Shite in Miniature II

[egg]

I've said this before but I knew of one Rancho in the early 90s and so rare even then that in my mind's eye I can see exactly where it was on the road 25 years later...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

There are of course 2 Ranchos on here. Skizzer is one guilty party, the other escapes me for the moment, could be a DW defector.

Been looking at Internationals following F4A's post.

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The Soft Sporttop in particular, looks very Field Car like.

My excuse for not identifying it is that it was at 30 years before the Internet!

My other childhood suspects were these:

I had the pre Whizzwheels version because I'm old but having 3 younger brothers meant there were at least a couple of later ones in the house, the most dissapointing thing was taking the roof off to discover the cross bracing, at least one of ours succumbed to a junior hacksaw, I seem to remember the windscreen got squashed soon after...

[155V6]

Has no-one mentioned the MK1 Cortina rear lights on the Field Car yet?

[sierraman]

I think a lot relates to the cost of licensing certain brands. In the early 90’s Matchbox were about to bring out the Dodge Viper, some sort of legal wrangling went off and it ended up being slightly restyled and being called the Sunburner. They did end up releasing a Dodge Viper 2-3 years later so Chrysler must have seen the value in licensing a model of their new car. 

[bunglebus]

On 10/9/2019 at 3:29 PM, Datsuncog said:

 

This shop puts infuriatingly sticky price labels on the base, which are impossible to remove cleanly.

 

 

 

Methalated spirits!

[bunglebus]

Found this MB horsey box in what I think is an unusual colour for 50p in the charity shop today

 

20191010_140914 by RS, on Flickr

20191010_140930 by RS, on Flickr

[bunglebus]

Reliant Ant from a few pages back had a bath in vinegar for 20 mins - looks much better

 

20191009_135101 by RS, on Flickr

[bunglebus]

Pistastic is coming along - cut the slot for the pistons. I want to change the way it works as MB made it so that the clear section moves as well as the red pistons - I just want the pistons to move

 

20191009_131829 by RS, on Flickr

 

Modified the base to allow the Rollamatic wheels to turn

 

20191009_133610 by RS, on Flickr

 

And fixed the broken engine as best possible

 

20191009_133511 by RS, on Flickr

[bunglebus]

Oh and talking of Rollamatic - found out HW do something very similar

 

(hopefully the vid works now)

Edited October 10, 2019 by bunglebus
Video

[155V6]

Had a parcel arrive from Eddy Ramrod today,inside were these four.I've already found homes for them.Thanks again Eddy!

[Datsuncog]

Morning, kids.

Bit of an early one today, as I have to run L’il Thunder over to the cultural wasteland of Larne for its MOT re-test at 8:15 (rather out of the way, but it’s the only centre I could manage to book a re-test this side of November, pretty much).

I’ve then promised MrsDC a day out at the beach (always a winner in mid-October) and a nice lunch somewhere, to mark starting a few weeks off work.

This makes attending the Friday Tat Market in central Belfast something of a logistical difficulty, as you can imagine. In fact, it’s more of an impossibility.

But I appreciate that a Friday without the opportunity to snap up some diecast tiny tat just ain’t a Friday for some folks on here, and so – to deliberately misquote a wiser man than I – if Datsuncog (and friends) cannot come to the market, then the market must come to Datsuncog (and friends).

 So here we are.

 

BOOM!

Yes yes yes, it’s your very own private market stall this morning… so gather round, punters, and just maybe you can pick up a bit of a bargain…

Okay, so most of these models you’ll have seen before over the preceding months, as part of the various minishite hauls. Others I’ve been trying to flog for some time now with limited success, so there’s a bit of a PRICE CRASH going down today to shift these last few.

I faithfully promise that all proceeds will be converted back into small diecast, for further show ‘n’ tell on these oh-so-beige pages.

So - the good stuff first, as ever?

At the front of the stall, there's these:

Siku Range Rover and horsebox, in very nice nick [**SOLD!!**]

Also a Corgi Buick Riviera with the magic light-up lights.

These have been sitting happily on my shelf for a few months now - but I'm happy to pass them on at the original price of £5 a pop.

 

Then there's these, which are rather more recent arrivals:

Yes, the Corgi Duple coach...

and Siku Matra Rancho. [**SOLD!!**]

Both cracking models in decent nick; neither actually much use to me right now. Up for grabs at £2 for the coach, £3 for the Rancho.

