meanwhile I was able to talk to my agents and they confirm we aren't the only ones underwhelmed by the half arsedness the manufacturers and redistributors displayed at the fair - and in business in general. Mind you, one of my men in the field is a dealer who buys model cars literally by the container load, so you would think they listen to him. But no, arrogance prevails. The tone at the fair was accordingly toxic.

 

Mr Lobster, is this in line with your professional experience?

 

 

 

I'm currently sifting through another batch of hundreds of photos ( have received ca 3,000 during the fair) and will avail you the more interesting ones in due course.

Don't expect me to post anything supercar or modernz related and if you are into this stupid warmongering shit, do your own research.

[DoctorRetro]

Here's my first 'resto' project. A Corgo Juniors tanker. 

 

Here is what mine looks like.

 

And here's what it should look like.

 

Not sure whether to try to recreate the original  or to try something else. I saw a bright yellow Shell version... 

[Junkman]

It's your model, so you obviously do what you want with it.

Why would you make it into another Esso tanker, of which there already are 4.27 trillion out there?

Has anyone ever made a 'Snake Oil' tanker?

[Felly Magic]

Like your thinking JM, did a search on the interballs for other Odeonshite, and bloody hell they arent cheap.

 

Any news on owt fron Whitebox JM?