 

Lesney Fiat 1500, still with roof load - think @egg had expressed some prior interest in this, at £2? [**SOLD!!!**]

Base Toys Ford D-Series box van can be yours for £3.

 

Speaking of £3, these are now priced to clear at the very same sum each:

Minichamps Opel Kapitan (not quite mint, but still nice); and a Solido VW Microbus, a Triumph Spitfire with removable hardtop; and a D-Day GMC 4x4 truck.

 

I'll do these for £3 each and all: tinplate Beetle and Microbus; and retina-fizzing Solido Peugeot J2.

 

Hongwell Cararama International trucks: £1 each.

 

Russki magazine models: also £1 each.

 

More Cararama: £1 each.

 

And then there's this: the big plastic Polish Fiat 127 from the other week.

It's in cracking shape and it's enormously appealing - I just don't know what to do with it, though.

I paid £10 for it; maybe I was robbed.

 

But! Aside from the quality gear, I know that a fair few of you are fans of the market tat boxes... well, today we have the tat trays.

So what have we here? Matchbox and Majorette, that’s what.

And just like the real thing, EVERYTHING ON THIS TRAY IS 50P EACH!

So, Majorettes in the front here… Citroen XM in need of tidying from last week; Citroen Visa Chrono (without bootlid) – oh, hang on, that yellow thing’s a Dinky Chevrolet Chevette… oops. Well, you get the idea.

Middle row, there’s a very clean Ford panel van in DHL livery, a Range Rover fire tender, and a Peugeot 604 with no bonnet – surely crying out for a Pi-eyed Piper style V8 to be added??

Back row then, there’s an ice cream van of unspecified marque; a Toyota Land Cruiser which could benefit greatly from a sympathetic repaint; and a Ford Cargo skip truck.

 

Heading across into Matchboxland, then…

There’s a Ford racer with shonky axles but good glazing; a late Rolamatics Range Rover in police trim with the blue light and black-painted base (and shonky axles); quite a reasonable Isuzu Amigo (Vauxhall Frontera SWB) which I bought recently without realising that I still had my original version from when I was a kid; and a Super GT version of the Lotus Europa.

                  

Moving to the row behind… right, I haven’t done a very good job of this, but there’s a Lotus Super Seven (missing its windscreen), a Blue Shark in fairly presentable nick; and a Revvin’ Rebel (Dodge Challenger) with its vinyl-effect roof missing – so ideal convertible conversion?

At the back row, we also have the arse end of the middle row, and then we’ve a Ford Transit Supervan II in Road Blasters format [**SOLD!!**]; a Mercury police car with Superfast Laser wheels [**SOLD!!**]; a somewhat knackered Rolamatics Turbo Fury; and a late-era BMC 1800 Pininfarina which is complete and might make for a decent repaint [**SOLD!!**].

Panning across further… well, at the front we’ve got a Renault 11 Turbo in need of a little TLC; a Chevrolet Corvette (from last week) with slightly damaged glazing [**SOLD!!**]; a rather rough Ruff Trek (Holden Kingswood HX) in race support trim; a fairly presentable Monteverdi Hai; that corroded Mercedes W210 estate I picked up for a cheap laff last week; and a rather nice Mercury Commuter police wagon still with its paper stickers intact [**SOLD!!**].

Middle row: a Rolamatics Ford F-series pickup from which the lions have long since escaped; a somewhat better Lotus Super Seven with intact windscreen and only a very few minor chips [**SOLD!!**]; a Mazda RX7; the Ford Escort Mk3 Cabrio from last week; a Dodge Dakota pickup (another duplicate); a Vauxhall Astra GTE in rally trim; and a Dodge Caravan with sliding door intact but has had some touching-up which, although remarkably neatly done (for me), is now discolouring a little.

Back row: the previously-mentioned Transit; an intact Red Rider (duplicate)  [**SOLD!!**]; a Dodge Challenger (duplicate); a Vantastic with the big engine [**SOLD!!**]; another Ford F-100 but now jacked-up and in Aspen Ski livery; a Renault 5 in rally model [**SOLD!!**]; and a Volvo 480ES (duplicate) [**SOLD!!**].

Also: the trailer from a Matchbox Major Bedford car transporter.

All of the above priced at 50p each!

 

Next trays, then…

Corgi, and then sundry oddments.

Corgi first, methinks.

Front row: a Rough Terrain truck (was this based on an actual thing, I wonder?); an early Aston Martin DB6 with plastic-tyred wheels; a Range Rover Vigilant in less-common Coastguard form; and a Willys Jeep in military guise.

Moving across, here’s a Growlers Can-Am Racer (it makes a sort-of engine-like noise when you push it, based on the same principle as jamming a playing card in the spokes of your Raleigh Styler) in very nice condition; an Austin Healey Sprite Le Mans in somewhat less nice condition; a Mercury Cougar XR8 in Fire Chief trim (also a bit manky); and a Lotus Europa which is unusually complete with the engine hatch not yet lost.

Moving across… a Fiat X/19; a Mercedes C111 concept car in nice condition; that pull-back Kart from last week (intact and working though the driver has lost some of the chrome plating); and a Zetor tractor.

Back row: a Mk3 Transit in Pointers livery with the earlier style wheels (BP promo, I think); a Renault Trafic van with what remains of Renault logos, but missing its entire back axle; not one but two Bedford TK Skip Trucks, one of which is kinda borked (hey, if you want the good one I’ll throw in the crap one for nowt); and a Buick Regal police car with the light rattling around the interior…

Here’s a Mercedes 500SL in green (early 80s, made in Gt Britain, plastic base but back axle mount seems to have collapsed) next to a white version from the late 80s (made in China, metal base, floppy doors); the Simon & Simon 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air from last week; and two De Tomaso Mangustas which will also be sold on a BOGOF basis.

I’ve just realised that I didn’t really snap the Ford F-series camper that’s missing its sleeper cabin; well, it’s a later Whizzwheels era casting with the revised front and isn’t in bad shape, otherwise.

 

Moving back to the tray behind, now…

Up top, there's a MIB Hongwell Cararama transporter set. Because I'm sleep-deprived and semi-delirious, I'll do this for the original sticker price. That's right, £2.76.

All manner of weird and wonderful stuff on the tray here, starting with a no-name Fiat 500 with a pull-back motor; then what looks like an OO scale plastic Scania truck; an HO scale Ford Transit Mk3 LWB in Revell livery  [**SOLD!!**]; and a Herpa Mk2 Transit SWB that's missing a roof light and also some bumper ends [**SOLD!!**].

To the rear, two Welly Toyotas - a Camry and a Corolla saloon, in the same shade of red; a no-name Buick Riviera; a Hot Wheels blackwall era truck with no load; that green Lintoy Porsche from last week that's based on an Ertl casting; a no-name Volvo 740 (with hilarious 'Safety' lettering); and the no-name Renault 17 key car from last week that very likely ripped off the Matchbox casting.

Did I mention that these loose models are all 50p each? Did I?

Well, they are.

Moving across, we have a Playart Scania tractor unit; an unnamed Sierra XR4i; a very shonky Chevrolet Caprice peelermobile.

At the back, beside the Renault, we've two unbranded Bedford CF vans by different makers [white one **SOLD!!**]. Hmm.

To add to what's been previously mentioned, here's a Hongwell Toyota RAV4; a Welly VW Beetle, and a Maisto/MC Toy Peugeot 205 GTI.

And at the back, a Ford Econoline (in custom drag), and an unbranded Dodge Omni with a Michelin Man logo on the bonnet.

Phew!

So much for the 50p tat trays, then... but that's not all.

 

These 1/43ish oddments are also all available for 50p each.

Matchbox, Bburago, Budgie, Dinky and Hot Wheels/Polistil... yours for less than the price of a bag of crisps.

 

So! I'm off out now to see if I can get my year's ticket on the Subaru... can I trust you lot to mind the stall til I get back?

Cushty.

[egg]

@Datsuncog Yes please to the Fiat 1500, and I'll also add the Pinifarina 1800 please. Ta.

[bunglebus]

Can I have the Vantastic and the Red Rider pretty please? Plus the red Corvette grey Supervan and Police Mercury Commutator?? Finally the tatty white Bedford CF. Thanks in advance...

[BigMac]

Could I have both the siku Range Rover and Rancho please along with the Volvo 480 and Renault 5. Thanks 

[sierraman]

I think we ought to rename your shed ‘The shed of Collectibles’. 

[flat4alfa]

I was going to say please Red Rider and the Vanatic

So instead, can I buy your hat?

[Skizzer]

21 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

There are of course 2 Ranchos on here. Skizzer is one guilty party, the other escapes me for the moment, could be a DW defector.

Guilty as charged. @holbeck is the other Rancho offender.

Here are my Otto 1:18 and Talbot-Matra 1:1 versions:

[bunglebus]

Think you've generated lots of good Karma passing on your diecasts at 0% profit - your time, so you should get a pass with flying colours on your MoT 

[flat4alfa]

Anyone got one of these?

Sze Toy Hong Kong

I haven’t, so WLTM

[flat4alfa]

Bburago Alfa Romeo 33

Both the MK1 version, complete with faithful weirdo dashboards

1:18 and 1:43

[flat4alfa]

Lucky Toys Ford Capri

It scales to 1:25 or thereabouts. Feel I bid too much for this on eBay war/shillage.....   I think I had been drinking a bit that night, but saying that Lucky and other friction Hong Kong brands do seem to fetch surprisingly good money.  It’s going to go back on, so will see...

[Spottedlaurel]

I saw a Joustra Rancho at a French boot sale a few years ago, they certainly are big:

Talbot Matra Rancho toy by Joustra by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

By neat coincidence, later in the day I saw real ones at the Matra Museum. They had a good selection of model versions there as well:

[Amishtat]

Somewhere I've got that blue and white Burago example 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Could I take the revel MK3 transit & the orange MK2 transit & add them to the MK1 zcar. Thanks.

[Skizzer]

12 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

By neat coincidence, later in the day I saw real ones at the Matra Museum. 

Whooaaa, hold on...THERE’S A MATRA MUSEUM??

 

 

Edited October 12, 2019 by Skizzer
Googled it. Excellent, thanks, that’s next year’s holiday sorted.

[Split_Pin]

Y0.

I am 'on one ' with clearing out and selling stuff at the moment. Happens every Autumn,  I think it's the trees shedding their leaves (says he who is waiting on a Mira Taunus from eBay...)

Anyway, as they say, everything is for sale, but the below are the first few I definitely want to move on. These are the 'plug' and once they go, my worry of regretting selling items subsides and is eclipsed by a notion of practicality and the spillway will open. Stay sharp folks.

Prices don't include postage.

Fabbri 1/24 Alfa Romeo Spider. Partwork, mint but no box (came in a blister originally I think). £4

£1 each for these except the shitty Bburago grand prix car, thats 50p as the wing has broken off. Yesteryear T, Peterbilt and Mack fire engine are in pretty good nick. Motorcycle transporter missing its plastic canopy, Mercedes C111 some paint wear only, it's actually pretty decent.

Quid for this thing.

50p for these. ERTL Police car is from a movie of some sort, rough but intact if that makes sense and the Binz is pretty decent.

Picked these up at a car show a few weeks ago but not really for me. Saved them from being trashed by a kid. Corgi juniors, both decent but play worn. Bonnet opens on the Aston.

50p each

Britbus Aldershot and District Dennis Loline. MIB. No zinc pest. Outer sleeve present just not pictured. Fiver for this one.

A P4 for 4 quid.

1/18 Maisto Cadillac. Mint with box. I bought this because I had always wanted one but it doesn't fit with my collection and it is HUGE. It's been in the loft for most of the time I have owned it. It's an amazing model, if a little crude. £12 for this one.

L8TRZ

 

 

[DoctorRetro]

Couple of interesting ones in Poundland's new "Fresh Metal" range. I didn't buy them as they are really shit. 

 

[DoctorRetro]

22 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Stuff for sale...

I'd love the Cadillac, but suspect it would be a pig to post... 

 

On the other hand, I'd kill for the Lego F40! 

[Split_Pin]

16 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

I'd love the Cadillac, but suspect it would be a pig to post... 

 

On the other hand, I'd kill for the Lego F40! 

No problem for me to post chap! If you are interested in it I can find out how much it would cost to get it to wherever you are.

Lego F40 was a gift from my wife, that's ring-fenced!

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

 

 

 

 

Could I take the transporter, Binz and Corgi Juniors please?